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Byrd Deranged on Senate Floor
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Posted on 05/03/2007 8:08:43 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
Who pulls the lever for this guy? Is the mean age older? Is the mean IQ lower? Is the mean blood alcohol level higher? WTF?
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posted on
05/03/2007 10:46:21 PM PDT
by
itsamelman
(Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
To: pabianice
Serving as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan may not strike you as a good career move. Yet it worked out fine for Senator Robert Byrd.
In the early 1940s, the West Virginia Democrat did so well bringing in KKK members at $10 each ($3 extra for the robe and hood) that he quickly moved into management of the virulently anti-black, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish organization. He was chosen to be the Exalted Cyclops, the chapter leader. A Grand Dragon suggested Byrd try politics. He did, and served for years in the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1958, he was elected to the Senate and has been there ever since. Fellow Democrats revere him. So popular is he that in 1971 he defeated the sainted Teddy Kennedy for a Democratic leadership post.. . . .
One reason so many senators crave the presidency
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posted on
05/03/2007 10:52:15 PM PDT
by
Mike Bates
(Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
To: pabianice
What I’d like to know is, why is this news? Sheets has been off his rocker for at least 10 years.
To: LeoWindhorse
To: pandoraou812
I dont want anyone whose drunk or drugged or demented making laws for me. I don't know - it might result in better laws.
To: Ancesthntr
I don’t think so. Look at Kennedy, Murtha & some of the others. I think many of them are drunk or senile. If you or I can be drug tested and some jobs require testing for alcohol I think that the people in the govt ought to be tested too. Some of the rants I’ve seen made by Senators make me wonder just what they drank for lunch. If you are comfortable with their performance , thats fine. I happen to think many of them are just out of it.
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posted on
05/03/2007 11:05:24 PM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I think Dennis Miller did a bit on Byrd where the old KKKlansman gets up to say grace at the Thanksgiving dinner, mumbles a string of unintelligible words, and then wanders upstairs and everybody else at the table looks at each other and says:
"What are we gonna do about Grandpa?"The man is a stumbling poster-coot for term limits .............. FRegards
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posted on
05/03/2007 11:12:00 PM PDT
by
gonzo
(In Florida, inmates make cigarettes in jail that I buy, and I can go to jail for smoking one! WTF?)
To: pabianice
Conscious of the Democrats!
Kleagle is the title held by a form of Ku Klux Klan officer whose role is to recruit new members.
Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, is a notable Kleagle in KKK history. He was a member of the Klan from his early 20s to his early 30s. He was defending the KKK as late as 1958 when he was 41 years old. He has called his former membership a "mistake" though he has been involved in recent racial controversies.
To: Sundog
And the buggers in West Verginia keep voting him into office.Exactly, and they are proud of him. What a backward state. Whenever I must travel through there I get out as soon as I can.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
People like Henry Clay...You should be ashamed of yourself for that comment. Comparing him to "The Great Compromiser, one of the greatest senators in our nations history.
I hope youre just ignorant of history, because surely you are not serious. Sheets Bryd is no Henry Clay, not by a long, long, shot.
To: Sundog
no one in west virginia wants to see byrd take advantage of the cushy retirement package he has helped vote himself... so they are making him work til he drops.
teeman8r’s wife/cousin
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posted on
05/04/2007 4:41:39 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
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To: teeman8r
ROFL! That’s the best explanation I’ve heard yet. Bravo!
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:02:33 AM PDT
by
DesertDreamer
("I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." - Ronald Reagan)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham; pandoraou812
What the hell is wrong with the people of West Virginia?Other than plain old greed there is nothing wrong with them. This old moonbat has funneled Billions of dollars back to WV. He could show up on the Senate floor in nothing but a diaper and a party hat and play Yankee Doodle Dandy on a kazoo and as long as he keeps the federal dough coming their way they will vote him in and name every street, bridge, building, and newborn child after him.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:03:08 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(For Democrats; victory in Iraq is not an option.)
To: TigersEye
Well said and of course absolutely correct. Sigh.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:36:11 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Thanks, unfortunately. Wish it weren't so. Another poster said something about getting better quality candidates instead of corrupt imbeciles. I'm afraid we need better quality voters who will educate themselves and put country before wallet in order to get better candidates.
The sick irony is that, IMO, everyone's wallet would do better in the long run if we stopped running all our money through the federal coffer before we put it to use.
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posted on
05/04/2007 8:53:00 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(For Democrats; victory in Iraq is not an option.)
To: TigersEye
The Senate was originally conceived as the home of statesmanship, the gentlemen farmers who were well educated and would “do what was morally right” for their constituency AND the nation. We have been steadily devolving into a Kakistocracy, where political power and greed are the only driving forces left in the government.
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posted on
05/04/2007 9:01:40 AM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: Mike Bates
Black or White, it doesn’t make any difference. They are all black when they come out of that mine... “...from the article. Of course, this means them West Virginieers don’t know how to mine efficiently.
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posted on
05/04/2007 9:03:49 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Stinko De mayo, Stinko to the Commies.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
While I loathe his personal history, I respect his Senate service
I loathe them both. The man is a consummate ass.
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posted on
05/04/2007 9:06:40 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
To: Boiler Plate
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. One thing nearly every politician wants above all else is to hold on to power. For this reason, don't hold your breath for term limits or flat tax (Fair Tax) to ever pass. Both of those initiatives would severely limit the power which politicians wield.
Politicians, like all mortals, are inherently selfish. In this case, they have the power to really do things with that selfishness!
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posted on
05/04/2007 9:10:29 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: Sundog
......What we need is to repeal the seventeenth amendment, and return to senators being selected from each state by the state government.
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posted on
05/04/2007 9:10:53 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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