Flippin’ a Byrd at the Constitution
I heard news reports that another porker, Robert Byrd, finally passed away a few days ago. You know the guy, the epitamy of politics, a man of principle — like the time ol’ Robert renounced his KKK membership when it became politically convenient to do so.
In any case, over 50 years ago, poor West Virginians sent Bobby Byrd to Congress where he directed almost a billion dollars to his people. As a result, today you can find his constituents … well, still poor. Given that West Virginians elected him repeatedly for over half a century, you have to wonder about the IQ levels in that state.
Not to worry. Your tax dollars were well spent. After all, Mr. Byrd was a man of principle. In fact, many reporters remarked yesterday about how Robbin’ Robert was a valiant defender of the Constitution. Of course, given Byrd’s long history of pork barrel spending, it was like listening to someone call Charles Mason a valiant defender of the Ten Commandments. (Oh sure, Chuck had a little incident that ran slightly counter to “thou shalt not kill”. But if you can forget and forgive Bob’s career long transgressions against “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, I’m sure you can just as easily overlook Chuck’s little stabby-stabby moment.)
As I read comments on various sites, some people are very sad that Robert is no longer in Congress. I don’t know why they’re so grief stricken. This falls under the same reason that you can’t kill politician. For every corrupt, elected bureaucrat who is out for your money and your personal freedom, there are ten more just waiting to dupe voters at the next election. So I’m sure that there are enough ignorant West Virginians who will replace Robert Byrd with another qualified thief. It just too bad that the rest of us have to suffer.
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