Tell Robert Byrd to Shut Up
Sen. Byrd gave a floor speech yesterday in which he said he, "weep(ed) for my country." Byrd has been an opponent of the use of force against Iraq. He was elected to the Senate in 1958; he was a member of KKK; he has pushed through more pork for his home state of W.Va. that nearly the entire state is paved. So maybe it is his age, or his 44 years in the Senate, or his checkered past as a racist or his love for pork, or maybe all of the above, that have warped his mind and put him so out of touch. But it's time to put the geezer out to pasture and in the meantime he can do us all a favor and just shut up.