I won't post pictures of some of the tactics the KKK employed. Hangings, cross burnings, murders, burning of the homes of Blacks...
I won't be celebrating the life of this disgusting old fool.
Posted on 06/28/2010 1:05:11 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Sen. Robert Byrd may join Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy among historic figures who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda — an honor only bestowed upon 28 other Americans over the past 160 years.
Senate leaders are likely to make a request for Byrd to lie in state, aides said Monday, but they are still awaiting approval from Byrd’s family to go ahead with a formal resolution that would allow Byrd’s casket to rest under the dome for a public viewing.
With a career that spanned nearly 58 years and ranked him as the longest-serving member in congressional history, Byrd has likely earned the consideration.
In 2006, Gerald Ford was the most recent political figure to lie in state in the Capitol, and he was preceded by Ronald Reagan, whose casket was visited by thousands over three days in June 2004. The caskets are draped with an American flag, and rest upon the same wooden catafalque — a raised platform — constructed for Lincoln’s state funeral.
Presidents James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson and were also honored in the political hallowed space.
In 1865, Henry Clay was the first to be honored in the Rotunda after serving five consecutive terms in the House, including service as Speaker.
Other big names bestowed the state honor include Spanish-American War hero George Dewey and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant.
Three non-political figures have lain in honor, which is different from laying in state: civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the U.S. Capitol Police officers, Jacob Joseph Chestnut and John Michael Gibson, who were killed during an attack on the Capitol in 1998.
Typically, a concurrent resolution from both the Senate and the House must be passed granting permission for the Rotunda space to be used, but the process is usually given top priority, according to the Office of the House Historian.
Less than four days after Reagan died on June 5, 2004, both the Senate and House cleared a resolution, and the President was already lying in state.
The House is expected to introduce a separate resolution honoring Byrd’s service in Congress and flags at both the Capitol and White House flew at half mast today.
In the past, Congress has sometimes granted the honor without issuing a resolution, with authority being granted solely by the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader. The option is usually used when Congress is out of session or unavailable to vote on the use of the rotunda.
I won't post pictures of some of the tactics the KKK employed. Hangings, cross burnings, murders, burning of the homes of Blacks...
I won't be celebrating the life of this disgusting old fool.
Is is laying or lying? Oh, well. Major brain fault.
Beautiful robes so white...
Is is laying or lying? Oh, well. Major brain fault.
needs more looter dude
You bringing the Fabreeze? Sheets shouldn’t smell like smoke in the Rotunda.
Will he have an apple in his mouth?
Never could understand why anyone thought this clown was anything but a snake oil salesman.
Apology to any snake oils salesmen in the flock.
You don’t have a problem with a life-long racist being accorded honors that were earned by good men? Fifty eight years in the senate that has hallmarks like filibustering the Civil Rights Act, and that’s not a problem?
He was a nasty piece of work just like Teddy “Traitor” Kennedy.
If it is something that shouldn’t be done then why do it for any reason?
I am quite sure you don’t have anything of the sort to iron. Don’t give anyone the idea you might, even in jest.
How about they just let let him cycle a few round trips on the Porkulus WVU-Morgantown monorail system.
Seems more appropriate.
You forgot the one that democrats are so good at: Castration.
Sadly, if anything happened to Obama- the succession was Biden, Pelosi, Byrd. I would prefer him over Pelosi and Biden. It’s the nicest thing I can think to say about him, but frankly—I would prefer any inanimate object over Biden or Pelosi.
I prefer concentrated Lysol, for really BIG jobs as Fabreeze’s just too wimpy for a real job for like this one.
Wonder how many crosses will be burnt in “honor” of Byrd?
They should rename West Virginia after him and get it over with. Near as I can tell, close to the entire state is named after him anyway. That’s what bringing home the pork gets ya.
Good point...
Sen. Byrd has spent ENOUGH TIME under the dome of the capitol — he doesn’t need anymore!!
His monument's perpetual flame should be a burning cross.
He’ll lie exactly where you lay him...won’t even twitch. He’s dead, Jim. This Byrd has flown.
I have nothing good to say, and so, I will say nothing.
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