Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:18:20 PM
The U.S. Senate has a number of liberal offenders in conservatives hall of shame. These include the Chappaquiddick Mariner Ted Kennedy, his Bay State buddy Jean Francois Kerry, Michigan's unleavened Senator Carl Levin, New York's grandstanding Chuck Schumer, and Horrible Hillary. A new enfant terrible is Ohio's Sherrod Brown who is a protectionist yahoo of the worst sort. The longest serving example of senatorial decripitude is West Virginia's Robert Byrd. Byrd has been in the Senate since 1959 and while he prides himself on his knowledge of Senate traditions and history and his desire to be seen as an examplar of Roman derived Senate excellence, the reality is just the opposite.
Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan, member should be remembered as an individual who has tried to relocate large portions of the federal government to West Virginia. If any one single legislator, is responsible for the deficit spending and national debt afflicting our economy, it is he. Byrd is the absolute monarch of congressional pork and earmarks. He would have fit in well as the recklessly incompetent finance minister in any ancient or modern profligate nation state.No one else, not even Ted Stevens comes close. A consummate exemplar of all that is wrong with Washington, Byrd exudes intellectual decripitude and doddering senility with every pronouncement he makes defending the existing governmental fiscal order. When President Bush criticized congressional earmarks in last night's State of the Union address, Byrd replied with imbecilic fury which you can view on the Senate Appropriations Committee homepage http://appropriations.senate.gov/ Byrd places sole responsibility for
the earmarks problem on the President for whom he goes into apoplectic rages due to the President's failure to observe Byrd's purported Ciceronian rectitude on matters such as the Iraq War and governmental fiscal policy. Byrd's infantile diatribe conveniently forgets that the President cannot veto individual earmarks in congressional appropriations bills because he doesn't have line item veto authority.It's pretty scary that a cretin such as Robert Byrd chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and is just behind the Speaker of the House in the presidential line of succession. West Virginians should be embarrassed and ashamed that they have repeatedly let such a pathological demagogue represent them in the U.S. Senate for nearly five decades. If West Virginians want the country and world to have a better image of them, then getting rid of Robert Byrd and his porcine fiscal policies and unctuous rhetoric would be a big step in the right direction. If Byrd survives his current term of office, which last thru 2012, he will be 95 and his arrogance and senility will undoubtedly worsen.
Our country has little hope of restoring fiscal rectitude to its governmental finances, as long as Robert Byrd is in a position of power in the United States Senate or anywhere else. How much longer do we have to endure his fiscal turds and sanctimonious posturing?