Byrd's getting better

by: Carnacki

Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 08:04:33 AM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The health of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., is improving, according to several of his staff members, but he remains in the hospital.

Mark Ferrell, who works in Byrd's Charleston office, said Friday, "From what I know, he continues to improve and has been telling family members and staff he wants to go home."

Larry Puccio, Gov. Joe Manchin's chief of staff, said Friday, "We understand he is doing better and certainly hope he continues to get well and goes back to work. We need him so badly in Washington.

"Sen. Byrd has such a veteran staff that continues to operate so well during his temporary absence, doing a very professional job," Puccio said.

The rightwing hate promoters in the media like Don Surber are eager to push Byrd out of office because they could never defeat him at the ballot box.

Senator Jay Rockefeller has been out longer with a knee injury yet you don't see the obsession with his health that you do with Byrd because this has nothing to do with his time missed. Byrd represents everything the Republicans are not: decent, powerful, and in the U.S. Senate.

Here's a dramatic interpretation of  how the rightwing hate promoters like Surber and the Ghoulish Old Party politicians like Del. L'il Jonny Miller and Del. Troy Andes are behaving. No wonder the family doesn't want people to know which hospital Byrd is recovering. The Byrd haters would be there harassing him while at the same time showing their "concern."

Except Byrd isn't going any where. He's the king in that video skit riding by them. I hope Byrd recovers soon and serves his entire term and runs for re-election just to spite them.