Posted on 12/13/2002 7:26:54 PM PST by 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.
LOL! Who is us Dave?
And what is with you people that see racist behind every corner and between every line of type?
Forgetting your Dixie Crat smoke, looking at this country now, I would consider American 50 years ago to be a much better country than what we currently have now.
Even with the few Dixie Crats as you call them in the past, I still appreciate the older morals of America, even with the few blemishes, Going back just 50 years, I appreciate the safe cities when no one ever heard of thousands of routine drive by shootings and insane daily murders.
I appreciate the old America of 50 years ago that wasn't being invaded by millions of people illegally that have no respect for our laws. America of 50 years ago would have never put up with it.
I appreciate the old America, where divorce was almost unheard of and most kids had parents that gave a damn.
I appreciate the old America where strangers said thank you and neighbors helped each other.
I appreciate the old America 50 years past where American's were generally a United People, not splintered into races with hyphenated names where most people didn't see racist behind every corner. Where most everyone spoke English and it was just an accepted way. Where legal immigrants were proud as hell just to be here and to be just like American's.
Was America perfect 50 years ago? No. But it is much better than what we have now.
Fond memories of the good old days
Yes Dave, since I am not a politically correct product, I have fond memories of the good old days. I am sure you can't relate.
Ok. Now for a moment assume you werent White. Would you have the same opinion?
Well hell yes I would have the same opinion. Where in the hell have you been?
Do you have any idea how many young blacks are gunned down routinely in the streets of todays America by other blacks?
Do you have any idea how many black kids don't have fathers because they are in the joint for murder, drugs, robbery etc?
Do you have any idea how many young inner city blacks are threatened into joining gangs that leaves many of them dead and bloody in the gutter or on their way to the local ER with sucking chest wounds?
Do you have any idea how many young blacks don't even know who their own fathers are today?
Do you have any idea how many blacks are locked in cages because they wanted to be like the guy down the block or on TV and play the gangster role.
So to answer your naive question, yes, I would have much rather been a black 50 years ago in American, than today.
No question about it.
That is why this issue is so critical. That is why we can't bury our heads in the sand and pretend that it will blow over. It won't. The commercials are being prepared as we type. It will be ugly. The dems don't pull punches. they're not nice. They will do anything to get elected. But the Pubs don't even have the guts to dump an idiot when he embarasses all of them.
We don't stand a chance.
Read 861 and think about it.
He just has that "look of love".
And who are we to fault him for looking for love in all the wrong places?
I see no reason a pillar of the Compassion Party can't realize this snafu's a wake-up call that he's lost that loving feeling.
Where's Jesse Jackson these days? Hymietown? Perhaps we can get him on a plane to come counsel the good Senator and evoke the repentance necessary for all to forgive and forget.
Ooooh ooooh ...
I'm proposing 'Cause the White Man's Gotta God Complex to the CD right now.
THIS IS MADNESS.
The problem with Lott is that he is a terrible leader and a political nitwit. He sold the pubs down the river in 2000 and was rewarded with the defection of Jeffords and an illegitimate takeover of the senate by democrats who at least know that this is war.
Lott let the Clinton impeachment trial become a joke. Certainly we may not have been able to get 67 votes to impeach the b--tard, but because of Lott THERE WASN"T EVEN A TRIAL!
Lott is a MINORITY Leader. He will ALWAYS be a Minority leader. If the Republicans had 70 seats, Lott would make sure that the Republicans acted and looked like the MINORITY Party.
Lott is not fit to lead a boy scout troop. This is a great opportunity for the pubs to pull the plug on this faux-conservative faux-republican faux-leader.
We need leadership. We don't need Headlines.
If Lott says he will resign the Senate if he doesn't get his way, then let him. We'll deal with. We'll deal with it like men. Let us not cave into blackmail by cry babies.
Is anybody home? Hello? Do you honestly think this is all about Lott?
Excuse me, but Lott is nothing without the Republican Party, and before what should be its grandest Congressional session in decades, this boob has halted the GOP's momentum on a dime, shifted gears, and put the pedal to the metal in reverse!
Now that his big mouth and feeble brain has virtually delivered a shank stick to conservatives' collective shins, he's [allegedly] pulling a Jeffords in order to hang on to his precious power in D.C. when all that will accomplish is answering the left's prayers for a whipping boy more hateable than Newt Gingrich!
And you're IN FAVOR of this?
How many people knew deep down that Slick Willie was a pathological liar, and guilty of perjury, but didn't want to see conservatives beat him? Some of you people are just like them! It's amazing watching some of you act like Clintonoids all of a sudden, claiming to stand for a principle, but fighting the enforcing of it because you don't like the people who insist on justice!
Quit your whining about the race hustlers! They're doing what everyone expects of them! They are a reality of the political scene in this country, and if you don't want them to win, DON'T BE A FREAKING IMBECILE AND TALK ABOUT HOW A RACIST SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT!
Well said!
Did you work on that for a while, or was that the first draft?
I've no clue ... sounds intriguing, though.
Think Trent needs a new look. Mink is in, dear.
A new look might be just the ticket.
Can't hurt to Experiment a little ... surely a feller who wears a feather like that can get all his tickets from the Fashion Police fixed in a jiffy.
Somebody had to do it.
Perpetual conflict's the name of the game. The more absurd the better. Weakens brains. Ratchets emotions.
Because this "Crisis" hits a ten on the Absurd Scale and also is neatly contained within the party -- within the One Man within the Party, no less -- I see it as a sign that the GOP has everything under control. As it should be.
God forbid we spend too much time wondering about Mr. Hanky's two-minute stint cut short by "conflict of interest" that curtailed Bush's bringing to bear (so to speak) the all-powerful Kissinger on the question of how some pennyante Saudis managed to start World War III with dramatic strikes at the WTC and ... oh, a bit later ... at the Pentagon in our nation's capital.
Go Trent Go!!
There is a decent sized list of things I would blame Mr. Lott for personally, but this isn't one of them.
"Take one for the team" sound good, but it's not just a political calculation to Trent, it's personal.
It's his life and his reputation. It's the way he's going to be viewed till the day he dies.
Any honest assessment of what happened would begin with his mistake and end with all the "conservatives" knowing and admitting it wasn't true, but abandoning him anyway.
How anyone can expect him to "take one for the team" while his team is throwing rocks at him is beyond me.
The rats screamed "racist" and the "Conservatives" all ran for cover.. Same old story.
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