Posted on 06/28/2010 4:44:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
R.I.P.: The passing of the longest-serving senator gives mainstream media another chance to rewrite history. Will he be touted as a constitutional scholar or a free-spending former Klansman who fought civil rights?
That Robert Byrd left his mark would be an understatement. Our prayers are with his family and the people of West Virginia. He was both the dean of the Senate and the prince of pork. He knew the history of his chamber better than anybody, having authored a four-volume history of the upper chamber, and the Constitution better than most.
He also, quite shamelessly, brought home so much bacon to his home state of West Virginia, the joke was that every other streetlight was named after him. He was, first and foremost, a politician, and his record, his complete record, should not be shielded from scrutiny or even erased from the public memory.
According to Citizens Against Government Waste, Byrd directed $3.3 billion in pork to West Virginia just between 1991 and 2008. At least 40 projects, buildings and installations bear his name. He succeeded in locating the Coast Guard's National Maritime Center in landlocked Martinsburg.
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this from Wikipedia:
“ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ” — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944,
May he rot in hell.
The Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
Yeah, he ran against The Grim Reaper in a runoff election today and lost.
Who’s going to take care of Billy?
The scroll on FOX NEWS said Byrd was a KKK memebr for a VERY SHORT TIME in the 1940’s!! You don’t get to be the Grand Cyclops or the GRand Kleagle by being in for a VERY SHORT TIME!! Fox News is PATHETIC!!
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