Ex-Klansman Blocks Rice's Confirmation

Actually, he can't block it, just delay it.

There are several stories on this out today but I like Michelle Malkin's, short and sweet.

Democratic Sen. Robert "Sheets" Byrd, past recruitment officer for the KKK and former advocate of racial segregation, has announced that he will obstruct the confirmation of the first African-American woman to be nominated to be Secretary of State.

And if you don't think that's exactly how CBS and the rest of the MSM would have played the story if Byrd were a Republican and Rice a Democratic nominee, I have some genuine Bush National Guard documents to sell you.

Column flashback: Sen. Robert Byrd, ex-Klansman

Newsmax has more on Byrd's "colorful" past.

Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours. And three years after he said he'd left his white-sheeted brethren behind, he wrote to Georgia's Grand Imperial Wizard, urging, "The Klan is needed today as never before."

Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter: "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."

I fell sorry for Rice having to put up with this childish behavior but on the other hand it shows what a sorry bunch the Democrats are.
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