[laconic]

Lott has to go. Why on earth the Republican Party and conservative movement has to pay so much to keep this mediocrity in power is beyond me. This is the same individual who turned the Clinton impeachment trial into a farce and he CANNOT be seen as the voice of the Party or it will be a minority for generations. It goes well beyond a simple misstatement (which this was NOT, it was intended); its a question of repeated incompetence and now, saving his own hide at the expense of the Party's. If he were concerned about it and the issues it represents, he'd have resigned as Majority Leader this past week.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Exactly, this is only the culmination of sins by Lott. I find it difficult believe that some of the same conservatives who called him "Traitor Lott" during the impeachment kangaroo trial now want him to stay as majority leader, all to "prove a point."