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Byrd to Inouye: a generational transition

As part of the Oba-famalastic revolution underway, the Dems are re-evaluating everything, including their committee chairmanships.

Comes now 91 year old ex-KKK-er Democrat Robert Byrd of West Va., (at left) who never met a pork-barrel spending bill he didn't like, especially if his name was on all the resulting largesse spewed over his state as a result (you've got the Robert Byrd hospitals, Byrd Jr. High schools, probably even a Byrd bird sanctuary) -- anyhow, he's decided to relinquish his chairmanship of the un-Godly powerful Senate Appropriations Commitee, in order to let someone from the "younger generation" take over.

Younger generation. OK? In the spirit of Barackcitement....I get that.

So, replacing old Klansman Byrd, who again is 91--will be Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who's....wait for it.....84. There is old Dan, at right, who's a WW2 vet and hero, and who lost an arm in combat way back then, when the world was still all in black and white. Color wasn't invented till about 1954, I believe.

This is funny. Inouye was old enough to be around when King Kamehameha was still, um, king of Hawaii. 84 is the new "younger generation?"

That's sort of like talking about Lauren Bacall, (pictured in her smoking hot days, back before there was indoor plumbing) today. "Lauren Bacall--is she really 85? She doesn't look it! She looks about 79!"

Nice move, Demos!

posted by Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines @ 11:00 AM