"Senate titan Robert Byrd dies at 92" by Mark Feeney, Globe Staff | June 29, 2010
Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was the longest-serving senator in US history and whose grandiloquent oratory and unrivaled command of parliamentary rules made him the Senate’s unofficial dean, died early yesterday at a Fairfax, Va., hospital. He was 92.
Senator Byrd, a fiddle-playing former Ku Klux Klansman, became an unlikely liberal hero in the final decade and a half of his Senate tenure, most notably with his fierce opposition to the Bush administration.
“I stand here today,’’ Senator Byrd declared on the Senate floor on Oct. 10, 2002, during the debate on a resolution authorizing the war in Iraq, “before this chamber and before this nation, urging, pleading, for some sanity, for more time to consider this resolution, for more hard evidence on the need for this resolution.’’ Despite his eloquence and influence, the resolution passed....
As will I on the rest of this.
Would that the millions of dead over lies get so much print.
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I guess he is next.
