I've said it before and I'll say it again: I am totally amazed at politicians like Byrd, Kennedy and all others on both sides who have been in office for as long as they have. It is truly past time for term limits, their arrogance just grows and grows the longer that they remain in office.
Sadly no one in WV will see that Byrd is just a leech sucking at the blood of taxpayers. He will, unfortunately be able to convince a portion of WV voters that these deaths are the fault of the president.
How pathetic!

Neither of these mines were named for Robert Byrd, were they? Or waybe the highway that leads to the mines was. Or perhaps the hospital that sent the emergency crews was the Robert Byrd Hospital. Or maybe the offices where they held the press conferences were named after the esteemed Senator.

Oh, yeah, the disasters themselves are Bush's fault.

If Bush rolls over on this one the way they let that despicable mayor/combo tag team from LA try to say that Katrina's devastation was all the feds fault they deserve the beating they get. What the hell is the job of a senator, a democrat senator of the people no less, if not to insure that the single biggest industry in his state is safe and fair to its workers?

Byrd is a disgrace and the way some people defer to him as if he is some honorable elder statesman makes my stomach turn.

mayor/governor combo....sigh

I believe that Sen. Byrd was elected to the Senate in 1948. I say this because I was doing some newspaper research on the Feb-Mar 1949 time period and he was listed in a newspaper article as Sen. Byrd of WV. Unless there was another Sen. Byrd of WV.