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Trent, is that you?

"If he is forced to step down he has as much as admitted guilt 'as charged'."

He is guilty as charged. He is guilty of being a moron -- not a racist.

"Why would he want to continue on in the Senate as a self branded racist and bigot and put his family through that?"

Again, as I have stated in other posts, this may be how Trent Lott wants to frame the issue, but it is not the issue. The issue is Lott's propensity for gaffes, and his genius for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Lott bent the rules to get himself named Majority Leader in the first place. Rather than holding the election after the start of the new session, he schedules it during the Lame Duck session, counting on getting 25 votes from the get-along gang that remains. The newly-elected Senators got almost no input on the decision.

Why do you suppose that was? Maybe because Lott *knew* he was a fumble-mouth, and feared that something would happen between Election Day and Inaugeration Day.

He did, too. He sold out Bush on the Lame Duck session immediately after the election. Then he attempted to sell out the Republicans on the Homeland Defence Bill. Like I said earlier, the straw that breaks isn't usually the heaviest one.

"Why has the left made an issue of this in the first place?"

The left did not make an issue of this until after the right erupted. Initially Daschle and the other dwarves were all for giving Lott a pass. Only after they smelled blood in the water, did they decide the issue was worth raising -- lind of like seeing the mob, and deciding that you better get ahead of it so you can be seen as a leader.

No Democrat has called for Lott's resignation from his seat. None are going to because they have several Senators with racist pasts, who would also be put on the spot.

If you wish to defend Lott, fine. Like I said, they call the GOP the Stupid Party for a reason.

If you wish to defend Lott, fine. Like I said, they call the GOP the Stupid Party for a reason.

I don't think Lott's a racist but that's not my point. The idea that Dem senators are vulnerable because they are racist is laughable. What on earth is beyond excusing for the Dem's? They will take Lott's seat and thumb their nose at us. If what Lott said about Thurmond was so bad how is it that Strom himself is still revered and sat in the Senate so long? Never mind, that's not the point either.

I simply predict that if Lott steps down as ML he will also give up his Senate seat. Perhaps not all at once but shortly thereafter. The pubs will lose the senate majority before the new senate is sworn in.