Becoming the longest serving public nuisance in American history:
The Senate is a resolutely superlative place, so it was resolved that the august body on Wednesday will open its session by saluting Sen. Robert C. Byrd, Congress’ longest-serving member…
…Here are some of Byrd’s statistics: He was already married to his beloved Erma for nearly four years when Thanksgiving was deemed a federal holiday in 1941. He began his political career four years later as a member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates. He remains the only member of Congress to earn a law degree while a member of the federal legislature, according to his Web site.
He’s a complete horror, I’m afraid – he’s got federal tax dollars appropriated to build monuments to himself. Just completely entrenched; dug in tighter than a tick on a dog. The best argument yet in favor of term limits. Had we had a limit of three Senate terms, Bryd would have been forced out when I was 12 – instead of hanging around when I’m nearly 45.
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