Senator Byrd Smackdown! Smackdown! Smackdown!

The blogger site seems to be having some issues today.  It won’t let me write the post directly on the site so I’m trying to send this one in via email.  So if it looks funny or doesn’t display correctly it’s blogger’s fault.

 

This story is awesome.

 

 Who would have thought the old guy still had this kind of fire still in him.  Regardless of what you think about the Iraq war I don’t think many people will argue that it’s not necessarily going swimmingly.  And now the administration has come back and said it’s going to need another $190 Billion to keep it going.  If we use the McDonald’s scale, that’s enough money to buy every single American a medium sized value meal 3 times a day for over 40 days!   On the beer scale it’s enough to buy again, every single American, 33 cases of Budweiser! 

 

So Byrd is upset.  He knows that with that kind of money he could replace all the teeth in the entire state of West Virginia and still have enough left over to build another Byrd Superdome in every county.  Despite his pork barrel prowess, however, he’s been knows to fall asleep at hearings, give speeches on the Senate floor about his dog,  drool on himself and give people that weird old man eye look.  (Just enlarge the photo on the article page and look at his face.)

 

In a moment of clarity, however, he scolded the administration witnesses yesterday and really got the anti-way crowd into things.  I wish I could have been there to see it for myself.  Banging his gavel and yelling everything 3 times.  Of course, I have to wonder if he was actually doing it on purpose or he regularly talks like that now.

 

Sen. Byrd at Deli:  “I’d like a ham and cheese!  Cheese!  Cheese!”