"I mean, it's -- you know, you're a nice poster child. Thank you very much for what you do."
Posted on 06/07/2007 2:30:01 PM PDT by The Blitherer
What an odd day. Trent Lott, our very own Senatorial Republican Whip, has essentially declared war against the Republican base. Meanwhile, Harry Reid is pleading with George W. Bush to twist enough Republican arms so McCain-Kennedy can live through the night.
To offer a cinematic metaphor, McCain-Kennedy is currently Vito Corleone lying helpless in a hospital bed. Reid is begging W. to play Michael Corleone and rush to the hospital to hide the Godfather before Solazzo’s goons can finish him off. Bush would probably comply, too, but as we’ve long known, this bill’s champions are all a bunch of Fredos, destined to spend the evening crying “Papa!” over their precious bill’s bullet-riddled body.
And while we’re hitting the Fredo meme, here’s what Trent Lott had to say about my senior Senator, a public servant whose immorality has actually registered a body count and yet about whom Lott can see nothing ignoble:
Senator Kennedy, I appreciate the legislative leadership you've been providing. I know it's not easy, you know, your own colleagues and those of us over here have been beating you up. I mean, it's -- you know, you're a nice poster child. Thank you very much for what you do.
The Kopechne family could not be reached for comment. Fredo indeed.
None of these guys understands the politics of this bill. The opposition of the Republican base is principled. The newly found indignation of the GOP’s senate caucus over the bill probably less so. But then there’s the X factor: It’s not just Republicans voters who hate this bill. It’s not just foaming at the mouth nativists with life-sized Tom Tancredo posters in their bedroom whose blood this bill angers. Virtually the entire American electorate detests this atrocious piece of legislation.
If this bill became law, Democratic Nominee Clinton or Obama (who voted for it) would have to spend most of 2008 defending it. He or she would have to convince the country why having a porous national border as a matter of national policy is a good thing. If there aren’t enough good Republicans to kill this bill (a sobering and saddening fact), the Democrats will do it for us.
What if this bill in anything like its current form becomes law? The results for the country will be adverse to say the least. And the Democratic congress will have sunk even lower than a moribund and pathetic GOP.
Really??? Very interesting.
Don’t forget that Lott was in fact a Democrat not so long ago.....
2013. He was just reelected last November.
“What an odd day. Trent Lott, our very own Senatorial Republican Whip, has essentially declared war against the Republican base.”
Why not, the President did that a long time ago.
“The Clinton’s must have slipped Lott’s FBI file to Kennedy.
You know, the one with the photos of the cheerleader and the nose tackle.....”
Dead girl, live boy?
And at the end of this term, Lott will have served 40 years in Congress (16 House, 24 Senate), as long as the old Democrat Congressman, Bill Colmer, he worked for and succeeded in 1973. Michael Barone prognosticated in his 1974 second edition that Lott might indeed serve that long in Congress... (and would reach leadership, too).
If MaryJo Kopechnie were alive today, she would likely be grateful to Ted Kennedy for bringing comfort to her old age.
“I’m smart! Not like everybody says!”
Unfortunately, Lott belongs to me. He didn’t have the backbone to set foot in this state (Mississippi) during the Memorial Day recess to face our questions and wrath. Tells you something !!! (Our guess down here is that he was in Martha’s Vineyard.)
I actually sort of defended Lott when he got Imussed over the birthday party. I wasn’t thrilled with his replacement. I wasn’t terribly unhappy when he got a leadership position back, but anybody that is for this turkey ought to be tossed out on their ass, if not tarred and feathered.
Trent didn’t need the Clinton’s to have a file on him to act like a stupid dolt. Comes naturally!
Harry Reid realizing the bill is dying,
” THIS IS BUSH`S BILL, IT WAS HIS IDEA !”
Trent Lott used to be a Dem Congressman!
Yes, but if the Senate passed a bil llike the one in Oklahoma they would HAVE to go home because not only is it a crime to hire them it is a crime to rent them housing. And for doing it you are fined many $$$$.
Why all those promises of power and position in the North American Union and the New World Order, of course! You Silly American Patriot!
If you need a Senator to cave in, Trent Nott is your man!
“Is anyone else curious why long time Republicans are jumping ship?”
I dunno, but Kyl is in deep do do : )
"I mean, it's -- you know, you're a nice poster child. Thank you very much for what you do."
Their all frickin' poster boys for TERM LIMITS!!
They just all piss me off anymore.....disgusting.
I will ask my Mexican friend...she will know.
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