You know Byrd doesn't like this one bit when lashing out at his own party for sending Mrs. Alito to tears and lashing out at anyone who has been guilty of the charge of politicizing this whole process, all the while quoting directly from the Constitution, and some here were scratching their heads when Byrd supported John Roberts for CJ of the USSC.
His speech on Thursday should have laid to rest all the wonderment and confusion, whether you like the guy or not.
He's disgusted, his constitutents -- most, if not all of them lifelong Democrats -- are disgusted, and the majority of Americans are disgusted about just how far we have come and how low the partisans will go.
Senator Byrd, who I disagree with him 95% of the time, said in less than an hour what I've been thinking of all this process for the last 4 years.
The biggest disappointments I believe are Kent Conrad (D-ND), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Joe Lieberman (D-CT), who don't even have the hearts and minds of their own constituents at hand.
Each one of these, who I would call "saner" Democrats are in the tank with the DUmmies, the MoveOn bozos, and the rest of the leftist kook fringe element in this country.
As for Baucus, my father simply said "That a$$hole".
Somebody said today that if the GOP pulled the trigger the Dems were going to boycott the SOTU!
I'd bet my house Robert Byrd won't; and it would be easy to spot the bought and paid for Soros boys and girls from the empty seats, wouldn't it? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Whoever the HELL is leading this group of lemmings over the cliff has got one hell of a what-do-you-call-it for George W. Bush.
My sister (61) said the exact same thing.