Fellow Donks give Byrd “two-thumbs up” for effort
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), the 90-year old Klansman (once a klansman, always a klansman) did something today that he hasn’t been able to do since September of last year.
His job.
That’s right — the old racist presided over a two-hour hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, of which he is the chair.
He was wheeled into the hearing. He was wheeled out. He did manage to stay awake for the entire two hours, and didn’t appear to drool all over the front of his shirt too much.
And his fellow Dems are using this as “proof” that the old senile fart is “able” to do his job. Really?
For now, his appearance seemed to staunch a flow of speculation about his ability to handle the upcoming appropriations season.
In brief comments after the meeting, Byrd told reporters he is “doing fine,” laughed off a question about his health and said those who question his capacity to lead the committee should “shut up.”
Byrd’s performance was followed by comments from Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
“Today was a good sign,” said Schumer. “Everybody wants Sen. Byrd to recover and get back to running the Appropriations Committee.”
Durbin even lashed out at reporters, calling the attention surrounding Byrd “macabre.”
“This ought to stop. This is not fair. It really isn’t,” Durbin said. “This poor man is working himself as hard as he can, and all you can do is kind of boil the pot a little.”
Except that “as hard as he can” isn’t hard enough. Nor good enough. It’s not just that he’s physically incapable of doing the job, he’s mentally incapable of doing it either.
The fact that he was able to breath on his own and mutter a few words during his first two hour stint as Chairman in the last 7 months is “good enough” proof to fellow Dems that he’s up for the job?
They sure are setting the bar of expectations pretty low — even for Democrat standards.
That West Virginians keep voting this guy back into office long after he’s pretty close to brain-dead doesn’t do much to squash stereotypes about the intellect of the denizens of the Mountain State.
Seriously?
How bad is your memory? Do you not remember strom thurmond? Sitting at his desk with transparent skin? Republicans ooing and ahhing because this great conservative (klansman too, and as you say, once a klansman always a klansman) could sit up straight for his job? I guess you’re at least a little pissed that Durbin didn’t say that America would have been better off if we’d elected a klansman like your boy Lott did. Still, not quite a good enough reason to go calling the kettle black.
If you can’t find something to post that isn’t a clear case of you and your ilk displaying your own self loathing then maybe, you know, post something that at least doesn’t make you look like a hypocritical prick.
Funny how a senile old man understood the implications of an invasion of Iraq better than the ’smartest’ men in the room.