Robert Byrd: “Never, ever, ever get rid of the filibuster. It is the guardian of minority rights and an essential engine for…”

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.

The use of force authority granted to the President extends only to the perpetrators of the September 11 attack.

I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.