Robert Byrd Third in Line for Presidency

NewsMax ^ | 5 January 2007

[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.”

[KoRn]

"The changes in the past 20 - 25 years (roads (!), new industry, upscale communities) are pretty stunning."

I hear the average person in West bygod VA also have more teeth than they had back then. Now, I bet you could round up 100 or so people and they would combine to have more than a full set. 25 years ago that would have been very unlikely. ;^)

I don't live very far from the WestVA border. You hear some creative WestVA jokes around here. lol

[Thrownatbirth]

I don't live very far from the WestVA border. You hear some creative WestVA jokes around here. lol

I've been rafting the New and Gaulley rivers since the 70's. Those gap-toothed, father-raping riverguides knew them all. : )

Seriously, I think the big turnaround for the state came when Byrd got the hillbillies to stop dumping garbage down the mountainsides and creek valleys. I think he tried to get them to remove major appliances from their front porches, but I don't think that ever caught on.

[OCCASparky]

He has admitted that his membership in the organization was "wrong."

But still hasn't renounced it.

[traditional1]

"is anyone else a little perplexed as to why there is so much discussion in the media about the succession to the presidency"

Let's see.....Socialists now hold the positions that could Impeach Bush, the moonbat fringe is out there seeing Bush as a war criminal, they hate Cheney (he's Halliburton to them), and if they are removed from office, the replacements are in position.

Nah...I'm not noticing a pattern here....

[BuffaloJack]

I suppose that the Liberals consider an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to be preferable to a Conservative of any kind. Their hypocrisy is amazing.

[sergeantdave]

If Byrd becomes president, will our flag be replaced by a sheet with eyeholes?

[johnpannell]

...1973, and confirmed by Congress the following Dec. 6.

The Vice President Nancy Pelosi

Is that wishfull thinking or just bad information?

It's bad -- incomplete -- information. Under the 25th amendment the President appoints a vice president... confirmation required.

Nixon appointed Ford. I cannot see a situation where Bush (or Cheney) would be stupid enough to appoint Pelosi to fill the vacant vice-presidency.

[Tanniker Smith]

an Exalted Cyclops

Why do the words "I tap three mountains and one swamp for colorless mana to summon my Exalted Cyclops" keep running through my head . . .

And the artwork on the trading card should show a little byrd on the cyclops's shoulder . . .

[Dawgreg]

Pork, Pork, Pork! Ignorance, Ignorance, Ignorance! :)

[EarthBound]

an Exalted Cyclops Why do the words "I tap three mountains and one swamp for colorless mana to summon my Exalted Cyclops" keep running through my head . . . And the artwork on the trading card should show a little byrd on the cyclops's shoulder . . .

Lol! Just one correction, for a Liberal, you'll always tap tons of swamps, and occasionally a mountain when they (shudder)take power. Now, what would the stats on such a creature be? For a guy like Byrd, he'd either be Wall of Junk or a 1/1 creature that can continually be pulled outta the graveyard by tapping a swamp ;). Hmm. Probably put too much into this.

[ErnBatavia]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=exalted+cyclops+robert+byrd

[theDentist]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Three, three, three!

[The Sons of Liberty]

He's less coherent than Tim Johnson.

Was Tim Johnson sworn in yesterday? If not, then how could the dims take control of the Senate and place Byrd as President Pro-Tempore?

[Melinda]

I've been trying to figure this out for years. It's called the "machine", a nearly unbreakable coalition of Irish/Italian Catholic blue collar politicians and their constituents, combined with an ability to fix elections as they have controlled all on Beacon Hill for decades through massive corruption. (ever hear of the "Big Dig"? ;)Imagine hundreds of thousands of idiot voters who will vote for anyone named Kennedy, no matter what the position on issues, as they aren't smart enough to study them or understand. As long as they can have their tanks filled with cheap Venezuelan oil by a smiling Kennedy, they will instruct the generation after them to vote the same. It's beyond sad.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I hear the average person in West bygod VA also have more teeth than they had back then. Now, I bet you could round up 100 or so people and they would combine to have more than a full set. 25 years ago that would have been very unlikely. ;^) I've been rafting the New and Gaulley rivers since the 70's. Those gap-toothed, father-raping riverguides knew them all. : ) Seriously, I think the big turnaround for the state came when Byrd got the hillbillies to stop dumping garbage down the mountainsides and creek valleys. I think he tried to get them to remove major appliances from their front porches, but I don't think that ever caught on.

Screw the both of you! So where are you from?pretty, pretty Burgettstown, Masontown.East Liverpool, Midland, i.e.?
And I was born and raised in PA

[Tanniker Smith]

For a guy like Byrd, he'd either be Wall of Junk or a 1/1 creature that can continually be pulled outta the graveyard by tapping a swamp ;). Hmm. Probably put too much into this.

Probably. An Exalted Cyclops should be a little scarier than 1/1 (or Byrd in his present, pretty-pretty, condition). But I like that it'd be a Swamp-Mountain creature. Sorry, mythology is taking over me and clouding the joke a bit.

How about RRR1, 3/1, Swampwalk, (B): Regenerates at end of term.

[Tanniker Smith]

How about RRR1, 3/1, Swampwalk, (B): Regenerates at end of term.

Ummm, I meant "end of turn"...

Freudian slip?

[Fawn]

Is anyone listening to Glen Beck? He's so funny talking about this. Says....what if they are all at a barbecue and a pig explodes killing Bush, and then Cheney drags him to the medical tent and has a heart attack...and NAncy Pelosi's thousand dollar shoe goes through her eye killing her....then RObert Byrd would be PResident. He's saying it could happen....just funny.

[EarthBound]

How about RRR1, 3/1, Swampwalk, (B): Regenerates at end of term. Ummm, I meant "end of turn"... Freudian slip? Nope, simply perfection.