[F16Fighter]

"It was stupid and callous. That's enough reason to apologize.

Leave Lott in leadership, and you energize the Democratic agenda through 2004. Get him out of leadership now, he'll be "Trent who?" in less than six months.

Nobody has ever suggested Trent Lott was either effective in the Senate OR a genious.

I have NO problem whatsoever what Lott out of GOP Leadership -- just can't tie it in to this incident. Yet....

[Poohbah]

Sure you can. It's not that he's a racist (which is debatable, after all), it's that he's an idiot--this is only the LATEST manifestation of same.