[what's up]

Lott has suffered undeservedly over this. The Dems' fury over losing badly in Nov. has been translated into a firestorm directed toward Lott.

If Lott can withstand this, he is truly a man worthy of respect. And he will get that respect in the new Congress.

[GalvestonBeachcomber]

Let's say goodbye to the spinless weasel that sold out the Clintoon impeachment. He should have been drummed out long ago.

[PizzaDriver]

"The Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends
to rise to his level of incompetence."

Senator Lott seems to proving this theory.
Especially when he claims his use of his own {22 year old} words, to be impromptu and off the cuff.

He needs MORE time to manage his own speeches. Time to write and review, not just hastily lift from the past.

The post of Majority Leader seems to be one promotion too many. Also, some of his Speech Writers have been victims of The Peter Principle.

How many on the Lott Team will see their own rise as "too high"?

[Reagan Man]

The old beltway pundit and political insider has done a good job summing up the last week. It really was disgusting to watch so-called "conservative" Republicans running scared and getting their clocks cleaned by the liberal establishments race baiting. Nothing but a bunch of gutless wonders. For now, the Democrats have won. We shall see what the next week holds. I suspect more of the same.

[woofie]

Is this what is known as a Feed Lott?

[Tall_Texan]

I think the ones being played for fools are the folks who want to keep Lott in power. The Democrats want to weaken Lott but they don't want him to leave. He's their new Newt Gingrich. They WANT his face on television so they can pull out the race card after everything he says. They want to run ads in 2004 as to why you should elect the Democrat for the Senate "so Trent Lott isn't running the Senate."

They know attacking Bush hasn't been working very well so they have to have a different boogeyman to scare folks into voting Democrat. Hastert is too bland and Cheney and Ashcroft are too removed from the day-to-day of politics. So the only logical meanie to beat up on is Trent Lott.

The LAST thing they want is for Trent Lott to go away. Who would they have around to demonize? Tom DeLay, second banana in the House? That's not a compelling target.

Other than the CBC, you'll notice the elected Dems have shut up about Lott after realizing their destruction machine was working too well. They only wanted to soften him up. He's too useful for them right where he is to see him quit.

The real question is why some Republicans feel inclined to keep this man in a position for which he is so obviously ill-suited. Can we possibly get somebody to take his place who won't drop his shorts every time the Democrats pout about something being unfair? Can we possibly get somebody in there who treats the Democrats the way the Democrats treat us? Sounds like McConnell's ready for the job. judging from his "censure" threat...

[Stultis]

This is a classic case of Republicans eating their own. Democrats gather around disgraced colleagues, most famously Bill Clinton

Riiiiight. So we should be like the 'Rats? Should we also have embraced Nixon after Watergate? Had him running the Republican party in a major state? Let him dictate the dispersal of party campaign funds? Installed his personal shill as RNC chairman? Paid him top dollar lecture fees? Fawned over him as an all around great Republican?

If Republicans had behaved like that it would have cost us dearly (as it has the Clintonized 'Rats, even if not as dearly, yet, as it should have). We would have paid much more severly for Watergate than we did. It is likely that Reagan would have never had the congressional majority he did in the first two years of his first term. That could have meant his tax cuts, deregulation and rearmament programs would never have passed.

Against their hopes the liberal media has strenghtened the party by holding us to a higher standard. We should certainly embrace that higher standard in this case.

Even if Lott had not proven himself stupid and out-of-touch, how has he earned the right to keep his leadership position unchallenged (facilitated by the chicanery of moving up the vote last month)? Is it by shirking his constitutional duty and agreeing to a sham impeachment trial in '99? Is it by bending over to the 'Rats and allowing them to share control of a Republican majority Senate in '00? Is it by letting Little Tommy Dasshole run parliamentary rigns around him the last two years?

I will say I'm not for forcing Lott to resign, but I'm sure looking forward to his being voted out of the leadership in January. In the mean time he should get no cover.

[The Great Satan]

Democrats gather around disgraced colleagues, most famously Bill Clinton

And look where it got them.

[Ken H]

It is fortunate that that Strom Thurmond's birthday is December 4 and not November 4.

[The Raven]

Bush as well as the entire population of the US - doesn't want to even hint a non-PC word.

The PC police will devastate your life.

[neutrino]

This is a classic case of Republicans eating their own. Democrats gather around disgraced colleagues, most famously Bill Clinton, but also Sen. Robert Byrd, the Senate's senior Democrat. Unlike Lott, Byrd used overtly racist language, but got away with it.

Exactly. We eat our own. The demoncraps are loving this, you know; does our foolishness know no bounds?

[Piquaboy]

On top of all the other negarives that he has, he uses to much hair spray which contributes to global warming.