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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: watsonfellow

No one dumped Lott - he quit.


81 posted on 05/10/2005 9:52:57 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: iopscusa
Lott is just true to his party, Rhino

He's no worse then the other 99

82 posted on 05/10/2005 9:54:06 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: MEGoody
No one dumped Lott - he quit.

He had to. Bush undermined him, publicly, by letting it be known he wouldn't mind if Frist became Majority Leader.

83 posted on 05/10/2005 9:54:42 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: watsonfellow

Man, you just don't give up, do you? This is the 3rd or 4th "GOP IS GOING TO SELL US OUT!!!" article from you in the past 24 hours. None of them based on much, I might add.


84 posted on 05/10/2005 9:54:46 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Where's Preston Brooks when we need him?

Willow Brook Cemetary, Edgefield, South Carolina

85 posted on 05/10/2005 9:55:33 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: ken5050
Foster Brooks is dead...

I know. So is Preston Brooks, since 1857. And your point is?

86 posted on 05/10/2005 9:55:35 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
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To: jneesy

I disagree. Lott was his own worst enemy then. Remember his love in with Tavis Smiley? He needs to be retired back down to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi so he can spend his days fishing for blue tipped crabs.


87 posted on 05/10/2005 9:57:36 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: watsonfellow

Big tent, you know..


88 posted on 05/10/2005 9:58:13 AM PDT by k2blader (If I have not yet replied to your kind FReepmail, my sincerest apologies.. {:-)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Yeah, but it would still be cool to see George Allen cane the crap out of Schumer, would't it? Of course, I'm speaking hypothetically here, in historical reference to Preston Brooks's famous caning of Charles Sumner, Senator of Massachusetts, in the U.S. Senate Chambers, and NOT advocating actual violence, which would be against FR rules.
89 posted on 05/10/2005 9:58:31 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
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To: watsonfellow

I left a message for him, although I don't think he'll like my, 'every action has a reaction'. The voters just might show him that he has a lot more freedom on his hands than he meant.


90 posted on 05/10/2005 9:59:07 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: watsonfellow
when are these politicians going to learn that truth to principles is what is needed; not action to stabalize political careers.

Seems that Lott never will.

91 posted on 05/10/2005 10:00:02 AM PDT by Triple (All forms of socialism deny individuals the right to the fruits of their labor)
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To: watsonfellow
As we say in Mississippi Trent Lott riped his pants when he gave the control of the senate to Tom Daschle.He gave Daschle a say in anything that the senate did WHAT A JOKE YOU ARE TRENT LOTT.
92 posted on 05/10/2005 10:00:15 AM PDT by solo gringo (Liberal democrats And Flori-duh judges are parasites)
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To: ken5050
"Foster Brooks is dead..."

So is Trent Lott, figuratively

93 posted on 05/10/2005 10:01:20 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: ken5050

They are his friends. He's been loyal to them and they to him.


94 posted on 05/10/2005 10:01:52 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: watsonfellow
If the Republicans abuse me

I'll let the Democrats use me.

95 posted on 05/10/2005 10:03:30 AM PDT by fish hawk (I am only one, but I am not the only one.)
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To: Bahbah
But the real problem with Lott was that he was always making deals with the dems, proving what a good guy he was, such a go along, get along kind of fellow. That's why I was not sorry to see him go.

Exactly......remember his disastrous "power sharing" deal
with Puff Daschle, following the 2000 election? GOP Senators
never seem to tire from getting rolled by their democrat "colleagues". :(

96 posted on 05/10/2005 10:05:10 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: watsonfellow
he said he won't take any criticism from the GOP since they threw him overboard!!!!

He sort of joined them in throwing himself overboard when he made that infamous BET appearance. Grabbed himself by the collar and leaped.

97 posted on 05/10/2005 10:06:55 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: woofer2425

I sure hope he has only a snowball's chanch. The choked at the senate impeachment trial; why should he be given a leadership position after he failed miserably as the leader already.


98 posted on 05/10/2005 10:07:17 AM PDT by ampat
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

Bring back Dueling!


99 posted on 05/10/2005 10:07:56 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Lord Love a Duck MOLLY MAUK)
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To: watsonfellow

Call Lott now and tell him we WILL throw him overboard in the next election.

I think he's already been told that by the powers that be. His current term expires in '06, BTW.

100 posted on 05/10/2005 10:09:18 AM PDT by elli1
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