One of my favorite President Bush pictures.
Posted on 11/07/2008 1:10:29 PM PST by Chet 99
Senate legend Robert Byrd, approaching 91 this month and hailing a “new day in Washington,” said he would voluntarily give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee with the new Congress.
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven,” said Byrd, who had fended off earlier challenges this past spring and summer. “Those Biblical words from Ecclesiastes 3:1 express my feelings about this particular time in my life.
“I have been privileged to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee for 50 years and to have chaired the committee for ten years, during a time of enormous change in our great country, both culturally and politically,” Byrd continued in a statement released by his office. “I have learned that nothing is quite so permanent as change. It is simply a part of living and should not be feared.”
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who is 84, will take over for Byrd on the powerful panel, which oversees hundreds of billions of dollars annually in federal spending. Byrd will officially hand off the gavel on Jan. 6, 2009.
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Now that's the kind of change you can believe in.
Funny thing that changing to ‘young blood’ puts the means giving the chairmanship to a multi-term senator of only ‘84’.
Changing depends.
Well,...it Depends.
and of course they will name the head of the approp seat the “Robert C Byrd Appropriations Committee Chairman “put new senator’s name here”
Figurative phrase is now "Under the bus!" [spoken with the tempo of "No soup for YOU!"]
Is Byrd pissed that a black man is president? Will he be giving up his favorite white hooded robe too?
It guess it would be kinda wierd having the Grand Kleagle of the KKK having to report to “one of those people”!
New Blood!...............
His name is already on everything else in the place.
The GOP needs to dump a serious pile of money into creating a viable conservative to take Byrd’s seat. They may be doing it for all I know, but if not, it is stupid. WVA is ripe for GOP senators.
A good deal of Byrd’s 2006 reelection campaign was:
1) He was still fit enough to serve at the highest level
2) How important it was for the state of WV that Byrd was head of the Appropriations committee, especially if a Democrat won the White House in 2008.
Guess they didn’t quite tell the truth. Who’d have thunk it? /sarc
Yes, but remember that WV went red in the election.
It is really difficult to unseat a Byrd in that state. I can remember them when I was a kid growing up there in the 50s.
The old white racist rat has to make place for the new black racist rat.
One of my favorite President Bush pictures.
Where are all the screams of invasion of powers of government? Legislative v. Executive?
Yes Byrd stepping down is because the party with the first black President cant have a former KKK Grand Kleagle in the line of succession
If he wants to promote REAL change he would resign.
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