Wonkette
- ROBERT BYRD HAD A FALL! Uh oh, Robert Byrd is about to die or something. No, maybe not. He just “stood up too fast this morning in his home and fell down.” For a 91-year-old, that’s like having a H-Bomb land on your forehead. He has been taken to the hospital, so
WEST VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATURE, GET TO WORK ON EMERGENCY LEGISLATION TO APPOINT AN INTERIM–we wish him all the best and have nothing to say about politics right now. [WP/Capitol Briefing]
He’ll do anything to join Teddy again.
I’ve fallen and I can’t get…
Nevermind.
Get well, Senator. And no more climbing the ladder and cleaning the gutters, either.
Joe Manchin…the next Blago?
If Byrd were in the UK, he’d be dead by now.
EPIC FALL
I mean, um, get well soon! Sorry.
queeraselvis v 2.0: I don’t want to go on the cart.
I hope Obama’s death panels done get wind of this.
You know how you can’t drive a car if you’re fifteen, because we as a society don’t trust fifteen year-olds in general to be competent enough to drive, even though I’m sure many fifteen year-olds could drive just fine? THIS MAN IS 91 FUCKING YEARS OLD AND IS 3RD IN LINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Time for some ageist anti-olds legislation, stat.
Stood up too fast and fell down? He needs to do more cardio.
Keep fuckin’ that…or rather keep kluxing that klan, Senator. Get your vote back in DC soon or hand it off to your successor. Kinda’ selfish to run for reelection at such an advanced age.
You can tell he tried to stand up too fast this morning because it was still morning when he finished. Usually, he starts standing around 6 AM and aims to be on his feet by around 1 in the afternoon.
Of course, the same is true of me some days, but that’s another story.
mephistopheles jefferson: Nancy Pelosi is third in line, Greta.
Byrd could probably tell you stories about other famous Congressmen who fell down in eras past.
Who’d replace him? Somebody with half the smarts, a quarter the knowledge, and a tiny iota of the seniority. WV is one crazeee place — as we’ll see soon enough.
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
Are we sure the reason Byrd (née Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.) fell was because he stood up too fast?
Perhaps someone accidently let slip to the Exalted Cyclops that a wild race mongrel had been elected president of his beloved land.
BigDupa: Actually, mephistopheles had it right. VP Biden is first in line to the Presidency, then Nancy Pelosi second, and Robert Byrd is third.
OT, but there’s a gallery of Michelle O at TPM. God she’s adorable:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2009/09/the-first-lady.php?img=14
After Byrd recovers he will regale us with the story of how in ancient times Senator Testiclesius of Rome at the advanced age of 36 fell from the fornication swing at the regular second Sunday of the month Senatorial orgy and recovered just in time to cast the deciding vote that declared war on the Visigoths.
If Byrd fell and no one liveblogged it, did it actually happen?
jagorev: My apologies. I remember when the Presidency went Hillary, Bill, Al, Newt, Bob…
V572625694: According to human muppet John Denver, West Virginia is almost heaven.
Robert Byrd sat on a wall
Robert Byrd had a great fall
All the king’s horses & all the king’s men
Couldn’t bother to put him together again
Good thing nursery rhymes don’t have to make sense. Of course the horses, with their hooves or whatever, couldn’t help. Horses can’t do surgery. Wild race mongrels: band name anyone?
One of the MacArthur geniuses this year studies old people falling. He’s just doing his part to advance science.
Gorillionaire:
And then he’ll relate it to how this was almost as difficult as it was writing his first book, “The Epic of Gilgamesh”.
Wake me when he had “a stand”.
At 91, no one stands up “too fast”.
In WV the gov gets to fill the seat right away and yes he’s a Democrat so fear not young libs the next time Byrd doesn’t get up.
Of course WV is crooked as a bag of snakes so look for some kind of Blago-like incident during the whole replacement process.
V572625694: The “First Lady Czar.” I like that.
I fell off a ladder once and went from being 38 to 91 for several weeks so I sympathize. Best
wishes for a speedy institutionalizing.
After the fall, Senator Byrd immediately arranged legislation to create a “Center for the Study of Seniors Falling” to be based in Greenbrier, West Virginia. The center will employ 500 people and will cost taxpayers $100,000,000 to build and $55,000,000 per year to maintain.
Soon: The Robert Byrd Hip Replacement Center is dedicated in Wheeling. Followed by the Robert and Erma Byrd Center for Octagenarian and Nonagenarian Studies, as well as the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Studying Centers Names After People.
jagorev: Hat tip.
Jumping Jim: WIN
At 92, if Byrd accidentally has chunky-style peanut butter he has to go to the hospital.
BTW, in that photo he looks EXACTLY like that Muppet, Waldorf.
I TOLD the Democrats that a resolution making September 22 “National Humpty Dumpty Day” was a bad idea.
I hear Strom has some choice black seraphim ass lined up for him.
You people are barbaric!
BARBARIC!
BARBARIC!
BAAAAAAARBARIC!
Let me be the wind beneath your wrinkled wings, Oh, earthbound aged one.
Manos: Hands of Fate: Thanks for answering my question. All that really matters is that the Gov. is D. Oh, and that Sen Byrd had a speedy recovery. Speedy enough to vote for the public fucking option.
I like seeing 91 year old Byrd in the senate. It makes me feel less aged.
maybe he got tangled in his KKK robes– but if he votes for the public option, all will be forgiven
Strom Thurmond had a habit of falling in his later years. Once an aide ran into Fritz Hollings office to tell him ole Strom took a spill on the Senate floor. Hollings didn’t even look up from what he was doing but replied, “He’ll get up. He always does.”
Since Byrd will stay in office as long as he’s living we’ll have a few years of this to look forward to.
DustBowlBlues: You guys are killing me with this thing about WV having a Democratic governor so everything’s fine. Any one know how long each of WV’s senators have been in office? Yeah, a long time. You know what’s happened since then? Yeah, the state’s Democrats jumped right on the Evagelical wagon with that state’s Republicans.
So, it doesn’t really matter that the next senator to come out of there will be a Democrat. He or she may as well be a birther with what we’re going to get out of “modern” West Virginia politics. BTW, anyone ever watched Manchin in action? Dumb as a dumptruck of rocks.