LOTT THREATENS TO QUIT THE SENATE IF FORCED FROM LEADERSHIP

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

[P-Marlowe]

good point!

[Tall_Texan]

It is about time for an accounting of the 6 trillion dollars and special legislation aimed specifically at blacks and what the result has been.

The explosion of Rap and Hip Hop, from what I can gather.

[L.N. Smithee]

Why are you using pics from DU?

[lavrenti]

One of my earliest childhood memories was being in a roach-infested Birmingham "colored" bus station bathroom. I also spent my fourth grade in the former "colored" school building due to overcrowding. My junior high school girlfriend's grandfather was horsewhipped by night riders when he was a teenager and left for dead.

I may be white, but I have it on good authority that life for blacks in Dixie back in the Egyptland days was unmitigated *&^*&&*%!

[Texasforever]

The explosion of Rap and Hip Hop, from what I can gather.

None of these "conservatives" will touch that question with a 10 foot pole. They may be called "racist" and have to retire in sackcloth and ashes.

[Maynerd]

"What "bad deed"? Show us ONE racial remark Lott has made."

You have got to be kidding. If not, you and Trent Lott suffer from the same cognitive defect.

[Askel5]

and that stupid cowboy hat he took to visit Bush in Crawford with.

BLESS YOU!!!

I wanted so badly to fit it in there but couldn't come with something suitably snappy re: the size of the hat -- and feather ... Oooh Girl! -- needed to cover Mississippi "Big Hair"!

Kinda swanky pose there at the fencepost. I think this operation's gonna be a piece of cake.

[Texasforever]

You have got to be kidding. If not, you and Trent Lott suffer from the same cognitive defect

No I suffer from the fact that blacks and the democrats have created a 6 trillion dollar plantation that feeds on the corpses of white republicans.

[P-Marlowe]

Say what you want about LBJ. He may have been the most evil man since Hitler, but he had vision.

Does Lott have vision? He's politically blind. Its 40 years later and Pubs are still lucky to get 5% of the black vote.

And the amazing thing is that Black people as a whole have a lot more in common with the republican agenda than they do with the democratic agenda. Its just that blacks don't trust Republicans. And with statements like Lott made in addition to his segregationist past and his lame apology, its no wonder.

[Askel5]

Why are you using pics from DU?

I'm not.

I'm using pictures from Google.

It's the safer way to go when dealing with folks for whom Appearance is Everything.

[Texasforever]

And the amazing thing is that Black people as a whole have a lot more in common with the republican agenda than they do with the democratic agenda. Its just that blacks don't trust Republicans

You have to be kidding.

[over3Owithabrain]

And it's not just black support that the GOP will lose if they stick with Lott. Independents/moderates/moral conservatives are not gonna like voting for a party with such a dunderhead at the highest levels.

[musicman]

First!!!...(Dear Santa,Please make this the thread that finally beats the # of posts in that"Bring Ted Maher home so he can be on Bill Maher's new HBO show,and besides he owes me money" thread....or whatever it's called.........)

The caption to yer pic Askel5,another freeper posted once......."All HAT and NO cattle!!"

[Maynerd]

"No I suffer from the fact that blacks and the democrats have created a 6 trillion dollar plantation that feeds on the corpses of white republicans."

Wow. Go ahead, you and Trent keep digging.

[Major Matt Mason]

Or malice.

Sorry, call 'em as I see 'em. Trent Lott has decimated any momentum the GOP had coming out of the '02 elections. The Democrats didn't cause this, although they are certainly taking full advantage of the opportunity to beat Trent over the head with the club he handed them. The fact that this guy has had to apologize 3 or 4 times before getting it right shows what a clueless, tone-deaf imbecile he really is. The only problem is, there was plenty of evidence to show Lott was an imbecile before this brouhaha took place.

[Kay Soze]

Last year, Mr. Lott was the only senator to vote against President Bush's nomination of Roger L. Gregory to be the first black judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va.

[Askel5]

Its just that blacks don't trust Republicans. And with statements like Lott made in addition to his segregationist past and his lame apology, its no wonder.

Not to mention their extremely up-front take on population control and reduction -- at home and abroad -- as buried in their U.S. national defense policy documents and the Congressional Record.

I think it pays to remember that back when Gore, Kennedy, et al. were anti-abortion, it was primarily (if not soley) in recognition of abortion as a means to target Unwanted factions of society ... much less clearcut the undesirables who were overcrowding our access to minerals and other natural resources in Africa and Latin America.

Once the Stupid Party (the Democrats who, unlike the Evil Party never actually made abortion a National Policy) swallowed abortion as the zenith of freedom ... true hope and liberation being the ability of a mother, race or people to Off Their Own ... the Dems were in the clear to make abortion their rallying call.

And render votes perfectly predictable from there on out in the process.

That is, until the GOP came out of the closet with their ratification of Roe and passage of the Schumer Amendment among the sound and fury that was their Chinese Fire Drill bits of Parental Consent legislation to keep the troops busy and "winning" properly-defined Square Ones nationwide.

[Texasforever]

Wow. Go ahead, you and Trent keep digging.

Reality sucks huh?

[Askel5]

lol ... trust Santa knows you've been more naughty than Nice.

"All HAT and NO cattle!!"

I copy. (Born at Ft. Sam and reared in Oklahoma ... =)