Sen. Robert Byrd: 'Today I Weep for My Country'

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 3/19/03 | By Thomas Ferraro

[comebacknewt]

This guy's views are unbelievably out of step with his constituents. Too bad the citizens of WV keep prostituting themselves for the pork he brings home.

[Radix]

This guy is such an Ahole!

Who is it exactly that votes for pukes like this?

[rundy]

Senator Bird should be sad indeed that the US is not the country it used to be....we have all but neutralized the KKK.

Poor Boobie Bird!

[restornu]

Robert Byrd is still part of a Cabal the Klu Klux Klan, and than continues in politics still promoting someone agenda?

I would say the same Cabal who brought us the League of Nations, and donated the land for the United Nations!

[MJY1288]

W. Virginia :-)

[Marathoner]

Just wondering, did he start talking about his ol' dog Billie, like he does whenever he's filibustering.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.

He must be very proud of himself for having helping cause it.

The gall.

Grrrrrr

[ex-Texan]

The Senator is a jerk.

[mhking]

[caisson71]

That senile old bastard should be run out of town on his....bald head.

[mountaineer]

Byrd, who has been a leading foe on Capitol Hill of war with Iraq, spoke in a nearly empty Senate chamber

That sounds about right. The other senators must have gotten advance notice that Sheets was going to give another of his blathering diatribes.

I swear this old goat is senile; dementia notwithstanding, he's a monumental embarrassment to those of us in W.Va. who have a few active brain cells (in other words, those who don't vote for him and his pork barrel politics).

[MinuteGal]

"Today I weep for my country....."

Not too senile to be a drama queen.

Leni

[ImpBill]

The die is cast. In their lowest bid to split the country for partisan political gain, the f'ing DemocRATs are going to make the Iraq war their benchmark issue in the 2004 campaign if they can.

The limits to which they will slime is beyond comprehension and only decorum keeps me from using the epithets I would like to use as adjectives for them.

DemcoRAT politicians are lower than the French.

[Consort]

He could have been referring to his "country" (as in country music) and the Dixie Chiks.

[Natural Law]

That's not weeping, that's his prostate acting up again!

[Sofa King]

"Byrd, who has been a leading foe on Capitol Hill of war with Iraq, spoke in a nearly empty Senate chamber"

Ohhhhhhhhh.. I thought this was being said at a Klan rally...

[Verginius Rufus]

Byrd is up for re-election in 2006.

[Wolfstar]

"Today I weep for my country..."

Me too, but only because this pile of excrement is occupying a seat in the United States Senate. A Constitutional amendment to require term limits for senators and House members looks better to me all the time. Two 6-year terms for senators and six 2-year terms for House members seems about right to me.

[Ann Archy]

I weep for a STATE that would elect a KKK Grand KLEAGLE!!

He keps asking.... WWCD? What would Cicero do??

[operation clinton cleanup]

Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.

Was he talking about the Democrat party or the United States?