another pass for the Dems

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Senator Robert Byrd (D-WVa.) will delay the Senate's confirmation of Dr. Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State.

As everyone knows, once confirmed, she will be the first black female Secretary of State.

If you haven’t noticed, nobody’s bothering to report that Byrd has a history of racism. Why do the Dems always get a pass on their most colorful ‘reformed’ Ku Klux Klansman? It cost Trent Lott his role as Majority Leader when he merely pandered to an old man with the same racist history as Byrd. Yet, Byrd is setting real roadblocks to delay the appointment of a minority, not to mention depriving the nation of a well qualified Secretary of State.

This is the same guy who, during his filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, expressed his opposition to racial integration in the military with:
"I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."

And as recently as 2001, Byrd commented in a televised interview:“There are white n****rs. I’ve seen a lot of n****rs in my time. I’m going to use that word"