The memorial service is in full swing in Charleston. Meanwhile, our TIME colleague Michael Grunwald has his own goodbye to Senator Robert Byrd which looks at the West Virginia Democrat’s life without the rose colored glasses that always come with the idiom: Don’t speak ill of the dead. Let’s just say, upon reading this Grunwald’s [...]
Another signature piece of legislation and another untimely death of a Senate institution. Massimo Calabresi has this great look at Byrd’s legacy. But in the meantime whither financial reform? The Senate was scheduled to pass it this week and send it to the President’s desk to be signed into law. But Byrd’s passing leaves them [...]
I’m up early this morning to watch the coverage of the Senate vote on health reform. Capitol Hill looks so festive that I am a little sorry that I didn’t make it up there to see it in person. Vice President Biden just arrived to preside in his capacity as president of the Senate, though [...]
Okay, let’s give Tom Coburn the benefit of every conceivable doubt. Is it possible to read this comment as anything but a wish prayer that catastrophe befall one of his colleagues, especially with the frail and ailing 92-year-old Robert C. Byrd requiring a wheelchair to make it to the Senate Chamber?: At 4 p.m. Sunday [...]
