Byrd Deranged on Senate Floor

YouTube ^ | 5/3/07 | sowey1970

[pabianice]

Watch for yourself

Robert Byrd, apparently derranged or impaired, tries to add an Iraq War defunding amendment to a bill regarding prescription medicines. May 3, 2007

[itsamelman]

Who pulls the lever for this guy? Is the mean age older? Is the mean IQ lower? Is the mean blood alcohol level higher? WTF?

[Mike Bates]

Serving as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan may not strike you as a good career move. Yet it worked out fine for Senator Robert Byrd.

In the early 1940s, the West Virginia Democrat did so well bringing in KKK members at $10 each ($3 extra for the robe and hood) that he quickly moved into management of the virulently anti-black, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish organization. He was chosen to be the Exalted Cyclops, the chapter leader. A Grand Dragon suggested Byrd try politics. He did, and served for years in the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1958, he was elected to the Senate and has been there ever since. Fellow Democrats revere him. So popular is he that in 1971 he defeated the sainted Teddy Kennedy for a Democratic leadership post.. . . .

One reason so many senators crave the presidency

[Ancesthntr]

What I’d like to know is, why is this news? Sheets has been off his rocker for at least 10 years.

[Global2010]

Oaryegone two.

[Ancesthntr]

I don’t want anyone whose drunk or drugged or demented making laws for me.

I don't know - it might result in better laws.

[pandoraou812]

I don’t think so. Look at Kennedy, Murtha & some of the others. I think many of them are drunk or senile. If you or I can be drug tested and some jobs require testing for alcohol I think that the people in the govt ought to be tested too. Some of the rants I’ve seen made by Senators make me wonder just what they drank for lunch. If you are comfortable with their performance , thats fine. I happen to think many of them are just out of it.

[gonzo]

I think Dennis Miller did a bit on Byrd where the old KKKlansman gets up to say grace at the Thanksgiving dinner, mumbles a string of unintelligible words, and then wanders upstairs and everybody else at the table looks at each other and says: "What are we gonna do about Grandpa?"

The man is a stumbling poster-coot for term limits .............. FRegards

[ricks_place]

Conscious of the Democrats!

Kleagle is the title held by a form of Ku Klux Klan officer whose role is to recruit new members.

Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, is a notable Kleagle in KKK history. He was a member of the Klan from his early 20s to his early 30s. He was defending the KKK as late as 1958 when he was 41 years old. He has called his former membership a "mistake" though he has been involved in recent racial controversies.

[Lurking in Kansas]

And the buggers in West Verginia keep voting him into office.

Exactly, and they are proud of him. What a backward state. Whenever I must travel through there I get out as soon as I can.

[Lurking in Kansas]

People like Henry Clay...

You should be ashamed of yourself for that comment. Comparing him to "The Great Compromiser”, one of the greatest senators in our nation’s history.

I hope you’re just ignorant of history, because surely you are not serious. “Sheets” Bryd is no Henry Clay, not by a long, long, shot.

[teeman8r]

no one in west virginia wants to see byrd take advantage of the cushy retirement package he has helped vote himself... so they are making him work til he drops.

teeman8r’s wife/cousin

[DesertDreamer]

ROFL! That’s the best explanation I’ve heard yet. Bravo!

[TigersEye]

What the hell is wrong with the people of West Virginia?

Other than plain old greed there is nothing wrong with them. This old moonbat has funneled Billions of dollars back to WV. He could show up on the Senate floor in nothing but a diaper and a party hat and play Yankee Doodle Dandy on a kazoo and as long as he keeps the federal dough coming their way they will vote him in and name every street, bridge, building, and newborn child after him.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Well said and of course absolutely correct. Sigh.

[TigersEye]

Thanks, unfortunately. Wish it weren't so. Another poster said something about getting better quality candidates instead of corrupt imbeciles. I'm afraid we need better quality voters who will educate themselves and put country before wallet in order to get better candidates.

The sick irony is that, IMO, everyone's wallet would do better in the long run if we stopped running all our money through the federal coffer before we put it to use.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The Senate was originally conceived as the home of statesmanship, the gentlemen farmers who were well educated and would “do what was morally right” for their constituency AND the nation. We have been steadily devolving into a Kakistocracy, where political power and greed are the only driving forces left in the government.

[Safetgiver]

Black or White, it doesn’t make any difference. They are all black when they come out of that mine... “...from the article. Of course, this means them West Virginieers don’t know how to mine efficiently.

[reagan_fanatic]

While I loathe his personal history, I respect his Senate service

I loathe them both. The man is a consummate ass.

[TChris]

The one thing I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanted out of the Contract with America was the term limits. It would have totally screwed the lobbyists and liberals.

One thing nearly every politician wants above all else is to hold on to power. For this reason, don't hold your breath for term limits or flat tax (Fair Tax) to ever pass. Both of those initiatives would severely limit the power which politicians wield.

Politicians, like all mortals, are inherently selfish. In this case, they have the power to really do things with that selfishness!

[Fiddlstix]

......What we need is to repeal the seventeenth amendment, and return to senators being selected from each state by the state government.