Byrd's last legs?

Hill Buzz speculates. Don't get your hopes up. It's a Democrat state with a Democrat governor, so even if the inevitable happens, they still have their 60 seats.

We’re hearing Democrats in West Virginia are treating this Christmas as Robert Byrd’s last, as it’s not expected he’ll live through 2010.

Personally, we think Senator Byrd is a shameful human being. Like Ted Kennedy before him, he knows full well he is too sick to execute his duties as an elected representative of his state. Instead of retiring with dignity, he drifts in and out of consciousness in office, leaving West Virginians to suffer. It’s sorrowful he doesn’t have the sense or decency to step aside when he knows full well he cannot perform his sworn duties for the fools who keep sending him to Washington.