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This is how I believe Byrd should be handled.

My dream would be for a GOP leader to stand up and say this the following: "I find it troubling that there sits in the Senate, in an honored place among his collegues, a Senator who belonged to a subversive organization, a secretive group that engaged in senseless terrorist acts against innocent civilians on our own shores, a group that laid a century-old legacy of hate upon one-half of our Nation, a group so reviled that some of our senior citizens quake at the very mention of the three words that made up their name.

Not only that, this "honorable" Senator was a ranking officer in this cabal of terror, getting cash enmueration from his nefarious paymasters to recruit other men to this group, individuals who may have later committed evil and unspeakable acts of which detailed truth is lost to the graveyard.

This man, a member of a wealthy and politically powerful family in his region, had no logical reason to join this dangerous group of evildoers other than the fact that he believed in their cause and approved of their methods. His earnest enthusiam was so great that he was promoted within their ranks.

This man, I say to you all, has never fully explained his involvement with this devilish band of outlaws, and he is yet to publically apologize for his membership, in good standing, as an officer of this fanatical gang of miscreants.

This was a group that also engaged an alliance with agents of America's enemies during World War II and was a handmaiden of murder from New Jersey to Nevada. Has he yet said anything about these matters?

In closing I say to you, my fellow Americans. Strom Thrumond, for all his sins in the past, was never involved in a lynching. However, Robert Byrd belonged to an organization that did.

When I stand before you I think of the three letters that stand for the name of this group. I also remember their legacy: Murder. Crossburnings. Drive-by shootings. Bombings. Again, again and again.

What do you remember, Honorable Senator?"

Okay maybe a little over the top. But you catch my drift.