Smart Woman™ Ann Coulter disses Stupid Ass™ Sen. Robert Byrd (D-KKK), among others.
Byrd, for what it’s worth, was sound-bited on Rush today talking about his 50 years in the Senate. As far as I’m concerned, he’s been in the Senate at least 38 years too long. (And for that matter, so has Strom Thurmond; I won’t play favorites in the “make Congress a career” sweepstakes.) I think two terms in the House and two in the Senate, making a sixteen-year career in national politics, maybe capped by two terms as President if you should be so lucky, is all anyone ever ought to aspire to. Our Founders did not expect us to elect career men to run our government. They expected people to take a few years to serve (remember, the word is “serve”, not “lord it over”) their fellow citizens, and then go back to their plow or shop or classroom or law office or whatever they actually did to earn an honest living (lawyers of course being excluded from “honest” living).
Time to go, Kleagle Byrd. And Strom, much as we love you, it was probably time for you to go 10 or 12 years ago.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)