1 Sheets Byrd, Former Kleagle, room temperature at the age of 92.

Next Stimulus Package:  Adding the word "Memorial" to half of West Virginia.

2 Silver medal winnah!

3

RIP....

 

Roll in Piss Bobby....the last filibuster.

4 Hmm, so what happens to the seat?

5 No work today!

6 It'll be amusing to watch our "First Black President" eulogize a former Klansman.

7 Governor (D) makes an appointment to fill out the term.

8 Well it looks like they will hold a "special election" to fill out the rest of his term which is about 2 years.

What is ironic is legally speaking Wv should not be a State anyway.

9

I think they have a special election

 

10 Gone off to the Great Shine Box in the sky. Well.., maybe another place.

11

9 Vic,

well like Jugears Lincoln was flexible vis a vis "law"....

12 7 I kind of want to see that just for the spin.  RIH (Rot In Hell) Sheets Byrd.

13

I have to admit I was pretty surprised this morning when I heard it on the radio.  I wasn't shocked to learn he had died mind you, after all he was 92.  The thing that shocked me was the way the radio announcer handled it, he mentioned that Byrd was a former klansman and that he was often referred to as the "Prince of Pork" in the Senate because he'd managed to get over a billion dollars in pork barrel spending for his state.

Here I was, all prepared for the uber-liberal media spin about what an "icon" he was and what I got was a refreshing jolt of someone actually reporting the facts.  Maybe the wheel is finally starting to turn.. who knows.

14 I'm sure all the MSM outlets will focus like a laser on his Klan past, like they would if he had been a Republican. Hah.

15

Here I was, all prepared for the uber-liberal media spin about what an "icon" he was and what I got was a refreshing jolt of someone actually reporting the facts.  Maybe the wheel is finally starting to turn.. who knows.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 28, 2010 08:02 AM (e8T35)

Either the wheel is starting to turn or that reporter will be out of a job by lunch time.

I suspect the latter...

16 No comment.

17 I'm not going to say anything bad about the guy because he just died, but I'm also not going to waste any time eulogizing him.  I hope there is a political advantage to be gained from this.  

18 @19 RACIST!

19 Ironic that vultures are birds.

20 Any other bona-fide Klansmen in Congress?  Or was he the last one? 

21 16, agreed but Lincoln has beeb morphed by posterity into a lot of things he wasn't.

22 Time for the Democrats to change the sheets.

23 Governor (D) makes an appointment to fill out the term.

Maybe.

I was surprised to learn he was only 92.  But yeah, his finally kicking off is kind of an anti-climax.

Also, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg's husband has died, of cancer.  I was shocked to learn she wasn't 92.

24 So how does WVA change or appoint a new Senator?

25
Barbaric!

get out the Flaming Cross^tm for this dead klansmen.

26 I don't particularly feel the need to mourn the death of a racist thief.

27 Klanman. Klan recruiter. Klan leader. I've made my judgment. Others will make theirs.

28
How does this affect...?

1) Kagan's confirmation
2) the financial regulation scheme bill

29

27 Kemp,

 

by law(which we know doesn't mean a whole lot with Donk driven states-Joisey I'm looking at ya babe) had the Kkkleagle made it past Tres de Julio the Gov would have made an appointment but now instead there will be a special election.

30 Here is answer to my own question.  Looks like an election this year! Oh, boy another R!!!

http://tinyurl.com/2fep668

31 Why do I keep hearing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in my head?

32
hahaha, Keith cocksucking Olbermann talks shit about Rep Golmert and says NO ONE has called for Obama to act a like a dictator. Apparently Keith, like everyone else, doesn't watch MSNBC.

Special Ed Schultz said last week that Obama needs to be a dictator.

The Man of the Week is Rep Golmert (R-TX) for calling MSNBC "useful idiots."

33 Looks like an election this year! Oh, boy another R!!!

See...that's why I'm thinking Geraghty might be onto something with expecting the gov of WV to pull a Paterson and delay action for awhile so he gets to appoint a crony.

But just for fun, anyone in WV know who the potential R candidates might be?

34 33 Here is answer to my own question.  Looks like an election this year! Oh, boy another R!!!

http://tinyurl.com/2fep668

Posted by: Kemp at June 28, 2010 08:16 AM

Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of "vacancy" is. 

35 Thoughts & prayers & stuff...

36

A blessed soul has been taken from us much too soon.

37

Either the wheel is starting to turn or that reporter will be out of a job by lunch time.

Lol.. probably.  But on the upside Big Daddy Obama will make sure he can collect unemployment benefits for at least a couple of years before he even has to start looking for another job. 

38 I follow Mark Knoller on Twitter.   He is now up to nine posts about Byrd,  everything from his always wearing a red vest to him being Majority Leader during Carter's term.  So far,  no mention of the Klan.

At 8 posts I asked him how many he would tweet before he got around to mentioning that little fact.

39 Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of "vacancy" is.

The Dems will pull a NJ and change the law so they can "appoint" a replacement. Hell, why not?  They have already proven they can get away with it. 

The Republicans even if they did grow some balls and sued they wouldn't get standing. 

40 Special Ed Schultz said last week that Obama needs to be a dictator.

Posted by: a proud ewaster at June 28, 2010 08:19 AM (XaQVn)

I think that squish Medved is the entire Special Ed audience.

41 I'm glad he lived long enough to see his friend, Spongehead Teddy Kennedy die and blubber about it like a senile old wreck.

What a total shit this guy was. Good fucking riddance. And shame on you, West Virginia.

42
See...that's why I'm thinking Geraghty might be onto something with expecting the gov of WV to pull a Paterson and delay action for awhile so he gets to appoint a crony...

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 28, 2010 08:19 AM (M9BNu)

Just when you think things couldn't get any stranger: a Congressional version of "Weekend at Bernie's"

Ya just can't make this stuff up!

43 So from what people here said yesterday, since he passed on before July 3rd, this means a special election?

44 Condolences to the Byrd family is about all I can say. He was a disaster for this country and was at the forefront of every piece of progressive legislation that got us where we are today. The only thing he opposed with ardor was civil rights. That's the way the stale cracker crumbles. At least there will be one monument in West Virginia that will be justified in having Byrd's name on it: his tombstone.

45

Lol.. probably.  But on the upside Big Daddy Obama will make sure he can collect unemployment benefits for at least a couple of years before he even has to start looking for another job. 

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at June 28, 2010 08:23 AM (e8T35)

I just though of a third, and most likely, possibility that the reporter mistakenly thought that Byrd was a Republican.  Through that lens everything he said made perfect sense!

46 Are they going to bury him in his Klan regalia, complete with bed sheets?

He was a bad man, and unrepentant towards his Klan past (I'm not counting his vote buying schemes, lefties).  I'm not going to dance on his grave, but I'm not that sorrowful he's dead.  RIP anyway, Byrd.  May the Almighty forgive you.

 Does he have any family left?  I'll pray for their comfort.

47 REFORMED means squat, converting from the Democratic KKK directly into federal Marxism.

48 2) the financial regulation scheme bill

Posted by: a proud ewaster at June 28, 2010 08:15 AM (XaQVn)

I think with Scott Brown having second thoughts on it, this puts it in real jeopardy; as in losing by at least 1 vote.

49

47 JJ Sefton,

 

That depends...

I would not put it past the donks or sheets to try to get buried at Arlington like Tedster did in contravention of the rules....

 

50 Being an evil Christian I can't say what I really think.One should never speak ill of the dead.I think I'll just let God sort it out.

51 The Dems will pull a NJ and change the law so they can "appoint" a replacement. Hell, why not?  They have already proven they can get away with it.

Yeah, see, that's what I thought too, but then...

52

53 Donna,

I am unaware of what precise scripture there is that says we as Christians cannot speak honestly of a person's past.

I will not condemn him to hell, his actions and God will take care of that if warranted.

53 46 So from what people here said yesterday, since he passed on before July 3rd, this means a special election?

Posted by: Gen Francisco Franco at June 28, 2010 08:26 AM

That is certainly how the law reads.  But since Dems are in charge. the law means whatever they want it to mean.  Or they will attempt an end-around and Republicans will let them get away with it.  Sadly. 

54 Serious question. How does Byrd's death effect votes in the Senate? There will be one less Senator to vote, so do they still need an absolute number to pass a bill or break a debate?

55

54 Martha Coakely,

Hey sweetie I tried real hard to help you get past all those faults that made you unelectable....

56

57 GFF,

seriously, it means the GOP now has a bulletproof filibuster and that Slo-Jo Biden has been mathematically eliminated from having a vote.

57 Unforgivable it is, that anyone of either party could hold a senate seat till they achieve room temperature.  The elite political class must be abolished.

¡VIVA LA REVOLUCÍON!

58 seriously, it means the GOP now has a bulletproof filibuster and that Slo-Jo Biden has been mathematically eliminated from having a vote. Posted by: sven10077 at June 28, 2010 08:34 AM (kq1lG) That's good

59 I think with Scott Brown having second thoughts on it, this puts it in real jeopardy; as in losing by at least 1 vote.

4 Republicans voted for it in May:

Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe of Maine, Susan Collins of Maine, and Charles Grassley of Iowa.

Two commies voted against it. So if Brown changes his mind and the rest vote the same it will not get the required 61 for cloture.

However, the most likely thing will be the two Dems will change their minds as well since they no longer have cover provided by traitor Rs and they will still get their 61.  

But the ME sisters and Grassley still have all their committee seats and no threats from the "Party" because they didn't apologize.

60 He is now up to nine posts about Byrd,  everything from his always wearing a red vest

I thought the red vest was Chuck Grassley.  Easy to get the pork princesses confused, I guess.

61 Boy it doesn't take long for the democrats to start making shit up to suit their needs.  Read this from the Wapo.

Now, an election is "ambiguous".  Or what the meaning of is "is"

http://tinyurl.com/22rtl8j

62

This about sums it up:

"While real mean were fighting Nazi racism in WWII, Byrd was serving as a high officer in the KKK" http://is.gd/d7AFv

He was 24 in 1942. Somehow never got drafted and  never served. But if he had served, it wasn't gonna be with a bunch of darkies by God:

“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.

63 RIP. Whatever reward Byrd earned, he will receive. My condolences to his family. Newsbusters has a story on Strom Thurmond's passing and the MSM obit headlines on his "racist" past versus none so far on Byrd's. Go figure.

64 53 Being an evil Christian I can't say what I really think.One should never speak ill of the dead.I think I'll just let God sort it out.

Have you ever spoken ill of people like Hitler or Stalin?

I understand your sentiment, but Sheets wasn't a good man and it's perfectly okay to judge his actions here on Earth.  Jesus' teaching of "do not judge, lest you be judged" was a call not to judge people's standing with God, lest you be judged and found wanting of Heaven too.  I dunno what that standing is with Byrd, but without a doubt, that man didn't sow much good fruit here on Earth.

65 Crises!

66 I couldn't resist this linky http://tinyurl.com/6ywf5g

67 #71

READ the posts.  We've discussed this for er, 70 posts.

68 @Kemp,

I think you are talking to a spambot.

69 RIP my ass. The guy was a piece of filth. I'm struggling to come up with a single redeeming quality.

70 Two commies voted against it. So if Brown changes his mind and the rest vote the same it will not get the required 61 for cloture.

Oops it only requires 60 votes for cloture. They had 57 Dems so if the ME sisters and Grassley still vote yes they will have it even with the to Dems voting no. .

71 I only endorsed and voted for Obami because he was the lesser of two evils.  It was between him and that Joooooooo lover Hillary Clinton.

72

Unfortunately for Byrd, God doesn't read the msm. 

 

73 Kemp, I wish those fucking fuzznuts at the WaPo would just print the goddamn law to see what it really saiys rather than just quoting excerpts that make it sound like the only way you can have a special election would've been for Sheets to have died a week before the primary.  What they reported makes the law sound far more stupid and obtuse than I think it really is.

74

78 Captain hate,

Stupid and obtuse are cornerstones of Democrat jurisprudence.

75

Would it be wrong to roast a chicken for dinner tonight?

76
RIP?  Eff that, burn in hell you racist piece of shit.

77 My very first glimmer of racism was as a small child while visiting WVA. I stepped aside to let an elderly black gentleman pass on the sidewalk. I was told never to do that again because I might get him in trouble. He stepped into the street to avoid contact and passed us looking down at the ground. This, I believe, was the influence of Byrd and others of his ilk.  

78 Michael Vick Dog Fighting Remix featuring Sen. Byrd

Wait until all the facts are in, lol.

79 He gonna git a scene under the Capitol cupola? Complete with Klansmen?

80 RIP is secret code for Rot In Pergatory, so it's all good.

81 He ends up where he ends up but he's not here anymore.

Bit of a relief, that.

82 The article you link to says the governor appoints someone until the term expires in 2012.

83 I kind of like "Rest In Sheets."

84 Designer Sheets Designer Sheets Designer Sheets

85
The morons never disappoint.

86 According to the Klan, there is no such thing as a former klansman. They claim adherence to the rule of "once in, never out".

87

From the AP article on Sheets death:

"As a young man, we was a member of the Ku Klux Klan for a brief period,"

 

We was a member? First off, I guess they don't have an editor to correct the bad English and second it wasn't like he was in the Klan for a half an hour and left

88

Here I was, all prepared for the uber-liberal media spin about what an "icon" he was and what I got was a refreshing jolt of someone actually reporting the facts.  Maybe the wheel is finally starting to turn.. who knows.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid

Bobby was occasionally a check on the Progressive Rush to Galactic Stupidity, so it is OK for the media drones to say naughty things about him.

89
I guess they don't have an editor to correct the bad English

Nawww,  just your basic liberal arts ejoomakashun.

90

One less racist to deal with.  I won't try to guess God's judgement of his soul.

91
Glad he's gone.  He was a POS.  The world is a better place with him not in it.

92 Senator Byrd weeps over Ted Kennedy's tumor

I don't see a red vest.

93 92 According to the Klan, there is no such thing as a former klansman. They claim adherence to the rule of  "once in, never out".

So the Klan is a Muslim club?

94 #101

That explains will those towel heads are always wearing white!

95 When the news came outta nowhere last night that he was in serious condition and had been hospitalized since late last week I knew the odds were he'd be dead in 24 hours.

96 Government agencies - cut their budgets by 20% and you'd never know the difference.

Posted by: Ugg Boots at June 28, 2010 08:42 AM (IhHdM)

I think you are lowballing it, and I used to work for the government.

97 #90 fucking wins EVERYTHING EVER.

98 According to the Klan, there is no such thing as a former klansman. They claim adherence to the rule of  "once in, never out".

So the Klan is a Muslim club?

Posted by: Kemp

 

Think of the outfits as regionalized burqas and your're halfway there.

99
I'm just as sad as I was when "vehicular manslaughter = senate seat for life" Teddy Kennedy died.

100 #93  Layers of fact-checking and accuracy, my friend.

101
92 and still in the senate.  Something is wrong.

102 He always said I was a good boy.

103

Byrd's passing is as meaningful and moving to me as was Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy's, which is to say, not at all. 

104 OK Byrds dead, can we please move on

105 The good news is that whoever (in politics) talks glowingly about him will have to resign their position- it's the Lott Rule.  Me, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for everyone in the democrat leadership.

106 Senator Robert Byrd says "white n*" on TV

Thanks for the memories, Sheets.

107 I'm pretty, pretty, pretty... pretty, pretty, pretty... dead.

108 113 The good news is that whoever (in politics) talks glowingly about him will have to resign their position- it's the Lott Rule. 

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 28, 2010 09:13 AM (oLULt)

This. 

109 Anyone have the footage of him reading his grandmother's recipes into the Congressional Record?

110 Laura Ingraham is skewering mangina plagiarist Mike Barnacle for not using the same standards for evaluating Byrd as Strom Thurmond & Jesse Helms.

111 Anyone have the footage of him reading his grandmother's recipes into the Congressional Record?

Posted by: HeatherRadish

 

....and for a finishing touch, sprinkle two and a half cups of naptha and ignite. That that's what gives the cross its merry, long lasting glow.

112 Just saw some CNN hooker blowing Byrd for being "self educated". Funny that I've never seen anyone at CNN discuss Sarah Palin becoming a successful businesswoman and politician with just a B.A. from a small, Midwestern college as praiseworthy. Maybe Sarah should join the Klan and work her way up to Kleagle?

113 Checked him off my dead pool.  Helen Thomas is up to #1.  I've got Patrick Kennedy 2nd, just because he's another drunken, crazy-assed Kennedy.

114

Robert Byrd?  Never heard of him.

115 Maybe Sarah should join the Klan and work her way up to Kleagle?

They don't let women take leadership positions, she'd have to join an auxiliary.

116 BTW, are the Klan wearing their sheets at half-mast today out of respect for Byrd's passing?

117 He did what he could for the cause.

118 The fact you guys are not despondant over the death of a klansman means the Dems will win 120 house seats in November.

119 Sheets is in the wind.....

God rest his soul.

120 Maybe Rev. Wright can take his seat.  The irony would be sweet. 

121 His family should be ashamed of themselves for allowing him to continue his Senate job when he was obviously mentally and physically impaired.  But I guess that most of those in the Senate and House are not much different.

122 This is Americas chickens coming home to roost..or something like that. BTW guys keep voying Democrat!

123
No flaming skull for the post, eh?  How 'bout a flaming cross?

124 Byrd personifies Jack Handey's preferred eulogy: "When I die, I hope people say of me, "Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money."

125

Honest to God, these assholes in the press ought to get jobs as washing machines with all the spinning they do

 

"Ku Klux Klan while in his 20s a brief affiliation for which he repeatedly apologized."

 

Brief? He was a Grand Kleagle. How brief could it have been?

126 Robert Byrd, D-KKK, Dead at 92

127 Everybody knows when he was in the klan he was a Republican.

128 134     +1

129 One of these days, the entire set at Morning Joe is going to spontaneously combust.  Now that will be good TV.

130 What happens to his seat? @Kemp, I think you are talking to a spambot.

131 I'm picturing Byrd's ideal funeral looking like the KKK scene in O Brother, Where Art Thou?  You just know that's what he would have wanted.

132 He wasn't a raghead.

133 This champion of equal race rights' famous spy-like infiltration into the KKK was clearly his most misunderstood life achievement.

134 Hi everybody.

135 So, who had Monday, before noon?

136 Oops it only requires 60 votes for cloture. They had 57 Dems so if the ME sisters and Grassley still vote yes they will have it even with the to Dems voting no.

they now only have 56 D's

137 Not sorry to see him gone.   Between all the pork and his life-long blatant racism his entire tenure has been a scar on the image of this country.

138

Awww.  That is such a shame.  What a nice old man, we'll miss him so much.

 

/sarc

139 They're already working on the funeral cortege. CNN's got some video up already.

140 On the one hand, he made it into heaven.
On the other hand, there's coloreds up there.
God does have a sense of humor.

141 I was in West Virginia this last week. Everything is named after him AND there are very few black people. Either he was extremely successful at his wizardry aims OR he was the KKK wizard as a vote getting tool. I'm thinkin' he was always whatever he thought would get him elected====and now a week of the MFM talking about redemption. Yeah, lets see if Holder wants redemption. 

142 This is terrible news.  I had Wednesday in the dead pool.  Crap.

143 119 Anyone have the footage of him reading his grandmother's recipes into the Congressional Record?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 28, 2010 09:15 AM (M9BNu)

 

That was before the invention of television.  ;-)

144 I kinda took the "low road" on Facebook regarding Byrd. The main reason I did is that half the people who will see it are complete Dem Party drones (of the virulent Mass. strain). Many have never heard a harsh word directed at the Party except from me. Bet 90% of them had no clue who/what Byrd was.

145 34 Why do I keep hearing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in my head?

Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at June 28, 2010 08:16 AM (y67bA)

easy now....... i live in Ga.

146 On the one hand, he made it into heaven.
On the other hand, there's coloreds up there.
God does have a sense of humor.
What makes you think he isn't down here with me?

147 Purgatory's a bitch. You can ask for forgiveness and escape hell but you have to pay.

148 This champion of equal race rights' famous spy-like infiltration into the KKK was clearly his most misunderstood life achievement.

Posted by: MSNBC

 

New betting pool. How long before someone actually pushes this?

149 Checked him off my dead pool.  Helen Thomas is up to #1.  I've got Patrick Kennedy 2nd, just because he's another drunken, crazy-assed Kennedy.

Maybe you should back off on Patrick Kennedy.  It isn't ski season yet.

150 How is Michael Jackson doing, anyway?

151 So, will Clorox be holding a memorial for the man who helped sell a lot of their product to keep people's sheets clean after weekly cross-burning?

152

Zombie Robert Byrd (D) stars in

For Whom the Klan Cloaks

153 Tell my son that Oak Crosses burn longest, but cured Maple burns brightest!

154 The Ramones tribute.

155 I just can't work up any emotion for this man.

There should be a mandatory retirement age for Senators.  This guy was way to old and senile to be holding office at some point just give it up pal.  Are you listening Arlen Spector?  You should have retired Arlen instead you leave a bitter old man.

156

A few things you probably won't hear about from the worthless "reporters" in the MSM.

Byrd was not just a "casual" member of the KKK for a short period of time.  He officially joined the klan in 1942.  He was a Kleagle, basically a recruiter convincing others to join the Klan.  Byrd himself bragged that he had recruited over 150 members for his local chapter.  And while Byrd himself worked very hard to convince others to join the Klan, no one recruited him.  He was the one that initiated contact with the Klan, according to his own autobiography, after seeing a newspaper ad.  Joining the Klan was all Byrds idea from the get go.  They must have really seen eye to eye, because within a few years his local chapter elected him Exalted Cyclops. 

Byrd publically claimed he left the Klan in 1943, but this is a highly dubious claim at best, especially given that in 1945 he wrote a letter to MississippiÂ’s Senator Theodore Bilbo stating he would never "fight in the armed forces with a Negro at my side".  Then later in 1947 he wrote a letter to Dr. Samuel Green, the Imperial Wizard of the Klan at the time, in which he stated “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”

In 1964 Byrd fillibustered the Civil Rights Act for more than 14 hours, during that time he made the argument that the founders did not intend that the words "All men are created equally" in the Declaration of Independence were meant to be interpreted literally.   “Men and races of men differ in appearance, ways, physical power, mental capacity, creativity, and vision". 

Also during this fillibuster Byrd went on to introduce a “study” from the book The Mind of Primitive Man that stated that white peopleÂ’s brains weighed a few grams more than black peopleÂ’s brains, and that whites were thus more intelligent.  He even cited so called scriptural support for his segregationist views.  All of this a full 21 years after he had supposedly "broken all ties" with the Klan.

In 1968 Byrd contacted the FBI, suggesting he give a speech condemning Dr. Martin Luther King on the floor of the Senate.  The FBI declined.

Byrd is also the only Senator to have voted against both African American nominees to the supreme court, both a liberal (Marshall) and a conservative (Thomas).  Since he voted against both, it's hard to imagine that it was political ideology that was his motivation.

Even as late as 2001, during a television interview Byrd used the n word repeatedly, and later had to apologize.  He was referring to people as "white <expletive deleted>" several times thoughout the interview.  He later claimed it was just an "expression" from his childhood.

Somehow, methinks the MSM will give this a big .. well, whitewash, if you'll forgive the obvious pun.

 

 

 

 

157 Checked him off my dead pool.  Helen Thomas is up to #1.  I've got Patrick Kennedy 2nd, just because he's another drunken, crazy-assed Kennedy.

It's a tossup for me.  Arlen or Helen.  Who goes first?

158 Stuck,I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to repost your comments in full at my site.

159

Stuck,I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to repost your comments in full at my site.

No problem at all, Mi Casa Su Casa, or I guess in this case Mi Comment Su Comment... lol..

160

Back to your master, Robert.

Say hello to Teddy.

161

Can't do better than Hunter S. Thompson (who admittedly was talking about Nixon and Humphrey):  "the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad....there is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack [he] is until you've followed him around for a while."

Byrd can go join his buddy Ted, currently keeping his chair nice and warm.

 

162 Some comments in this thread made me remember. I'm from the South and I'm old enough to remember "Whites Only" signs and the balcony seats where the blacks were sequestered. I never saw much evidence of the Klan but I'm sure it was there in some small measure. I think we tend to forget some of that evil stuff happened not that long ago. If I'm going to condemn Byrd, it certainly won't be because he was a "Klansman" in the 1950s. Too many people still living who were caught up in that mindset back then. You might be very surprised to discover some of those people were your friends and family (unless, of course, you are black).

I should despise Robert Byrd but for some reason I don't.  He was a professional politician probably from the crib and a statist in the truest sense of the word.  But there have been so many over the past decades who were so much worse and did so much more harm (Kennedy for one) that Byrd just doesn't warrant the saliva it would take to spit on his grave.

163

If I'm going to condemn Byrd, it certainly won't be because he was a "Klansman" in the 1950s. Too many people still living who were caught up in that mindset back then. You might be very surprised to discover some of those people were your friends and family (unless, of course, you are black).

Well, if Byrd had done something, anything, to indicate he'd truly renounced his racist history that would be one thing, but no such event ever occured.  Sure, he gave a lot of lip service and made a lot of statements along these lines, but as my dear old grandpappy was found of saying, actions speak louder than words.  Byrd's actions over the years are not exactly indicitive of a man who's "seen the light" in regards to his racist views. 

I should despise Robert Byrd but for some reason I don't.  He was a professional politician probably from the crib and a statist in the truest sense of the word.  But there have been so many over the past decades who were so much worse and did so much more harm (Kennedy for one) that Byrd just doesn't warrant the saliva it would take to spit on his grave.

I have two huge objections to Byrd.  First of course is his much deserved reputation as the "Prince of Pork".  He's been robbing me and most of the other American tax payers blind for years, and then using that money to bribe people in his home state so he could keep his Senate seat.  While this may be common practice for some, it certainly doesn't make it right and it's not going to stop until we the taxpayers stand up and say enough is enough. 

My second objection to Byrd, and perhaps the more vehement of the two, was how he kept claiming to have renounced his racist views so he could keep getting elected, and yet most of his actions appear to clearly support the fact that he was every bit as much of a bigot the day he died as he was in 1941 when he first joined the Klan.  If he had been a Republican no doubt the MSM would have been all over this, particularly after being the only Senator to vote against both African American nominees to the Supreme Court even though one was a liberal and the other conservative.  As it is they gave this racist dirtbag a pass, year after year, and swept it all under the carpet, as usual, because they agreed with his politics.

It is this "politics over principle" attitude that is in large part the worst problem we face in regards to cleaning up the corruption that is rife in Washington D.C., and in many ways Byrd was the very embodiment of the principle.

 

164 Bye Bye Byrdie. One less moonbat in the Senate. Good riddance.

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*rends garments*

*tears hair*

*gnashes teeth*

*rages against the gods at the unfairness of it all - depriving us of the "Conscience of the Senate" at such a perilous time*

*procures a slave girl to be strangled and then burned with our fallen lord*

*arranges for funeary gladatorial matches*

*hires a crowd of mourners to recite dirges*

*preserves a single tear in a glass phial*

*names the phial THE ROBERT C. BYRD MEMORIAL PHIAL*

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RIP....

Roll in Piss Bobby....the last filibuster.

Concur.

167 Tee hee.

I don't think you'll be getting any more mint julips, Kleagal.

168 May G*d rest his soul (and where He decides to rest that nasty thing is entirely up to Him, IYKWIMAITTYD. )

Since there seems to be a reaping of some of the more odious DemonRATs as of late, would it be evil of me to hope that Bwaney Fwank, Nasty Peelousey, Turban Durbin, Babs The Box, Lurch, Hoy-Hoy-Hoyer, Babs My-Cow-Skis and a whole host of others has their number-ball sucked up the tube of the great lottery machine of Life sooner than later? All as the natural progression of things, of course, no malice aforethough, blah-blah, blah...