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Anthrax spurs Lott to seek adjournment of Congress
Washington Times ^ | 10/17/01 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 10/16/2001 10:30:19 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott yesterday called for Congress to adjourn rapidly as investigators verified an anthrax attack at the Capitol, part of a Senate building was closed and thousands were treated with antibiotics.

"There is a growing feeling that as soon as we can get our work done, that we should recess for the year," said Mr. Lott, Mississippi Republican.


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1 posted on 10/16/2001 10:30:19 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
But, but wait, all of us are suppposed to go on working and living our lives normally. Yeah the gubermint is looking out for all of us and we are protected. What a joke. Congress is full of cowards and Lott is the leader.
2 posted on 10/16/2001 10:35:09 PM PDT by seeker41
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To: kattracks
Lott is pathetic.
3 posted on 10/16/2001 10:36:46 PM PDT by Mulder
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To: kattracks
No surprise here...notta Lott is scared.
4 posted on 10/16/2001 10:37:54 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: kattracks
Congress going home? Proof that every crisis has a silver lining.
5 posted on 10/16/2001 10:50:44 PM PDT by SEA
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To: kattracks
Wow. I *hate* siding with Daschle but I agree here. Lott is a weenie. He has no business leading his party. You folks get paid the big bucks to SUCK IT UP and act courageous in the face of danger, not like a bunch of little women who can't handle a little bacteria.

Stay and work you cowards! I have to...

6 posted on 10/16/2001 11:01:17 PM PDT by Tall_Texan
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To: kattracks
Pigs just flew past my window. The Devil himself just knocked on my door dressed like an Eskimo and asking for firewood; seems Hell froze over. He said it was all my fault and smacked me up side the head several times with that damn pitchfork because for the first time EVER I agreed with Tom Daschle.

A small message for Mr. Lott: resign and go home. There are much worse ways to go than anthrax, you yellow-bellied dork. Right now I have more respect for the 19 crazy-ass wahabbi kamikazes who took out thousands of my fellow countrymen than for your craven carcass. (Somebody check this fool out and see if he really has a Y chromosome somewhere in his body.)

7 posted on 10/16/2001 11:09:25 PM PDT by JackelopeBreeder
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To: kattracks
Sir Robin bravely turned and fled...

--Python(Monty)
8 posted on 10/16/2001 11:28:10 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: kattracks
What a spineless weasel.
9 posted on 10/16/2001 11:31:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Tall_Texan
I too agree with Daschle, amazingly. If they don't stay, they better not expect us to "act normal."
10 posted on 10/16/2001 11:36:11 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: P-Marlowe
Maybe I can be a Senate Republican leader for a while. Posting articles and opinions at FR from a Senate chamber. That would be cool.
11 posted on 10/17/2001 12:17:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: P-Marlowe
Specially seeing as how the anthraxers appear to have been targeting the liberals. Oops, I guess that would include Lott. So give Cipro to the whole Congress and keep going. Sheesh.
14 posted on 10/17/2001 12:28:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Yehuda
Let them go home. A congress out-of-session cannot do any harm.
15 posted on 10/17/2001 12:28:55 AM PDT by onyx
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To: kattracks
Lott you weenie...stay right where you are at and do the job your expected to do. If they leave it will do more damage than good. We small people have no choice but to go back to work in buildings that have had anthrax scares and act like all is normal. Does the gov't know something we dont???
16 posted on 10/17/2001 12:33:33 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: seeker41
Screw Lott. I thought I'd never agree with anything Daschle said but I guess I was wrong. My daddy always told me leadership is done by example and that you never run away from a fight. Lott is acting as if he's more important than the average Joe or Jane. Lousy coward!
17 posted on 10/17/2001 1:03:25 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: kattracks
Here I post an excerpt from Access: The Key To Pro-Life Victory, by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, Inc.


"Absent Allies

One of the pro-life movement's biggest frustrations has always been that the people who should be our biggest allies, the Republican Party and the church, have shown neither the character nor the courage to join the fight.

I include the church and politicians in the same section because I think they have entered into a kind of unholy alliance with each other. It's not that they all sat down in a room and cooked up some giant conspiracy, it's more like a conspiracy that naturally evolved from a common agenda.

It works something like this. First, the nation's politicians tell us to go away, claiming that abortion is a religious issue and not the sort of thing in which politicians should become involved. Then, the church tells us to go away becauuse abortion is a political issue and not something in which the church should become involved.

Of course, both know that this argument is complete rubbish, but the rhetoric surrounding it makes them feel more at ease with their cowardice, plus it gives them an excuse to throw us out of their offices.

It now appears that these guys intend to work this scam until we either give up or drop dead. That may sound farfetched, but I guarantee you that if the pro-life movement called a press conference to announce that it was going to surrender and disband, the three happiest institutions in America would be the abortion industry, the Republican Party, and the church.

In the case of the Republican Party, the first thing we need to understand is that it is totally unsuited for the abortion battle. Since the day this struggle began, it has always been clear that it is the political equivalent of a brawl in a waterfront bar. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is made up of a bunch of guys whose mammas dressed them for college. They might go into a waterfront bar, but when the first punch is thrown, the only thing you can be certain of is that you're about to hear the unmistakable pitter-patter of fine leather wingtips stampeding toward the door.

On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of fight that the Democratic Party relishes. Since the sixties, it has devolved into a political sanctuary for every kind of moral degenerate and social misfit known to man. In a political bar fight, they are totally amoral people who will lie, cheat, steal, or wallow in the filthiest cesspool, if that's what it takes to win. And they absolutely scare the Republicans to death.

A second problem with the GOP is that the gated-community, limousine liberals who control it are about as interested in abortion as a fish is in a bicycle. These people are motivated by money, and there is simply no money in saving babies.

The next time someone says to you that the right to life is a "core value" with the Republican Party, ask them if that's the same Republican Party which routinely

(a) backs pro-abortion candidates against pro-life candidates in the primaries,

(b) uses contributions from pro-lifers to help elect pro-abortion Republicans over pro-life Democrats,

(c) supports pro-abortion organizations like Republicans for Choice,

(d) awards influential party leadership positions to hard-core pro-aborts,

(e) votes to confirm pro-abortion judges to the federal bench,

(f) runs candidates for president who won't commit to name only pro-lifers to the Supreme Court, and

(g) appropriates taxpayer dollars to fund openly pro-abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Anyone who thinks those are the actions of a political party which sees the right to life as a "core value" is about two french fries short of a Happy Meal."


The whole lot of the Republican Senate are spineless punks. Go home. Don't go home. Senator Little, it really doesn't matter either way -- you're a pathetic little priss, a placebo, a mass of inert material whose only function is to serve as a baseline to measure principled and strong people against.

Go home, mama's boy.

18 posted on 10/17/2001 1:21:51 AM PDT by toenail
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To: kattracks
NO ADJOURNMENT!

Dear congress person:

You have demanded that my family and I remain terrorist bait. Yet YOU want to run to safety. Thanks to your fine wheeling and dealing, there is now no safe place in the world .

You are DIRECTLY responsible for the dangers we face. Disregarding the cost to the nation, you sold political favors . With contempt for your oath, you threw open our borders and pandered to every illegal group you could find, You knew that terrorists were entering too, but you couldn't offend their lobbyists. You wanted their votes.

You've known for years this threat would come, yet you put off preparations. In your arrogance, you thought only the little people would be affected. You knew you could call in favors and get special protections because YOU were important! So you continued to throw open the borders. . You needed more votes. In the great melting pot, all people and all cultures were interchangeable, right?

Now you've discovered that all immigrants and all cultures are not interchangeable. Whoops! Time to get out of Dodge until someone else cleans up your mess.

You've allowed every form of corruption to fester in the halls of Washington, D.C. Now that you are threatened by what you created, you want to run. You created the swamp, ladies and gentlemen. Now live in it.

19 posted on 10/17/2001 3:43:09 AM PDT by Lion's Cub
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To: Mulder
"Lott is pathetic."

This is news?

What did anyone expect of the Country Club set? The Charge of the Light Brigade?

20 posted on 10/17/2001 3:58:32 AM PDT by Don Joe
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