[Cyber Liberty]

“We’ve all here in the Senate kind of lost the Aura of Robert Byrd, who was such a stickler for Senate procedure,” Reid said.

I wouldn't exactly call it an "aura." "Stench" would be a bit closer.

[mrsmel]

Paula Deen should have pointed out Robert Byrd to her critics when she was being excoriated. If an ex-leader in the Klan could rise to respected leader of the Senate by the left, why couldn’t she be forgiven for saying one word while a gun was at her head?