91-year-old Sen. Byrd hospitalized (minor infection, responding well to antibiotics)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/18/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91 and the longest-serving senator in history, was hospitalized last Friday with a temperature spike evidently caused by a minor infection, his office announced Monday.

Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, "is being treated with antibiotics, responding well and is expected to be released from the hospital in a few days," the office said in a statement.

Byrd has been in Congress since 1952 and was first elected to the Senate six years later.

[NewJerseyJoe]

The W.V. governor, although Dem, is supposedly an NRA member and pro-life. If Byrd kicks it, it would be interesting to see who he appoints.

[BP2]

Just three heartbeats away...

US Presidential line of succession after Obama

#	Office	Current Officer
1	Vice President and President of the Senate	Joe Biden
2	Speaker of the House of Representatives	Nancy Pelosi
3	President pro tempore of the Senate	Robert Byrd
4	Secretary of State	Hillary Rodham Clinton
5	Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner
6	Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates
7	Attorney General	Eric Holder
8	Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar
9	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack
10	Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke
11	Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis
12	Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius
13	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan
14	Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood
15	Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu
16	Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan
17	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki
18	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano

[mojitojoe]

I wish him well. At times I have hated him,but he redeemed himself in my eyes when he sent the Kenyan Marxist a letter and told him he was abusing his executive power. He is believes the Constitution matters and he a Christian. Beliefs matter more to me than party.

[traviskicks]

Byrd’s legacy (barf alert):

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2006/10/big_daddy_byrd_brags_about_por.php

[ak267]

Just like all of the other old-time Senators.....they won’t “retire” until you pry their dead cold fingers from their office chairs.

For them, the only “Term” limit is when they’re TERMinal.

[Fast Ed97]

The W.V. governor, although Dem, is supposedly an NRA member and pro-life. If Byrd kicks it, it would be interesting to see who he appoints.

That is good to hear. I had always assumed it would be better for Byrd to remain in the Senate since he does not have the radical leftist voting record of Jay Rockefeller.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[ArrogantBustard]

Professed with his mouth or professed with his actions?

[hattend]

He’s 91. He won’t have a retirement. The only thing keeping him alive is screwing with the Constitution. Take that away from him and he’ll be dead within 6 months.

So lets keep the pressure on for him and Kennedy to rerire!

[ArrogantBustard]

Robert Byrd on Life issues. 50% NRLC rating, 43% NARAL rating. IOW, a squish, hardly "pro life" in any meaningful sense of the word.

[GOPsterinMA]

That’s a pretty putrid list...ugh..

[NewJerseyJoe]

> That is good to hear.

Not necessarily. The new NY senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, had a decent pro-2A record before she got appointed to Shrillary's seat. She caved to the anti-gun crowd in less than 2 weeks, IIRC.

The few Dems with any sense of morals and law seem to lose them, in inverse proportion to the amount of power they gain and how far they move "up the ladder" in politics.

[sheik yerbouty]

Constantly using his old one probably led to his infection..

[NewJerseyJoe]

Re-read my post. I wrote about the governor of WV, not Senator Byrd.

[US_MilitaryRules]

hopefully he won’t be leaving soon.

[NewJerseyJoe]

That’s gotta be the most frightening hierarchical structure I’ve ever seen.

[El Gato]

Lucky for him it is before our socialized medicine kicks in. Another one too old to waste resources on in our upcoming free healthcare for all society>

Such rules and practices will be for the Ruled, not the Rulers.

I don't think I much like what it says about our country that the longest serving Senator is from the party which gets the vast majority of the black vote, yet is a former Klan Kleegle.

Oh, well, the Democrat party was established to win elections, not to have any sort of fixed ideology. Most especially not that ideology practiced by the Whigs who comprised our Founding Fathers, Federalist and anti-federalist alike.

[Buckeye McFrog]

my revulsion over his klan history and anger over his decades long Porkulus Spendarama down in West Virginia has been overtaken by pity for an old and sick man who seems to have lost most of his mental faculties. His last few turns at the Senate rostrum were painful to watch.

[ArrogantBustard]

Sorry ... read it too quickly. Yes, Joe Manchin is a ‘Rat ... but hardly among the most loathsome. There’s an issue right now with a public rifle range in Berkeley County that will certainly be an interesting test of his mettle on 2A matters.

[US_MilitaryRules]

That is a SCARY list!!!!!!!!!!