It will be "all sound bites and one liners all the time" now that Senator Byrd has been measured for his harp.
Klansman episode and all, I will miss the olde bastard, any man who can drum up two billion large for his home state in two years time has to be some sort of an Earl K. Long class public pork ubermenschen.
And besides, Byrd could talk some shit, he was olde timey in a long winded Sinclair Lewisian fashion, oratorical references to Pep, Punch, Go, Vigor, the Superiority of West Virginia Womanhood, Lyrics to Spring in the Ozarks, State's Rights, The Sublime Joys of the Yankee Dollar Cunningly liberated from the Federal Treasury and the Primacy of the King James Bible, Headstone of the Republic.
Truly the man could talk about it all and for hours at a time in a style that best befit the vanished Leviathans of the US Senate Henry Cabot Lodge Senior, George S. Hoar, Daniel Webster and that Unfailing Cataract of Rhetoric, Robert La Follette.
They say finance reform is doomed without him, but I have my doubts, Healthcare was doomed with Martha Coakley, but somehow it got passed. The Junior Senator from Wall Street Scott Brown can squeak" No No NO!" into CNN's microphones all he wants and it'll never register with a tenth as much power as Robert Byrd praising the merits of fresh beef in the County Orphanage. Somehow it will pass....
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