Posted on 06/21/2007 9:24:16 PM PDT by do the dhue
Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) gets that talk radio hosts are angry with him, but he wants to set a couple of things straight: He’s not hiding, and he still doesn’t like that fence.
Lott told a scrum of reporters on June 14 that “talk radio is running America — we have to deal with that problem,” adding that the troublemakers who are overwhelmingly opposed to the immigration legislation “don’t even know what’s in the bill.”
Now they’re really mad.
“The people that he’s actually complaining and whining about now are the ones that tried to defend him when everybody else was throwing him overboard when he made those joking comments at a tribute to Strom Thurmond,” an indignant Rush Limbaugh declared.
By Tuesday, Lott didn’t have an unkind word for the scorned hosts or even the bloggers who have taken up their cause, saying only, “they are both wonderful,” with a sparkle in his eye.
So why didn’t he take the opportunity to defend himself when Sean Hannity wanted to interview him on his nationally syndicated radio show?
Oh, that. Lott said he would have loved to do the interview, but it happened that he was on a tractor plowing his wheat fields when Hannity’s staff tried to track him down.
“Tractors are loud,” he explained. By the time he got the message and called the radio station, it was too late. Lott said he would be happy to reschedule.
Lott’s farm work apparently does more for him than shield him from angry talk radio hosts. It also informs his lack of confidence in a fence as an effective border security measure.
“I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough or strong enough to hold them,” Lott said Wednesday. “People are at least as smart as goats, maybe not as agile ... One of the ways I kept those goats in the fence is, I electrified it.”
Of course, Lott added, “I’m not proposing an electrified goat fence” for the southern border. “It’s an analogy here.”
Gee, Lott was all for the Israelis building a fence:
good... i'm glad they're spinning it like that... i hope it gets him out of office... he's an old goat that needs to go...
“if fences don’t work then take them down around our prisons, the White House, and Dysney Land.”
Or Trent’s own farm.
How can a fence work in Israel but not in the US?
Personally, I would like to see the fence/wall around Ted Kennedy’s compound be torn down.
Not me. Whatever holds him in there, the better. :-)
He’s a traitor, and is violating his oath of office.
Well on an interesting note there are indeed some who have in fact proposed that any border fence be electrified. I think one of the hosts of the Right Perspective stated that in a recent installment of their program. Trent Lott is clearly on board with the Amnesty bandwagon & is obviously irritated by the talk radio hosts who have exposed him on this topic.
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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What does Trent Lott do with the goats on his farm anyway?
Build the fence please. We have law that says we can build the fence. You and Congress are not serious about protecting us from on outside threat. You all need fired. You say, if we don’t go for this bill, we are not serious about protecting America. I am calling you out.
You have had since September 11th, 2001 to fix this problem. Since September 11th, I have been asking for my Government to protect ourselves from an outside threat. You have failed to do nothing but pass bills into law and then you have failed to enforce and fund them. You are not serious about border security. So, don’t even come around here and say I am not serious. I wanted border security on September 12th, 2001.
I am serious, I want protected from an outside threat. I was a 12 Bravo Combat Engineer in the US Army. Combat Engineers are the hardest working men in the Army. We got more done by 9:am then the rest of the U.S. Army got done all day. We built battlefields and Infantry work was a hobby. I know the importance of a good defensive position. (I also know the importance of a good offense. Therefore, I appreciate your tough decision to take the War On Terror to our enemy. I stand firmly in your corner on this). But I have to say, you people look like fools by acting the way you are regarding border security. Apparently, y’all think American’s are pinheads. Maybe we have some ignorance, but folks are not pinheads. Folks can see through this game. Which brings me to what I wanted to talk about. Cloture. (Sorry Bill, I am bloviating whether you like it our not).
I had to look this one up, the last time y’all did this. It is a nice pitch but I am about to knock it out of the park. I am offended and I am not interested in having this Congress back in 2008. Since when should we have fast closure on something that should be debated. I think y’all need to hear what 85 percent of us are saying. The minority is silencing the majority. I am not happy about this. If it is such a dang emergency that you need to vote on this now and with out debate, then why didn’t you take care of the border on September 12th, 2001?
I won’t be for immigration until you have a lot more then 11 miles of fence built. Y’all need to get busy and fund this thing so you can build it. With all due respect, Sir, if you had your Cowboy hat on, you would build it, hire the proper amount of Border security agents, go after the businesses who hire illegals and you would enforce the rest of the immigration laws. Then you would look to see if you had to pass anymore bills that would fix any problems that still may exist. But instead you are twisting my arm on immigration and I won’t be twisted. Therefore, I ask you, just how dang serious are you? You do work for the people.
When I feel like I am working for my government and not the other way around, then I have a problem that must be dealt with. Do your job and protect us from an outside threat. Build our fence.
Thanks for listening,
my name here
Houston, TX
PS
if Geraldo calls me a bigot because I want to secure my border, I’ll consider him a threat to my National Security. As a matter of fact, I should consider my President and my Congress as a threat to our National Security. You should have secured my border the day after 9-11. I ask you to get serious, Sir.
Bill Clinton steps out onto the White House lawn in the dead of winter.
Right in front of him, on the White House lawn, he sees “The President Must Go” written in urine across the snow.
Well, old Bill is pretty ticked off. He storms into his security staff`s HQ, and yells “Somebody wrote a threat in the snow on the front damn lawn! And they wrote it in urine! Son-of-a-bitch had to be standing right on the porch when he did it! Where were you guys?!”
The security guys stay silent and stare ashamedly at the floor.
Bill hollers “Well dammit, don`t just sit there! Get out and FIND OUT WHO DID IT! I want an answer, and I want it TONIGHT!”
The entire staff immediately jumps up and races for the exits. Later that evening, his chief security officer approaches him and says “Well Mr. President, we have some bad news and we have some really bad news. Which do you want first?”
Clinton says “Oh hell, give me the bad news first.”
The officer says “Well, we took a sample of the urine and tested it. The results just came back, and it was Al Gore`s urine.”
Clinton says “Oh my god, I feel so... so... betrayed! My own Vice President! Damn....Well, what`s the really bad news?”
The officer replies “Well sir, it`s Hillary`s handwriting.”
Liar liar, pants on fire.
>>People are at least as smart as goats<<
Not in Lott’s case.
Speaking of goats, the Spanish word “cabron” would be a good description of Lott:
cabron
Word in spanish with many different meanings. The real meaning is the male goat. Female is cabra and male is cabron. But slang use is far more common. Depending on countries it seems to have somehow different but similar meanings. A good definiton that would apply in almost all Spanish speaking countries would be a**hole-f***er-b**ch. In some places the word also means a person that is not with his partner. Example: Se fue de cabron. He went to f*** around. In this way it always has the connotation that he is looking for an affair.
NO WAY!!!
LOL
That is pretty blatant.
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