[fqued]

Correction: Lott said he won't quit the Senate even if he is deposed from Majority leader. He said his term runs through 2006, and he intends to fulfill it.

[Clara Lou]

I don't want Lott to quit the senate. I just don't want him to be the SML. To be honest, I wouldn't have expected him to quit the senate were he not allowed to assume the position of SML. I don't think he's the brightest bulb around, but I don't think he's a quitter, either. It wouldn't fit that Southern code of honor.

[Paul Atreides]

What a shame that he could not have been so tough when dealing with Dims in the past, instead of the get-along approach.

[Wordsmith]

Well, that can't be right. Freepers have been howling all week that Lott is too proud, or too greedy for lobbying or board member dollars, to perservere in the Senate if his fellow Republicans select another majority leader.

Who you gonna believe, Freepers, or Lott? ;-)

[artios]

Good news when one considers little things like senate majority ...

[Nick Danger]

And now Lott and the Southern, segregationist roots of the GOP.

Outrageous revisionist history alert!

There are no "Southern, segregationist roots of the GOP." Those people were Democrats. Lott was a Democrat. Thurmond was a Democrat. George Wallace was a Democrat. The "Dixiecrats" were Democrats. They were all Democrats.

[MAKnight]

The rise and folly of Trent Lott is a classical Washington saga. Here is the plotline: A politician with more power than friends fails to see that times have changed. Oblivious, even giddy, he mistakenly calls attention to an obvious fact about himself that the establishment, for a variety of reasons, has tolerated or ignored. Suddenly, he’s too outrageous for words, and he becomes the scapegoat for a city determined to show its moral rectitude. Think: Tony Coelho and money, Gary Hart and sex. And now Lott and the Southern, segregationist roots of the GOP.

This is getting too much ... the Presstitutes are actually trying to rewrite history!

[HumanaeVitae]

I think Louis XVI thought the same thing...

[HumanaeVitae]

I think Louis XVI thought the same thing...