Byrd-Brained

Apparently, Moveon held a rally to support the filibustering of Bush's judicial nominees.
Bryon York on NRO has more.

Now, I support Bush's nominees and Justice Scalia's view of approaching the law. If it isn't in the Constitution, or current legal code, then it isn't there. That is what bothers me most about the gay marriage fight - no one is trying to pass a law. Instead, they're trying to get a legal ruling to make it so, without all of the fuss and bother of actually persuading their fellow citizens that doing so is in the common interest, and working through legislatures and Congress to change the law.

But what I want to whine about now is Robert Byrd, Senator (D) of the state of West Virginia since the state was admitted to the Union, and one of the star features in the latest Moveon rally. He is one of the most notorious pork-barrel lawmakers in the Senate - there are dozens of miles of highways and expensive bridges, military and legal facilities, and government projects, all located in West Virginia and most named after Senator Byrd. And in his early political activities, he was a major Ku Klux Klan Klown official.

Now Senator Byrd proceeds to lecture us on proper fiscal discipline and race relations, as well as political ethics. No one in the media can even mention the hypocrisy.

How in heaven's name did this guy suddenly become the grand old man of the Senate?

And where exactly does this Klown get off telling me what's morally right?

[P.S. And when will MoveOn in fact move on?]