if they do the gop win of 2002 is finished
Action Alert from NOW 11/8/2002
Tell the Judiciary Committee NO on Judicial Nominees November 8, 2002
Action Needed:
The Judiciary Committee's plan to bring the nominations of Dennis Shedd and Michael McConnell to the floor for a vote must be derailed. There is NO reason why Sen. Leahy (D-Vt.), the current chair of the Committee, has to schedule this vote;
it is rumored that his reason is to give the outgoing Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) a gift on his 100th birthday as he departs the Senate at the end of this session. Sen. Thurmond has been Judge Shedd’s sponsor, mentor and former employer, having had him on his staff years ago.
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It must be clear that the GOP win of 2002 is not over UNLESS Lott resigns from the Senate. That would be tragic.
It would be a hard thing for anyone's ego to both step down and remain in a lesser job, but it would be the right thing for the nation at this point.
I would far rather have Lott in control and have the Senate in Republican hands than have Lott resign the Senate just so someone else can be MajLdr. That would make it 50/50 again and would throw the Senate to the Vice President and probably to another Jeffords-type jump by some opportunist.
Lott in charge is better than democrats in charge.