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Good morning, ALL!

I would prefer someone other than Mr. Lott to be the Senate Republican spokesperson. He has not done well in that department, ever, IMHO. Since CommonTator "yelled" at me once for stating that I did not care for him, I've hesitated to comment. However, thanks to CommonTator, I understand better the inner workings of the Senate but still do not understand why Mr. Lott holds the leadership position. I think there are better choices.

I never have and never will care for him..he is and always has been spineless when it comes to defensive measure against the Dims..and this is exactly one case in point.

We are never going to get ahead if we don't learn how to shove right back into the Dems faces the way they do to us.

That is what politics is all about anyway.

Nicey niceness be damned.

CommonTator "yelled" at me once for stating that I did not care for him, I've hesitated to comment.

I stand on one basic principle in this regard. I have taken exactly the same oath as Mr. Lott - and one of the duties is to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The word "protect" has an awesome meaning in this context. It requires the oath-taker to take care the intent (not just the words, that is not sufficient) of the Constitution be carried out in the name of the American people.

Mr. Lott has found it suitable on at least one occassion to bend the meaning of that oath (he stretched it a bit with the "trial" of UOx42, but it can be argued it was still within Constitutional confines, so I'm not talking about that). That occassion was the seating of the window Carnahan as a Senator from Missouri - a position she had no business assuming as the late Governor could not have been presented, legally, on the ballot. (Though I do have to admit I still sort of like the fact the Criminal Party did support the equal opportunity cause in that regard by electing a living-impaired individual.)

At that point, it was clear Mr. Lott had a greater concern about getting along with the Criminal Party than with "protect[ing] and defend[ing]" the Constitution of the United States of America.

This is not a quality of a leader, IMO.

This morning I heard something that really disturbed me. Our local talk radio guy said that Trent Lott has threatened to resign from the senate if he is not going to be Majority Leader, leaving his replacement to be named by the Democrat governor. If that's true, it's just a confirmation of what kind of person and non-leader he is. If he would sell out his own party just for his own political gain, then we'd be better off without him.

Here's Dennis Prager on Lott as a career politician.

Lott, Clinton, and the problem of the career politician