Why Byrd (WV) may be supporting Roberts: Those damn liberal judges!

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OK, I think anyone who has a KKK past should never refer to large US cities (underlying meaning: a lot of African Americans) as "jungles"

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter

' "One's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities. In my judgment, much of the problem has been brought about by the mollycoddling of criminals by some of the liberal judges who have been placed on the nation's courts in recent years."

-- Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), in his memoir Child of the Appalachian Coalfields '