Even if one accepts (as I do) that Trent Lott was simply paying a courtly compliment to an elderly colleague when he made his poorly received statement regarding Strom Thurmond, rehabilitating the man back into a leadership role simply seems like a bad idea.
Four years after racially impolitic remarks cost him the Senate's top post, Sen. Trent Lott (Miss.) rejoined Congress's leadership ranks yesterday when his Republican colleagues turned to the veteran insider and skilled vote-counter to help them plot their return to majority status.By a 25 to 24 secret-ballot vote, Lott defeated Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) for the position of minority whip, the party's second-highest post. As expected, GOP senators elected Mitch McConnell (Ky.) as Senate minority leader for the new Congress that will convene in January. But his victory was tempered by Lott's come-from-behind win over Alexander, who was seen as McConnell's and the Bush administration's preferred choice for whip.
An assistant whip might have been acceptable, but certainly not the second-highest GOP slot in the Senate. It just looks bad at a time when we need more new faces in leadership.
But then again, considering the news in the post below this one, perhaps it isn't such a big deal -- if a Kluxer like Robert Byrd can be elevated to a position three heartbeats from the presidency, then certainly we can forgive an awkward statement made to an old man on his birthday.
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I can't understand why anyone in the Council for Conservative Citizens still admires this guy, if indeed they do, because he put distance between himself and their just cause as soon as he got a feather of pressure after being a willful speaker and attendee at many functions.
At any rate he's an establishment crony and his support of Bush's failed war seals the deal.
|| Posted by Ken Hoop, November 16, 2006 01:40 PM ||Oh, that's right, KKKen, after Jews, you hate the blacks best!
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, November 16, 2006 10:36 PM ||The haters are the forced integrationists who wish to destroy seperate racial cultural-imperatives, the flowering of variegated folkways that make the earth interesting.
|| Posted by Ken Hoop, November 17, 2006 12:57 PM ||Thanks for confirming your position for us, you disgusting racist buffoon -- legal, social and political equality are anathema to you.
Go crawl back under your rock, you fucking white supremacist bastard!
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, November 17, 2006 07:09 PM ||Note the resort to crude epithets contrasted with sophisticated ideology,which is the natural response to truth.
|| Posted by Ken Hoop, November 18, 2006 01:24 PM ||No, I'm simply done wasting my time crafting reasonable arguments against a low-life racist scumbag like you, KKKen. Why don't you see if you can get a job as associate pastor at Fred Phelps' Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Bigots?
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, November 18, 2006 01:41 PM ||Phelps has explicitly disavowed politics related to uniting the founding ethnic core.
|| Posted by Ken Hoop, November 19, 2006 07:39 PM ||Yeah, KKKen, Phelps hates everybody.
You simply hate everybody who isn't a pseudo-Christian white supremacist -- and jihadi terrorists, who you label as "soldiers for Christ".
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, November 20, 2006 08:43 AM ||http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/20/streets-of-hate/
Groggy's self-exculpatory rhetoric for supporting these hateful,violent Zionist self-avowed anti-Christs at work above...
|| Posted by Ken Hoop, November 20, 2006 01:36 PM ||Post a comment