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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.


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KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; 2006elections; 2006paybacktime; 2006senaterace; filibuster; judges; lott; lottendedimpeachment; lottisanidiot; talkradio; throwthebumsout; tonysnow; trentlott; ussenate
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To: Bahbah

Agreed. His comment to Thurmond was apparently a "rerun" of a comment he made in 1980. At some kind of rally he introduced Thurmond, I believe, by saying "if he had been elected we wouldn't be in the mess we're in." A throwaway line, and I won't argue it wasn't somewhat insensitive regarding Thurmond's record, but we WERE in one hell of a mess at that time! Carter was president, the economy was in the crapper, the Soviets were expanding and the Iranian hostage crisis was round-the-clock news! Lott's problem was that, recycled 22 years later, the context looked so different.

that's one reason I'm not in public life. You have to answer for what you say, every second.


61 posted on 05/10/2005 9:39:05 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: watsonfellow

somebody needs to lets his donors know of his concern fro the country...


62 posted on 05/10/2005 9:39:24 AM PDT by mo
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To: MadIvan

CSPAN 2 is now replaying the interview this morning with Sen Ben Nelson about this issue.


63 posted on 05/10/2005 9:39:33 AM PDT by Rex Anderson
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
Hell, Foster Brooks would be an improvement over this clown!

Actually, even this guy would be an improvement:


64 posted on 05/10/2005 9:39:57 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: watsonfellow
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."

What an idiot. Why does he think they threw him overboard? LOL He was totally worthless to the GOP way back then.

65 posted on 05/10/2005 9:40:37 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ..)
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To: watsonfellow
"Lott called the Senate a "dysfunctional institution."

Well, that much he has correct.

66 posted on 05/10/2005 9:40:47 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: Bahbah
Correct me here, but my recollection about the Lott incident was that his remarks were blown out of proportion.

Me, too -- and wasn't the blowing out of proportion done by Dems and their henchmen? The Dems he want to cozy up to? It would be rational for him to say "A pox on both their houses," but to throw the Republicans on the mercy of the Dems is incomprehensible to me.

67 posted on 05/10/2005 9:41:27 AM PDT by maryz
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To: watsonfellow

Should be named Trent Not. I have been calling him that for years.


68 posted on 05/10/2005 9:44:00 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: watsonfellow

We could throw 'em ALL overboard and not be mistaken in any case. I just happen to like Republican liars better than I like Democrat liars. I'd just like to have a new crop of liars with which to work.

Don't go looking for virtue among any of the vultures. Lott is no worse than he was before. He's just more honest now.


69 posted on 05/10/2005 9:44:22 AM PDT by January24th (untagged and untracked)
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To: rdb3

"He stepped in a huge pile of Rottweiler diarrhea"

An apt description....ROTF.


70 posted on 05/10/2005 9:45:11 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: watsonfellow

He DOES realize his constituents are Republicans right? If he doesn't want to listen to critisism, fine, kick his butt to the curb for fresher more conservative blood.


71 posted on 05/10/2005 9:45:37 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: cvq3842
That comment was an excuse to remove him, I believe Lott was doomed from the beginning the White House wanted him out and it was only a matter of time before he was gone, if he had not said what he said, at some point he would have done something else to get into trouble and the result would have been the same. I also believe many of the Republican's have been upset with mishandling of the impeachment process when he appeared to be more interested in his own self image then the impeachment process, which in the end endeared him to no one.
72 posted on 05/10/2005 9:45:47 AM PDT by THE MODERATE
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To: jneesy
the pubbies did nothing to help him in his time of need

Yep. Bush and the rest of the Republicans are jumping through hoops for Tom DeLay, who's now down to using "everybody else does it too" to justify his ethical quandry.

All Trent Lott did was try to make an old man feel better on his birthday, and Bush acted like Lott was wearing a sheet and a hood.

And Frist is not even as effective as Lott was in moving legislation through the Senate.

Trent's got a secure seat, so he can free-lance a little if he wants to.

73 posted on 05/10/2005 9:47:04 AM PDT by sinkspur (If you want unconditional love with skin, and hair and a warm nose, get a shelter dog.)
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To: maryz
and wasn't the blowing out of proportion done by Dems and their henchmen?

Of course. I wonder if he truly believed that being such an easy guy for Daschle to work with was going to save him. It's a mistake Republicans have made often and I'm hoping they are catching on. Frist seems to not be falling for Dingy Harry's ploys so far.

74 posted on 05/10/2005 9:47:37 AM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: Carolinamom
Pickering is an honorable man and judge.

Yes, ma'am. He sure is.


75 posted on 05/10/2005 9:47:56 AM PDT by rdb3 (To the world, you're one person. To one person, you may be the world.)
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To: dirtboy

Trent "hors de combat" Cave-A-Lott


76 posted on 05/10/2005 9:48:27 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: THE MODERATE

Fair enough! I do not think he was a particularly effective leader, either.


77 posted on 05/10/2005 9:48:43 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: watsonfellow
Call Lott now and tell him we WILL throw him overboard in the next election.

Since you live in Singapore I doubt you'll do much of anything.

78 posted on 05/10/2005 9:50:01 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: ken5050

Senator Pickering - - -

Yes, it rolls off the tongue quite nicely.


79 posted on 05/10/2005 9:51:26 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: watsonfellow
If you recall right after the 2002 elections and before his idiotic comments, there was much talk of getting a new leader because his leadership was just AWFUL.

Hasn't improved any with Frist.

80 posted on 05/10/2005 9:51:42 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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