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"This is a very craven move by Nickles, demonstrating how personally ambitious he is as a pol.He could have waited and done this quietly, worked on alliances with more moderate elements in the caucus,but he had to grab for it now when he lacked the fortitude to do it a few months back.Somehow his suuporters think this won't hurt the Bush agenda right off the bat?

Nickles is showing he isn't up to the job but doing it this way.He has no sense of tactics, or lotalty, and no one knows whether this guy has the ability at all to keep 51 divergent egos all in check.Freepers can rail all they want about getting a guy with "guts" and being conservative enough, but when a man with an ACU rating of 93 is deemed weak when his job is to manage the competing interests of so many Senators and advance the ball, just what the hell do they expect?

Freepers are ignoramusus about what the Majority Leader's job is all about.If they want high drama from their politics say so, but pragmatism is the most crucial element required by a leader of that body.Nickles fails on this score.

Nickles is showing he doesn't have the smarts to be an effective leader.There is a reason that he was never voted leader, and it's apparent for all to see now."

I had to quote your whole post because it all bears repeating.

Lott WILL lose his job, OK? We just don't know if it will happen in January of 03 or 07 or even later. When it does happen we won't know anything about it until it's a done deal. Public grandstanding by the likes of Nickles isn't how this game is played. Committments from other Senators are obtained in private and when it's over the nation is presented with a fait accompli.