WILL TRENT LOTT ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT THIS TUESDAY?
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On September 29 and again on October 21 of last year I tried to explain why we could actually see Mississippi lookin' more blue after November of this year. If Trent Lott retires, a distinct possibility (many say a probability), the next senator from Mississippi is likely to be either Democratic Representative Gene Taylor or former Attorney General Mike Moore. Today Lott's office strongly hinted that Lott will make an announcement, one way or the other, on Tuesday when he gets back from his vacation in Hawaii. Two weeks ago right-wing propagandist/gossip monger Bob Novak suggested Lott was on the verge of retiring.
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Trent slopp, THE most transparent phony in Washington. Wig or no wig, he's a phony to the tenth degree, or whatever degree makes him most phony. There's only ONE
republican c'sucker in Washington more phony than trent slopp and his name is mitch mcconnell, money bags from Kentucky who runs the money machine for the gop. really, is there ONE dwt reader who thinks these two are anything BUT lying dogs? when will the civility return? and who will bring it to us?
For me the thing about the New Right, Tim, is that you have to be mighty careful about dishing out superlatives. After Sen. Dr. Bill took over as Senate majority leader, I developed a certain grudging respect for the Trentster, who it turned out actually TALKED to Senate Democrats occasionally, and had some sense that "doing the nation's business" actually figured SOMEWHERE in his job description—maybe not real high, but somewhere.
So if any of us had wondered rhetorically, could anybody do a WORSE job as Senate majority leader, the answer turned out to be a surprising YES.
Now with Mitch McConnell, I think we're on solid ground. Though still a product of the old, vaguely more decorous era, I think he can stand up to most any of the newcomers, especially since he comes equipped with a Political Philosophy, roughly:
MONEY TALKS. FUCK YOU!
Still, the New Right has what seems to be such a limitless talent pool of human sludge that we no longer have to look to Idaho and Utah for our certifiables. Of course if we're talking just about phoniness, I suppose it's true that there's nothing "phony" about the likes of Coburn and Cornyn—they don't pretend to be anything other than the slime that crawled out from under their particular rocks.
I feel especially bad about poor old Jim Bunning. During his reelection campaign it appeared that his brain has truly turned to apple sauce, an ignominious comedown for a man some of us remember as a glorious pitcher who did it to such a large extent with pitching smarts rather than physical prowess. Of course that doesn't explain what he's doing in the U.S. Senate—and especially not in his present mental condition.
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Ken, yah, Jim Bunning won the popularity contest for that seat, to be sure. You think that's what happened in California with Ahnold? I still don't get that one.
Back to trent slopp, those ship yards in Mississippi were getting funds from the government that even the defense dept. hadn't asked for. While it is the job of senators to look after the welfare of their state, it's kind of self serving and dishonest to cash in for the state where funds aren't called for. Imagine the poor of Mississipi who could have been put to work with the job corps instead of giving all those funds from the defense dept to the ship yards.
And bitch mcconnell, there's still no excuse for that thing.
He's all out of whack. Hell, I can't even get past he and his wife sleeping together.
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