Posted on 06/07/2007 12:01:28 PM PDT by The Blitherer
From the WaPo, word of the continuing GOP meltdown:
Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said he has told the most virulent Republican opponents that he will not tolerate a raft of amendment votes designed simply to filibuster the measure, and he castigated his own party's senators for their vote switches.
"We're going to do this damned thing, and if we don't, I think we should dissolve the Congress and just go home," Lott fumed.
The sooner the Republican Senate caucus can find 41 votes to declare the bill beyond repair, the better of the GOP will be. The presidential ambitions of John McCain are smoldering as a result of the fire he started, and now the GOP's 49 seats look to take another major hit in the fall of '08.
I really don't know for sure, but I assume good 'ol Trent is speaking about dissolving it on a temporary basis.
F- you, Lott!!!
And yes, please, why don’t you just go home?
Wouldn't one need to own them before threatening to take them home?
And who pray will run the country? The Executive Branch? LOL, no thanks. As much as I find most anything coming out of the Legislative Branch for the past 7 years distasteful, at least it gives us the semblance of a Republic (even though too many here would have no problem with Bush being the 'decider')
I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with that putty-butted quisling, but I'll be danged if I don't agree with him here, lol.
American. Same as me.
I don't want to think, "second class citizen who does the sh-t work".
And I don't want to think, "criminal who broke into my country and won't leave".
What's the hurry? If there's a need for new laws ( and that's debatable) it's worth doing right.
Slavery-lite, second class citizens and the kind of elitism that's gotten Europe in so much trouble isn't our way. Why am I not surprised that Lott doesn't "get" this?
and now the GOP’s 49 seats look to take another major hit in the fall of ‘08.
I can see a net loss of 10.
They would not even be able to filibuster.
Trent Lott ought to be on the RECEIVING end of a whip.
Remind me again how the ineffectual suckup achieved the minority whip position?
Was it because he was such a stalwart majority leader? </sarc>
That seems like such a long time ago! Unless we can get the likes of Tom Coburn as majority leader (which of course means achieving a majority of non-RINOs) this country is screwed.
Agree with you. I always breathe easier when the Senate and the House are not in session.
Hell, that'd be better than gridlock!
This entire thread needs to be sent to Lott. Dope.
A Freudian slip, if there ever was one! It is indeed a "damned thing," to betray your heritage, by turning over the birthright passed down to us from the Founding Fathers, to untold millions of third world types, who have never embraced the complex of moral and philosophic precepts upon which the Founding Fathers risked everything, after pledging to one another, and calling the Creator to witness that pledge of their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
When Trent goes home, he should take with him Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has also chosen to crawl on his moral belly, in betrayal of the traditional values of his State. Mississippi and South Carolina used to stand for Conservative principles, but today's politics seem to corrupt--if not absolutely, pretty "damn"--to quote Mr. Lott--close.
William Flax
Gotta have at least one first.
I agree, and STAY there.
Let someone in the job that will DO the job.
Maybe an illegal alien </sarc>
Very good idea. Get Congress out of our lives, but they need to put some money into building that 900 mile border fence from the Hunter Bill.
Fine by me as long as you're GOP Whip, Lott. You're the poster child of what is wrong with the GOP today.
Congress should meet for 1 month out of the year. Period.
Here’s something for Senator Lott to consider:
How would your hero, Strom Thurmond, have voted on this bill?
Also, Senator Thurmond had no problems whatsoever with filibusters.
Like everyone else, I choose option 2 - go home. Here in Texas, the legislature meets every other year. We like it that way.
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