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    Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever

    Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    On the news this morning, the teaser for this bit of news referred to him reaching a "special milestone." I thought they were going to say he walked without crushes! I was going to do a dance in his honor.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    Is it coincidence or strange and inevitable fate that Sen. Byrd should, in his old age, begin to look like the very creature for which he is, sorta, named?
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    At least Strom tried to bridge the racial divide.

    Granted, the bridge was his penis.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    He's old, but he was right on this one...
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/18/09

    @doodlebug: i do love this speech. My favorite part are his "note cards" which constitute 8x11 pgs with 72 font lettering.
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    Image of Kenton Davis Kenton Davis
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    you can't help but love him
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    11/18/09

    @Kenton Davis: Unless you're Michael Vick. Byrd said he would be happy to see Vick executed for dog fighting. Nah, he's not a racist anymore.
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    Image of Taren Taren
    11/18/09

    @son of spam: Or he just thinks dog fighting is barbaric...
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    11/18/09

    @son of spam: I would happily execute Vick with my bare hands, and it has nothing to do with his race.
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    11/18/09

    @Taren: He, of all people, should have done something about it then. WV dog fighting laws rank 46th out of 5o states in severity, according to this:
    [www.humanesociety.org]

    This is as of two weeks ago. Michael Vick was convicted in August, 2007. He's a racist.
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    Image of Taren Taren
    11/18/09

    @son of spam:

    He's the senator from W. Virginia, not the governor. He doesn't have the power to make or change their laws. As a senator, he can only vote for federal laws and if any that deal with dog fighting manage to reach the senate, then we'll see what he really thinks. Also, declaring that one black man should get the death penalty does not a racist make.
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    11/18/09

    @Taren: He's all yours. You can have him.

    By the way, he voted against the Supreme Court nominations of both Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall.
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    Image of Taren Taren
    11/18/09

    @son of spam: President Obama said the one Supreme Court justice he wouldn't have supported was Thomas. He must be racist, too.
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    11/18/09

    @Taren: Do you know who Thurgood Marshall is?
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    11/18/09

    @son of spam:
    Of course I do. I also know that Sen. Byrd has spent decades making up for past wrongs. He's apologized and his voting record has, in my opinion, made up for that. If that's not good enough for you, then that's your opinion.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    Naturally, the Capitol kitchen serves an Early-Byrd Special.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    11/18/09

    @AzureTexan: Kielbasa on a Kaiser roll with a side of Kale.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/18/09

    @OliversArmy: . . . and served on a white sheet. Sorry. Tablecloth.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    Every other thing in his home state is named after him to begin with.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    11/18/09

    In reply to Robert Byrd Is the Longest-Serving Senator Ever
    Since he's a Democrat, he gets the benefit of the doubt that he's "probably still an old racist, but the sort of old racist who knows it is not acceptable to be racist anymore."
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/18/09

    @TheHonJudgeSmails: If you speak well and carry yourself with regal bearing, you can be Kali, the goddess of destruction, and still be nominated for the Supreme Court.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    05/19/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    Byrd's Twitter avatar looks like Smails':


    Hmmm....

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    05/18/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    Byrd's not getting out of the hospital. Spoiler Alert: Those two ladies in the above pic are going to kill him.
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    05/19/09

    @saintjim: Byrd was awful. We can see how the expression the only the good die young is playing out, Byrd's 91?
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    05/18/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    Everyone knows the only way to get rid of old Senators is by indicting them, and then they lose by a close margin.
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    Image of Ken Elwell Ken Elwell
    05/18/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    Technically, he's the second man in line. There's an old lady in there somewhere for now.
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/18/09

    @mattchew03: Oh yes, of course! That was a classic! I knew I'd heard that somewhere before.
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    05/18/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    Dude! Missing the story here. The real story is that if Byrd dies, the person who is then third in line for the Presidency is Hillary Clinton.
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/18/09

    @cassandra: Whoa! You're totally right. Byrd's aides better keep her the fuck out of his hospital room!
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    05/18/09

    @The Cajun Boy: And if she does sneak her way in, they should check her snizz for a snuke.
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    05/18/09

    @mattchew03: I have no real idea as to what that means, but it made me laugh.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    05/18/09

    In reply to Barely Lucid Old Coot Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized Again
    "Vacancies in the U. S. Senate are filled by appointment of the Governor, and the appointed Senator serves until the next election that is more than two years and six months away from the date of the vacancy."


    The governor of WV is a Democrat.

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