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I didn't drag the President into this. He did when he made the comments he did this week. He also got himself further into this by letting Rove call the shots. Ideally, this should have been handled by the Senate and by the people of Mississippi. Bush should have just accepted the apology and let the Senate deal with him. But if you think Bush hasn't been involved in this from the moment the comment was made, think again. And it's through Rove that Bush's desires are being known. If all this ‘behind the scenes’ crap isn’t true, then I want Ari to say so on Monday. But I highly doubt he will.

The problem is that this sets up any future apologies as empty words. Like I said, I certainly hope the President never has to apologize for anything because he will be met with the same skepticism about his ability to lead. This entire fiasco sets a dangerous precedent for all republicans, and only gives the Dems one more stick to beat us with.

And I wish the President could see that.

I don't think so rintense. I think this is all about how poorly handled this thing was. Lott allowed it to go entirely too long before he even addressed the matter. It was political ineptness that was mind boggling. He could have reduced this thing to nothing by coming out immediately, acting horrified that anyone would even think he meant anything by it, apologizing if anyone was hurt and launched a full frontal attack on the race baiters. He didn't do that and Bush gave him a full week to take the reins on this. When he didn't, Bush HAD to step forward.

This entire fiasco is of Lott's own making. Not just what he said, because he could have easily explained that away, but in the amount of time he gave the democrats to mount a campagin against him AND the republican party.

If you remember, when this first happened, Bush made a mild remark and stated his belief in Lott. Then a whole week passed in which Lott made TELEPHONE calls to RADIO stations! And what's worse, he even thought that should take care of the matter. He dragged Bush into this, then he tried to drag Condi and Powell into it.

I'm sorry, you know how much I love you, but I think President Bush bent over backward to help Lott and Lott let him down.

Dubya had to come down hard on Trent. Lott wasn't saying much, there was allot of ambiguity out there and someone was going put him on the spot about it eventually. It was inevitable.

What confuses me is why everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon. There is no need to turn this into a free for all and damage our prospects even further.

I can understand the rats' motivation for doing so, but the rest of it seems to be more counter productive as anything.. Like you said, it's setting up and legitimizing a scenario that's going to be played out over and over.

The party and conservative media is happily dancing to the democrat tune.

You're acting like Cave-A-Lott (and I'm NOT going to change that tune, sinkspur) was an actual leader. Does 1999 ring a bell? No? How was it that a House Republican leadership with NOBODY at the helm and 4 times as many members to cajole as Cave-A-Lott managed to have less Pubbies vote against impeachment than an intact Senate "leadership"?