Those are the Members from the last Congress.
Lot's of high powered Senators on that one, including at least one racist, who used to be in the KKK.
Do my eyes deceive me? Is that surly fellow staring at me from the front page of the good old Drudge Report wearing a Confederate general's uniform a U.S. senator — a current U.S. senator?
It is indeed, and the senator in the suit that fought under the Stars and Bars of unhappy memory is not Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott, the Democrats' vision of Pitchfork Ben Tillman reborn. No, the grizzled and menacing-looking U.S. senator in Confederate drag is West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd. He is clutching a sword. Does that not send a chill down the backs of every Democrat in the country? The senior senator from West Virginia — a border state — has a cameo role in "Gods and Generals," a film about to come out from Warner Brothers.
Fie on both Warner Brothers and the senator, who incidentally is the only sitting member of the Senate to have once served as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a group whose civil rights record has been even more unsatisfactory than that of the modern Republican Party.
Even the Clintons would agree with that. How could Mr. Byrd and Warner Brothers be so insensitive? What with all the controversy about the Stars and Bars flying from Southern state capitals, there has to be more to it. My estimate is that Mr. Byrd is trying to send racists all over the country a message. "I am with you, fellows," that is his message, and he probably is.
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