Trent Lott back in as the GOP's #2 man

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 1:50pm

Remember what he said:
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

What was Strom Thurmond's Platform?

"We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race; the constitutional right to choose one's associates; to accept private employment without governmental interference, and to learn one's living in any lawful way. We oppose the elimination of segregation, the repeal of miscegenation statutes, the control of private employment by Federal bureaucrats called for by the misnamed civil rights program. We favor home-rule, local self-government and a minimum interference with individual rights.

We oppose and condemn the action of the Democratic Convention in sponsoring a civil rights program calling for the elimination of segregation, social equality by Federal fiat, regulations of private employment practices, voting, and local law enforcement.

We affirm that the effective enforcement of such a program would be utterly destructive of the social, economic and political life of the Southern people, and of other localities in which there may be differences in race, creed or national origin in appreciable numbers."

Ah, it's good to see the Republicans got the message!

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 1:59pm

Hey, I'm thrilled to have this political hack in a position of prestige--just reaffirms the old Repub stereotype.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 3:08pm

as much as it pains me to do so, this is actually a reasonably smart short term choice for the gop minority. the whip is not a leader really, it's an enforcer. the gop's choosing someone they know can twist arms and get votes and enforce party discipline something of which they'll need all they can get as the minority party.

it's sad that the gop doesn't have someone better suited for this than trent, but you don't go into your first year in a while as the minority with the senate make-up you'd like, you in go with the senate make-up you have.

seriously, without googling, who are the current whips? yeah, that's what i thought. mitch has the prestige position (such as it is) and trent's the hatchet man. a job for which his helmet hair can protect him from things that will be dropped on his head.

the other thing is, he's not going to be well liked so if the start to crumble as a credible minority (a very real possibility given the relative unpopularity off the party and the desire of senators to be popular), he'll get canned before mitch.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 3:10pm

Well, papa, he does make a great scapegoat and he only beat Lamar 25-24, so it's hardly a mandate.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 3:15pm

hell, the fact that he won the doggone thing at all speaks volumes about his ability to line up votes. he'll be in the position for a while and then take the fall for something after he gets 'em used to sticking together in the face of that silver tongued devil harry reid's seductive come ons.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 3:55pm

I need to write gingerly and with some tact, since I have a question that begs for an informed answer.

Is Trent Lott's hair store bought or merely sprayed with Aqua Net until it laid down and died?

Thanking you very much in advance.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 4:01pm

I think it fell on his head from a window and his loved ones have yet to tell him. (woody allen's joke)

"silver tongued devil harry reid's seductive come ons."

That's the first and likely only time those words will ever be together in a sentence.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 4:11pm

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 4:14pm

LOL this is the best they could do?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 5:35pm

wosq, the left has tin foil hats. we on the right depend on trent's hair to protect us all. he suffers so we don't have to.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/15/06 at 6:40pm

The reality of the New Republican Party, post-Election 2006, is that it is a party almost entirely run by Southern Conservatives. The last remnants of Moderate Republicanism were eradicated by the national referendum on George Bush, and Lincoln's party, the party of a small fiscally responsible government that stays out of the private lives of US citizens is over.

This is the end result of Nixon's Southern Strategy, as capitalized upon by Reagan and as carried out to its illogical extreme by Karl Rove. The Republican Party I remember from my youth--of Reockefeller, Javits, Lindsay, Koch, and Bill Green--is gone, and it will never return.

So it's entirely appropriate that the Republicans in the Senate are led by this racist Neanderthal. He's all they've got left.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 12:55am

Chanticleer/Dakin's back on his blahhhhhg for the first post after the election and the closing of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

And ya know what the one issue he covered is? Joe Leiberman. Isn't it ODD that a man from Ohio who mocked "Sherrod" he's on a first name basis, Nancy Pelosi and so many other Democrats would choose to look at a race in CT? And nothing else?

I'll never grasp some of these folks, even when some of em are one person?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 7:00am

i really thought chantikins would be over here crowing about lamont by now, as if all of our hopes & dreams were pinned on him.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 7:51am

Omigod, Lamont LOST?!?

Oh, NO!

I guess it was the Republic Party that gave us the THUMPIN' after all!