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Lott "I don't have to work with them (GOP) anymore, they threw me overboard!" (202) 224-6253
Tony Snow show
Posted on 05/10/2005 9:13:36 AM PDT by watsonfellow
Tony Snow just finished an interview with Trent Lott. Senator Lott wanted to respond to an article in Roll Call to the effect that he had crafted a deal to dump certain judges to guarantee others an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. According to an account (I didn't hear the interview), Lott called the report "exaggerated," adding that he has worked with Ben Nelson "from time to time" on a deal, but that the proposed deal "isn't much of a deal at all." Lott also stated that he won't accept criticism from Republicans for working with Democratic senators because "they're the same ones who threw me overboard. I'm free. I don't have to work with them anymore." Lott called the Senate a "dysfunctional institution." Lott may consider himself part of the solution to this problem, but in the context of the confirmation battles that remains to be seen.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; 2006elections; 2006paybacktime; 2006senaterace; filibuster; judges; lott; lottendedimpeachment; lottisanidiot; talkradio; throwthebumsout; tonysnow; trentlott; ussenate
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To: Diddle E. Squat
To: Carolinamom
What an arrogant SOB. Who? Lott or Pickering?
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:30:17 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(To the world, you're one person. To one person, you may be the world.)
To: WKB
Might need a Mississippi ping on this..
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:31:06 AM PDT
by
somniferum
(All warfare is deception - Sun Tzu)
To: watsonfellow
They DID throw him overboard, but he obviously is nursing a petty grudge rather than thinking about the best interests of the country, and therefore should not hold such a position of power.
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:31:35 AM PDT
by
DLfromthedesert
(Texas Cowboy...you da man!!)
To: watsonfellow
Hey Senator Caves-a-Lott, this is exactly why we threw you overboard!!
Pray for W and Our Troops
45
posted on
05/10/2005 9:32:18 AM PDT
by
bray
(Pray for Iraq's Freedom from Mohammad)
To: watsonfellow
Lott should be sent to pasture. He just does not know how lucky he is to still be in Congress.
46
posted on
05/10/2005 9:33:02 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: watsonfellow
"they're the same ones who threw me overboard. I'm free. I don't have to work with them anymore."
In other words, if Trent Lott decides to derail judicial nominations that could restore respect for the Constitution, he'll be doing that out of a vindictive unpricinpled desire for revenge. Dysfunctional? Look in the mirror.
47
posted on
05/10/2005 9:34:19 AM PDT
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: watsonfellow
I can't believe he said that! Without rehashing the whole Thurmond party incident, Lott certainly didn't show much political skill there, although I thought he was unfairly tarred and feathered by the MSM. He might have been thickheaded but not bigoted.
But to be so publicly peevish and whining, that's inexcusable. Putting his hurt feelings above what's good for the counrty!
48
posted on
05/10/2005 9:34:49 AM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: watsonfellow
Clearly the Senator holds his own personal ambition in higher regard than the service of the people who elected him.
49
posted on
05/10/2005 9:35:00 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("One cannot say that a law is right simply because it is a law.")
To: watsonfellow
The Spineless One is upset because the GOP didn't support HIM?? Wow!!
Pot, meet kettle!
(To be fair, he was abandoned when he should have been supported by his colleagues in the Senate, but . . .)
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:35:36 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: longtermmemmory
Lott is the one who CREATED the disfunction when as majority leader he refused to lead. Exactly. The reason we are living this hell on earth today is because of one person, trying to be chummy: Trent Lott.
Power sharing!!!! Don't ever forget!
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:35:41 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
To: ken5050
"Look at your keyboard..(g).all the letters are in the same general area...I'm eating a sandwich with one hand..typing with two fingers, on the same hand, with the other..."
I understand. I am probably the only guy on FR who once tried to type an A with his nose because I was trying to hold a BLT together.
52
posted on
05/10/2005 9:35:52 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: Mo1
Glad to see I'm not
alone.
53
posted on
05/10/2005 9:36:15 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(Bring back Hoosier, Firestone; SOMEBODY to get Badyear off their duffs and make a good tire.)
To: watsonfellow
He's right about being thrown overboard. All he did was try to make an old man feel good on his birthday, and We Republicans chunked him for it. Having said that though, he needs to get over it cause the demokkkrats are the enemy, and if he dont get in line, he can be thrown overboard without a lifejacket when his election day comes.
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:36:49 AM PDT
by
weezel
To: jneesy
I just can't agree. The Republicans did not help him because he was an ineffective leader. While that was not the issue that got him tossed from leadership, I don't think that they would have let an effective leader go without a fight. Plus Lott didn't help himself in that controversy either IIRC.
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:37:10 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: watsonfellow
He's a traitor. An honest traitor, but a traitor nonetheless.
I hope that my colleagues in the great state of Mississippi are preparing the tar and feathers as we speak.
Oh, and while they're at it, would they please rip off that bloody annoying toupee of his?
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:37:18 AM PDT
by
MadIvan
(One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
To: rdb3
LOTT is the SOB imo. Pickering is an honorable man and judge.
To: bmwcyle
He just does not know how lucky he is to still be in Congress.Agreed. I hope his constituents are taking note.
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:38:00 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Well, I guess he doesn't care that much about the current BRAC and those military installations in Mississippi after all.
Maybe this is his way of getting HIS way on the BRAC. He now has made himself a bargaining chip.
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:38:18 AM PDT
by
Republican Red
(DU: ''Reality sucks. That's the problem. We want another reality.'')
To: jneesy
"as bad as i dont want to admit it //hes got a point // the pubbies did nothing to help him in his time of need"
But is nailing all of us the right thing to do?
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posted on
05/10/2005 9:38:28 AM PDT
by
Preachin'
(Keep the Kerry/Edwards tags on your cars so we can identify the root of your disease.)
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