"You have been sitting here too long for the good you have been doing. Be gone, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Cromwell, to the Rump Parliament.
Posted on 06/06/2006 10:26:21 AM PDT by presidio9
That was funny!!!! Sleep as your own leader is yapping away.
The US Senate: Wash. DC's version of Hollywood's `Retired Actors (Old Folks) Home',
but more liberal.
Byrd is a walking testimony for the need of term limits!
Does Ted Kennedy get the honor of being Americas longest swerving senator?
Byrd was first elected to the Senate in 1958 and another despicable creature was elected, I believe, in 1962 - Ted Kennedy.
I believe that was supposed to say "Longest SELF-Serving Senator"
--Sen Robert Byrd, D-WV
-- He said his views changed most dramatically after his teen-age grandson was killed in a 1982 traffic accident that the senator said put him in a deep emotional valley.
"The death of my grandson caused me to stop and think," said Byrd, adding he came to realize that black people love their children as much as he does his. --
He didn't realize until 1982 that black people love their children?? You have to be kidding me - and this guy is a respected member of the Senate?
What do you call a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who tied up the world’s oldest deliberative body for 14 hours to oppose the Civil Rights bill of 1964, and voted against the Supreme Court appointments of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas? ...
Sen. Byrd was a “Kleagle,” a recruiter who earned $10 for each new member he signed up for the sheet brigade.
Although Byrd was intelligent enough to cut official ties with the Klan in 1943 (today he calls it a youthful mistake), he wrote, in a letter to the Grand Wizard in 1946, that ...
“The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virgina.”
Once Byrd was elected to the West Virginia state senate, he wrote a letter decrying the integration of the nation’s armed forces, saying he would never fight
“with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt, never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4209
This tells you a great deal about the voters in West Virginia!
I don't know that he ever left the KKK, only that he said he did to gain political office.
" he came to realize that black people love their children as much as he does his. "
Byrd must still be using the sheets as underwear to make idiotic insensitive comments like this. It took him till 1982 to realize this - 20 years after the Civil Rights movement? Why wouldn't a Black parent love his grandchild as much as "sheets Byrd" does his ?
Lott would have been senting packing by the media and NAACP had he said as much. Oh yeah, I kind of remember him stepping down from majority leadership hounded by the drive-by-ers.
"You have been sitting here too long for the good you have been doing. Be gone, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Cromwell, to the Rump Parliament.
A long time in office does not imply SERVICE.
he can't retire yet. there are still a couple of things in WVA that aren't named after him.
Is Reid that boring or is Byrd that senile ?
Or both !
They both need to move on.
An excellent point.
I still think Byrd was really deap throat.
One of the best arguments for term limits that can be found. Every other building in West Virgina seems to be named the "Robert Bird" something or other. Paid for with your income tax dollars of course. Dollars that could have been spent buying bombs, bullets and beans, and paying the salary of many hundreds of thousands more troops.
Says the serial rapist of it.
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