“The whip is somebody who has to get to know everybody, and work with everybody,” says Ray Smock, a former House historian who now directs the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies at Shepherd University in West Virginia. “Given the style of the tea party, to be independent and buck authority and buck the establishment, it makes me wonder how effective any tea party candidate would be in that position.”
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“...the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies...”
[/rolls eyes back into normal position]
“I would like to talk to you all about my dog...” (Senator Byrd, senate filibuster a while back)
LMAO, stevie..