DRUDGE: LOTT OUT BY WEEKEND!

USNEWS.COM ^ | Paul Bedard

[dfwgator]

Now, we can turn around and ask when Senators Byrd and Hollings are going to tender their resignations.

[hchutch]

Yes - that explains the scramble. Lott's going to be given a chance to do the right thing - and he'll get a decent committee chair out of it. Maybe Bush can score a two-fer by demoting McCain.

[eddie willers]

I think it is time for Lott to apologize, and get this behind him.

LOL....you forgot the </sarcasm> tag.

[FF578]

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum would make a much better Majority Leader.

I hope Lott gives up the Majority Leader slots, but stays in the senate, and Santorum gets the leadership slot.

[AUsome Joy]

I disagree. We need him in the Senate. Let the people of Mississippi decide when he should leave. It would be wonderful if people gave the Republicans credit for not supporting him on this, whereas the Democrats had no honor and did not go to Clinton and make him leave. But in the real world, Lott did the party a huge amount of harm, no matter what course they take.

[LibWhacker]

And no harm on important conservative issues. I suggest chairmanship of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. If he doesn't screw that up, on to more important things -- IN ABOUT TEN YEARS!

[Caipirabob]

I think it is a shame he cannot be forgiven and we all just move on, but the reality is that no one really believes his explanations, even if they do not believe he is a racist. Now, he has totally cut his Republican support off by saying on BET that he is FOR affirmative action. Give me a break, no conservative will support him now.

Man, the whole situation is sorry. I don't believe Lott is a racist, but he comes from those times. I can't imagine what it must have been like, but by my standards it would have cramped my love life. I can't imagine the stress a mixed race marraige would have been like, and I don't want anything that resembles those times to raise it's head or I'll club it.

Trent may not have meant what he said but it sent a chill down the spine of every non-white who remembers those days.

It was an inept move which is but a reflection of his career which includes such boners such as the botched Clinton impeachment, "Power Sharing" with Daschle who laughed his *ss off at trent when the tables were turned, and many others including last month's "We'll get to it next year" comment on the DHS amendment.

Personally I couldn't see him leave soon enough.

The fact is that this man has been an *ss as far as a conservative leader be be. It showed up escpecially now when the moment came, he didn't have a penny's worth of political capital to keep him from becomming engulfed in this firestorm. Even the conservatives wouldn't back him, and that should tell us all something about his standing.

Boot him out of the ML postion, keep him in the Senate, feed him a diet of pure pork, tell him to keep his big mouth shut.

'nuff said.

[hole_n_one]

haha!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The right thing for Lott to do now is resign from the Senate

And hand the Senate majority back to the Dims after all the hard work that went into sending them packing!? No effin way.

Reason with him, get him to step aside and give him some cherry committee chairmanship and keep the numbers as they are. That should pi$$ off the Dims beyond reason. Then listen to them wail.

They won't let this thing die until Lott is out of the Senate and the numbers shift back. That is what they really want. They don't care about a supposed 'racial divide' anymore than Lott does.

[TnMomofTwo]

Is it just me or have we moved into an age where the "impartial media" decides when an apology is enough? It happened with (dare I say it?) X42's numerous "apologies" ...and now we're seeing it again with the soon-to-be-ex-ML.

[RoseofTexas]

"You're just praying for Daschle's return to majority leader."

Thank you for saying exactly what I thought!! Lott oughta just sit tight and let someone else take over. I FOR ONE CAN'T BELIEVE THE EVIL RATS have the senate within their reach again! GOSH! I was was hoping Thune would have contested the votes in SD. THIS IS A NIGHTMARE REDUX of the past two years. DAMN!! I'm sooooo mad I could spit NAILS!!

[SerpentDove]

>>I think it is time for Lott to apologize, and get this behind him.<<

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You werejoking, right?

[dfwgator]

Trent may not have meant what he said but it sent a chill down the spine of every non-white who remembers those days.

It's not the first time he's said such as thing, and frankly I find his attempts at apologizing insult my intelligence.

[Pharmboy]

Disagree. No more as SML, but let the citizens of Mississippi decide on his senate post...

[AmericaUnited]

So, I was off by a week. So what, as long as he is gone?

No, you said he would resign.

[SerpentDove]

LOL

[hole_n_one]

...you forgot the </sarcasm> tag.

I thought it reeked of it.

[section9]

This is going to involve something to do with either Armed Services, Commerce, or the Appropriations Committee. That's the deal Trent will insist on to take care of his clients in Mississippi. Ingalls Shipbuilding, for instance, is a huge client of his, I'm sure.

My prediction of last week still holds: Trent ain't resigning the Senate. However, you would all stand yourselves in good stead by watching two guys: Rick Santorum and John McCain.

Santorum's an obvious choice: conservative, but from the Northeast. He's somebody who's on our side, but who the RINO's can replace.

McCain could be pushed up quietly by the Bush Administration on the principle that it is best to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

If you give McCain a stake in a majority, then he never has any thought of leaving. In addition, you freeze Chaffee, Snowe, and any other RINO's in place.

Hell, Jeffords will probably try to grovel his way back into a subcommittee chairmanship.

Thoughts, anybody?

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Interesting Times]

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, under pressure from colleagues and the White House to give up his post instead of face a January vote of confidence, may give in as soon as this weekend, predict key Senate Republican aides.

So soon?. Why not try another round of mea culpas? More sincere this time -- maybe add a few uncontrollable sobs and whimpers.

Surely Lott's critics would relent if he rolled over and offered them his soft, furry underbelly. Isn't it possible that one more orgy of groveling and self-abasement might do the trick?

Oh wait. He did that already.