Posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:23 AM PDT by markomalley
So the word was that Democratic leaders worried about the health of Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Robert C. Byrd, whom they needed as a 60th vote to end any Republican filibuster.
On Wednesday, Byrd voted against cloture — meaning he sided with the Republican filibuster.
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Byrd could be an ally in stopping Obamacare. He killed Hillarycare 16 years ago. He just may have an inclination to do it again.
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He’s holding out for segregated hospitals.
He knows Obamacare won’t pay for him to have hot nurses tending to him.
Pray that he lives to take the vote.
There is still some sanity in the ole guy. Go Sheets!!!
I believe Sen. Byrd is a constitutional scholar and that could explain why he is voting this way.
or that every patient in America who needs any sort of hospitalization must be flown in to the massive new Robert C. Byrd Memorial National Medical Complex, located on a remote mountaintop somewhere between Hinton and Beckley, West Virginia
There’s word that the guy that replaced bammy in the Senate won’t vote because he’s miffed about not being able to keep the seat.
If that's the case, he'd believe in a solid line Conservative platform.
No Byrd fan am I, but he has my thanks—for now. Subject to change if he does.
Prediction: all of a sudden the Dems are going to notice that this old SOB was in the Klan, and attacking him for it.
Well, we here at FR despised the old Eminent Cyclops before it was cool...
Keep the Obama “team” away from him. They may try to “ration” his care before the vote.
well if the grim reaper is looking for someone i say LEAVE sheets for now and go and get Jimmy Carter!
He’ll probably change his mind if Zero re-names it “Byrdcare’...
“Weekend at Bernies” comes to mind.
He's spoken up before when Obama was destroying the Constitutional balance of power by usurping the role of the Senate and concentrating it in the White House.
Even if all he cares about is Senate power, he's got the Constitutional part right.
Sen. Byrd was also the one who stopped the 2001-2002 attempt to pass amnesty for illegals by using a legal ‘technicality’.
If this is true, how do we keep him alive?
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