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Um, guys....Lott's comments were made at Thurmond's retirement party. Hence, he soon will be an "ex-senator."
The senate is a funny place - it's a mutual admiration society like none other. Senators, as a whole, are very respectful of other Senators and ex-Senators. They're always given the benefit of the doubt by each other. That's why we have, for example, John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Most of the people in the Senate knew him personally, and weren't inclined to dig up dirt on him.
This is why the reactions of other Senators to Lott's remarks (and to the continued existance of Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, both now retiring) was so muted. Tom Daschle made a typically mealy-mouthed statement in support of Lott (which also makes sense in that it would be handy for the Democrats to have Lott around to demonize as a "newt" during the next election cycle). It was only after Al Gore and others started vocally criticizing Lott and calling on him for to resign that sitting Senators (most notably John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, both presidential aspirants) piled on.
From the way the Bushies have operated in the past, (SEC chairman Harvey Pitt "resigning" on the day of the election, the Henry Kissinger appointment the day before Thanksgiving, and the recent "resignations" of O'Neill and the other guy whose name i forget right now) they'll probably force Lott to resign, oh, say either today (when the news of embattled pederast enabler Cardinal Law (not, unfortunately, the name of an ecclesiastical courtroom drama) eats up column inches) or next Friday, when the holidays are immanent and no news reporter is in the mood for writing.
Or perhaps Lott's support among the hard-core fundy base of the GOP is too strong for Bush to oust him. Still, Republicans have made a hash of their majority already, and they haven't even assumed power yet. |
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