You don't mean Charles Sumner, do you?
If so, you've got it backwards. Byrd is more like Preston Brooks, the SC senator who beat the anti-slavery Sumner (literally, with his cane) on the Senate floor!
Posted on 05/03/2007 8:08:43 PM PDT by pabianice
Robert Byrd, apparently derranged or impaired, tries to add an Iraq War defunding amendment to a bill regarding prescription medicines. May 3, 2007
Guys lay off Byrd. The man is in his late 80s and hasn’t been feeling well. While I loathe his personal history, I respect his Senate service.
This video link should be E-mailed to everyone in West Virginia. They should be embarrassed to have an elected representative as feeble as this.
Must be them ole corn squeezins;)
You’re kidding, aren’t you? What, in particular, has Sen Byrd done that deserves respect? Set the Guinness record for most self-serving, pork projects that include a plaque bearing his name?
With all due to respect to WV voters, I just don’t understand their long, long bout with Byrd flu.
I’ll save my comment cause I would get the freeper vacation
The one thing I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanted out of the Contract with America was the term limits. It would have totally screwed the lobbyists and liberals.
Byrd is a throwback from the 1800s. People like Henry Clay, Charles Sumter, etc. He’s really old school, which is why I have a teeny-bit of respect for him.
Amen.....
“This video link should be E-mailed to everyone in West Virginia. They should be embarrassed to have an elected representative as feeble as this.”
I did my part to boot him ought of office. Unfortunately, West Virginia is very much beholden to unions and they were out in force during the last election.
Term limits or a basic IQ test for voters would be nice!
ROFL
I agree...as a Senate member..He sucked his lifes blood from a back yard cess pool...as oposed to a port-a-potty...He was/is old school!!!
This is where you are wrong. His state keeps putting him back in office so let them reap the idiocy that hatches from that. They deserve this kind of representation in my books.
Do you also respect his service as a leader in the KKK? Give me a break!
We need more than term limits to save this country but it’s a start. There has to be an increase in the number of honest and patriotic Americans who are willing to run for political office. We have had too many scumbags in office who screwed us over for far too long.
That Senate is a depressing sight!
World’s best argument for term limits, Byrd.
You don't mean Charles Sumner, do you?
If so, you've got it backwards. Byrd is more like Preston Brooks, the SC senator who beat the anti-slavery Sumner (literally, with his cane) on the Senate floor!
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