Don Nickles Calls for New Senate Leadership Election to Challenge Lott

Fox News | 12-15-02

[rightwing2]

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

[steveegg]

I really believe that the opposition sees this as a way to gain back the Senate at least to a 50/50 arrangement or maybe even the majority.....

While I agree with this statement, you kept its ramifications too simple. They already have someone waiting to make it 50/50; they see this as a way to get that illegitimate "majority" now with Lott's resignation. Failing that, assuming that Lott doesn't take one for the team and go back to the bench, he will be so weakened that even if he ever did have a backbone, he would be left with no choice but to resurrect the power-"sharing" agreement of 2001.

The only monkey wrench in this for the 'Rats is if Lott simply hands the leader's office to someone willing to work with a majority of VP. I'll freely admit that isn't a sure-fire thing, but given Lott's track record in stronger political positions, it's the only option that would allow something positive to get done.

[Torie]

Oh another Bushbot. Yawn. :)

Look, reasonable folks can differ on this. Heck I and Deport are clawing each other, and we both are the epitomy of reasonableness (right?), and have NEVER done that before. But life is full of new experiences.

[Sabertooth]

Another one...

[TLBSHOW]

Keep telling yourselve that.

[Madcelt]

Dont forget this one..

[Reverend Bob]

Nickles, by calling for a new vote for ML, did a great service to his colleagues. Others of lesser standing can now speak up without fear of retribution. But, by providing that cover, he's also drawn the enmity of Lott's allies and partisans upon himself. He will now be too wounded within his own caucus to succeed to the ML posistion himself.

In short, he just took one for the team.

It's McConnell or Frist at this point. Normally I'd give the edge to McConnell, but the White House seems to be backing Frist.

[EternalVigilance]

Now THAT is funny!

[dogbyte12]

The thing about Lott that is that he continuously champions Jefferson Davis. I wonder what he thinks about Lincoln then if Jefferson Davis is his cup of tea.

[Sabertooth]

You better add rintense into your little list since I don't think she is buying the bull either coming from the right.

Perhaps you should flag her, on the off chance you're wrong.

[Madcelt]

ya beat me to it.

[EternalVigilance]

...but the White House seems to be backing Frist.

Evidence?

[Torie]

Ya, but they don't want loose cannons or showboaters (and that is how Santorum started off, and I don't think he is totally off that reservation), and they do want someone who has the smarts to navigate the shoals with the media. As I say, no way. That is Torie's prediction number 2.

By the way, I like Santorum. I really do.

[Walkin Man]

I could give a rats a** what some people think about my actions. I didn't care when I was protesting Bubba Clinton on the streets of Kansas City and Tallahassee Florida and I sure as hell don't care what some RINO thought police think about me either! I'll be screwed if I give my vote to a party that hounds a member out of office because he might have committed a 'thought crime'!

Hell if I want to go along with that kind of thinking, I might as well vote democrat and drop the hypocrisy, ya know what I mean?

[537 Votes]

So are we going to hear Lott say, "I am not a hockey puck?"

[TLBSHOW]

Q:What is your Bush Bot remark ro mean?

[Sabertooth]

The clincher is Howard Fineman's report that Bush told Lott to say "segregation was immoral" on his Larry King interview Wednesday, and Lott didn't do it.

Oh, if you've already posted that, poste it again.

That is Maxine Waters' fault how? Maybe Peggy Noonan should be to blame.

No no, blame me. Toppling national figureheads is a hobby of mine on the side.

[VOA]

I would take it Miller has too much character to switch.

Miller has said that he will never switch.

As much as I respect his service in the United States Marine Corps...
I am always stunned that he can tolerate being an enabler for Dsachle, Boxer,
Hillary!, and the like ilk.

I wish he'd switch, but I guess that USMC training sadly provided him with
a superhuman ability to rationalize that he's actually in the party that represents
his personal values.
And to tolerate the atmosphere fouled by the inane exhalations of his fellow Democrats.

[Torie]

Post number 805.

[steveegg]

No no, blame me. Toppling national figureheads is a hobby of mine on the side.

You were supposed to topple Daschle <VBG>

[TLBSHOW]

Funny that Torie names the ones that she did when all the names including mine are on record as Bush Bots.

While her name is absent from the record!
As is yours.