I didn't hear her say he should step down -- there was a lot of back and forth and talking over each other, and I missed the first bit of them (stupid clicker !) but her general attitude was "look, Lott's a doofus, but it was an old guy's 100th birthday and he was trying to say something nice/make toastmaster type "jokes" -- everyone (including Maxine) knows he's not a racist" she also REALLY hit on the fact that the Dems. have plenty of things in their background that is the same or worse (as did Sean) and that the blacks in congress actively discriminate (against whites) today