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Home Front: Politix
Robert C. Byrd praising Bush, because his poll numbers suck
2005-07-22
EFL
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, one of President Bush's harshest critics, has become an unlikely ally on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr.
"I said to him, 'I am shouting your name from the steeple tops for reaching out, reaching across the aisle,'?" the West Virginia Democrat reported after taking a phone call from Mr. Bush to discuss a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
...and why is that, Mr. Byrd?
After Mr. Bush nominated federal Judge Roberts this week, Mr. Byrd again issued a statement praising the president. "I thank President Bush for reaching out to senators on both sides of the aisle as he worked to select a nominee for the court," Mr. Byrd said. "I hope that this bipartisan cooperation will continue as the confirmation process begins."
I hope you have a heart attack, Mr. KKK Byrd.
The senator's praise of Mr. Bush is turnaround from a year ago when the West Virginian accused Mr. Bush of being a "green and arrogant president" who went to war before exhausting diplomacy.
During much of the presidential campaign, liberals turned to Mr. Byrd as an loud eloquent and bombastic critic of the war in Iraq and Mr. Bush in general. Mr. Byrd's speeches on the Senate floor became rallying cries for Democrats, and the liberal activist group MoveOn.org featured the senator as a speaker and used him to raise money.
SNIP to the reason for the turnaround
Mr. Byrd is up for re-election next year in a state that Mr. Bush won last year by 13 percentage points despite heavy campaigning by Democrats.
A poll conducted in May shows Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia Republican, three points behind Mr. Byrd even though Mrs. Capito
hasn't announced
 that she will run against the old-guard senator.
"For Senator Byrd, desperate times require desperate measures," said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "As recent polling shows him below 50 percent and in a dead heat against a prospective opponent, he'll apparently try anything."
HAHAHAHAHA!! Losing to someone who hasn't tried to run yet!?!?! Sounds like the people of your state are sick of your crap! Goodbye, looser!
Posted by:mmurray821

#13  The day Byrd gets run out of town will be a proud day for all Americans.
Posted by: Chris W.   2005-07-22 19:00  

#12  I just hope he lives long enough to see his name chiselled off all the public works projects he pork barrelled in a fit of anti-KKK outrage
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-22 17:24  

#11  Once the sheet comes off, many twists and turns follow
Posted by: Captain America   2005-07-22 17:02  

#10  I'm Otis Campbell, yes I'm the real Otis
All you other Otis wannabe's are just imitating
So won't the real Otis Campbell please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?


Posted by: Mac Suirtain   2005-07-22 16:48  

#9   Leave Otis out of this. He never killed anyone and had a good heart.

The Otis remark refers to Otis from Mayberry. And in no way is it meant to disparage Otis. It refers to Teddy's well known fondness for the booze
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2005-07-22 16:46  

#8  The moment she announces, my checkbook is open.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-07-22 16:42  

#7  Otis, my man!!

Posted by: Raj   2005-07-22 16:29  

#6  Leave Otis out of this. He never killed anyone and had a good heart.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-22 15:12  

#5  There are a few things that would give me more pleasure than seeing this asshole go down in 2006; give me some time and I'll try to remember what they are.

I may just drop a couple of C-notes on Byrd-man's opponent, out of sheer spite...
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-07-22 14:06  

#4  Then I'd suggest he go to the "jungles of deepest Africa" and find out.

Soon.

I hear the lions like white bread - though too much of it is bad for their digestion.... ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-07-22 13:18  

#3  Seems a bit risky of a comment from our sitting congressional klansman:

"One's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities," he writes
Posted by: 2b   2005-07-22 13:08  

#2  And take Otis (AKA Teddy) with him. A good discription of Teddy from a guy I know that is a local radio talk guy

And I am also not going to have some martini-besotted Boston Brahmin who except for an accident of birth would have been nothing more than a cab driver, or garbage collector, or second-rate plumber’s helper rather than the Senator he became control the country’s dialogue. .

I don't always agree with the guy. But them having totally agreeing POVs does get boring after a little while.

http://www.lennypalmer.com/articles.php?catid=30
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2005-07-22 12:05  

#1  If Byrd loses next year there will be a whole bunch of champagne flowing in my household. The Kleagle has been an embarrassment to the Senate for decades. Time for him to sit on the veranda, sip mint juleps, and FOAD.
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-07-22 11:41  

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