Should We Make an Effort to Get Senator Robert Byrd Reconsider Resigning?

[David Zephyr]

Am I crazy to think that right now our country needs Senator Robert Byrd to reconsider his planned retirement from the U.S. Senate?

When our Party is struggling to come back from the pits of oblivion toward a hopeful majority in the Senate again and when so very much is at stake, shouldn't we be calling on Senator Byrd to re-think his exit from the Senate?

In light of the mining disasters there in West Virginia which is a direct result of Corporate Greed and union busting and the Bush Administration's national loosening of mine safety standards, shouldn't the good people of West Virginia also want this champion of the working man to stand in the gap one more time?

Is it too late? It's killing me to think that a Republican could grab that position. I want Senator Byrd to reconsider.

[rodeodance]

1. first get him to vote no on alito--everyone should be calling his office.

[hopein08]

2. Did I miss something? I thought he announced that he's running again?

[David Zephyr]

4. Still resigning as far as I know and read.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060126/pl_nm/usa_politics_election_dc;_ylt=AvOeAOicA1AHms0dL7.lk508KbIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

[gizmo1979]

3. He was probably president

of that club at Princeton.

[MADem]

5. He isn't resigning, where did you get that?????

CHARLESTON, W.Va. Jan 25, 2006 — A multimillionaire businessman entered the GOP race to challenge Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Wednesday, hoping to deny the 88-year-old incumbent Democrat a record ninth term.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1542554

He's got a moneybags opponent this time, though. Could be an issue if the guy makes it through the primary.

[KoKo]

6. I wrote a long post to him about "Defending the Constitution" by voting

NO on Alito...begging him to stand by his inspiring statements on the Senate floor leading up to the Iraq Resolution.

I called on his conscience to save us from the Imperial Presidency he cautioned us against back during his speeches which I said had inspired thousands to become activists in the Democratic party.

I finished in saying: "Thank you for your consideration," signed my name and then hit the wrong button for "submit" and my whole post disappeared. I was not able to retrieve it.

That was a sign to me. Don't bother, Koko...his mind was made up. I listened to his speech today and didn't recognize the man in what he was saying. He protested against "One Party Decisions" about Supreme Court judges in today's speech knowing that we have an Imperial President who owns all three branches of Govt. ..yet he was willing to give them a Fourth.

I don't know what happened to him. And the snarky, snipy comments of DU'ers who were disappointed too but trashing him with the old Ku Klux Clan thing...were enough to get me disgusted with the whole thing.

I won't retype my post to him. I think he's a lost cause. He broke my heart today. And, he broke the heart of so many young DU'ers who looked to him as a leader against the Iraq war.

Sooner or later the Bushies pay off, bribe or manage to convince folks to support them. In Byrd's case I don't believe his argument today because it completely counteracts his previous statements.

But...then..given what I've seen from our NC Democrats in trying to work with them on keeping DRE Voting machines out...I understand how your own party will turn on you overnight and stick a shiv in your back. :-(

It's not good out there... Bad time to be a Dem. But, then it's been that way for so long..few will remember the party as it once was for "one brief shining moment" under Kennedy and before him Roosevelt.