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Don Nickles Calls for New Senate Leadership Election to Challenge Lott
Fox News | 12-15-02

Posted on 12/15/2002 6:33:57 AM PST by rightwing2

Fox News just reported that ABC reported that Nickles has called for a new Senate leadership challenge to Trent Lott!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigcanodumbass; gop; lott; nickels; senate
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To: Republic of Texas
Lott has indirectly threatened to quit the Senate altogether if he is removed as Majority Leader.

Do you have any evidence that he has done this?

401 posted on 12/15/2002 9:11:34 AM PST by aristeides
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To: MrNatural
Suppose his collegues, in a procedurally correct way, hold another ML election, which is won by someone else?

I don't know.

All I know is, when Bob Dole ran for President, he left his Majority Leader's job, and then the Senate.

When Newt Gingrich left the Speakership, he left the House.

When Bob Livingston revealed his affair, he left the Speakership and left the House.

Republicans, when they step down or lose powerful positions, don't stick around.

I'd be shocked if Lott stayed, especially since he's essentially been branded a racist.

I wouldn't stay, I don't care what the ramifications are.

I'm not going to leave my job over something I'm not.

402 posted on 12/15/2002 9:11:47 AM PST by sinkspur
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To: rintense
You mean the kind of loyalty where you give in to the opposition even when you don't have to?
403 posted on 12/15/2002 9:12:33 AM PST by Republic of Texas
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Here are my thoughts on this subject.

Don Nickles from my state would make a great majority leader. He is just someone we would need to make sure the Demorats are not able to set or influence goverment policy as some idiot freepers amongest us would like.

The reason the Demorats want Lott gone however, is quite obvious. The Govenor of Missisippi is a Demorat and if Lott is ousted he would naturally appoint a Demorat to the Senate. That would give the Demorats 51 seats and an illegitimate majority.

The voters made it very clear on November 5th they want Republicans to run both houses of Congress. That they did not want the Democrat party to become the source of law in this country anymore. The Demorats know this full well but obviously they don't give a blankety blank what they the people want, they are going to do damn well as they please even if it ends up doing enormous harm to this country.

Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and all the other foreign terrorists would love to see this happen because they know with Democrats in charge, it would shift the focus of surveillence from the FBI away from them and towards pro-lifers, christians and all other critics and adversaries of the Democrat party. These groups the Democrats consider terrorists.

In the meantime, while all that happens, the dictators will continue to imprision and torture all of their adversaries and critics and hire professional rapists to visit their homes and rape their wives and molest their children and I might be so bold to say to I'm sure send kudos to those Bill Clinton butt kissers who are helping them out by misusing and abusing this web site by promoting and condoning the unlawful, unethical and sleazy activities of the Democrat party.

I might close by saying that ad-mons have been doing an excellent job of going after the Bill Clinton butt kissers who've been sign on and posting Demorat party propoganda. I say it's time for all of us as freepers to indentify those Bill Clinton butt kissers amogest us (I've had a dealing with one of those jerks on another matter) and make sure these jerks are not able to set or influence goverment policy.
Regards.

404 posted on 12/15/2002 9:13:06 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: John Lenin
FNC is reporting that McCain wants to put his name in the hat for majority leader of the Senate...
405 posted on 12/15/2002 9:13:15 AM PST by marajade
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To: cake_crumb
I voted for Bush and his ideas, not Trent Lott. Just like when they ran Dole, who to me, is a Marxist, I sat out the election.
406 posted on 12/15/2002 9:13:32 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: Republic of Texas
Heh. Something like that. Bush may be playing chess with his foreign policy, but he's playing tiddlywinks with the Lott issue.
407 posted on 12/15/2002 9:13:34 AM PST by rintense
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To: Howlin
No, read what I wrote.

If he goes on BET tomorrow or anytime else it's gonna be to TRY TO TALK HIS WAY OUT OF IT LIKE SOMEONE ELSE WE KNOW. The only way he can redeem himself from this and his "other" moments of stupidity is by action, not by trying to slither out of it like Slicko.

408 posted on 12/15/2002 9:14:14 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Perhaps. of course in that time frame, we have to get rid of the tax cuts, and pass increasingly liberal legislation in order to be more "moderate".
409 posted on 12/15/2002 9:14:19 AM PST by Republic of Texas
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To: marajade
McCain couldn't get enough votes, he will use it as an excuse to bolt the party if he loses.
410 posted on 12/15/2002 9:14:58 AM PST by John Lenin
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To: Jorge
He's made FIVE public apologies so far.

The CD is scheduled for release next week to the tune of:

"I'm sorry,
So sorry,
I've been such a fool....
"
411 posted on 12/15/2002 9:15:07 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: John Lenin
the gop is finished
412 posted on 12/15/2002 9:16:10 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: aristeides
Stated before. My opinion. It is an effective tool for him to use. Funny, he only plays hardball with his own party.
413 posted on 12/15/2002 9:16:19 AM PST by Republic of Texas
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To: marajade
Yeah, and when he doesn't get the job he'll get so mad that he'll just "close up" and "let nothing pass"...
414 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:15 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: rightwing2
Even if he doesn't get his plum Commerce Committee Chairmanship that I think he deserves,

If you take the Commerce Committee Chairmanship away from McCain, he'll leave the party.

415 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:16 AM PST by aristeides
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To: TLBSHOW
Like I said before when Bush and Powell slammed God and Christians he ended his right to be taken for anything more than a joke.

Actually these kind of wild and hysterical accusations make it hard to take anything you post very seriously.
Bush and Powell never slammed God and Christians.
That's a ridiculous accusation.

416 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:22 AM PST by Jorge
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To: Wait4Truth
He also said he would have voted to impeach.

He said it two years later. He didn't say it during the Senate deliberations.

I respect Bill Bennett. I don't agree with him on everything. I don't agree with him here, just as I didn't agree with him on Prop 187, which advocated English only in California schools. (The English-only classes which Prop 187 brought about are working beautifully,BTW.) Nobody's infallible.

Hey, I could be wrong here, but I will not brand another man a racist over comments that were not racist. I'm sick and tired of dancing to the tune of the race pimps and their willing accomplices in the media.

417 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:33 AM PST by sinkspur
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To: BuddhaBoy
"Let me clarify. Many people do have racial skeletons. Strom Thurmond did, but he was able to successfully put them aside. Trent Lott is tone-deaf. If he were the kind of Leader that Republicans need, he could have put this thing down easily. He only made things worse every time he opened his mouth."

Agreed. With help from his own ineptitude, Lott is now d@mned as a racist with an even more weakened position as Senate majority leader if he stays, and d@mned as a proven prima donna if he leaves.

IMO, he's not getting ousted (the senate elects majority leaders from the sr senator of the majority party not serving in any other position, such as President of the Senate, or pro tempore)

If we start ignoring this mess, the media will stop ranting because no one is listening, and opportunistic politicos will have no platform on which to elevate themselves. He'll stay where he is, leaving the Republican party with an even more weakened majority "leader"...and the Democrats SHOULD be happy...IF as I have stated all along, this isn't a side ploy to get at the president and make him another "one termer" like so many Dems and third partyists are so droolingly hopeful for.

418 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:41 AM PST by cake_crumb
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To: Republic of Texas
islam is peace you know
419 posted on 12/15/2002 9:17:48 AM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: marajade
In 2000 we got 9 percent of the black vote... does anyone think that by forcing Lott out it will get us anymore than that anyway?

No, but we might get far less than 9% if he stays now. The dims will keep on using this as a weapon for as long as they need it.

420 posted on 12/15/2002 9:18:16 AM PST by texasbluebell
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