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Lott "I don't have to work with them (GOP) anymore, they threw me overboard!" (202) 224-6253
Tony Snow show

Posted on 05/10/2005 9:13:36 AM PDT by watsonfellow

Tony Snow just finished an interview with Trent Lott. Senator Lott wanted to respond to an article in Roll Call to the effect that he had crafted a deal to dump certain judges to guarantee others an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. According to an account (I didn't hear the interview), Lott called the report "exaggerated," adding that he has worked with Ben Nelson "from time to time" on a deal, but that the proposed deal "isn't much of a deal at all." Lott also stated that he won't accept criticism from Republicans for working with Democratic senators because "they're the same ones who threw me overboard. I'm free. I don't have to work with them anymore." Lott called the Senate a "dysfunctional institution." Lott may consider himself part of the solution to this problem, but in the context of the confirmation battles that remains to be seen.


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KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; 2006elections; 2006paybacktime; 2006senaterace; filibuster; judges; lott; lottendedimpeachment; lottisanidiot; talkradio; throwthebumsout; tonysnow; trentlott; ussenate
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To: petitfour
Because I'll stand with anyone who is willing to put what is right ahead of political partisanship.

You'd stand with someone who would sell out. You'd stand with someone who is motivated strictly by revenge. You'd stand with someone who is willing to sign on to adaptable rules that always seem to screw Conservatives. You'd stand for RINOs endorsing Democrats doing new -- and possibly unconstitutional -- things just because they can't handle that they lost.

Seems you'd stand for anything.

161 posted on 05/10/2005 7:36:28 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Howlin

Good article by someone who knows Trent Lott very well.


162 posted on 05/10/2005 7:48:03 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Lazamataz

Huh? Who sold out? Who is motivated by revenge? Who screwed conservatives? Who is a RINO?

btw, I don't think Trent Lott is perfect. He is a US Senator, after all.


163 posted on 05/10/2005 7:52:06 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Bahbah

It wasn't even a big deal among the Democrats or their comrades in the press. The group that kept attacking Lott over the Strom Thurmond birthday toast was a bunch of Republican bloggers and radio hosts. If you do a little research I think you'll find the Salem Radio Network had a lot to do with promoting the controversy.


165 posted on 05/10/2005 8:34:06 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: maryz

It wasn't the Dems. The Weekly Standard and some 'Republican' radio hosts had far more to do with creating the controversy than the Dems did.


166 posted on 05/10/2005 8:38:34 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: watsonfellow
Lott also stated that he won't accept criticism from Republicans for working with Democratic senators because "they're the same ones who threw me overboard. I'm free. I don't have to work with them anymore." Lott called the Senate a "dysfunctional institution."

You know something', I do believe Ol' Trent has a point. He got sand bagged last time and no one took his side. I do not blame him for been bitter. We Republicans have a tendency of killing our own, just to please the Dem's.

Wanna proof?...just watch the Senate Judiciary Committee on C-Span.

Look at the sorry ass situation in the Senate;
the stinking Republicans don't even know they are in a MAJORITY.
They are still kowtowing to the Democrats for unknown reasons.
The Democrats are out of power lock,stock and barrel and the stupid Republicans in the Senate are still trying to please Reid, Kennedy, Clinton and such.

I am so embarrassed to be a Republican now a days (all this out of control pork barrel social spending), is not even funny.Those spineless assholes can kiss the monthly GOP contribution "goodbye" I am very,very disappointed about W's Domestic policy.Especially about "do nothing' illegal immigration "non" policy.

I do not know what the Republicans on the Hill think, but one thing is for sure...I am voting the sons of bitches out of office, and I WILL make sure we will get the right people's representative in the office.

Do you her me David Dryer?

167 posted on 05/10/2005 9:30:43 PM PDT by danmar ("No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person." Karl Hess)
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To: watsonfellow

Lott can make all the deals he wants, he is no longer the leader of the Senate and what he says means diddly, this stunt proves it was a good idea to get rid of him.


168 posted on 05/10/2005 9:36:22 PM PDT by John Lenin (The truth is the opposite of whatever Dan Rather says it is)
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To: WKB; ken5050

"Never happen"


Ken...you can take that to the bank.

I would absolutely love to see "Senator Chip",
but Trent won't let that happen........yet.

Hopefully, someone can make Trent decide that
he is in a "retiring" mood.


169 posted on 05/10/2005 11:03:31 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: WKB

"You voting absentee?"


LOL!

You always make me laugh. ;o)


170 posted on 05/10/2005 11:04:48 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: cbkaty

LOL!

As a born and raised Mississippian,
I can honestly tell you that I have
NEVER seen a "real" man look like that.

;o)


171 posted on 05/10/2005 11:07:32 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: stboz

Welp...

Go on back and help. ;o)

Good to see you.
I found a great place to eat.
The owner is from Magnolia, MS.

We're talking serious, here...
fried okra!

;o)


172 posted on 05/10/2005 11:10:06 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: petitfour
If he were my senator, I would call him and tell him I support him

You should call him anyway. IMO, he needs all the help he can get...
173 posted on 05/11/2005 4:10:06 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: dixiechick2000

Throw in some cornbread, and you've got a deal.


174 posted on 05/11/2005 5:53:02 AM PDT by stboz
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To: Howlin

Anyone who let's his personal feelings affect his principles, has no principles. As a Mississippian, I will be voicing within the party at every opportunity the need for a primary challange.


175 posted on 05/11/2005 8:19:14 AM PDT by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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To: sinkspur

God willing, perhaps not so secure as he might believe.

Roger Wicker or Chip Pickering would be excellent replacements.


176 posted on 05/11/2005 8:24:30 AM PDT by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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To: k2blader

the Big Tent ain't gonna get Janice Rogers Brown et al on the Federal bench


177 posted on 05/11/2005 8:26:35 AM PDT by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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To: kcvl

And they threw him overboard for the very same thing he is doing now - stabbing us in the back everytime we came to a critical point where he needed to stand up and fight for us.

Trent Lott is not one to have in a leadership position - as we see right here. Well, Trent - you just ruined yourself because of the same old problem - you just love to ingratiate yourself with the enemy.


178 posted on 05/11/2005 8:37:50 AM PDT by ClancyJ (Florida Motto: Send me your weak, frail, elderly - and we will give them 'rest'".)
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To: watsonfellow

This completely summarizes the problem with Lott and the overwhelming majority of the "leadership". These guys are far more interested in what is best for themselves than what is best forthe country. De Toquville once said that one of the flaws of American democracy is that we "are only allowed to choose our leaders from among those who choose themselves". This means we are always dealing with a suspect group.


179 posted on 05/11/2005 8:41:56 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: TonyRo76

I like Barbour but we need him too bad in Jackson to lose him to anything else short of the White House. Beyondthe Pickerings, roger Wicker is the other fine candidate. I'm thinking the state GOP ought to figure which of those districts will most likely stay GOP with a freshman and let him have the shot at Trent...but who am I kidding? This will have to be a Tomey-style insurgancy because the state party won't abandon Trent


180 posted on 05/11/2005 8:54:09 AM PDT by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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