Conference call scheduled for Monday to pick the Senate Majority Leader

Fox News | Dec 20,2002 | Dog

[Dog]

Carl Cameron just reported a conference call is scheduled for Monday....to pick a new ML.

[chachacha]

All they have to say is that was decades ago and all the BLACKS will support Byrd and the Dem's.

Haven't we even learned that yet?

Whew this exhausting.

[Trust but Verify]

Dude, you need to take a pill. Lott cooked his own goose. Rpublicans didn't do it. Dems didn't do it. The President didn't do it. Lott did it to himself! Have you SEEN him in these apologies? Pandering to the race-baiters on AA, etc? Talk about a linguine-spined sissy. What sort of agenda did you think Lott was going to be able to get through after this?

[OldFriend]

Guess his masterful handling of the senatorial elections means nothing to the purists among us. AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

[OReilly]

This is why we have no choice but to stridently call for censure of Senator Byrd on the N-word/KKK matter. Republicans must do this 24/7, denouncing the dem leadership for failing to take the initiative here and implying strongly that they are racists for harboring Byrd in their midst. It is the only way to derail them on this issue at this point.

Byrd was the President Pro-tem and they did not call for him to step down. The (R)s forced Lott to step down as (R) leader, Bryd remained (is there any other leadership role for the minority when one of theirs goes from President Pro-tem to just second in command of the minority?)

[jrlc]

HELLary ought to shut up -- oh yes, and please give back the silverware.

[Bonaparte]

"All they have to say is that was decades ago..."

Oh, but Byrd used the N-word recently, repeatedly and publicly -- on national TV. And if they say, as you've suggested, that "all blacks" support the democratic party, they lose again. There is a lot of black unrest on the liberal plantation. Figures like Sharpton have been trumpeting this endlessly, the fact that the dems take blacks for granted, believing they have nowhere else to go. It's been in the news. Have you noticed? If the dems try saying that Byrd's KKK involvement is "old news," all we need to ask is whether they think slavery is "old news" and therefore "reparations" are "inappropriate." I'm telling you right now, no matter what move they make, they get checkmated. The best defense is an offense. Dems can dish it out but they can't take it.

[VRWC_minion]

The pro-choicers can be a bit overboard can't they. In one instance we cannot hang Lott because of implied intentions on the other we can hang Frist for tghe same thing. Very very consistant.

[Bonaparte]

Ordinarily, president pro-tem is nothing but a ceremonial role in the Senate with no real power. Lott has been humbled and demoted by his own party in recognition of racial equality. It's time for the dems to walk the walk, ie. walk the plank, the very same one they set up for Lott to walk. There is no way they can win a contest like this. Republicans have nothing to lose, but the dems have a great deal to lose. They will choose to stand down rather than slug it out with us.

[aristeides]

How do you have a secret vote on a conferencr call?

Use codewords transmitted by messenger?

[chachacha]

I will withhold my anger, set back and watch.

I hope you are right.

[aristeides]

I've got to admit, I don't understand why Byrd is so important to the RATs that they have to protect him.

[aristeides]

All they have to say is that was decades ago and all the BLACKS will support Byrd and the Dem's.

That is what they say, but it doesn't explain why Byrd used the N-word twice in a TV interview last year.

[aristeides]

The (R)s forced Lott to step down as (R) leader, Bryd remained (is there any other leadership role for the minority when one of theirs goes from President Pro-tem to just second in command of the minority?)

If the Republicans succeed in actually taking over the Senate next month, KKK Byrd will still be ranking member of the Appropriations Committee. That is a powerful position.

[aristeides]

Ordinarily, president pro-tem is nothing but a ceremonial role in the Senate with no real power.

It is, however, fourth in the line of presidential succession. Black leaders have been repeatedly making false claims that Lott was in the line of presidential succession, when in fact he was (and is) not, and Byrd is.

That's ignoring the fact that Byrd is also chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which, far from being a merely ceremonial position, is an extremely powerful one.

[OReilly]

In general I'm with you on you first point, but...WRTO

Ordinarily, president pro-tem is nothing but a ceremonial role in the Senate with no real power. Lott has been humbled and demoted by his own party in recognition of racial equality. It's time for the dems to walk the walk, ie. walk the plank, the very same one they set up for Lott to walk. There is no way they can win a contest like this. Republicans have nothing to lose, but the dems have a great deal to lose. They will choose to stand down rather than slug it out with us.

The U.S. Constitution provides for a President Pro Tempore to preside over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore is also the third person in line of succession for the Presidency, following the Vice President and the Speaker of the House.

In addition, the President Pro Tempore serves as a member of his party's leadership team.

If the 'Let's Roll' plane had not been the scene of the first counter-attack for 911, and if Cheney and Bush had gone up with the White House, and if Hastert had been over at the White House... The Blacks would have a KKK leader as their president. And the Dems did nothing but run racist dragging ads, with the daughter of the victim as a tag line...

[dogbyte12]

I think the last straw was when Ann Coulter said Lott should quit. Let's bann Ann Todd. That will show her for the commie ratty rat Karl Rove knife girl that she is.

[rightwing2]

Reportedly a corronation for mushy moderate pro-choice Bill Frist. What a crock! Say goodbye to principled conservative leadership in the Senate until 2008 when Frist gets bored of being Senate Minority Leader and runs for Prez and loses...

[Trust but Verify]

King Karl did it.

Really? Did he throw his voice or just hypnotize Lott into saying a dunder-headed thing like he did at the birthday party? I knew Karl was talented, but I had no idea he was into ventriloquism.

[OReilly]

Bryd wouyld have come before Colin Powell and the Dems did nothing about it, CBC!

Here was the order and now Stevens replaces Bryd in Jan. Don't put it past the Dems to ask Bryd to stand down for the next few weeks.

The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate1 Robert Byrd
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John Ashcroft

Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton; Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman; Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans; Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao; Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Melquiades Rafael Martinez; Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshiro Mineta; Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham; Secretary of Education Roderick Paige; Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi;