What we need-
Posted on 12/15/2002 7:59:46 AM PST by ewing
Nothing but a headline right now..
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
It should however be detremined by us.
Recent events have brought to light numerous and I mean numerous events with wich a solid argument can be made that Sen. Chester Trent Lott is a racist.
In 2001, Lott cast the only vote against the confirmation of Judge Roger Gregory, the first African American judge ever seated on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Even Thurmond voted for Gregory.
Gregory was a W BUSH appointee!
We used to have a saying in the conservative part of the GOP:
"Character Matters"
What we need-
To assume this roll would be in direct violation of the Constitution.
The Constitution gives the Administration only one power in the Senate. This is the power to decide a tie vote on a bill. That is all. And that is enough.
Pretend that you were at the birthday party and try to find a way to compliment the 100 year old fart without the possibility of someone making a issue about it!
Easy, I've already done it...
The only way to for Trent Lott to address Thurmond's '48 campaign would have been to chart how far the retiring senior Senator from South Carolina has traveled in the last 54 years, and to use him as a metaphor to further illustrate how far the South and America have come. Had he done this, Lott could have simultaneously honored the Centenarian Senator and reiterated that Republicans, like the South and like America, have learned the errors of racism and segregation, and have long since embarked on a better path.
POSTED HEREI one swoop I've acknowledged Thrumond's Presidential bid, and its defincies, an a fashion that honors Strom's change of heart against segregation, and the South's and America's as well. Rather than pay tribute to the Strom Thurmond of 1948, I've honored the remarkable centenarian he is today.
Had Lott done this, he'd still be Majority Leader next year, instead of having his foolish mug plastered on the covers of Time and Newsweek next week.
So good character translates to voting for every appointee, just because they are black?
Since we had a Senate Majority Leader with an urge for self-destruction, thereby jeopardizing the Historical opportunities opened to us by the last election.
I am remembering Lott made a statement on ending partial birth abortion and putting troops on the border. I am beginning to wonder if it is the Democrats fueling this or perhaps someone higher up? Now the Pres. may want a ban on partial birth abortion - I don't know - but he does not want any discussion about troops on the border. He wants that to remain out there where he can call it the 'fringe element'. If you have the Senate majority leader bringing it up - it gives it credence and the Pres. just can't have that. It will cause the American people to actually begin dicussing this problem. He is trying to pretend it doesn't exist - and you know what? We have let him get away with it.
Now if Lott leaves the senate, resigns as ML and stays in the senate, or if he remains as ML, it won't matter as far as the illegal situation. He has been branded a racist and has been sucessfully neutralized on the subject of the border. If he made any attempt to bring it up, he and others would be labelled, once again, racists and it would die.
IN any situation, you have to see who benefits. And it is not always the most obvious.
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"I have no interest whatsoever in being in Washington DC. I'm happy right here." --Karl Rove, when asked if he will head for the White House if Phil Gramm, the candidate he handled in 1996, wins the presidency.
Best known for: George W. Bush's chief strategist. Consultant to U.S. Senators Phil Gramm, Kay Bailey Hutchison and many other right-wing politicians.
Born: December 25, 1950 in Denver, and grew up in Colorado, Utah and Nevada.
Family: His father was a geologist. At age nine, Rove became a faithful Republican when he backed Richard Nixon against John Kennedy.
Education: Attended nearly half a dozen colleges without getting a degree.
Profession: Teaches graduate students at the University of Texas.
Career: In the years of the Watergage scandal, Rove's career as a big-time political handler began with a motley crew of friends and associates. He was chairman of the College Republicans when George Herbert Walker Bush was chairman of the state Republican Party in 1973. He won the presidency of the College Republicans in a race against Terry Dolan. The late Lee Atwater, who later became famous as the political attack dog for the Reagan-Bush team, managed Rove's campaign. Dolan went on to become a Soft Money pioneer by helping form the National Conservative Political Action Committee, then died of AIDS in 1986 at age 36. Dolan's advisers in his loss to Rove were Charlie Black, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Those three were later instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign.
Atwater joined the consulting firm of Black, Manafort and Stone after the '84 election. The firm later worked for the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. Two of Nixon's dirty tricksters also worked for Bush-Quayle: Frederick Malek, Bush's Republican National Committee rep, who had compiled lists of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of Nixon's investigation of a "Jewish Cabal;" and Dwight Chapin, who was jailed for lying to a grand jury about hiring Donald Sigretti to disrupt the 1972 Democratic primary campaign of Senator Edward Muskie. Chapin worked under Manafort in 1988. The firm's other clients included drug-connected Bahamian Prime Minister Oscar Pindling, Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and UNITA, the South African-supported Angolan rebel group led by CIA asset Jonas Savimbi. Lee Atwater lobbied for UNITA. All of which began when Atwater was introduced to George Bush in 1973, by his good friend Karl Rove.
In 1980, Bush hired Rove to help him run for president. He was the first person Bush hired for the campaign. Atwater became chairman of the Republican National Committee and one of Bush's closest political advisors. In 1981, when Bush became Reagan's vice president, Rove started his consulting business, Karl Rove & Co. His first direct mail client was Bill Clements, the first Republican in a century to become Texas governor.
Rove began working for Bill Clements in 1978. Four years later, he was working for Phil Gramm, who was in the U.S. House of Representatives as an old-style conservative Texas Democrat. In 1984, Rove helped Gramm, now a Republican, defeat Democrat Lloyd Doggett in the race for U.S. Senate. It was that same year, 1984, that Rove handled direct-mail for the Reagan-Bush campaign. In 1986, he helped Clements become governor a second time. In 1988, Rove helped Tom Phillips to victory, the first Republican elected to the Texas Supreme Court. Ten years later Republicans held all nine seats. Mark McKinnon, a former Democratic consultant who defected to the Bush campaign, called Rove the "Bobby Fischer of politics. He not only sees the board, he sees about 20 moves ahead."
Rove has been closely advising George W. Bush since he announced he was a candidate for Governor in November 1993. By January 1994, Bush had spent $613,930 on the race against incumbent Ann Richards. Over half of that, $340,579, went to Rove. In a state long dominated by Democrats, albeit right-wing ones, every statewide elected office was, by 1999, held by a Republican. Many of those politicians succeeded with the help of Rove. During the November election, the half-dozen candidates he advised were all winners.
Bush has called Rove a close friend and confidant, and a man with good judgment. Almost a quarter of all the money Bush's presidential exploratory committee spent from January to the end of March, 1999, went to Rove's consulting firm ($220,228). Rove soon sold his consulting firm to devote himself to the Bush campaign. Long known locally as a political kingmaker, the possibility of a second Bush in the White House has made Rove more famous.
Sources: Robert Bryce, "The Man Behind the Candidate," The Austin Chronicle, March 18, 1994, pp. 23, 28-30, 32-33; Robert Bryce, "The fab four:Meet the people maneuvering behind the scenes to put George W. Bush in the White House," Salon magazine, June 16, 1999, (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/06/16/advisors/index1.html); Paul Brancato, “Bush League” illustrated cards (Forestville, California: Eclipse Enterprises, 1989), pp. 5, 13, 18.
Hey, no fair mentioning that Lott wasn't much of a team player.
Even Thurmond voted for Gregory.
Gregory was a W BUSH appointee!
Originally, he was a Clinton appointee. And the Judiciary Committee VOTED AGAINST HIM, so Clinton made a recess appointment.
So, Republicans vote against Gregory when he's a Clinton appointee, but vote for him when he's a Bush appointee.
One can make the argument that Lott is the only principled Republican here.
In 2001, while Lott unable to let go of his past hatreds cast the only vote against the confirmation of Judge Roger Gregory, the first African American judge ever seated on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Strom Thurmond having renounced his past by his actions - voted for Gregory and got a Pres W BUSH REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE Judicial Appointee on the bench.
Note- it's no accident that the word Black does not precede CONSERVATIVE judicial Appointee.
Chracter Matters
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