[ewing]

When Arloon is his only defender, you know Lott is in trouble..

[ewing]

Sounds like Rove has been freeping!

[BuddhaBoy]

Lott ruined Bush's agenda for the first two years, and forgot that Bush is running things, until Bush slapped him back to work in the Lame Duck session.

He probably already gave Lott the shove, and they are waiting for the slow news period.

[goldstategop]

Yup. Arlen Specter is a RINO. That's part of Trent Lott's plight - no conservative has spoken up in his defense and President Bush just repudiated him. Its time for Lott to go.

[Common Tator]

When Arloon is his only defender, you know Lott is in trouble..

They hope to bring it up to the point that Lott resigns from the Senate. It is really hard to take this much abuse. Since Bush jumped on him, he will almost certainly have to resign before the first of the year. I give him a week or two at most.

If he resigns his senate seat then the Democratic Governor of Mississipi will appoint a Democrat to replace Lott. That makes teh senate a tie just like two years ago

That leaves Chaffee and Snowe as the objects of the biggest bidding war you have ever seen. I think Daschle will be high bidder. In any event kiss the Bush agenda bye bye. ArLoon just does not want to go back to being in the Senate minority.

But that is where he is likely going.

You are going to love the look on Jeffords face as he sits down as chairman of his Senate committee next year.

[swheats]

You mean CBS got this before Fox News. Seems we're slipping. The vast right wing has given up already. Trial balloon or a leaker is in series trouble.

[Republican_Strategist]

The Lott Gaffe & DemoKKKratic Hypocrisy

The Lott Gaffe & A Whole Lot Liberal Media Bias

[ApesForEvolution]

Keh...the Spectre gallups in to defend his RINO buddy...good freaking grief! Lott's so toasted that I'll bet RIGHT NOW he's considering what to say when he does it. LIMPA-LOTT launched a grenade at the WH and is fortunate that Republicans don't do the Vincent Foster thing. We 'work it out' to everyone's benefit for the good of all.

[Delphinium]

I am furious, and shocked with the republicans, including Bush for falling for this! They could have turned it around on these socialists. I do think Lott is a woos, and apologizing for doing nothing wrong shows his weakness. I have been busy, what has Rush, and other talk radio people saying?

[Delphinium]

Where is my Senator, Larry Craig? He is supposed to be Lotts good friend?

[freethinkingman]

Bush is too smart to let the same chit happen twice.

Heres whats going to happen, when the Senate reconviens there will be a motion by someone to elect new leadership, (the ones that would entertain such a run would not be the motioners),I hope we get Mitch Mconnell.

Then Trent will relax back into some chairmanship commitee position like nothing ever happened, and we won't hear two words from him for the next 2 yrs.

Hey if the Dems can kill/screw their interns or get found guilty of taking bribes without so much as a censure vote against them, the I think ole Vacant Lott has a small chance of at least holding his seat.

This way he can still declare his innocence, cause he did not step down voluntarily, and the party can take credit for getting him out of a leadership role.

[KQQL]

Notice Lott's defender are RINOS....... Such MCPAIN..Spector......etc

[Credo]

Lott's problem is that he backstabbed conservatives for 6 years. The litany of his duplicity has been well documented here on FR. If he had been forthright and had a spine, this would have blown over. Lott unfortunately is a terminal "Deal-Maker" and thinks he can get through anything by negotiating. The pent up anger has been building up for him by conservatives and his latest gaffe just uncorked the bottle.

It's Friday. It's very possible we'll hear of a change of Senate Leadership about 4 PM. The old "announce it right before the weekend" trick. I cannot imagine that Lott will be asked to cough up his seat with a Rat Governor. The current governor's term is up in Jan 2004 and Barbour is running down there. It may be that Lott can quietly serve out his term provided his colleagues duct tape his mouth.

I post the pertinent Mississippi code on filling vacancies for US Senator.

§ 23-15-855. Elections to fill vacancies in office of U.S. Senator; interim appointments by Governor.

(1) If a vacancy shall occur in the office of United States Senator from Mississippi by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor shall, within ten (10) days after receiving official notice of such vacancy, issue his proclamation for an election to be held in the state to elect a Senator to fill such unexpired term as may remain, provided the unexpired term is more than twelve (12) months and the election shall be held within ninety (90) days from the time the proclamation is issued and the returns of such election shall be certified to the Governor in the manner set out above for regular elections, unless the vacancy shall occur in a year that there shall be held a general state or congressional election, in which event the Governor's proclamation shall designate the general election day as the time for electing a Senator, and the vacancy shall be filled by appointment as hereinafter provided.

(2) In case of a vacancy in the office of United States Senator, the Governor may appoint a Senator to fill such vacancy temporarily, and if the United States Senate be in session at the time the vacancy occurs the Governor shall appoint a Senator within ten (10) days after receiving official notice thereof, and the Senator so appointed shall serve until his successor is elected and commissioned as provided for in subsection (1) of this section, provided that such unexpired term as he may be appointed to fill shall be for a longer time than one (1) year, but if for a shorter time than one (1) year he shall serve for the full time of the unexpired term and no special election shall be called by the Governor but his successor shall be elected at the regular election.

It appears that if Lott resigns his Senate seat, that the interim appointment by the Rat Governor and the special election on Nov. 4th 2003 would fill the remainder of the unexpired term since there is a general election in MS next year for State offices. That being said, if Lott resigns his seat as well as his leadership post, we would have 10 months of a Rat Senator in MS. Because of this, I would say Lott resigning his Seante Seat is a non starter.

[tm22721]

Woo-hoo !

First Law and now Lott ! Santa came early this year !!

BUMP

[Man of the Right]

Following the President's remarks yesterday, Lott's status reminds me of a chicken on my aunt's farm when I was growing up. When she needed a fryer for the pot, she would grab her hatchet, grab a chicken by the neck in the hen house, wring its neck as she walked back into the yard, drop in on a stump and cut its head off. Often the headless chicken would fly around flopping its wings for up to 30 seconds before it lay still. That's Lott now. If he wants, he can protest his innocence for a few days and maintain he's not resigning, when in fact his political career died yesterday.

[shuckmaster]

Click Here!

[rightwing2]

Sources have exclusively told CBS News Chief Washington Correspondant Bob Schieffer that influential Republicans-some of them inside the Bush White House-are now urging the President to work behind the scenes to get Trent Lott to step down as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

Perfect. That is exactly the course of action that I have been advocating. I am a bit fearful though that front-runner Don Nickles might not get the job and that we might end up with someone even more moderate and more collaborationist with the RATS like Bill Frist or Mitch McConnell. If that happens then the loss of Lott will end up being a net loss for conservatives. Given the long reported list of verbal gaffes by Lott during his career, it was only a matter of time for this all to catch up with him. Gaffes certainly don't disqualify him to be a Senator. Major gaffes like this last one do, however, disqualify him to be the Republican Majority Leader of the Senate. The man should resign from the leadership immediately after determining which Senate committee he wants to chair.

[detective]

I am so sick of this. Republicans should just say "Yes I dissagree with what Lott said but it's not like he drowned somebody."

[tellw]

I said this before...Lott should step down and take Mitch McConnell's gavel as chairman of Rules Committee, and McConnell can become the majority leader. That way Lott can still wield a significant parliamentary power but not be the poster boy for latent racism in the GOP, which he will be as long as he is majority leader.

[rintense]

If this is true, President Bush has just pushed me farther away from him. I do not agree with President Bush on this, nor do I think his words yesterday were the right ones.