LOTT THREATENS TO QUIT THE SENATE IF FORCED FROM LEADERSHIP

Newsnight with Aaron Brown | 12/13/2002 | Jonathan Karl

[sinkspur]

Trent Lott, in a conference call with 27 GOP Senate Republicans today, said that he would leave the Senate if forced from the Leader position.

Jonathan Karl said three or four of the Senators viewed this as "blackmail," but that the majority still support Lott and want him to continue as Leader.

[marajade]

It wasn't just Lott trying to keep Blacks out of fraternities in the south it was every white man in a fraternity who did... Are we going to condemn every white man who belonged to a fraternity and graduated from a southern college or university back then?

[chnsmok]

Glad I don't have to lead all these folks.

Guess I won't ask you to herd my cats!

[what's up]

The media is using this story to fill a news vacuum.

Nothing going on in Iraq...they need ratings. Dems fan the flame of course....and ignorant Freepers as well.

Unfortunately, Lott has to be the one who suffers the flames.

[John Lenin]

I'm with you Miss Maple, Kristol is so fake a third grader could see it. Anytime Kristol speaks for the GOP, I cringe. The guys is a total Girlie Guy.

[P-Marlowe]

What did he say? Give me the quote or your best recollection. My research has him condemning the practice now but not condemning himself for being involved in it.

[sneakypete]

but I sure as hell do not want to be on the same wavelength as you on any matter.

Then quit your bitching,and go back to sleep by repeating,"Doesn't Jorge Bush look just DREAMY in his new serape and sombrero?".

[ClancyJ]

Bush gets a excuse for fiddling while Rome burns,and the Dims get political power.

RIGHT!!!!! And that is why Bush was making 4 campaign stops a day when he could have sat back and only been president - he wanted to have the dems in power.

Dumb me - I never saw the strategery in that

[jwalsh07]

But Lott acts like Hillary found SOMETHING juicy in his FBI file. What do YOU think it is?

LOL, you're spinning like a top.

Is Trent the blackmailer or the blackmailee and how does a blackmailer get to blackmail the blackmailee?

[sinkspur]

I can't excuse that. Sin is Sin. Treating blacks like second class citizens was wrong then and it is wrong now. What Lott did in the 60's was indefensible.

You're full of more sh*t than a Christmas turkey!

PEOPLE CHANGE!

So, you're going to condemn Lott for what he did as a 20-year old? Bush drank a bunch in his 20's. Hell, I drank a bunch in my 20's. I also drove after I drank in my 20s, and a couple of times, could have killed somebody if I'd hit them.

In your church-lady jihad, do I get condemned too?

[puroresu]

Can I borrow your halo?

[ApesForEvolution]

The right honorable Rev. Peterson doesn't understand this political very well. Thanks for *your* opinion, though.

[SwatTeam]

Do I remember LBJ? You're damned right I remember that old SOB. I was born and raised in Texas and I saw first hand the kind of corruption he aided and abetted. The only reason he did anything to further integration is to insure the black vote for the democrats for as he said " the next 50 years." And he always called them the N word. Don't waste your hero worship on LBJ until you learn everything there is to know about him.

[skeeter]

Excellent post. Too bad it won't change many minds. Folks are invested in their point of view by God, past, present & future be damned.

[P-Marlowe]

Then he should have gone to a Northern University or he should have stayed out of the fraternity.

Geez are you supporting the practice of state sponsored segregation? What is with you guys?

[Poohbah]

Trent's blackmailing the GOP over the majority.

SOMEONE has been blackmailing Lott over the years...and his file was one of the 900 trucked over to the White House and pored over.

[EternalVigilance]

Well go for it if you buy want to into it...but all it is is a silly conspiracy theory cooked up by Miss Marple long ago, and expanded upon in her imagination...now it has seemingly made the crossover into your imagination as well.

I mean after all, I'm associated with Kristol because I'm associated with Keyes and since they were college roommates and because Kristol once worked on a Keyes Senate campaign, well...well...you know..............

LMAO...

[marajade]

That's ridiculous... It was over 40 years ago... You had white Democrats against giving Blacks the right to vote or even register as members of their party in the south...

[sneakypete]

Lott has been a wimpy leader from the get-go.

And that's bragging on him.

If he leaves the Senate, then the Pubs still have a 51/50 Majority with Cheney.

That's assuming somebody like Chaffee or Snowe don't jump over to the other side,and you can believe they are being offered the earth,the moon,and the stars to do so right now.

And with a REAL Majority leader, the Dems will wish this issue never came up.

Not going to happen. The RINO's control the WH and the RNC. The truth is Daschle could be their spokesman and leader without missing a beat.

[John Lenin]

No, he does understand it very well, it's called politcally correct double standard. How many threats do you think other blacks have made on the Reverands life calling him an Uncle Tom ? He understands it alright and he doesn't agree with it.

[marajade]

If the Clinton WH had anything on Lott, believe me, it would have been used already...