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Robert Byrd Third in Line for Presidency
NewsMax ^ | 5 January 2007

Posted on 01/05/2007 2:26:59 AM PST by Aussie Dasher

The elevation of Robert Byrd as President Pro Tempore of the Senate on Thursday makes an 89-year-old former Klansman third in the line of presidential succession.

Only Vice President Dick Cheney and new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stand between the West Virginia Democrat and the White House if President Bush does not finish his term.

Byrd was first elected to the Senate in 1958 and is the longest-serving member of the Senate in history. He won his ninth term in 2006 and is now the oldest member of the U.S. Congress.

He also served six years in the House. If he is still serving at the end of 2009, he will surpass the record of Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., who was in the House and Senate for nearly 57 years.

Byrd joined the Klu Klux Klan at age 24 and was elected Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. He has admitted that his membership in the organization was "wrong.”


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobbyrd; kkk; klankleegle; liberalbigot; presidentbyrd; rats; thenword; whitesupremacist
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Wonder what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will have to say about this...

While I'm waiting to hear, I think I might invest heavily in sheets!

1 posted on 01/05/2007 2:27:02 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Strom was President pro tempore of the Senate at age 98.


2 posted on 01/05/2007 2:40:06 AM PST by trumandogz (Rudy G 2008: The "G" Stands For Gun Grabbing & Gay Lovin.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Picture this guy at long last being able to fulfill his lifetime dream of burning a cross on the whitehouse lawn?


3 posted on 01/05/2007 2:51:13 AM PST by jeddavis
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To: Aussie Dasher

They finally found him a job where it's okay for him to be asleep most of the time.....


4 posted on 01/05/2007 2:55:15 AM PST by Uncle Ike ("Tripping over the lines connecting all of the dots"... [FReeper Pinz-n-needlez])
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To: Aussie Dasher
Look what InfoPlease has to say about presidential succession.

InfoPlease --presidential succession

Prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no provision for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency. When a president died in office, the vice president succeeded him, and the vice presidency then remained vacant. The first vice president to take office under the new procedure was Gerald Ford, who was nominated by Nixon on Oct. 12, 1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.

The Vice President Nancy Pelosi


Is that wishfull thinking or just bad information?
5 posted on 01/05/2007 3:02:55 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: Uncle Ike
He's less coherent than Tim Johnson.
6 posted on 01/05/2007 3:06:39 AM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Every state in the union would have a highway named after him. Every city in the country would have a street named after him. Half of all the airports would change their name to Robert E. Byrdbrain International Airport. Byrdbrain elementary schools would pop up on the landscape like mushrooms. Katie Couric would embrace the Byrd with messianic zeal.

(Just to name a few.)


7 posted on 01/05/2007 3:11:40 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Aussie Dasher; All

Is it just me, or is anyone else a little perplexed as to why there is so much discussion in the media about the succession to the presidency? Did this happen for any other president? I really don't remember that.

President Bush has only got another year and a half, for Pete's sake.

Aussie Dasher--this post is not a criticism of you, it's just an observation. It seems strange to me, how there is so much talk of impeachment/succession, etc.


8 posted on 01/05/2007 3:13:59 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: proud American in Canada
You'd better put new batteries in your calculator.

January 5th 2007 - January 20th 2009 = 2 years + 2 weeks
9 posted on 01/05/2007 3:22:32 AM PST by AmeriBrit
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To: proud American in Canada

1/20/09. That would be just over 2 years.


10 posted on 01/05/2007 3:22:51 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Why are people in West Virginia electing him?


11 posted on 01/05/2007 3:23:41 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: AmeriBrit; metesky

Thanks for the correction--I'm still half asleep. I probably shouldn't freep before a coffee. :)

I guess I was thinking about the election, and rounding it down, so to speak. :)


12 posted on 01/05/2007 3:26:05 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Why the hell do people in Massachusetts continue to elect Lard Ass and F'Kerry? The world is full of mysteries (and morons!!!).


13 posted on 01/05/2007 3:26:56 AM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Driving through WV you'll notice a monster brick building in the middle of nowhere named the Robert Byrd Jobs Center or something like that.


14 posted on 01/05/2007 3:27:11 AM PST by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Good point. I live in PA, and the voters just threw out Santorum.


15 posted on 01/05/2007 3:29:05 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Another bloody mystery!


16 posted on 01/05/2007 3:32:45 AM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
Why are people in West Virginia electing him?

He brings home the pork, and the people don't care how he does it. You've got to admit that the state is a lot better for it. The changes in the past 20 - 25 years (roads (!), new industry, upscale communities) are pretty stunning.
17 posted on 01/05/2007 3:34:30 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: proud American in Canada

Maybe the media is hoping for two "arkancides".


18 posted on 01/05/2007 3:35:36 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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I'm sure he'd wear his... 'dress-whites'.
19 posted on 01/05/2007 3:37:10 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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Maybe the media is hoping for two "arkancides"

I think you must be right.

Isn't it strange? Have we ever seen such discussion about this?

I suppose it's a good lesson in the Constitution for kids (and their parents!), though. ;)

20 posted on 01/05/2007 3:40:18 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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