MUCH FUN AS WE HAVE DISSING EUROPE...:

Euro MPs in move to block Le Pen (BBC, 3/25/09)

Mr Le Pen, 80, heads the National Front (FN). As the oldest MEP, he is in line to chair parliament's inaugural session after June's European elections.

Under the rules, the oldest MEP - the "doyen" - chairs the session until a new parliament president is elected.

...Robert Byrd was the Democrats' Senate Majority Leader as recently as 1980.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 25, 2009 11:16 AM