Regardless of your feelings toward his unfortunate history and his current politics, surely we can all agree that a man that frail shouldn’t have that much responsibility.

I don’t know, if the dead are going to vote, aren’t they entitled to representation?

TexasTiger said:
Under one scenario being circulated in Democratic circles, the 90-year-old Byrd would be named “chairman emeritus,” and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would become “acting chairwoman” for the remainder of the 110th Congress.
Here’s my “scenario.” Dip him in bronze and mount him on a pedestal in the town square of either Hatfield or McCoy, WV.

LOL

First of all I’m a decendant of the Hatfield’s so don’t insult me again for lobbying for a bronze statue of Bird in any city in WV. Second the McCoy’s where from Kentucky and as far as I know their are not town’s named Hatfield or McCoy in WV. I think when he passes they should burry him quickly forget about him and rename everything in the state something besides Robert Bird.

The 770-page book is the latest in a long series of attempts by the 87-year-old Democratic patriarch to try to explain an event early in his life that threatens to define him nearly as much as his achievements in the Senate.

The Democrat deep south also had the Bible when Byrd grew up there, and knew right from wrong, and he wasn’t raised to adulthood before the civil war. What is it about hating and horrendously hurting other human beings that he just didn’t understand from a moral perspective “early in life”, when he was enough of an adult to start a political career and hold an office in the world’s most notorious racist organization? This is BS on a massive scale, and Republicans should call out every long-term Democrat member in congress for racism by association – which fits the strict legal definition of “conspiracy” by the way – for allowing this vermin to not just function within their midst, but to actually head committees as well. Remember two words: Trent Lott, and choke on the horrible, rage-inducing hypocrasy.

A group of Senate Democrats has begun quietly exploring ways to replace the venerable Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, believing he’s no longer physically up to the job

And that’s the reason?! Alas, that is the reason. Having a having a black-skin-color-hating racist bigot – an official in a racist organization that promotes hatred of others according to skin color – was fine and dandy. He just got too old to physically do the job the way he once did.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the real Democrat Party.

I for one would be very interested to know just how many “former” West Virginians there are compared to how many are left.

Imagine my surprise, out of all the places in the world to meet a real hillbilly, I met another one when I moved to the Philippines. I grew up on the Braxton/Gilmer county line and he grew up around Buckhannon so you can add two “Ex” Mountaineers to your list.

New jobs in WV are largely government related, either state of federal. Sen Byrd used his influence to have federal agencies or branches located in the state. A good example of this is the FBI’s national finger print center. It is located just outside Clarksburg WV. Thus the aging population looks on Byrd as the provider of the goodies and rewards him with term after term in the Senate.

I for one would be very interested to know just how many “former” West Virginians there are compared to how many are left.

That’s the reason people in WV love Byrd. He gives them what they want. Build a road, bridge, library, school, stoplight, whatever….(and his name is on all of it.)

and even better in their opinion, and unfortunately for us , he uses money from the rest of us to do it.

He’ll go down in History as the Pork-Barrel KING. However, since liberals are writing history now, we’ll probably never see a mention of it….