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POPSRepublican Representatives Saying Bring Troops Home Senator Warren Hatch (R) - Most of all, the administration must learn the lesson that the United States should put its troops in harm's way only if our vital and critical interests are at stake and should send enough forces so that they can achieve their mission rapidly and with the least risk to American lives. Senator Strom Thurmond (R) - Madam Speaker, the mission has steadily sucked us into a situation that now offers no good options. Americans are dying in an ill-defined mission that bears no clear relation to the national interest. I agree that this is intolerable, and must not continue. We all want to get out of this quagmire. Yet we do not know how, for no matter how ill-advised it was to get engaged in a tribal war; now that Aideed and his thugs have killed Americans, it is in our national interest to punish them. In other words, what is at stake is not just.
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POPSLosing Democrats: Blaming Republicans: Independents Bolting And they are loath to trust the man who sold them on the stimulus package when he says that their care will be protected. More and more, they are asking the very simple question that Obama cannot answer: How is he going to cover 50 million new people without more doctors? The elderly are coming to understand that his plan effectively repeals the bedrock guarantee in Medicare that seniors can get whatever care they want for free. The opposition to healthcare changes is building so fast that Obama was forced to retreat from his August deadline. And it’s unlikely that he will be able to make a successful stand in September or October, when his ratings will likely be 10 points lower than they are today. 0bama’s dwindling power Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton
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POPSPlease Sign Petition: Tell The "Beltway" Fat-Cats "NO" Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) "I want to be there as often as I possibly can for as much money as I possibly can." -- on being cited in the Pig Book. Charleston Post and Courier, February 21, 2007. Hawaii Star Tribune “We present this year's Bonehead Award for inclusion, as pork, of $2.1 million to combat the distribution and use of crystal methamphetamine in Hawaii.”-- April 10, 2006 Senator Trent Lott (R- Mississippi) "Do you know what I got to say to them? 'Go to ...,'" said Lott, who stopped his sentence short. "I am not intimidated by that sort of thing." -- Nov. 12, 2003 Roll Call. Defending himself from criticism after doubling the Senate's office decorating funds. "Pork is in the eye of the beholder. Where I'm from, that's federal programs that go north of Memphis."-- March 15, 2001 CNN Inside Politics v
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POPSGates: Obama 'More Analytical' Than Bush FTA: And as Bob Somerby put it: What actually happened after Bartlett made that DVD on the first Thursday night? Bush showed up in Mississippi and New Orleans the next day, telling “Brownie” how well he was doing, jesting about fixing up Trent Lott’s house, and joking about how he used to get wasted when he would go to New Orleans to party. This odd conduct was apparently too much for Thomas, so he simply invented a new story element; he simply pretended that Bush had been “shocked” when he watched the news Thursday night. And this morning, Meacham couldn’t wait to repeat the simplified tale.
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POPSDeconstructing Harwood on Biden But what troubles me about Harwood’s comments is that they are, I’m willing to bet, not the expression of some broad belief in freedom of speech, but rather are a pragmatic rhetorical attempt to rescue Biden from the very kinds of criticisms Harwood would be loath to defend were the target someone like Trent Lott. – All of which points back to the animating tenet in “liberal” ideology — namely, that, simply by virtue of adopting the left-liberal agenda, one is good, and so his “mistakes” are but minor slip-ups, hiccups in a life of sublime goodliness. Whereas any kind of minor slip-up by those on the “right” (classical liberals included, these days) are to be seen as brief inadvertent flashes revealing their grubby souls — even when those flashes are either admittedly unintended, or else have to be run through a special code book to prove visible to the watchdogs of all that is good and righteous.
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POPSDemocrat tied to Obama wins special election in Mississippi More: The special election was held to fill the seat of former Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who was appointed to serve out the remainder of Sen. Trent Lott’s term last December. Wicker had never faced a competitive race since first elected in 1994, and the district gave President Bush 62 percent of the vote in 2004. The results amount to a rebuke of the Republican strategy of trying nationalize the race by tying Childers to Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama held low approval ratings in the district, but the nearly $2 million that GOP groups poured into northern Mississippi failed to make the race a referendum on the national political landscape. A GOP House leadership aide told Politico last week that “if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of.”
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POPSA New Brand of Lobbyist? Very interesting news concerning one of Washington's top insiders. Especially since Sen. Trent Lott also plans on a lucrative lobbying career. Will Breaux and Lott go into business together? -- Brian Wingfield
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POPSEscort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor This story is important not because yet another prominent Republican might be gay, but because a moralistic, sucker of lobbyist cock may be going down. Pun intended. I don't give a fuck if Lott is gay, but leaving the senate so suddenly right before changes in lobby rules is disgusting.
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POPSTranslation: Give Bush what he wants or we die! Just how stupid is Trent Lott? Seriously! Apparently, there has been recent intelligence indicating that there *may* be an attack planned on DC between now and September 11th. As the former chief of the Capitol Police notes, however, *we're* the one's with the hang up on dates and anniversaries - terrorists don't focus on those nearly as much. But even going beyond that, Lott is telling people that it would be a good idea stay out of town until September 12th - as if the terrorists are going to keep their plan (if there is one) the same even though they know we're aware of the possibility? What makes him think that the terrorists won't just change their plans and attack on, say, the 13th, after everyone who followed Lott's advice and left will have returned? Yeesh! And of course, everyone caved and Bush got the bill he wanted . I wonder if Trent thinks everyone there will be safe now?
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POPSTrent Lott, R-MS, votes for Mexicans while Thad Cochran, R-MS votes for Americans
When will we get rid of Trent Lott? He has proved his uselessness with this vote. The Republicans are obviously trying to win over the latino vote, because they know that without their support their party is doomed with American citizens. It was the latino vote that saved Bush's ass in the last election, and this is Bush's way of securing that for republicans in the future, but the sad thing is, IMO, Bush has squandered the Republicans chance to lead us, unless they break away from him now. Bush has driven this country further into debt than any other president! He isn't focused on what is important, like America, and Americans! The last thing we need is a 13 million new cheap legal workers in america further driving down the wages!! It's already hard enough! Come to Mississippi and I'll show you hell!! I'm sure it's not so bad in other states, but here it's the pits! Get the illegals out!! Make room for Americans and raise our damn wages!
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POPSNo more Free Speech When Venezuela's Chaves disagreed with what was being said on the television stations, guess what he did. He shut them down. I wonder what Lott means by, "We have to deal with that problem."
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POPSHow not to begin a new century....welcome to the future! Here's the real motivation for the war in Iraq.....a war of choice! 9-11 was their "Pearl Harbor".....it gave them exactly what they needed to invade Iraq, and subject America to their brand of international policy based on global domination. The Neocons got to move forward with their vision of reality! (9-11 was a blessing to this crew!)
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POPSTrent Lott gets bashful According to this article, Republicans are going to wait for 2-3 months to see if there are any improvements in Iraq, before demanding a withdrawal. Via Josh Marshall
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POPSLeadership Woes. I find these types of posturing for leadership positions interesting. Why isn't Mitch McConnell being mentioned as minority leader?
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