Christopher Hayes ✔ @chrislhayes
Appeared the Scalise situation could be problematic for GOP, but #tcot just reminded me that Robert Byrd was in the Klan. So let’s move on.
h/t Twitchy
By all means, Christopher. Let’s not examine Byrd, his supporters, who are current power holders in the Dim party, nor his legacy and advocacy. Because if we were to examine his advocacy, the bills he shepherded into law would be suspect of being racist at the core, and, many were.
Byrd is soooo 2010. What a bunch of scumbags!
suyts space 
😆 Pajama boy sure is precious.
Sen. Robert Byrd, Dem-WV, wasn’t just “in the Klan.” He was a Ku Klux Klan leader. He was a Klan recruiter (“Kleagle”), and the founder & leader (“Exalted Cyclops”) of his local KKK chapter.
He eventually renounced segregation, but only after it became a political necessity. He filibustered against the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, and once called African American servicemen “race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Byrd was elected by his fellow Democrat Senators to President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, which is the 2nd highest-ranking position in the Senate, and 3rd in line of succession to the Presidency, after the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House. He served in that position until his death, June 28, 2010.
Byrd was a fitting leader for the Party founded by Andrew Jackson, that ardent proponent of slavery and “Indian removal.”
The Klan spokesman in the senate – the democrat party.