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In a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, former Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd, pledged to put President Bush on trial in the Senate if the House impeaches him. Addressing the president in absentia, Sen. Byrd began by warning that Congress retains all its original powers under the Constitution. "You better read that again in the Constitution," Byrd said, declaring that the Senate's powers include "serving as a court of impeachment. "You better believe it, Mr. President," Byrd continued. "The Senate can send you home. You better believe that." The ex-Klansman then added: "If the House impeaches you,...

Here’s good news to the cause of good government. West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, styled by partisan Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate” and by those who are less biased as the last troglodyte in the body, could be defeated in his bid for his umpteenth term in the Senate. He’s up for election in 2006, and the latest polling in West Virginia indicates that an attack of sanity and judgment may, at last, be hitting an electorate that has routinely elected the 87-year-old Byrd to the Senate eight times with never less than 59 percent of the vote....

A poll commissioned by the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee shows that Sen. Robert Byrd could be facing a close reelection race in his home state of West Virginia, where he'll be seeking an unprecedented ninth term next year. The poll shows Byrd in the lead, but not by much - with prospective GOP candidate, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito closing to within 10 points - 52 to 42 percent. For a Democratic icon like Byrd, that's too close for comfort. More troubling still for the top Democrat: Moore Capito's stellar performance comes despite the fact the she's has yet to...

Some Senate observers said Byrd, elected to the Senate in 1958, intends to remain in office for the remainder of his life.

'Pretty boy' plays fame card on bailJanuary 3, 2005A MAN who said he was "too pretty" to go to jail now claims he is too famous to adhere to the conditions of his bail. Timothy Leigh Hall, 21, was carrying a copy of an article published in The Daily Telegraph last week which detailed his theatrics in court on Boxing Day when trying for bail. When he was picked up for allegedly breaching bail conditions for a malicious damage charge last week, Hall told the court the "hardened criminal element of jail would not be suitable for this blond-haired boy"....

Weirdness in Kentucky The increasingly strange behavior of Republican Sen. Jim Bunning has led to speculation that he is suffering from some kind of dementia -- and tightened a race he once had in his pocket. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Mary Jacoby Oct. 12, 2004 | It's no secret in Kentucky that Sen. Jim Bunning, a Republican who was expected to coast to reelection on Nov. 2, has been acting strangely. Over the past few months, Bunning has angrily pushed away reporters, exchanged testy words with a questioner at a Rotary...

Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU JULY 08, 2004 10:09:35 ET XXXXX CAN'T KEEP HANDS OFF EACH OTHER Hugs, kisses to the cheek, affectionate touching of the face, caressing of the back, grabbing of the arm, fingers to the neck, rubbing of the knees... John Kerry and John Edwards can't keep their hands off each other! In the past 48 hours, "candidate handling" has become the top buzz on the trail. News photographers have been going wild with buddy photos of the two Johns. "I've been covering Washington and politics for 30 years. I...

While taking in the dress rehearsal last night for the Capitol Fourth concert at the US Capitol, I thought I saw a familiar figure on the Capitol steps. I said to myself, "Could it be?" and snapped a quick photo... . Still uncertain, I moved a bit closer, and it was then that I heard a muffled voice mumbling what sounded like, "...pretty, pretty, pretty." and snapped another shot... .The Capitol Police kept me from getting any closer because I did not have a Senate ID.Was that really Democrat Senator Byrd in his old Klan robe on the Capitol steps...

MIDI - LET'S ALL SING LIKE THE BIRDIES SING Let's all whine just like Robert Byrd...wah, wah, wah, wah, wah The theatre of the absurd...wah, wah, wah, wah, wah Jealousy's really obvious...Dubya sure looked neat His flight suit was cool...Robert Bryd, that fool, wears a dirty sheet

Filed at 5:36 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Questioning the motives of a ``desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior,'' Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd on Tuesday reproached President Bush for flying onto an aircraft carrier last week to declare an end of major fighting in Iraq. ``I am loath to think of an aircraft carrier being used as an advertising backdrop for a presidential political slogan, and yet that is what I saw,'' Byrd said on the Senate floor. Byrd, 85, of West Virginia, is the Senate's most senior member and was one of the most outspoken critics...