Dallas newspaper sells its Liberal opinion on front page of their newspaper
That was ALMOST my subtitle. Does anyone else feel this way or am I the one that's biased?
Also, please help: Someone has told me that Trent Lott has remarked that he has threatened to resign his Senate seat if he is ousted as Senate Majority Leader. But I haven't seen that comment by him. Is it true and I missed it or is someone giving me bad information? Please let me know, with a link to his comment if you have it. Thanks !
To: Alamo-Girl; onyx; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; Fred Mertz; dixiechick2000; SusanUSA; ...
Lott furor singes Bush - Distraction threatens
White House agenda, relations with Senate Excerpt:
Mr. Lott has apologized repeatedly for that comment in the two weeks since. But whether Mr. Lott remains as Senate Republican leader or not, Democrats can be expected to echo his words for months, if not years.
"The problem is that removing Lott doesn't solve the underlying issue of the Republican Party's hostility towards the African-American community," said a Democratic "talking points" memo distributed to supporters who are giving media interviews.
That kind of pressure is sure to affect how the White House handles several racially charged issues, analysts said.
One example: Whether to support, oppose or stay neutral about an affirmative action program at the University of Michigan that is the subject of a Supreme Court case. Mr. Bush must also be more careful about judicial nominees, particularly Southern conservatives and especially if there is a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
At the least, analysts said, Mr. Lott's comment and his subsequent fight to save his leadership is a major distraction for a White House and Republican-run Congress facing its first major political test since Mr. Bush helped lead the party to a sweep in last month's midterm elections.
"It certainly is taking attention away from other things they would like to talk about," said Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, a conservative magazine that has called for Mr. Lott's ouster.
Democrats have signaled that they will use Mr. Lott's troubles to push an agenda in stark contrast with the Bush administration. Those include hate crimes legislation, an increase in the minimum wage, and tax cuts targeted exclusively to the poor and middle class.
Some Bush supporters accuse Democrats of wanting Mr. Lott to stay in his current position so they can make a punching bag of him and the Republican Party.
Other Democrats, meanwhile, are putting the onus on the president, pressuring him to call for Mr. Lott's removal. During a recent speech in Chicago, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., recited Mr. Bush's 2000 campaign pledge to be a "uniter, not divider."
"Yet now he wants a divider, not a uniter, as the Senate Republican family's majority leader," Mr. Jackson said. "What kind of consistent values does that reflect?"
Mr. Bush has criticized Mr. Lott's Dixiecrat comment, but aides said he does not believe the senator should resign his leadership post. But the aides have pointedly refused to take a position on a Jan. 6 meeting of GOP senators called to discuss whether Mr. Lott should be deposed.
It looks like the Dallas Morning News is helping set up the Democrats agenda to wrongly smear the GOP as 'racists' between now and the 2004 elections?
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To: MeeknMing
Lott gave two speeches in MS reaffirming that he is going to honor his 'contract' with them, which runs through '06.
Trent spit up a big turd, stepped in it, rolled around on it, couldn't get it off, couldn't explain to anyone where the turd came from or why he was turdy...then copped to being a turd-spitter and said that all whites, southerners, etc. were turd-spitters that didn't understand who MLK Jr. was, that across-the-board affirmative action is the way to go and, oh yeah, dumped Pickering.
There's more, but I'm short on time.
Lott has no core beliefs, is a poor leader and a turd-spitting fool. Lott, like water, seeps down to the lowest possible point - everytime when under political pressure - and needs to let someone else lead.
Lott is our 4 letter word.
To: MeeknMing
Lott originially implied that deposed senatorial leaders resign to use it as a barganing chip. He has since recanted that, promising to fulfill his term. I'm sure Bush will make a deal with him.
To: MeeknMing
Any epithet based in either racism or hatred can not stick to Bush because it is pattently false, even to liberals. If it can't hurt Bush it can't hurt the Republican party.
Look at the poll numbers, the Republican party is still at 56% approval. It hasn't wavered one point.
What he can do is utterly fail as a leader. He can scare some of our congressional brethren of questionable courage into adopting a more moderate agenda. We can't have that now. Lott must go!
To: MeeknMing
Lott's problem: Following a round of contrition and apologies and conselling by supporters, he feels cleansed and thus qualified to run the Senate.
The Democrats problem: He is not Bill Clinton.
He is incapable of compartementalizing such as Bill Clinton had done ,and still able to run the country as during his travails with Monica..
To: MeeknMing
Dallas newspaper sells its Liberal opinion on front page of their newspaper That was ALMOST my subtitle. Does anyone else feel this way or am I the one that's biased?
Mine woulda been:
Big Leftist Media brazen in attempts at propaganda; public still not falling for it.
To: MeeknMing
NEVER FORGET
...We don't "Get" LOTT in 1 week =
...We do "Get" President HILLARY RODHAM in just 2 years.
NEVER FORGET
To: MeeknMing
I must say, Trent Lott is really a wuss. He should have just said, "I said what I said, no apologies, stick in a fork in it." But no, Hillary played him like a violin...he's an idiot!
Who knows, maybe he's in on it with them..didn't he used to be a Democrat???
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