Posted on 06/15/2007 9:31:11 AM PDT by oblomov
Lott Lashes Out! GOP Senate whip Trent Lott attacks "these talk-radio people who don't even know what's in the bill." The New York Times reports:
Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: "Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem."
At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in "younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill."
[E.A.] a) 'Feeling the heat'! b) It's of course in the interests of the bill's backers to make it seem as if opposition only comes from "talk radio," and not, say, from the AFL-CIO--or from ordinary non-radio Democrats and Republicans, for that matter; c) Is that Rush you're talkin' about? d) Is Lott still smarting from the lack of support he got from the GOP grassroots after his appalling Strom Thurmond comments? e) Is he making a play for Strange New Respect? f) Wasn't it Lott who criticized as "not helpful" Bush's bashing of GOP opponents of the bill? I think it was. g) Isn't the obvious pro-bill strategy to let the opposition calm down, not stir it up? h) I thought it was John McCain who didn't know what was in the bill. ... 2:34 A.M
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Go away Trent.
He is a threat to a free America.
Go ahead, make my day. Then finally we will have a viable third party.
Guess Trent who just got reelected doesn’t plan to run again.
Rein the YOUNGER GUYS, huh Lotty???? Get real...the younger bulls KNOW what;s happening to AMerica....YOU do NOT.
Never, ever trust a man who spends to much time making sure every hair is in place. Lott is the epitome of an elitist politician, and an A-hole to boot.
Those are fightin' words, there.
Wow. The repub leadership is now issuing thinly veiled threats to censor AM radio. I bet Bush would sign it.
Hey Trent, Lindsay, Johnny and others.....do you NOT see that the Democrats are jsut standing back watching you RUIN your party??? Aren’t you aware that you are being had again by Teddy Kennedy and the Dick Durbin? You cannot be unaware so you must be in cahoots!
The Republicans are even starting to sound like raving cocialists - yup, everything is up side down OK.
Laura gave Lott a nice trashing this morning, she is really hot on this topic, and in other ways as well.
It’s like an all-out assault on conservatism these past two weeks: new gun control bill, hate-speech bill that would outlaw parts of the Bible, the immigration abomination, and now this. Notice, some congressional republicans are a part of it.
Lott is a poster boy for everything that’s wrong with the GOP today.
It’s time for him to go.
Of all the things for Trent to “grow a spine” about.
I’ve met her. She is a hottie.
Why should we care what Lott says, he is nothing more than a common criminal:
“Still, during his more than 30 years in Congress, Lott said he has learned something about how to keep the likes of Coburn from stopping his pet projects from becoming law. “The way I do it is, I fold them into bills where you can’t find it,” Lott said. “I’ve been around here long enough to know how to bury it.””
How delusional is “talk radio runs America”?
Better not go back to Mississippi, Lott, cause the conservatives will be waiting for you and your big mouth and it won’t be nice! You are an egotistical, pompous ass! And to think my mom and dad backed you way back then. If only they could have had foresight instead of hindsight!
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