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Byrd hospitalized after fall
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/26/08 | AP

Posted on 02/26/2008 6:42:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday after complaining of back pain following a fall at his home, his spokesman said.

Byrd, 90, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the longest-serving senator in history, was staying overnight at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for observation, said spokesman Jesse Jacobs. It was not immediately clear whether he had suffered broken bones.

Jacobs said Byrd fell at his Virginia home Monday night. He came to his office Tuesday and was on the Senate floor to vote for an Indian health bill. But after noticing he was wincing in pain, Byrd's staff recommended that he see the Capitol physician, who "smartly for a 90-year-old man advised him to go to Walter Reed for observation."

Byrd, who as Senate president pro tempore is third in line to the presidency, walks haltingly with two canes. Due to his frail condition, some Senate Democrats reportedly explored ways to replace him as Appropriations chairman, but he continues to hold the post.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 110th; byrd; hospitalized; kkk; klan; klansmen; kukluxklan; robertbyrd; virginia
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To: Just A Nobody
Is the Governor in his state a good Republican?

Nope. Joe Manchin is the governor of WEST Virginia, (not Virginia), and he ain't even a "good" democRAT.

His claim to fame is peeving off the residents with "West Virginia. Open For Business." welcome signs (which are to be soon replaced with ones similar to the previous welcome signs, at a cost of millions of dollars.)

He is also related to former WV State Treasurer A. James Manchin, who was ALWAYS involved in some sort of scandal....

141 posted on 03/02/2008 4:59:07 AM PST by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: steve-b
If blathering incoherently were a disqualification, the halls of Congress would be empty.

Especially on the Dim side....

142 posted on 03/02/2008 5:14:00 AM PST by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: snuffy smiff
yep, all that pork for his home state...

You should visit WV around the Beckley area.

You can't throw a rock without hitting something that starts with "The Robert C. Byrd...."

143 posted on 03/02/2008 5:20:07 AM PST by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: dirtbiker
If Byrd goes will Manchin appoint himself or some other democrat, like Mollohan?
144 posted on 03/02/2008 4:14:02 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily
Probably some other dimorat....

If Bob (Not So) Wise wasn't involved in some type of scandal a few years back, he's probably be Manchin's pick, or former governor Caperton....

145 posted on 03/02/2008 5:02:26 PM PST by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: guido911

“I do not get this about being respectful. Here is a former Klan member who is responsible for sending millions of tax dollars to his personal/pet projects and there are those who tell us to mind our manners. But Senator McCain, we read daily how that rat bastard can go straight to hell...But in a respectful sort of way, eh?”

Bump to what you said.


146 posted on 03/02/2008 8:43:46 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (McCain is W with a DD-214 and a flash temper. Another 4 years of this mess--or worse? Hell, no!)
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