A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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November 15, 2006A Lott of CrapTrent Lott is back... I'll contain my enthusiasm. It isn't the Strom Thurmond racial references that bother me about this, although the references themselves bother me. He made a dumb mistake, apologized, and I have no problem on that front alone with the Senator from Mississippi. What bothers me is that he wasn't a very good Senate Leader to begin with, accomplishing little, and losing seats in every election after 1994 and eventually the majority in 2001. What really gets me is that Republicans, by one vote, chose a mistake from the past to be the Minority Whip over the more centrist and pragmatic Lamar Alexander from the Volunteer State. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was chosen as Minority Leader. Again, is this the best they could have done? John Thune, Norm Coleman, Liddy Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and these two are the Republican leaders? Posted by Starbucks Republican at November 15, 2006 07:36 PMComments
Kind of reminds me of the carousel of coaches in the NBA a few years back, recycle the same old losers because no one has the guts to be bold. GOP is suffering the same thing. The President is now too weak to have effective control. After having a strong leader and the majority for so long, the GOP now finds itself in a land of darkness. The leaders really don't know what to do so they go with known over the unknown. The GOP has a very large leadership vacuum right now. Everyone is so scared for their political lives that they don't want to be in control. It is up to the alternatives to affirmatively try to gain control. It won't just be given to them. I suspect, a lot of them are not sure that they want it. Hence, you are left with the same old suspects. Posted by: Jim M at November 15, 2006 10:29 PMTrent Lott is back... I'll contain my enthusiasm. On the head of a pin? Or is that too much tool for the job? :-) Posted by: Tully at November 16, 2006 10:46 AMI've made my opinion on the Lott matter abundantly clear, but I'm not sure why you're so upset with the McConnell choice. He's a great pick for minority leader; whether or not he can lead is open to question, but no one doubts his skills as a parliamentarian, and it seems to me that right now, what we deparately need -- a fortiori after the horrible years of Frist and now finding ourselves in the minority -- is someone who knows process inside out. Posted by: Simon at November 16, 2006 10:33 PMGiven Lott's comments about Strom, I find Stewart's wonderment hilarious as he chuckled, "Now he's the Minority Whip!" Ironic isn't it? Posted by: Maxtrue at November 17, 2006 10:58 PM |
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