I haven’t been “flooding the zone” on Chris Dodd’s idiotic praise of good ole Bobby “The Klansman” Byrd for a variety of reasons—not the least of which is, whatever other faults Dodd has, a history as a neo-segregationist isn’t one of them, which usefully distinguishes him from Trent Lott.
However, Robert Prather has a pretty good post from a less forgiving point of view. Plus, he takes a few well-deserved swings at Hesiod, who’s sort of the downmarket version of Atrios.