Robert C. Byrd - Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency Books

In oratory that recalls the old Roman senate, and with the passion of the Founding Fathers, the distinguished senator from West Virginia--who is not running for anything--draws a line in the sand and says to the George W. Bush administration, "Stop!" Senator Robert C. Byrd, an octogenarian, has seen many presidents come and go, and he always engaged in the political give and take, whether it was gentlemanly or down and dirty. But it is the George W. Bush administration of the 2000 election and post-9/11 that gets his billy goat. They are wrong, he says, on Afghanistan and Iraq, wrong on homeland security, and wrong on how they see the American people. He charges them with incredible naoveti, a penchant for secrecy, and a way of working that evinces, to him, a disturbing arrogance. What seems to bother Senator Byrd the most is that the usual checks and balances provided by the Congress and the Supreme Court seem to have been circumvented somehow. Byrd relates the recent history of Congress, showing how the b