Someone should grab that boy by the stacking swivel and explain the facts of life.
This is getting downright juvenile!!!
Lott is a lily-livered puke. At least McCain beats his breast and boasts about sticking his dagger into us. This guy sneaks around in the dark, manipulating others to do his dirty work. He should never be near the leadership, and even better shown the door by the good people of Mississippi.
Well .. GWB had a bad week too back in the 2000 primaries. However, he recovered and went on to be President. Hmmmmm?? do I see a pattern there ..??
I listened to him practically swear to Sean Hannity that he wasn't pulling any fast ones, but I heard some pretty heavy potential for parsing in his words, as well!!!
My name is Maverick John McCain
My only straight talk is my name
With the libs I often vote
Just to get old Trent Lott's goat ...
Looks like that song needs some updating.
-PJ
-PJ
Another example of his backstabbing was the Senate "no trial" for impeachment of X42. What a turd.
What happy horsesh*t! The Democrats have been crapping on the heads of Republican "leadership" for years now.
I don't know how much I believe of the machinations of Trent Lott. If he was doing half this crap, Frist would merely have to blow his cover and put the mark of Cain on Lott's forehead. Lott would be dead with Republicans everywhere.
Daschle-Lott Secret Deal Delays Bush's Agenda Until 2003-PJWes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – Tuesday’s election returns may have no immediate effect on the Senate’s obstruction of President Bush’s program for homeland security. And thanks to a backroom deal, it could also prevent quick action on his judicial nominees.
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002NewsMax.com has learned that Senate Republican leader Trent Lott and Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle made a pre-election agreement that, no matter how the election turned out, the GOP would not seek to control the committees in the coming lame-duck session. The newly-elected Senate will not be sworn in until January.
As explained to NewsMax by Daschle spokeswoman Ranit Schmelzer, this is the agreement:
If Sen.-elect Jim Talent, R-Mo., takes his seat in time for the lame-duck session (which is allowed because he is filling an unexpired term), or if the independent Minnesotan Dean Barkley (appointed to fill the remaining two months of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone’s term) decides to vote with the GOP, then Lott would be recognized as the majority leader. BUT ...
There will be "no reorganizing resolution” passed. Schmelzer says that means that the chairmanships of the committees will remain in Democrat hands.
In addition to that, the Washington Times reported Friday that Lott and Daschle had agreed the post-election session would last no more than five days.
"Well, that has yet to be decided for certain,” Daschle’s spokeswoman told NewsMax. Lott himself said at a news conference Wednesday that he was "not a fan of lame-duck sessions.”
Lott's Weakness Sabotages Bush
The Homeland Security bill has been bottled up in the Senate for weeks. Any further delay flies in the face of President Bush’s demand Thursday at a White House news conference for a unified Department of Homeland Security before Christmas.
"It is imperative that the Congress send me a bill that I can sign before 107th Congress ends,” he said.
Theoretically, that could happen even with Democrats holding control of the committees. The Senate-approved and the House-approved versions of the measure have been sent to the Senate floor, and can be amended there. The problem is that whereas the House gives the president broad latitude as to how and where Homeland Security employees will be deployed (as is the case with other security agencies), the Senate bill insists on affording those employees union protections that could hobble the new department’s effectiveness in dealing with the war on terror.
If the Republican and Democrat Senate leaders seriously expect to wrap up business in five days, they will have to resolve their differences on labor protection quickly. Given that this involves a powerful Democrat constituency clashing with White House insistence on a bill the president feels he "can sign,” something will have to give, or the measure is dead.
Before the election, neither version of the bill was able to surmount the requirement for 60 votes, or three-fifths of the senators, to avoid a filibuster. As of this writing, the election does not appear to have changed any minds. Lott says securing its approval would be "a big leap.”
Other Bush initiatives remain bottled up in committee. With the Lott-Daschle agreement letting the Democrats keep committee chairmanships, conservative activists are angered that the Mississippian may have yet again caved in to the party of the left, which the voters have repudiated.
NewsMax.com’s repeated efforts for two days to get a statement from the GOP Senate leader’s office confirming, denying or in any way commenting on the deal were unsuccessful.
Watch Out, Judge, He'll Chew You Up
If the deal holds, it means, for example, that Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., can still sit on the nominations of Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owens and other Bush judicial nominees.
Judges Pickering and Owens were voted down in a straight party-line vote in Leahy’s committee, and the chairman refused to send the nominations to the full Senate floor, where it is believed they would have been approved on a bipartisan basis.
Again, theoretically, the committee could now send their names to the floor any day, a normal practice since they have both been accorded hearings on their nominations. If Leahy remains chairman during the lame-duck session, that is not likely to happen.
Why not wait until January, when the GOP will be in firm control of the panel? Further delay gives the radical left-wing groups that opposed them more time to attack them. Phony Anita Hill charges were leveled against Clarence Thomas in 1991 not only to smear him, but also to "raise more questions” so as to delay the nomination process.
Thomas, now a sitting Supreme Court justice, surmounted those attacks. The Pickering and Owens nominations to lower federal courts a decade later were also met with spurious charges that did not fly, but by then the Democrats had dropped all pretense that politics was not a consideration, and refused to send their names to the Senate floor.
Energy Plan, Your Tax Cuts Also Delayed
The Lott-Daschle deal on committee chairmanships, if it holds, will likely block a full Senate vote on them this year. It also makes it improbable that the lame-duck session will be able to deal with President Bush’s initiatives on stalled House-passed energy legislation, which would move this country toward less dependence on terrorist-supporting nations in the Middle East.
The issue of speeding up the schedule for the phased-in tax cuts, which would spur the economy, the same so-called "worst economy since Herbert Hoover” that the Democrats wanted to make a major issue against the president would similarly be put on the back burner.
They'd Rather Go to Disney World
The president's insistence that lawmakers actually do some work to finish the business of the 107th Congress in five days, "set off a thousand groans on Capitol Hill,” editorialized Friday’s Washington Times, adding that "members and staffers had hoped to push off any heavy legislative lifting until next year and cut out of town. Airline tickets and hotel suites, after all, have already been bought.”
The Times says the operative word here is "work.” But that appears to have been trumped by end-of-the-year deal-making that seals forever in the history books the reputation of world’s most deliberative body as "a do-nothing Senate” in the 107th Congress.
Ok, let me get this straight. Bush (along with all conservatives) was unhappy with Lott because he was undercutting the Republican agenda. Lott gets bounced at the first opportunity. Lott thinks the best way to get back into power is more of the same that got him out. Sure, makes sense.
Lott has the emotional maturity of a teen-age girl. Teen-age boys have their faults, but this sneaky, behind-the-scenes, knife-in-the-back duplicity -- and "Who, me?" innocence -- really is more of a girl trait, and it's not attractive in girls. Boys are usually more up-front about what they're doing.
Senate filibuster compromise was Lott's idea, not McCain's
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050529/NEWS01/505290330/1002/NEWS01
Trent Lott is nothing but a rat bas-turd!! If the few true Republicans in the Senate allow him any leadership position, all I can say is that they deserve him.
The country is going to hell because of activist, left wing judges, but the childish twits in the Senate choose sides and play "king of the hill" in their sandbox.
What a piece of s- article this is. Rumor after rumor after rumor.
I just heard about Lott's duplicitous behavior from El Rushbo!I might have guessed it!!Frist isn't running again,so Lott is "licking his chops"!!!!