He'll dance to Dubya's tune. The Bush Administration would have to destroy itself before then for it to be otherwise.
No mercy.
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Posted on 11/15/2002 7:10:19 PM PST by GeneD
The NYT is terrified and trying to find daylight anywhere they can between any 2 Republicans.
The truth is...Lott is going to be a good man to have in the Senate over the next months.
Sour grapes, NYT?
Well, no kidding. He is the president, afterall. And ole Trent wouldn't have his majority status back were it not for the president.
Word to Lott...do what the president says!
Message to Lott: Get your lazy butt and jelly-spine(*) in gear!
(*)Credit goes to the no-compromise Lott-haters for that term. :-)
Why? He never has been before.
Dennis Hastert was elected speaker of the house and not a single vote was cast against hime.
Nancy Pelosi was elected Minority leader of the house and two candidates actively ran against her.
The new york times finds that means the Republicans are divided.
Lott and Bush are playing good cop bad cop to the criminal party.
Lott and hastert have been educated well by Bush. It is a new strategy. They always talk compromise but they never do.
Go back to the tax cut. The only thing bush really gave up was something he had 10 years to fix. Making the tax cuts permanent after 10 years. The odds were pretty good that Bush would have the senate by 2004. So it was a compromise he could revise.
On the Iraqi resolution Bush did not give an inch. He got what he wanted.
He and Lott could have caved to the union rules on homeland defense, but they didn't. Now they are going to send the senate and house home.
Think about that a moment. When all the hard stuff about Saddam is going on CONGRESS WILL NOT BE IN SESSION. They will most all be in their home districts. Bush will have the national stage to himself.
There are lots of considerations. Bush and Lott don't miss many.
Everything Bush has really wanted Lott has managed to get through the senate for him. Lots of Democratic party offcicials are mad at both Gephardt and Daschle. But any Repubican who knows what is going on, knows that both Lott and hastert follow the game plan to a t.
Mr. Lott knew he was being baited. The president, an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of guy, loves to razz Mr. Lott, a confirmed night owl, about how hard it is to make it to crack-of-dawn meetings at the White House.
Mr. Lott shot back: "No, Mr. President, I'm in my office. Let's go to work."
This is a big scandal, but Klinton getting a BJ in the oval office, bombing the Balkans while proudly claiming that he has no tangible foreign policy, and selling nuclear weapons technology to China for personal profit ain't nothing at all.
Way to go, NY Times, you make more sense every day.
This was the only truly funny line in the article. It prompts the reader to imagine Lott in a tutu.
It's a set piece to divide Republicans. It won't work. Lott may not wear a tutu, but he, if anyone, knows how to dance with the one what brung him.
/john
He'll dance to Dubya's tune. The Bush Administration would have to destroy itself before then for it to be otherwise.
No mercy.
Coming soon: Tha SYNDICATE.
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Trent, it might be a good idea to FRICKIN' LISTEN TO HIM.
I'm sure it is. With a Repub majority everywhere, the media will claim that the party is in disarray and that everything coming out of it is pure evil.
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