"The Byrd Option"?

[norml]

Mitch McConnell used the term "The Byrd Option" in the course of answering one question on Fox News Sunday. This means that their propaganda machine will be using their too often used lie that "They did the same thing" or "They tried to do the same thing", by renaming their "Nuclear Option", "The Byrd Option". Expect to hear this term used often in the coming weeks.

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Review of the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
Red State - 3 hours ago
... Specter, Hagel, and Warner, McConnell affirmed that "we'll have the votes" if they are forced to enact what McConnell called "the Byrd Option." When Byrd was ...

Defending the filibuster
Pascagoula Mississippi Press, MS - Apr 29, 2005
... the Constitution. It has been called the "Byrd Option" by people who believe talk radio is the best way to get the news. It has ...

Frist's Message of Divisiveness
AlterNet, CA - Apr 25, 2005
... Yesterday on Face the Nation, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) insisted on calling the plan "the Byrd option," pushing the false claims that Sen. ...

Filibuster Rules: Then & Now
National Review Online - Apr 21, 2005
... Senators should have the right to restore that tradition. And Republican efforts to do so with the “Byrd Option” — named for Sen. ...




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[soupkitchen]

1. As opposed to the PRICK option?

[flpeach]

2. This has been completely debunked!

Byrd always, always went by the RULES of the Senate. The nuclear option BREAKS the rules!

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/5/14/19217/9373

[geckosfeet]

15. they are re-framing,,,,,

The lying senate repukes went into a back room and discussed how to re-frame the unfortunate term nuclear option and how to get the smell off of Frist. Brilliantly, they came up with "Byrd Option".

You have to give it to these guys, they have taken smearing and lying and mud-raking to new level.

I am praying and waiting for Byrd's response.

[amb123]

16. The Stifling -Of-Dissent Option

If the Christian Fascist Pigs can reframe, so can I. I call it the "Stifling -Of-All-Dissent Option".

:nuke:

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Exactly

It's their new talking points. They didn't get a good response from people when they did the whole "Justice Sunday" ordeal and from recent polls people are on the democrats side so now they're renaming this because of Mr. Byrd's past. Go figure. It's to make it seem like the democrats really are against "people of faith" (which is total bullshit) and they don't have the vote's they need so they have to reframe the debate.

[SammyBlue]

19. It doesn't matter if it's been debunked or not

I wrote a long blog about two weeks ago on here (that I still have on file in my computer) about the language war and how:

1: We are losing it badly; and
2: We're losing it without putting up a fight.

here it is:
LOSING THE LANGUAGE WAR

The response was that it's hard to do when Rove takes the wind out of the room.

I contend we lost it years ago when we didn't challenge conservative definitions of words and phrases in socio-political thought.

Read it. Maybe then people won't think I'm crazy.

[tedoll78]

3. Obviously..

Byrd's speaking style and substance has threatened the GOP. Otherwise, his name wouldn't even be a blip on the Sunday morning yakfests..

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Yep

Remember recently last week when they were having this discussion he used the Bible? He also said "I'm a born-again as well but I don't like to talk about it that much." So they are targeting him for that purpose. Also he made Frist to look like a jackass when Frist so rudely left him when he was still talking (of course Frist did that to himself when he left).

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Fuck that bugeyed asshole

I despised that fucking lying prick long before these shitballs ever took over the government.

[althecat]

5. Good spotting in the language wars.... worth a reccomendation methinks

[jasmeel]

6. What happened to the "constitutional option"?n/t

[althecat]

7. Does anyone remember the war over the term "second superpower"

.. Kofi annan had suggested it meant the power of public opinion. A huge battle ensued and turned the term into something else thereby undermining its usefullness.

I would say this is an occasion for "Robert Byrd" to do the same thing. Afterall this is his name so he should be able to define the term.

If we all help him we can head this grubby little effort off at the pass.

[althecat]

8. Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed… in 42 days

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/03/antiwar_slogan_coined_repurposed/

[norml]

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OpinionJournal - Featured Article
... The Byrd Option--II He says the Senate doesn't have to vote on judges, so the
GOP should mail it in. Sunday, April 3, 2005 12:01 am EST ...
www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110006507 - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

OpinionJournal - Featured Article
... The Byrd Option The former Senate leader knew how to break a filibuster. ...
we suggest they refer to the tactic as the Byrd option. ...
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Newsday.com: The Byrd precedent is for the birds
What do the deregulation of natural gas, the attachment of legislative amendments
to appropriations bills, a defense authorization bill and the nomination ...
www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ ny-opbon114213247apr11,0,7591758.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines - 37k - Cached - Similar pages

Captain's Quarters
... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Did Ken Starr Bash The Byrd
Option?:. » And the Heat Begins from RightPundit As I posted on Thursday, ...
www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004470.php - 77k - May 15, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Captain's Quarters: Comment on Owen Will Bust The Filibuster (Or ...
... Mark, the Byrd option only doesn't make sense if you assume that, when the Rs
are next ... And it's called the Byrd option because, far from being some ...
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FACE THE NATION
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... B. URRELLE. ' S. I. NFORMATION. S. ERVICES. /. 202-419-1859 / 800-456-2877.
© 2005 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved ...
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Let Freedom Ring (All Around the World): Invoking the Byrd Option
... Invoking the Byrd Option. Former RNC Chairman Rich Bond, ... suggests that
Senate Republicans use the term 'the Byrd Option' when they break the Dems' ...
therevolutionwillbeblogged.blogspot.com/ 2005/04/invoking-byrd-option.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

Progress for America
The Byrd Option. 03/07/2005. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page ... a vote
on the Senate floor, we suggest they refer to the tactic as the Byrd option. ...
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HughHewitt.com
... Radioblogger has posted transcript of my interview with Senator Mitch McConnell
of Kentucky on the move towards the Byrd option. ...
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Defending the filibuster
... It has been called the "Byrd Option" by people who believe talk radio is the
... The "Byrd Option" has been pitched by condescending right-wing radio ...
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[Stinky The Clown]

10. Nominated ... this is too important to allow to drop.

[Toucano]

11. And the third one came from me!

Wow. I finally accomplished something today.

[bleever]

12. Nice work. Sleep well. n/t

[Roland99]

13. I just sent this to Mitch "the Sonuvabitch" McConnell

Dear Sen. McConnell.

I have but one thing to say to you after your ridiculous appearance on FOX News Sunday yesterday:


You DISGUST me!

I am shamed to live in this state after you whored yourself in front of the nation with bald-faced propaganda.

Calling the threats of a filibuster the "Byrd option"? Get a life and get a clue!

How many Clinton nominees were even kept from coming out of committee? How many attempts were made to filibuster Clinton nominees? I was no fan of Clinton after he lied to the Senate which led to his impeachment hearings but all efforts by the Democrats in the past and now and all efforts by the Republicans in the past have all been done under existing Senate rules.

To invoke the Trent Lott-named "Nuclear Option" now in order to put pro-business, pro-insurance company, anti-civil rights and anti-environmental judges. This filibustering has NOTHING to do with the "faith" of the judges.

I beseech you one last time to DO THE RIGHT THING and refrain from invoking the nuclear option.

[geckosfeet]

14. classic up is down and white is black strategy

just like the terms "Clear Skies Act" and "Tax Relief".

Our elected officials, if not outright lying to us, are deliberately baiting and misleading us.

When will the impeachments begin? How long can it continue?

I continue to be amazed that Bill Clinton was almost impeached for having consensual sex. Does the majority of the American public feel that lying to protect himself and Lewinsky is orders of magnitude worse than the lying about national policy, killing of thousands, destruction of our national economy, that has been taking place?

[Democracy White]

17. Nominated

Classic Rethuglican framing. Time for the Dems to draw out the big guns and reframe this thing!

Dee

[JDPriestly]

18. We should call the filibuster the Fortas Right.

[bbgrunt]

22. It was simple misspelling

It really refers to giving the country the BIRD, option