Flipping us the Byrd

[captainsblog]

Why is it never easy when my party is in power?

We get a Democratic governor and the guy promptly drops his pants on a ho. Worse, he pays by credit card and gets caught.

Then we get a Democratic majority in both houses of our state lej for the first time in 40 years, and there's a coup. Forget "Albany" as the capital- we should sell naming rights to it to Banana Republic.

Teddy Kennedy dies, and winds up being replaced by a Republican, thanks to a bill passed as HIS behest to require a special election to fill unexpired US Senate seats in Massachusetts.

Now the Byrd Man kicks the bucket- exactly five days before West By God Virginia state law (sorry- the Senator Robert Byrd Memorial State Law) would have given the W-BG-V gov, a Democrat, unquestioned authority to name a replacement for the remaining two-plus years of the term.

Where were all the Catholic protesters to prolong his freakin' life support another week? They did it for John Doe Jersey, after all!

Comments

[bktheirregular]

From at least one note I've seen, the key date isn't when Byrd passed beyond the veil, but when the Governor officially notices that he's missing a Senator.

And weren't there prayer groups specifically organized to try and hurry Byrd's passing?

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Three score and ten are the years of a man, four score in strength. Senator Byrd was a giant whose like we will not soon see again. (I'm lookin' at you, Senator Brown, you loathsome pygmy!)