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Senator Trent Lott is elected as the Republican Party's number two in the Senate by a single vote
CNN ^ | November 15 2006

Posted on 11/15/2006 7:50:00 AM PST by jmc1969

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To: Lazamataz

Well ya actually it could. Poppy Bush could declare he wants to make a political comeback.


561 posted on 11/15/2006 11:52:13 AM PST by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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To: jveritas
It is a shameful act by the incompetent IAEA that they hide the truth and focus on an irrelevant subject.

More complicity by the incompetent UN?

I'm so sorry this happened. You were doing a fabulous job. Perhaps it's time for you to move to the Pentagon? ;*)

562 posted on 11/15/2006 11:55:18 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: SmoothTalker
Disapointing. Seems like we want to stay out of power.

I frankly believe we were never in power after we captured the Senate.

563 posted on 11/15/2006 12:05:53 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: PDR

Or Snarlen Arlen.


564 posted on 11/15/2006 12:06:30 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: cva66snipe

Good luck to him.


565 posted on 11/15/2006 12:08:54 PM PST by zendari
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To: Mo1
These numbnuts in Congress didn't lose because of the President .. they lost because they don't know how to pick up a bleeping hint from all the phone calls and emails we sent them

Yep. The biggest issue this year was Congress itself and incumbancy, Iraq was up there, but it wasn't the most vitally important item on everyone's kitchen table.

566 posted on 11/15/2006 12:09:35 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: shhrubbery!

I think the article by Dick Morris made a lot of sense about this issue. The Senate problems were a little different than the House. In the Senate, I think that you need leaders that know a little more "inside baseball" if you will rather than in the House where you have the agenda setters for legislation.. Frist just got bullied around like a little puppy day after day.. I think if this move is followed by Pence becoming Minority leader in the House the Republican party will have done more for the Conservative cause on Capitol Hill than it has in a long, long time.


567 posted on 11/15/2006 12:09:42 PM PST by Reagan38
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To: Miss Marple

"and being the sneaky kind of person we need at this time."

You nailed it. Nice to see some REAL honesty around here!


568 posted on 11/15/2006 12:14:12 PM PST by bonfire
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To: dalight
Base politics did work, or should i say, was not a major problem as long as when elections rolled around, everyone put aside their differences and stopped the rhetorical attacks on fellow Republicans.(Reagan's 11th commandment)

You are right about Soros. He ramped up the emotion and caused the right to blindly eat it's own, in spite of the fact that election damage was occurring.

I don't know if that was intended, or simply a byproduct. Both sides engaged in a degree of self loathing, but Conservatives took the prize. It continued right through the voting, and continues today and will tomorrow.

When it stops, is when we will once again have a chance to repair the coalition and win some elections, but i don't see this happening soon.

I'm thinking 2012 will be the first chance we have. If then....

It's going to take some time to realign the base. In the interim, there will likely be a third party split, and maybe a fourth, before sense replaces nonsense....The party will not be the same, ever again, in any case.

569 posted on 11/15/2006 12:15:37 PM PST by Cold Heat (We blew it..... So back to work we go........)
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To: zendari
Good luck to him.

Oh he's never really left. Clinton was much like him minus interns of course and Junior has made certain all Poppy's old friends have found work.

570 posted on 11/15/2006 12:29:19 PM PST by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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To: jmc1969

I'm not crazy about Lott, but the rumor is that Rick Santorum was the deciding vote for Lott.

I'm not going to armchair quarterback from way out here. I don't know the inner workings of who would be best for the job. If Santorum thinks he'll be OK, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.


571 posted on 11/15/2006 12:31:07 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: FreeReign
Lott is a backstabber both when he's on the back bencher and when he's in charge.

Trent Lott to House Impeachment Managers: You're not going to dump this garbage on us

Lott is pathetic. Say what you want about Bob Dole but even he never became the kind doormat that Trent was. Tom Daschle was able to repeatedly outflank him on one piece of legislation after another.

Paul Weyrich even published an open letter telling Lott that Daschle had proven himself to be the true Majority Leader of the Senate.

572 posted on 11/15/2006 12:31:14 PM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Miss Marple

Miss Marple I concur.


573 posted on 11/15/2006 12:36:01 PM PST by Chuck54
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To: Miss Marple; Mo1; Just A Nobody; Howlin

".....and being the sneaky kind of person we need at this time."


Ahhh. A glimmer of hope. Lott IS sneaky and will be intent upon success to rehabilitate his reputation.

I agree with Mo1 and Just A Nobody that congress lacked support, not President Bush. Let's hope Lott doesn't perceive success as backstabbing the administration.


574 posted on 11/15/2006 12:38:59 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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To: Chuck54

And they wonder why people are leaving the party. Lott = loser!!!


575 posted on 11/15/2006 12:41:18 PM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: Howlin

So Chester the singing Barber is back...they don't call our party the stupid party for nothing.


576 posted on 11/15/2006 12:54:43 PM PST by Dog (Hey Red Sox forget the Japanese pitchers for $42mil I'll talk to you for $10 million.)
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To: Miss Marple

It's Chester....sheesh he will sell out McConnell at the first drop of his barbershop quartet straw hat.


577 posted on 11/15/2006 12:56:29 PM PST by Dog (Hey Red Sox forget the Japanese pitchers for $42mil I'll talk to you for $10 million.)
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To: Plains Drifter
And they wonder why people are leaving the party. Lott = loser!!!

......and your choice is.........?

578 posted on 11/15/2006 12:56:41 PM PST by Chuck54
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To: Chuck54

Jeff Sessions.


579 posted on 11/15/2006 1:00:05 PM PST by Dog (Hey Red Sox forget the Japanese pitchers for $42mil I'll talk to you for $10 million.)
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To: Cyropaedia
Paul Weyrich even published an open letter telling Lott that Daschle had proven himself to be the true Majority Leader of the Senate.

Yea likely one of the toughest articles he had to write. As I think he once said he and Trent were good friends. Weyrich was one of the major reasons we even had a GOP takeover too.

580 posted on 11/15/2006 1:04:22 PM PST by cva66snipe (If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
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