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LOTT THREATENS TO QUIT THE SENATE IF FORCED FROM LEADERSHIP
Newsnight with Aaron Brown | 12/13/2002 | Jonathan Karl

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: mollusk; spineless; trentlott; wuss
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To: sinkspur
Lott is our Gore
921 posted on 12/14/2002 5:40:29 AM PST by joyful1
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To: joyful1
They both suffer testucular degeneration.
922 posted on 12/14/2002 5:42:04 AM PST by Bluntpoint
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To: L.N. Smithee
Well put. The racists have really surfaced on this issue, with people revealing their true feelings. ("I wonder how many really would like segregation").

Born in 1951, I can remember thinking it just stupid that blacks and whites could not mix---but I was in Arizona, and for the most part racial issues were minor. I can remember going to Phoenix Suns basketball games and LITERALLY not realizing that the players were of different colors. To me, they were all "Suns" or "Lakers," and that was all that mattered.

Only later, when I played in a rock band with Lynard Skynnard types from Alabama and Mississippi, did I really see racism up close. These musicians who would in a SECOND play on stage with blacks would utterly treat them like dirt offstage and, as was clear from their talk, could not comprehend that they might, just might, be equals.

The people here who "yearn" for the "good old days" before Civil Rights would have worn the sheets 50 years ago.

923 posted on 12/14/2002 5:45:47 AM PST by LS
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To: sinkspur
Chester doesn't have the balls to quit. Who would be stupid enough to hire him? It is time to dump this BUM NOW!
924 posted on 12/14/2002 5:51:16 AM PST by Agent Smith
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To: LS
"good old days"

"When men were men and black men could be lynched for wanting to be like us men."
925 posted on 12/14/2002 5:53:07 AM PST by Bluntpoint
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To: BKT
"Politics is war."

Politics is also about keeping your head out of your ass and not giving your enemys ammunuition that can be used against you.

927 posted on 12/14/2002 6:07:51 AM PST by Bluntpoint
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To: Bluntpoint
The brave soldier does not stand up with a red bullseye on his chest. We call them causualties. We just bury them.
928 posted on 12/14/2002 6:13:36 AM PST by Bluntpoint
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To: BKT
I have always been taught, when you do something bad, repent and accept your punishment. Not, blackmail the witnesses and move on.
930 posted on 12/14/2002 6:22:39 AM PST by Bluntpoint
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To: sinkspur
Maybe Hillary's FBI file says too much about him?
931 posted on 12/14/2002 6:23:44 AM PST by demlosers
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To: sinkspur
I wanted to post a link to a thread I started on what it would actually mean if Lott resigned his Senate seat.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/806411/posts

Shameless self bump.

932 posted on 12/14/2002 6:36:54 AM PST by Credo
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To: lainde
Interesting. I hear that more and more. Obviously, being an Independent Conservative Constitutionist Christian, I hang out with people of color that hold similar world most often. But, in reaching people for the Lord, I meet people all over the map. And, most of them buy whatever their propagandist master is handing out. That is why I see what the Trent said - and the sheer stupidity of opening this issue (by a man in our leadership!) as just another good, timely reason for LIMPA-Lott to let another lead and rehabilitate his image.
933 posted on 12/14/2002 6:51:58 AM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: L.N. Smithee
but fighting the enforcing of it because you don't like the people who insist on justice!

Who are the "people insisting on justice?"

Please. They don't want "justice." They want a scalp.

934 posted on 12/14/2002 6:55:18 AM PST by sinkspur
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To: The Wizard
Too late. Only RATS and RINOs coming to save the Lott. Isn't that telling.
935 posted on 12/14/2002 6:57:35 AM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: sinkspur
bttt

936 posted on 12/14/2002 6:57:54 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: SoCar
"Aren't we smart enough and strong enogh not to fall into the race baiter's trap??"

Sorely, the Lott isn't.
937 posted on 12/14/2002 6:59:20 AM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: sinkspur
I do hope Lott has the courage to make Bush face political reality. Somehow I do not think Bush has the character that will allow him to talk to Lott one on one. He will send some lackey with lame excuses.
938 posted on 12/14/2002 6:59:42 AM PST by cynicom
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To: sinkspur
Looks that spine that many were looking for has come back- and with a vengeance. Lott holds all the cards. And if he leaves the Senate, the Miss. Gov. will appoint a Democrat, thus making it a 50-50 split. You'll get a jumper, thus giving the Dems the majority again.

So, for all of you who want Lott to go, you'd better think long and hard about it. Because if he goes, all the advances we made in November aren't worth crap.

And we'll get another two years of Daschle and crew obstructing everything.

939 posted on 12/14/2002 7:00:40 AM PST by rintense
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To: SoCar
we all know he is not a segregationist.

He just plays one on TV (and at birthday partys).

940 posted on 12/14/2002 7:03:41 AM PST by mac_truck
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