Can Lott remain an effective leader?

KAIT-TV website ^ | 16 Dec 02 | KAIT-TV

[fidelio]

December 16, 2002 Posted at: 2:00 p.m. CDT

WASHINGTON -- Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln says if Trent Lott were a Democrat he'd have to go.

The Republican in line to become Senate Majority Leader next month has created a swirl of controversy over his recent racially-charged remarks. So far Senate Republicans have been reluctant to ask Lott to give up the leadership role.

But Lincoln says that under the same circumstances, she would be very comfortable with asking a Democrat to forego taking leadership of the Senate. Lincoln says Lott's comments were the latest in a series of similar remarks over many years that establish a pattern.

She says the firestorm surrounding Lott is divisive at a time when the country must be united for its security and economic well-being.

[fidelio]

Please vote in their poll:

Do you think Trent Lott can remain effective as Senate Majority Leader in the upcoming session of the U.S. Congress?

Yes, No, or Undecided

[The_Victor]

Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln says if Trent Lott were a Democrat he'd have to go.

Then why are Robert Byrd and Ernest Hollings still there?

[aristeides]

Chris Dodd was saying on one of the talk shows yesterday that, if any RAT leader in the Senate had spoken like Lott, he would have demanded he leave his post. He didn't remember -- and nobody bothered to remind him -- that KKK Byrd was ranking member of the powerful Appropriations Committee at the time he made his "white n*****" comment, and that the Senate RATs actually elected him chairman of the committee and president pro tem (fourth in the line of presidential succession) after he made that comment.

[aristeides]

As I just mentioned, Byrd is currently chairman of the Appropriations Committee and president pro tem. Isn't Hollings chairman of some committee too?

[Interesting Times]

Can Lott remain an effective leader?

"Remain?"

[BibChr]

"Remain an effective leader"??

I challenge the premise.

Dan

[RobRoy]

That's like asking, "Is it true you've stopped beating your wife?" The question is based on an incorrect assumption.

To whit: That Lott was EVER an effective leader...

[ambrose]

Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln says if Trent Lott were a Democrat he'd have to go.

Liar. Robert "KKK" Byrd was president of the senate pro tem when he was going around calling people "niggers" on national TV last year. The Democrats just laughed when the Republicans suggested this sort of behavior was unbecoming.

[VRWC_minion]

How could he "remain" an effective leader ? Isn't this like the Joe Bazooka buble gun joke:

Joe: Doc, doc, will I be able to play the piano after my finger heals ?
Doc: Why of course
Joe: That's good because I never was able to play it before.

[RobRoy]

"Now that heavy nuclear activity has been spotted on the surface of the Sun, will it remain a viable candidate for colonization?"

[NRA2BFree]

Can Lott remain an effective leader? "Remain?"

I'm with you. When was he an effective leader?

[VRWC_minion]

Chris Dodd was saying on one of the talk shows yesterday that, if any RAT leader in the Senate had spoken like Lott

He meant his praise for Strom Thruman, not his racist comments. Haven't you been at FR long enough to decode Rat speak yet ?

[NRA2BFree]

Here are the results so far.

Yes 33%

No 67%

Undecided 0%

[OldFriend]

50 50.........go vote.

[Sabertooth]

Can Lott remain an effective leader?

On the one hand you have Lott, and on the other you have "remain," "effective," and "leader."

That's a very concise triple oxymoron.

I answer "no, no, and no."

[what's up]

Yes...he will be very effective.

He will marshall the President's policy package thru now that he has a majority.

[pabianice]

But Lincoln says that under the same circumstances, she would be very comfortable with asking a Democrat to forego taking leadership of the Senate

Liar.

[Let's Roll]

To whit: That Lott was EVER an effective leader...

Thank you - we have a winner.

[APBaer]

Remain?
Assumes facts [sure as Hell] not in evidence.

[muir_redwoods]

I thought it was obvious to everybody that Republicans have higher (much higher) standards than Democrats do. They have Hollings and Byrd and the Clintons because we would not tolerate such scum.

Lott has made a mess no one can fix. He has to do the manly thing and resign from leadership. He has to do it with his head held high and his resolve firm. He's acted like a jerk but he's still a better man than "Fritz", "Tacitus" and the Last Couple