Old Robert Byrd...

The longest-serving senator in history gives us his opinion on dog fighting:



Though he's right on this one, Robert Byrd is a very odd chap. He's simply senile.

Here are some other Robert Byrd clips. I strongly recommend watching them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ocWuPkNLla4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SNWbMGzT20c&mode=related&search
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0&mode=related&search
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RmY1g9dAfx8

The problem is that in West Virginia, Byrd can run for reelection and win until the cows come home.

With people such as Sen. Byrd and Sen. Ted Stevens being in national political spotlight so often these days, the issue of congressional term limits could become a fairly important issue in the future. In a nation handing over political domination to a younger generation extremely frustrated with the baby-boomers who have run the country for some time now, we very well may begin to see some policy in the future (likely not until 2012 or even 2016) that could essentially kick the baby-boomers out of Congress and prevent any future generation from abusing power as much as the boomers have.

We can, however, be sure that 2008 will not be that year. It is shaping up to be a race between Hillary Clinton and either Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani. Either of these races would present baby-boomers with ultimate final battle between the "Hipsters and the Prudes," as Camille Paglia's dichotomy puts it. If the political landscape in 2008 is still as it was in 2006, the Hipsters might just win this final showdown...