[Sparta]

Earth to New York Times: Get over it, you lost!!!!

[billhilly]

Just one more reason to like and respect President Bush. He reads people very well.

[what's up]

The number of laws which the conservatives have wanted for years are about to be passed with dizzying rapidity.

The NYT is terrified and trying to find daylight anywhere they can between any 2 Republicans.

The truth is...Lott is going to be a good man to have in the Senate over the next months.

Sour grapes, NYT?

[Wphile]

But Mr. Weyrich said Mr. Lott and the president would be able to work together as long as there was a clear understanding that Mr. Bush was in charge.

Well, no kidding. He is the president, afterall. And ole Trent wouldn't have his majority status back were it not for the president.

Word to Lott...do what the president says!

[x1stcav]

"the procedure that its opponents call partial-birth abortion"


Oh No! You mean it's not hideous murder! Damn! Sam! Got it wrong, again.

[FreeperinRATcage]

Actually, this is not a bad article. My hope is that either the President "guides" Lott into being and effective Majority Leader, or that Lott takes a few cues from his President and learns to become effective and assertive on his own.

[WOSG]

Paul Weyrich, a conservative activist and the president of the Free Congress Foundation, said Mr. Bush had been annoyed at times that Senate Republicans under Mr. Lott had not fought as hard for the administration's agenda over the last two years as had House Republicans.

Message to Lott: Get your lazy butt and jelly-spine(*) in gear!

Let's Roll!!

(*)Credit goes to the no-compromise Lott-haters for that term. :-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

A few minutes past 7 on the morning after Election Day, Senator Trent Lott called President Bush, who pointedly asked him if he was still at home.

Mr. Lott knew he was being baited. The president, an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of guy, loves to razz Mr. Lott, a confirmed night owl, about how hard it is to make it to crack-of-dawn meetings at the White House.

Mr. Lott shot back: "No, Mr. President, I'm in my office. Let's go to work."

This is a big scandal, but Klinton getting a BJ in the oval office, bombing the Balkans while proudly claiming that he has no tangible foreign policy, and selling nuclear weapons technology to China for personal profit ain't nothing at all.

Way to go, NY Times, you make more sense every day.

[Siobhan]

Lott is a double eunuch.

[JRandomFreeper]

Mr. Lott's pirouettes will be less important than Mr. Bush's emerging assertiveness in dealing with Congress -

This was the only truly funny line in the article. It prompts the reader to imagine Lott in a tutu.

It's a set piece to divide Republicans. It won't work. Lott may not wear a tutu, but he, if anyone, knows how to dance with the one what brung him.

/john

[rdb3]

Lott's up for reelection in '04, right?

He'll dance to Dubya's tune. The Bush Administration would have to destroy itself before then for it to be otherwise.

No mercy.
Coming soon: Tha SYNDICATE.
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[ModernDayCato]

It's REALLY funny to see the NYT going into a freefall panic attack. But Lott is still a putz.

[Capitalist Eric]

Ummm... I have to admit, I only got to the fourth "paragraph," where they say "The exchange... hinted at what some Republicans said was below-the-surface tension..." and thought to myself, what kind of crap is this??? Who wrote this... Looked at the bylines... Nope, nobody I recognize...

Look at the name of the paper, and...?

BINGO!

No wonder it is such excrement...

Next time you post something like this, PLEASE post the barf-o-rama alert???

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Mr. Lott's quiet efforts to secure a government post for his brother-in-law, Richard F. Scruggs, a prominent trial lawyer, have failed to win support from the White House, where trial lawyers are viewed as enemies of big business and as financial supporters of Democrats. "

Dickie Scruggs was one of the main lawyers,in the big tobacco lawsuit and is a major player in the trial lawyer's world. Scruggs supported Judge Pickering's nomination and warned John Edwards( a friend) to lay off Pickering. When Edwards tried to make his bones on Pickering, Scruggs blew up and said he would refuse to raise any more money for Edwards presidential bid. Scruggs lives in a southern mansion and there was a dust up,with a neighbor a few years ago, I seem to recall that it had something to do with a common wall-someone was arrested,possibly Dickie-he is apparently quite the character. Trent hangs with trial lawyers and Democrat supporters, socially and at family functions. I don't know of anyone who has confidence in Trent Lott- everyone is fearful that they will turn on the tv and hear it announced again, that Trent has agreed to some ridiculous, anti Republican,pro Democrat agreement with Daschle.

[Nick Danger]

[habs4ever]

What would possess Paul Weyrich to be so impolitic? He's got a death wish.

[jd777]

no, no, I swear, it's the republicans who are falling apart.

[uncbob]

NYT NEVER writes an article without a motive

[Gritty]

"The White House is betting an awful lot on Trent Lott right now," Mr. Duberstein said.

Uh-Oh!

Unless Bush has somehow managed to implant 3 feet worth of spine into Ole Chester, he'd better have a few big options in the wings for insurance! Chester gives away the best merchandise for nothing when he should be making top dollar.