It brings me in mind of the claims by many FReepers that the barrage of information that came to be known as the DSL ("Degrees of Separation List") that was sent at great expense to every Senator during the Clinton Impeachment trial by FR activists, though it didn't result in the thug's impeachment, nevertheless swayed many Senators to vote for his ouster.
I have always been skeptical, but FR is first and foremost a place for Activism (hence this LEGAL VANITY post!) and it seems to me that Mr. Lott needs to hear early and often, that he is not there to play "nice" with Tom Daschle.
I know we're not supposed to "gloat," according to our President, but we have a lot of crucial things that need to be done. Those efforts are going to be seriously hamstrung if Trent Lott attempts to "reach out" to the vanquished Democrats.
We worked hard to defeat them. But our own defeat can be snatched from the jaws of that victory by our own "leaders," such as Trent Lott.
We haven't had him to kick around much; now we have to deal with him.
He is the Weakest Link, and there's no getting around that. This d*mned "collegiality" that we're always hearing exists in the Senate ONLY seems to work one way, and we're here to remind them of that as often as we can.
In Breaking News? Illbay, this is another reason why you ain't the person to be leading the charge on the proliferation of vanity posts - and there are plenty of ongoing threads on this general subject where you could have placed it. Throw in your flame-bait vanity from a short ways back, and your tendency to get abusive, and you're one of the leading offenders against FR posting rules.
Off the top of my head, the "button" which might work best on Trent Lott is to remind him what Ann Coulter remembered: