Congress is Nuts
The Democrats are in the process of making some really silly choices for their leadership positions, so the Republicans take the opportunity to grab the moral high ground by... bringing Trent Lott back into the leadership? Huh? Other than being perhaps a convoluted FU to John Conyers, who has been dissing Mississippi, what sense does this make? I thought Jeff Flake made a convincing argument on 60-Minutes that the Republicans had blown their own foot off in this last election. It seems that rather than putting down the gun, they are just raising their aim.
I don't know where I got the link from, but this is the best comment I have seen on the whole Trent Lott election, from Dean Barnett:
If
there's one message that the electorate sent the Republican Party last
week, it's that we hadn't given them enough of Trent Lott. I cannot
adequately express my delight that Senate Republicans have moved with
such expediency to right this egregious wrong.
Thomas:
It wasn't Conyers, it was Rangel who made the comments about Mississippi.
November 15, 2006, 1:48 pm