Having said that, I wish the Senate had someone other than weenie Lott as the Majority Leader, his latest gaffe being the least of his problems.
No brain, no spine. We could do better!!!
Having said that, I wish the Senate had someone other than weenie Lott as the Majority Leader, his latest gaffe being the least of his problems.You got THAT right!No brain, no spine. We could do better!!!
Your post, however, is hardly the FIRST time that conservatives have questioned this former cheerleader's apparent lack of intestinal fortitude...
One of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE Lott-bashers is still Mark Helprin, with THIS zinger, from:
- The Way Out of the Wilderness
Politics/Elections Editorial Editorial Keywords: WILDERNESS, HELPRIN
Source: Imprimis
Published: Jan. 2001 Author: Mark Helprin
Posted on 01/25/2001 16:43:33 PST by Osage OrangeThe Way Out of the Wilderness
Mark Helprin
Novelist and Contributing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Mr. Helprin delivered the following speech at the first annual Hillsdale College Churchill Dinner, held on Tuesday, December 5, 2000, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia...
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...Who the victor will be and by what narrow margin or technicality is immaterial to the fact that the horrid election of 2000 was created by the over-calculation and dissembling of both parties, which directed their gargantuan efforts not to clarify their positions but to obscure them. Had they argued forthrightly and drawn the clear lines the electorate deserves, the break almost certainly would have been less ambiguous. With a more truthful politics issues would be settled, things would get done, politics would actually recede.
It is foolish to believe that because half the people favor blue and half yellow, what the country really wants is green. If a nation could put itself on the right path merely by splitting differences, history would be rather less sharp. You cannot properly address the questions of what constitutes an adequate national defense, of collective versus individual rights, of abortion, capital punishment, the redistribution of wealth, the role and effect of government, and the meaning of the Constitution unless you debate them with all the force of argument you can bring to bear for the purpose of determining the truth of contending propositions.
Is it not astounding that this approach is associated with fanaticism and suicide, when in fact it is the sine qua non of survival in the long term?Its exemplar is not a Pat Buchanan, who feeds on the absolutism of his positions more than on their content, and has yet to adjust to the Second World War.
But nor is it a Trent Lott, who dwells behind the baseboards, ears cocked and fingers to the wind, surrounded by squadrons of ever-trembling mice...CLICK HERE for more
. . .you mean his insightful 'post modernism' critique?
. . .aka. . .his truly stupid, insipid, irrelevant and hopeless, attempt at meaningful discourse book. . .