Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
If the Senate Republicans were to read tea leaves for the American voters, they’d probably come out with an interpretation such as, “You are sleepy alll the time, because you refuse to drink hot caffeinated beverages.”
It’s this kind of backwards thinking that leads the Republicans in the United States Senate to return Trent Lott to a high position of power as Minority Whip. The Republicans see that they’ve lost many seats to the Democrats in the Senate, so what conclusion do they make? Do they conclude that they’ve been too extreme in their ideology, and give a relative moderate, like Olympia Snowe, the Minority Whip position? No, no. They decide to put another Southern right winger, one who has mourned the loss of forced racial segregation, into that office.
I wonder what will happen if they lose another seat to the Democrats in 2008. Will they start a special Minority Senate Office for the Prevention of Miscegenation?




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November 16th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
t lott as minority whip is a shrewd move. he’s got incredible ability to organize and interupt, disarm, confuse, delay, etc., the dems as they start to initiate their own agenda…not helped by their own fractured caucus…..which lott will use and exploit to great advantage. get ready for an interesting but sadly unproductive dem house/senate….add to the fact that they DO NOT have a plan for iraq…’phased redeployment is a meaningless bit of electioneering bullshit.!.!.!
January 9th, 2007 at 3:05 am
Idiot, Democrats do not run the executive so why is it they are required to have a plan for Iraq? The more pertinent question is does Bush have a plan since he is the only one with constitutional authority to exercise any plan.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
if they are in opisition of the plan for Iraq,then deductive thinking would require an alturnative plan don’t you think??You are the idiot.