SENATE GETS THE BYRD (AGAIN!)

Well, we tried our best on Thursday (5/12) to watch one of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd's laborious pontifications on the Senate floor.
Waving a copy of a small book that Byrd says contains the Constitution, we began to wonder if liberals and socialists across the land were nostalgicly dreaming of those good old days when the Red Guards went around waving Mao's Little Red Book in everbody's face.
Unfortunately, the Red Guards actually believed in Mao's Red Book, whereas The Byrd has given us proof that he has no actual belief in the U.S. Constitution. He did this when he embraced perjury on the part of a sitting President back in those Clinton days.
Yes, Byrdie, you might have thought you had a sparkling career as an upholder of the Constitution, law and order, and all those other all-American things, but your vote to let Clinton ride showed us your true colors.
So on Thursday we were not surprised as The Byrd fluttered his aged wings again and proved he is an astute student of Clinton. Repeatedly, he attempted to convince his fellow senators, as well as the rest of us out here in TV land, that the movement to get President Bush's judicial appointments brought to a Senate floor vote somehow represents an attempt by Republicans to destroy free speech in the Senate.
Listening to Byrd on Thursday, one almost wished that at least some speech could be terminated.
As Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly pointed out, these creatures just do not get it.
As Byrd went on and on and on and then reached for his Bible, we were were desperately hoping that an ACLU lawyer would rush out on the Senate floor with a Liberal Activist Judge and yank that Extremist Right Wing Christian book right out of Byrd's hands!
Alas! It was not to be.
So as Byrd took flight into something about Rachel, good Jews and a guy named Mordacai we exercised our own control of free speech and shut off the TV.