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POPS“How Sheer Idiocy of The NRSC, John Cornyn, Whimsy Graham,Karl Rove Lost The GOP As Many As Five Senate Seats"
...the GOP establishment’s reaction.... provided cover to mainstream media narratives depicting Tea Party candidates as dangerous extremist kooks looking to bring their godbothering, their nativist federalism, and their erstwhile dalliances with the Dark One to Congress. Couple this with GOP insiders’ more tacit rebukes of Tea Party candidates — made manifest in their decision to allocate resources to more polished, “moderate” candidates like Carly Fiorina (or back Dem favorites like Lisa Murkowski) — and it is clear that, while the Tea Party was helping bring out record numbers of midterm voters and completely energizing the conservative base, the GOP establishment was plotting its revenge on those who had circumvented them in their roles as kingmakers. – Which is why the day after the election, we had stories about the deficiencies of certain Tea Party candidates, as noted by such staunch conservatives as Lindsey Graham, strategist Carl Forti, and ...
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POPSRacial Politics Blows Up in Obama's Face Any involvement in racial politics has to hurt Obama at his core. It goes to his fundamental selling point: that he is post racial. By dealing with race repeatedly, he is vulnerable just as Bill Clinton was when he always had to deal with sexual scandal. It is not his strength but can ultimately destroy his credibility. And then there is weakness. By caving in first to the right and then to the left, Obama acts and looks indecisive and weak. He comes across as out of control and projects the same image of incapacity and chaos that he so amply demonstrated when the oil was gushing in the gulf. ..MORE.... by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann http://bit.ly/cRmN9R http://townhall.com Dick Morris , a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.
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POPS"I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel."--Rupert Murdoch (Salon, 3/1/01)
Fox News Channel is "not a conservative network!" roars Fox News Channel chairman Ailes. "I absolutely, totally deny it. . . . The fact is that Rupert and I and, by the way, the vast majority of the American people, believe that most of the news tilts to the left," he says. Fox's mission is "to provide a little more balance to the news" and "to go cover some stories that the mainstream media won't cover."--Brill's Content (10/99) quoting Roger Ailes ... But when Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch's 24-hour cable network, debuted in 1996, a curious thing happened: Instead of denouncing it, conservative politicians and activists lavished praise on the network. "If it hadn't been for Fox, I don't know what I'd have done for the news," Trent Lott gushed after the Florida election recount (Washington Post, 2/5/01). George W. Bush extolled Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snow--a former speechwriter for Bush's father--and his "impressive transition to journalism" in a specially taped
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POPSHarry Reid and The "Social Justice" Brothers In a private conversation reported in a new book, Reid described Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Reid, D-Nev., apologized to Obama on Saturday, and the president issued a statement accepting the apology and saying the matter was closed. GOP Chairman Michael Steele, in appearances on two Sunday news programs, compared Reid's predicament with the circumstances that led Senate Republican leader Trent Lott to step down from that post in 2002. Lott had spoken favorably of the 1948 segregationist presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond, and in spite of apologies for those remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday, Lott was forced out as leader.
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POPSDems Party-approved light-skinned face of Barack First of all, Majority Leader Reid’s thanks to God that Barack Obama is not a dark-skinned Negro with a Southern accent is not only about Harry Reid. It is also about the party that chooses to make him their leader despite his slander of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas several years ago as being not intellectually up to the job of Supreme Court justice. It is about a party that nominated a Vice-President Joe Biden that thanked God that Obama was “clean and articulate.” And it is about a party that nominated a President that viewed his white grandmother as typical of her race in being a racist; sat in the pews of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Hate white America Church for 20 years; assumed a Cambridge police officer was racist without any evidence; and dropped election intimidation charges against New Black Panther thugs.
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POPSRepublican Representatives Saying Bring Troops Home Senator Warren Hatch (R) - Most of all, the administration must learn the lesson that the United States should put its troops in harm's way only if our vital and critical interests are at stake and should send enough forces so that they can achieve their mission rapidly and with the least risk to American lives. Senator Strom Thurmond (R) - Madam Speaker, the mission has steadily sucked us into a situation that now offers no good options. Americans are dying in an ill-defined mission that bears no clear relation to the national interest. I agree that this is intolerable, and must not continue. We all want to get out of this quagmire. Yet we do not know how, for no matter how ill-advised it was to get engaged in a tribal war; now that Aideed and his thugs have killed Americans, it is in our national interest to punish them. In other words, what is at stake is not just.
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POPSLosing Democrats: Blaming Republicans: Independents Bolting And they are loath to trust the man who sold them on the stimulus package when he says that their care will be protected. More and more, they are asking the very simple question that Obama cannot answer: How is he going to cover 50 million new people without more doctors? The elderly are coming to understand that his plan effectively repeals the bedrock guarantee in Medicare that seniors can get whatever care they want for free. The opposition to healthcare changes is building so fast that Obama was forced to retreat from his August deadline. And it’s unlikely that he will be able to make a successful stand in September or October, when his ratings will likely be 10 points lower than they are today. 0bama’s dwindling power Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton
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POPSPlease Sign Petition: Tell The "Beltway" Fat-Cats "NO" Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) "I want to be there as often as I possibly can for as much money as I possibly can." -- on being cited in the Pig Book. Charleston Post and Courier, February 21, 2007. Hawaii Star Tribune “We present this year's Bonehead Award for inclusion, as pork, of $2.1 million to combat the distribution and use of crystal methamphetamine in Hawaii.”-- April 10, 2006 Senator Trent Lott (R- Mississippi) "Do you know what I got to say to them? 'Go to ...,'" said Lott, who stopped his sentence short. "I am not intimidated by that sort of thing." -- Nov. 12, 2003 Roll Call. Defending himself from criticism after doubling the Senate's office decorating funds. "Pork is in the eye of the beholder. Where I'm from, that's federal programs that go north of Memphis."-- March 15, 2001 CNN Inside Politics v
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POPSGates: Obama 'More Analytical' Than Bush FTA: And as Bob Somerby put it: What actually happened after Bartlett made that DVD on the first Thursday night? Bush showed up in Mississippi and New Orleans the next day, telling “Brownie” how well he was doing, jesting about fixing up Trent Lott’s house, and joking about how he used to get wasted when he would go to New Orleans to party. This odd conduct was apparently too much for Thomas, so he simply invented a new story element; he simply pretended that Bush had been “shocked” when he watched the news Thursday night. And this morning, Meacham couldn’t wait to repeat the simplified tale.
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POPSDeconstructing Harwood on Biden But what troubles me about Harwood’s comments is that they are, I’m willing to bet, not the expression of some broad belief in freedom of speech, but rather are a pragmatic rhetorical attempt to rescue Biden from the very kinds of criticisms Harwood would be loath to defend were the target someone like Trent Lott. – All of which points back to the animating tenet in “liberal” ideology — namely, that, simply by virtue of adopting the left-liberal agenda, one is good, and so his “mistakes” are but minor slip-ups, hiccups in a life of sublime goodliness. Whereas any kind of minor slip-up by those on the “right” (classical liberals included, these days) are to be seen as brief inadvertent flashes revealing their grubby souls — even when those flashes are either admittedly unintended, or else have to be run through a special code book to prove visible to the watchdogs of all that is good and righteous.
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POPSDemocrat tied to Obama wins special election in Mississippi More: The special election was held to fill the seat of former Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who was appointed to serve out the remainder of Sen. Trent Lott’s term last December. Wicker had never faced a competitive race since first elected in 1994, and the district gave President Bush 62 percent of the vote in 2004. The results amount to a rebuke of the Republican strategy of trying nationalize the race by tying Childers to Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama held low approval ratings in the district, but the nearly $2 million that GOP groups poured into northern Mississippi failed to make the race a referendum on the national political landscape. A GOP House leadership aide told Politico last week that “if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of.”
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POPSA New Brand of Lobbyist? Very interesting news concerning one of Washington's top insiders. Especially since Sen. Trent Lott also plans on a lucrative lobbying career. Will Breaux and Lott go into business together? -- Brian Wingfield
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POPSEscort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor This story is important not because yet another prominent Republican might be gay, but because a moralistic, sucker of lobbyist cock may be going down. Pun intended. I don't give a fuck if Lott is gay, but leaving the senate so suddenly right before changes in lobby rules is disgusting.
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