Posted on 06/15/2007 6:22:37 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Frankly I’m more than a little tired of being threatened by the idiots in Washington.
McCain threatens that there will be riots if we enforce the law and now Lott threatens talk radio and by extension, us.
MANY of us wanted Lott gone LONG before his Thurmond comment.
An example:
Democrats Try to Force GOP to OK Illegal Aliens {ACTION ALERT}
I say we deport the whole Lott of them, well at least most of the Senators anyhow.
and now Lott threatens talk radio and by extension, us.
Make no mistake about it,your statement is EXACTLY right and it’s becoming evident that the elite punks in government from BOTH parties don’t want any backtalk from everyday citizens !!!
These states down South, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, have to vote out these bums, these pro illegals, vote them out as soon as possible and forever. Nothing else will do.
We live in a feudal form of government. We are serfs paying tribute to lords, and they don’t care about us.
Maybe, my memory is faulty on this count, but I don't believe Rush was defending Lott on this. If I remember correctly, he was happy to see him removed from leadership.
But my real beef with this transcript was with this comment:
Talk radio is the greatest democratic forum in the country today.
Maybe 20 years ago it was, but Rush needs to get with the times. The internet is the greatest democratic forum in the world. Practically anyone can participate, and you don't have to get past a call screener to do so.
We need to elect real Republicans not RINOS, Lott and Martinez are so GONE! New Brooms needed.
Yeah, like when he held that news conference with Tom Daschle in 1999 with that jerky smile on his face, “We made a deal”, the deal being a sham impeachment trial. (AFTER he told Henry Hyde “Don’t put this sh-t on me”)
I think they bribed Trent Loot by offering him a lifetime supply of industrial strength hairspray. He can’t turn that down.
Thanks for the reminder! I always distrusted Lott because of his hair and singing. I would defend him from silly Democrat racial accusations, but not his own actions.
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Arrogance and contempt from our elected officials. What else is new?
Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton’s Impeachment
By DAVID P. SCHIPPERS
Regnery, 338 pages, $27.95
The drama of the Clinton impeachment effort in the Congress is described vividly by David Schippers, the chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee in Sellout.
The title is Schipper’s description of the Senate Republican leadership’s subversion of the House Republican efforts to hold a full-fledged impeachment trial of President Clinton on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Schippers writes that he knew the fix was in at the first meeting the Judiciary committee Republicans had with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R.-Miss.).
Lott opened the meeting by bluntly telling Congressman Henry Hyde, “Henry you’re not going to dump this garbage on us.”
Schippers, a Democrat, was shocked. The “garbage” that Lott referred to was the evidence developed by the Judiciary Committee that was so compelling that, despite all odds and against the effort of the Clinton PR machine, it had persuaded a majority of the Judiciary Committee and then a majority of the House of Representatives to vote articles of impeachment against a President for the first time in 135 years. Sellout lays out this evidence in compelling detail, making it an excellent reference source on the whole impeachment controversy.
Schippers and the House managers were convinced that, if they could present their case before the Senate, they would prevail there as well.
But, alas, they were not given that opportunity. Sen. Lott’s first proposal called for giving the House managers a single day to present their evidence and the Senate Democrats one day for rebuttal, with a final day scheduled for debate and a vote. No witnesses were to be called.
The House managers had wanted five weeks for the trial and the authority to call a full range of witnesses. The meeting erupted in an explosion of anger and a shaken Lott retreated slightly.
But in the end the House managers were given only a few days to present their case and were permitted to depose only three witnesses-Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal-and those on— video tape rather than on the Senate floor.
The House managers were stiffed, the “trial” conducted was a sham, and the squeamish Senate Republicans got their quick vote.
But the House Republicans exhibited real courage, and did their duty-in the face of dire political consequences. But as time passes and the squalid nature of the Clinton legacy becomes more apparent to the American people, the House Republicans look more and more to be who they are: real heroes.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200103/ai_n8950230
Rush was on the air from 1984-1988, locally in Sacramento. He went national in 1988.
Oh yes he was. Rush was one of the only ones willing to take a bullet for Lott on that, because he felt the media was taking those statements out of context and trying to destroy another republican. And he wasn’t happy yet againt the GOP rolled over and let them do it. Including the W.H.
The only part of it he didn’t like was when Lott began the apology junkett, because it made it worse.
For Lott to now rip into Rush, one of the ONLY people to support him during that time shows just what a small man he is. He’s never gotten over the W.H. not showing him loyalty during that time, but I see NO loyalty from Lott towards Rush. he’s a flaming hypocrite, and that’s the least of his sins.
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