Sen. Robert Byrd schools rightwing hacks at W.Va. paper with LTTE

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

The Daily Mail was always a GOP paper, but it's really went off into Freperville these last few years with their new opinion page folks.

Sen. Byrd responds to a recent editorial:

It has been said that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. In the Daily Mail's March 2 editorial regarding health care reform legislation, "Using reconciliation would hurt Democrats: Choking off debate is no way to muscle through health legislation," the newspaper's misunderstanding of congressional procedures misinforms readers who, in rapidly increasing numbers, find themselves unable to obtain or afford medical insurance.

The editorial correctly quoted me as saying in the spring of 2009 that using reconciliation to enact a huge health care package would "violate the intent and spirit of the budget process . . ."

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Yet a bill structured to reduce deficits by, for example, finding savings in Medicare or lowering health care costs, may be consistent with the Budget Act, and appropriately considered under reconciliation.

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With all due respect, the Daily Mail's hyperbole about "imposing government control," acts of "disrespect to the American people" and "corruption" of Senate procedures resembles more the barkings from the nether regions of Glennbeckistan than the "sober and second thought" of one of West Virginia's oldest and most respected daily newspapers.

http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/LetterstotheEditor/201003030609

[opihimoimoi]

1. TRUTH can be SO REFRESHING

[hootinholler]

2. "the nether regions of Glennbeckistan"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

-Hoot

[mwb970]

3. Sounds like the Daily Mail is full of glenbeck. /nt