The Growing Fire Around Trent Lott

but Shrub said Lott did NOT need to step down from his Senate Majority Leadership.

Bush quote: "Recent remarks by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country." (loud applause from the crowd)

This same news report says that the White House has said President Shrub will NOT be joining the "growing chorus" of those demanding Lott's resignation as majority leader.

The Shrub wants him out, i have no doubt, for reasons of political expedience; but he also wants to keep his skirts clean for dancing in front of the right-wing racist crowd . . . he'll let someone else do the hatchet work . . .

The president does not think Lott should resign, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) told reporters.


"The president did Trent Lott a big favor today," said Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa. "He basically cleared the air. ... This is not an issue that divides us anymore."

As Bob Herbert comments in today's NY Times (re the fact that many in the GOP quietly share Lott's views): "Keep hime in plain sight. His presence is instructive. As long as we keep in mind that it isn't only him."

Very adroitly put . . .

"The Growing Fire" - ah, the fire brigade is out in full force. May a heavy gale rise up and blow, blow, blow to uncover the truth!

Ouch -- Jon Stewart on The Daily Show just ripped Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond a beautiful new set of assholes.

Those old crackers never change he meant what he said and said what he meant. The only thing that slipped his mind was that he was not with his useual cronies.

Bye, bye Trent Lott, lottsa luck back in ole miss.

http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/12/12/lott2/index.html

Very impressive blatham. How many chances does Lott get before someone in the Repub party says:

It speaks like a racist,
It associates like a racist,
It acts like a racist,
It thinks like a racist=

By God (white of course), it is a racist!

Exactly my point. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it must be a duck. One thing though Mississippi got some great new highways and repaved roads out of the deal.

Joanne, that ain't nothing - know how many air craft carriers and battleships were built in Pascagoula? At how many billions of $? And the Dems want big government - the largest increases in new spending has occurred in the last two years - far, far, far ahead of any other group of years added together.

The largest new Gov't Organization - added

I could go on forever, but then it is digression>>>>>>>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/14/politics/14RECO.html

http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/12/ballot/index.html

Too much emphasis on what people "thought" Trent said.

I heard what he said. Didn't sound racist to me...Not nearly as racist as some of the stuff said by Jesse Jackson.

Joan:

If it walks and talks like a Duck, but isn't a DUCK, someone needs to see an optometrist, quick!

And another view...
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2075408

edited...see below

And on the 'Is Trent the only one?' question...

"In addition, workers in the Landrieu campaign cited what appeared to be unusually aggressive Republican efforts to dampen black turnout. They produced a flyer they said had been distributed in black public housing complexes in New Orleans, apparently designed to mislead black voters.

The flyer reads, in part: "Vote!!! Bad Weather? No problem!!! If the weather is uncomfortable on election day (Saturday December 7th) Remember you can wait and cast your ballot on Tuesday December 10th."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27966-2002Dec8.html

As mentioned earlier, Democrats with an eye on next election ought to hope Lott stays around, nice and visible.

Blatham

Glad to see you back-----on your above observation I'd like to make this comment. If Carl Rove has as much influence as you seem to think he has-----Lott will be stepping down -----no sign of that as of this date!!!!

I personally think he is damaging the Republican party as much or more than the religious right.