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Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, Dies at 92
Fox News ^ | 6/28/10 | Staff

Posted on 06/28/2010 2:35:45 AM PDT by careyb

Edited on 06/28/2010 3:51:06 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Robert Byrd, Longest-Serving U.S. Senator, Dies at 92

Published June 28, 2010

| FOXNews.com

Reuters

Feb. 2009: Sen. Robert Byrd doffs his hat for reporters as he arrives at the Capitol in Washington.

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in American history, died Monday at the age of 92, a spokesman for the family said.

Byrd, a Democrat who served in the U.S. Senate since 1959, had been plagued by health problems in recent years and was confined to a wheelchair. He had skipped several votes in Congress in the past months. 

Jesse Jacobs, a family spokesman, said Byrd died peacefully at about 3 a.m. at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Va.

He was the oldest member of the 111th Congress.

The passing of Sen. Byrd will not affect the balance of power in the Senate. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, a Democrat, will appoint a replacement senator to serve out the remainder of Byrd's term which ends in 2012.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010obituaries; bigot; byrd; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; disgrace; elderly; kkk; klan; klansman; obituary; pravdamedia; sheets; thenword
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To: rdb3

That would be 158, and you’re right. I don’t. ;^)

Take care...


241 posted on 06/28/2010 12:20:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (06/15/2010 Obama's Shame-Wow address...)
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To: careyb

Let’s keep this ball rolling, Democrats! Leftist obituaries make great toilet literature.

It’s down to these people, or my country. What do you expect me to feel about them? These aren’t Americans. F’em!


242 posted on 06/28/2010 12:31:59 PM PDT by Boucheau (http://newzeal.blogspot.com/)
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To: careyb

The Robert C. Byrd Memorial Obituary.


243 posted on 06/28/2010 12:31:59 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: silent_jonny

“... surely he had people in his life that loved him and they are mourning for him now ...”

Well said. Good prayer, too.


244 posted on 06/28/2010 12:52:04 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: careyb

He was the last Senator to get away scot free with using the N-word on television. May he meet his judgement day greeted by a group of black men in hooded robes with a bull whip and a noose.


245 posted on 06/28/2010 12:59:10 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: careyb
Rank Hypocrisy will on be display at Byrd's funeral. All of his Senate Colleagues will be on hand saying beautiful eloquent lies about him at his funeral and the man was Racist pure and simple yet because he was a Democrat he will portrayed as “Beloved”. Will Obama speak and say sweet lies about Byrd??

Now contrast that with the Late Sen. Strom Thurmond, at his funeral even some of his closest Senate Colleagues would not attend because of his so called past and he was treated disrespectfully. Yet from all accounts he gave a lot of Blacks starts on his staff and helped a lot them along in their political and/or government careers. Did Byrd do anything of the same??????

246 posted on 06/28/2010 1:04:38 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Now contrast that with the Late Sen. Strom Thurmond, at his funeral even some of his closest Senate Colleagues would not attend because of his so called past and he was treated disrespectfully. Yet from all accounts he gave a lot of Blacks starts on his staff and helped a lot them along in their political and/or government careers.

Thurmond did change, beginning in the '60s. We have no clue about Byrd.


247 posted on 06/28/2010 1:22:04 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: careyb

RIP
248 posted on 06/28/2010 1:22:52 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: US Navy Vet

May he rest in sheets, er . . . peace.


249 posted on 06/28/2010 1:58:28 PM PDT by Clump (the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: rdb3

Agreed on this.
Byrd we don’t really know anything about and what he did or not do.
I have just heard that there is a Democrat resolution for Byrd to lie in State. That I don’t agree with.


250 posted on 06/28/2010 2:10:58 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: careyb

There’ll never be another one like him. Hopefully.

Seriously, I hope Senator Byrd rests in peace and I wish his family the best in their time of grief.


251 posted on 06/28/2010 2:30:20 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
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and nature again imposes her own term limits.....memo to nature....Lautenberg...


252 posted on 06/28/2010 2:42:51 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; mkjessup; sickoflibs; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; indylindy; DoughtyOne

Lest anyone think that something good is going to come from this, Byrd consistently voted against amnesty in 2007.

I would not be surprised if Dems start pushing amnesty again, fearing that they have to do as much damage as possible this year.


253 posted on 06/28/2010 2:46:17 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

They already are pushing amnesty. If nothing else, it will happen after the 2010 elections.

And they won’t worry about American public opinion.

The Mexicans and terrorists will be the ones to decide.


254 posted on 06/28/2010 2:50:50 PM PDT by dforest
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; mkjessup; sickoflibs; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; indylindy; DoughtyOne

Then it will be up to we the people to stop it, as the Republicans in the House& Senate will just watch & snivel.


255 posted on 06/28/2010 2:53:42 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Look, I just mean in the immediate wake...I remember when the horrible Swimmer passed. Nothing is gained in the first few days after a person dies by naysaying them.

Of course I do not think history should be whitewashed.


256 posted on 06/28/2010 2:57:15 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: indylindy

Yes indeed, American “public opinion” is so weak and tentative that it means nothing!


257 posted on 06/28/2010 5:20:09 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

You’re right about Byrd being against amnesty. In fact there are a couple more things he voted more conservatively than John McCain did. He also endorsed Bush on Larry King.


258 posted on 06/28/2010 5:26:03 PM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; mkjessup; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; indylindy; ...
RE :”I would not be surprised if Dems start pushing amnesty again, fearing that they have to do as much damage as possible this year.

When Obama came up with this immigration reform crap a few months ago because he promised the Hispanic caucus he would in return for the critical (final House) Obama-care vote; the Dems in congress told him it was not possible to even get a decent vote. Their taste for suicide votes is long gone.

The plan is to try to pass stuff after the election before the new congress.

259 posted on 06/28/2010 7:15:56 PM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: doug from upland
It seems to be the sole discretion of the governor.

...And the governor is a Democrat, ergo, he's a corrupt scumbag.
So we already know how this will play out. Case closed.

260 posted on 06/28/2010 7:28:53 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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