Robert Byrd dead at 92
I will not speak ill of the dead. For a taste of what I thought of Grand Kleagle Senator Robert C. Byrd, read Scott Johnson's excellent piece in Power Line:
Before his death early this morning at the age of 92, I placed the legendary West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd in the category of "only the wrong survive" along with Fidel Castro and Pete Seeger. I was not a fan.
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Robert Byrd was indeed a valuable link not only to the Senate's past, but also to the Democratic Party's history as the party of slavery, segregation, and opposition to equal treatment of blacks. Stolberg obviously loved Byrd's cornpone constitutional shtick in favor of filibustering a Republican president's judicial appointees. It's a shame that Stolberg exerted no effort to put Byrd's shtick in the context it merited.
Byrd was old enough, for example, to have vowed memorably regarding the integration of the Armed Forces by President Truman that he would never fight "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."
Even after his resignation from the Klan, Byrd continued to hold it in high esteem, writing to the Klan's Imperial Wizard in 1946: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia."
And Byrd was old enough to have participated in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as to have voted against it after cloture along with 18 other Democrats -- in the name of the Constitution, of course. Funny Stolberg didn't invite Byrd to take a walk down memory lane on that subject. It would have been highly illuminating.
Funny how these Dems use the Constitution when it's convenient...
My desire to be as classy as you in speaking ill of the dead is otweighed by my rage at the damage that old coot did to his own country (and ours), both 60 years ago and the last few years. May he rot in hell where he belongs, and give my regards to Uncle Teddy while you are there. Uno menos.
Being on the Dem/leftist/liberal side means never having to say you're sorry, or at least never being called to account by the MSM except very mildly, if at all.
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Black left wing liberals hated President Bush because he was a REPUBLICAN. They loved Robert Byrd because he was a Democrat. To hell with the fact that this hero of theirs did his best to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and THE FACT THAT HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE KKK....AND RECRUITED MEMBERS FOR THE KKK. i WONDER HOW MANY BLACKS were hanged with the blessings of Robert Byrd before he saw the "light".
Revolting !