Democrats are the new KKK......SHEETS!
Posted on 06/14/2007 6:55:15 PM PDT by ricks_place
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Age is finally catching up with West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd in the winter of his 54-year career in Congress.
At 89, the longest-serving senator in history and third person in the line of presidential succession has ceded major duties -- such as handling appropriations bills on the Senate floor -- to younger colleagues and aides.
Byrd continues to steer pork projects to his home state, rail against President Bush and the Iraq war and quote Cicero and the King James Bible now and then on the Senate floor. But as he walks haltingly with two canes and an ever-present assistant, he increasingly seems an anachronism in an Internet-age Congress where some members are young enough to be his grandchildren.
''I'm told that 90 is the new 80,'' Byrd, a Democrat, said in a statement issued by his office. ''I am proud of my white mane, but I still long for the black hair of my youth.''
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He longs for the black hair of his youth, I wonder if he yearns for the white hood he used to cover it?
How this guy ever became the “conscience of the Senate”, I haven’t a clue.
An honorable man would have stepped down long ago when he couldn’t handle the important business of our nation on his own anymore. He’s like my old high school in the summer time—no class.
Here’s a Daily Show clip of Dennis Miller ripping on Byrd (down at about 2:10 of the 6-minute segment): “Is he eating his own sh**!? That was CRAZY!”
http://bearingdrift.com/blog/2007/05/29/dennis-miller-genius/
Bonus slams of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid too!
Because:
He carries a copy of the Constitution in his pocket … never read it, but carries it nonetheless. When anyone argues with him he pulls it out of his pocket and waves it around.
Please just die already, you hateful creep.
Um.....in other words....he cannot do his job......WTH is he STILL THERE????? Oh, that's right....he's a Democrat!
They propped up Strom, they’re propping up Byrd, and if Kennedy’s gut doesn’t explode, they’ll prop him up too.
I doubt that Byrd can go to the toilet without assistance any longer, so I question his continued presence in the Senate. All he is doing is following in Strom Thurmond’s steps, by insisting on staying till he dies in office.
One of the biggest travesties of our Gubment is public specatacles like Senator Byrd, that accomplish absolutely nothing.
“How this guy ever became the “conscience of the Senate”, I haven’t a clue.”
Because in the prior days when the RATS had even more complete control, the other eligible titles of “Senate Drunk”, Senate Egrandiser”, “Senate Traitor”, “Senate Senility King”, “Senate Copy Cat”, “Senate Leaker”, “Senate Nepotizer” and “Senate Indian Taker”, were snapped by Kennedy, Gore, Kerry, Laudenberg, Biden, Feinstein, and Daschle repectively. With all the good ones literally stolen from him, what was Bobby to do. He might have gotten “Senate Porker” but deferred to Boxer being the gentleman that he is. Of course Patty Murray beat him out for “Senate Idiot” without even the necessity of a recount.
Speaking of not exactly performing one’s duty, has the stroke-impaired senator shown up on the senate floor lately??
Either that’s an old photo or C-SPAN needs to update their graphics.
I had to read that line twice.
Byrd's statue is currently housed in the Capitol Rotunda, as shown in the picture, and it is said if you stand under the statue the senator's hand points directly at your pockets.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_byrddroppings
He thinks he’s the Pope.
LOL sooooo? I have 3 or 4 of those!
Kennedy’s innards are so well preserved by alcohol, he may never die.
He’s the only one who can deliver the goods for West Virginia. Once he is gone, the state will have to depend on Jay Rockefeller, and he can’t deliver. Give Byrd his due. West Virginis is one state that got little from Defence appropriations, which has been the biggest part of the federal pie.
A truism if I ever heard one.
Unless WVA gets a Pub guv again, Byrd will be there till he approaches Strom’s age, 100. He could be elected as a corpse in WVA because he brings home that pork baby. Even a CIA office in WVA of all places.
If this isn’t an excellent example of our tax dollars at work, I don’t know what is. That jerk should have retired a generation ago.
That doddering old fool probably thinks all the darkies will stand around singing, “swing low, sweet chariot...” at his funeral.
An old photo with sleeping Senator sheets...
I saw him there today (if you're talking about Byrd)...he was shaking mightily, as if he had Parkinson's or something. I've seen Muhammad Ali shake similarly, but of course Ali is 30 years the younger.
Yes he did. To vote against cloture on the Senate shamnesty bill.
One of his fellow Klansman was recently convicted, so maybe he is pondering his former crimes of hate.
Typical NYT to refer to the KKK as a "conservative" organization. Sentence should have read, "His political origins followed the standard path for advancement in southern Democratic politics at the time, including a stint in the Ku Klux Klan...."
That would explain our Senates lust for slave labor.
Looks like 2 seats could be up for grabs. West Virginia and South Dakota. I am truly sorry about Sen. Thompson's heath.
Because feeble old racist dinks that can’t even lift their own johnson anymore are exactly what this country needs in the federal legislature.
Senator Johnsons health, excse me.
Yet he was reelected in ‘06!
‘’I am proud of my white mane, but I still long for the black hair of my youth.’’
Well, he still has his dark heart.
“That doddering old fool probably thinks all the darkies will stand around singing, “swing low, sweet chariot...” at his funeral.”
The ones working for Al Sharpton and Jesse JAK probably will... you know, the same group of pathetic fools that call blowjob Clinton the first Black president...
Robert Byrd quit watching “Knight Rider” in disgust. He saw a few episodes, and not one night rider showed up to put Black people in their places.
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