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Senate Source Threatens Vote of Confidence/No Confidence Unless Lott Racial Firestorm Stops
ABC News and the Los Angeles Times ^
| December 13, 2002
| Richard Simon and Janet Hook
Posted on 12/13/2002 7:40:55 AM PST by ewing
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The Hagle quote and link to the LA Times is in the middle of the page.
One more shoe drops and I expect GOP Senators to begin calling for Lott to step down..
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:40:55 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
if they do the gop win of 2002 is finished
Action Alert from NOW 11/8/2002
Tell the Judiciary Committee NO on Judicial Nominees November 8, 2002
Action Needed:
The Judiciary Committee's plan to bring the nominations of Dennis Shedd and Michael McConnell to the floor for a vote must be derailed. There is NO reason why Sen. Leahy (D-Vt.), the current chair of the Committee, has to schedule this vote;
it is rumored that his reason is to give the outgoing Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) a gift on his 100th birthday as he departs the Senate at the end of this session. Sen. Thurmond has been Judge Shedds sponsor, mentor and former employer, having had him on his staff years ago.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:45:03 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: ewing
One more shoe drops and I expect GOP Senators to begin calling for Lott to step down.. Two shoes here -- dropped against Loot.
Ooops -- That's Loot, not Lott.
To: ewing
I'm suprised really. It didn't take as long as I thought it would. Lott's second mistake was apologizing for a misconstrued statement. If he would have kept his mouth shut it would have eventually blown over
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:48:36 AM PST
by
billbears
To: ewing
Wow! If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:51:08 AM PST
by
Ben Hecks
To: ewing
Looks like the RINOs are already starting to reach out to their colleagues - the Rats.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:51:17 AM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
To: ewing
Can somebody explain to me why Senator Kennedy can kill his girlfriend and noone questions his fitness to serve in the Senate while Senator Lott makes an innapropriate comment at a birthday party, apologizes several times and yet he is expected to resign.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:54:50 AM PST
by
detective
To: Ben Hecks
Saying he supported a Dixiecrat's presidential candidacy on AT LEAST two occassions, admitting his pro-segregation views in college (22-year-olds aren't just silly kids) and acting upon them, being the protege of a white supremacist congressman, and all the rest of his history on this topic isn't a joke.
Ask someone who grew up during Jim Crow how funny it was.
To: Ben Hecks
Brings to mind that adage about Republicans: They seem to always manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:55:59 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: billbears
He had got to do a press conferece, the sooner the better..
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:56:40 AM PST
by
ewing
To: detective
I've wondered that myself..
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:58:05 AM PST
by
ewing
To: detective
Can somebody explain to me why Senator Kennedy can kill his girlfriend and noone questions his fitness to serve in the Senate while Senator Lott makes an innapropriate comment at a birthday party, apologizes several times and yet he is expected to resign.For the same reason that Clinton diddled an intern, perjured about it, used his office to obstruct the investigation, and managed to hold onto his office, whereas Bob Livingston resigned both the Speaker's position AND his House seat when his affair became public - because, if you stand for something better than what the Democrats offer, then you have to be willing to pay the price for that stand if the situation merits it.
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posted on
12/13/2002 7:58:58 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: detective
Trent Lott doesn't seem to understand that the GOP standards for scandal are not the same as the Dims.
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posted on
12/13/2002 8:01:22 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
Drip drip- bull sh*t! Lot manipulated the Senate to give Clinton a pass. Lott is a crook.
The fact that he is a racist makes it funny!
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posted on
12/13/2002 8:01:36 AM PST
by
Bogie
To: dirtboy
because, if you stand for something better than what the Democrats offer, then you have to be willing to pay the price for that stand if the situation merits it. Exactly right.
To: ewing
Stay focused on the game, people. This isn't about Trent Lott, it's about which party controls the U.S. Senate when it reconvenes in January. Right now the split is 51-49; if the Democrats can force Lott to resign as majority leader, and do it in a way so humiliating that he resigns his Senate seat as well, then Lott's replacement will be appointed by Ron Musgrave, the 4-term
Democrat governor of Mississippi.
And if you believe Musgrave will appoint a Republican to fill Lott's seat, I've got some DNR-protected wetlands I'd like to sell you.
The sudden appearance of stories about Lott's racist activities as a college frat boy has as much credibility as the sudden appearance of Linda Tripp's shoplifting arrest record. This whole sorry mess is a political hit job, pure and simple, and the fingerprints of Terry McAuliffe, James Carville, and Hillary Clinton are all over this one.
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posted on
12/13/2002 8:02:30 AM PST
by
brbethke
To: detective
Look here on FR, at the baying of the dogs looking for the Lott carcass. Their blood thirst wil not be slaked.
Most everyone would agree that Lott has always been a spineless weenie at the very best. However, after all the effort put in to regain control the senate, Bush and others are willing to shoot one of their own wounded comrades.
Were Lott a democrat, there would nothing from his friends.
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posted on
12/13/2002 8:03:41 AM PST
by
cynicom
To: Ben Hecks
"Wow! If Lott caused all this hyperventilating just by making a bad joke, just think what reaction had been if he had driven a car off a bridge while drunk and drowned a young, female campaign worker."
I hope you are not advocating that Republicans hold their elected officials to the same low standards to which Democrats hold theirs. One reason that the Republicans offer an alternative to the Democrats is that unlike the Democrats, when a Republican steps in it the Republican goes. Is the party stronger or weaker without Bob , Livingston, or Gingrich? Are the Democrats stronger or weaker with Clinton, Kennedy, and Byrd?
If the Dems want drunken wastrels as Senators, that is their lookout. That is not an excuse to keep an ineffective fumblemouth as Majority Leader. In fact, tolerating an ineffective fumblemouth as Majority Leader is one factor that allows the Democrats to survive as viable party despite having drunken wastrels Senators.
To: dirtboy
There is no consistant standard of behavior and this is wrong.
To: Bogie
I am still waiting for the press to pick up on the Capitol Hill Blue.com report from a few days ago where Lott joked on the Senate floor [overheard by a sourced staffer in the article] with other Sentors behind closed doors that he was complaining that the 'N*ggers are taking over pro sports..'
And the aide says that wasn't the first time Lott was dropping N-bombs in sharing humor with colleagues.
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posted on
12/13/2002 8:06:46 AM PST
by
ewing
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