Posted on 12/14/2002 8:18:17 AM PST by doug from upland
I have wanted Trent Lott removed from leadership since Impeachment. The spineless weasel had the votes to bring live witnesses before the Senate on national television that would have revealed the extent of Bill Clinton's sexual predator history.
David Schippers called it a SELLOUT. Schippers was absolutely correct. Could the prosecutors have changed enough minds to get 67 votes? We will never know. They should have had the opportunity to try. Lott is the one who stood in the way.
The RATS have been in turmoil since the midterm elections. They were shocked to their core. And now, Lott puts his foot in his mouth to give them the opportunity for which they have waited.
The same people who were not concerned with rape, perjury, obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses, etc., are suddenly concerned that a weak-kneed GOP leader (who is their best friend) made a really stupid statement last week, made the same kind of statement 20 years ago, and didn't want his fraternity integrated 40 years ago. We know what the South was like 40 years ago. It appears that Lott has led his public life since those days as someone who believes in racial equality.
Now, he is being a whiner and threatening to quit the Senate if he is removed from leadership. What a weenie. We don't want him as leader, but we need him in the Senate. It is blackmail.
Perhaps the statements will blow over soon. He is certainly damaged goods, but the GOP may have no choice but to keep him. The RATS will benefit either way. If he stays in his position, he will continue to compromise and kiss their RAT posteriors. That is Trent.
The more ominous scenario is that the GOP does the right thing to force him out. Yes, I believe if he is forced out of leadership he will quit the Senate and a RAT governor will appoint a RAT to the Senate.
So here we have the reason for the assault. If Lott stays, the RATS have an issue to fire up their base and they have a weak Lott right where they want him. If Lott goes, the Senate is 50-49-1, with the 1 voting for their team.
But it won't stop there. I suspect that the RATS are confident that either Snow or Chaffee might then see an opportunity to jump. Either of them could become an Independent and vote with the RATS. All of the effort by the GOP to retake the Senate will be flushed down the toilet.
This really is an effort to undue an election. The RATS, not surprisingly, are even doing it in time of war while al-Qaeda plans another assault on our nation.
We may have little choice but to reluctantly support Lott. Let's see how it plays out through the Christmas season (not the "Holiday season"). If he survives for another week, he may ultimately keep his post.
The real conservatives of the party, and those who really know how to deal with RATS, better sit Lott down and tell him the facts of life. If he is to keep their support, he needs to throw down his pom-poms, get rid of his light loafers, and start acting like a man. We don't need a wimp when we are dealing with the RATS.
President Bush made some strong statements as he clearly needed to do. Now it is up to the rest of the party to start fighting back. It is time to be reciting the awful, hateful, racist comments said by the RATS. We really do have an opportunity to stick it in their faces if we have the gonads to do it. There is no White Caucus, but there is a racist Black Caucus. It is no time to sit on the sidelines and wave pom-poms. Or is it pom-pons?
We are, after all, talking about someone from an old South state, an admirer of Davis and the Confederacy, who supported segregation in his fraternity and college. He's plays with Bob Jones U., he's made similar statements in the past about Thurmond, and as a long term serving member of Congress, knew the history.
If he is mystified why people are pissed off, and why blacks have valid reasons to despise the Confederacy and its ideals, he has a problem.
Sometimes a duck is just a duck, walking and quacking.
There are two rough precedents for this. Newt and Bob Livingston both left completely when they caved in. Livingston is doing great ($$$) as a lobbyist and Trent Lott could do the same
Lott can remain, but he should NOT be permitted in front of a camera, he should not be allowed to make any decisions or consessions without a full vote of the republican senators.
I for one know that there are many other issues that the phrase "...we wouldn't have had all these problems..." would refer to.
Playing "stupid and ignorant" with inferences is a major Socialist-Progressive weapon.
Really? I hadn't heard that. Do you have a source?
After reading Sellout, I turned on Lott and do not understand why Nickles or Santorum hasn't challenged him. Lott's efforts to "conciliate" with the Dummycrats just weakens GWB, and I'm sick of Lott.
I dunno..
Personally, I am hoping this will serve as a wakeup wall to Trenty that playing nice with wolves isn't to his benefit.
You can't reason with them, you can't expect civility or honesty or honor from them and you can't win them over to "your side".
So why bother trying?
In the long run, he'll be okay, and so will we. The reason? The Senate Conservatives didn't openly call for his scalp. They waited. Smart guys. In so doing, they did Lott a service. Now, Lott will owe them a service in return.
He will have to hang tough on organizing the Senate. He will have to hang tough on judges. He will have to hang tough on Bush's economic package.
Folks; I strongly suspect that in the long run, because Lott has a leash on him now, we'll benefit. No more backroom deals with Daschle. Those times are gone.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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