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****************************** Humpty Dumpty Lott by Chuck Muth December 22, 2002 By the way, has anyone noticed the bitter irony of Trent Lott's title during this recent mess being that of "Minority Leader"? Life sure can be a cruel SOB sometimes. Anyway, there they go again. Sad but true: Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. And what an opportunity the GOP had handed to it on a silver platter in November - control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. To top everything off, the Democrats went hard-left in their selection of Nancy Pelosi as the new face of the new "new Democrats" - actually, a return from the dead of the ultra-liberal San Francisco Democrats who brought the party such overwhelming electoral rejects as George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and, for a return engagement in 2002, Walter Mondale. Man, you could smell the roses. So, of course, you just KNEW the GOP was going to find a way to blow it...big time. They are Charlie Brown to Peanuts' Lucy. Just when you think the football couldn't possibly be snatched away at the last moment again...whap!...flat on their backs looking up at the stars. Thank you, Trent Lott. Yes, I thought Trent needed to be replaced as leader of the GOP band...but I 've been saying that for YEARS. I thought he should have been replaced for being such a sponge in his dealings with the Clinton administration. I thought he should have been sacked for sand-bagging the House Impeachment Managers. I thought he should have been tossed overboard for consistently blocking good, conservative legislation passed on to him by the House. I thought he should have been 86'ed for losing five U.S. Senate seats in 2000. I thought he should have been thrown under the bus for being such a big pork-barrel spender and all-around wet noodle for the trial lawyer lobby. I thought he should have been ****-canned for his power-sharing cave-in to Daschle in 2001. I thought he should have been given last rites for not stopping John McCain' s horribly unconstitutional campaign finance reform bill. And I thought he should have been made to walk the plank for not only losing the Senate because of the Jeffords switch, but for not taking the opportunity to throw out Lincoln Chaffee at the same time. [Poetic justice: Chaffee was the first "Republican" senator to come out calling for Lott to step down.] But the final straw was Lott's appearance on BET: Black Entertainment Television. First, as my friend J.J. Johnson at SierraTimes.com pointed out, appearing on a segregated television station (there is no WET: White Entertainment Television) to condemn segregation was the definition of hypocrisy. But during his interview Lott then went on to embrace every discredited and self-defeating left-wing "remedy" for slavery this side of full racial reparations (thank goodness he stepped down when he did, 'cause it was only a matter or time). Sen. Lott once again was willing to sell the conservatives' soul to save his hide. And conservatives, like elephants, never forget. Make no mistake: Trent Lott wasn't done in by liberal windbags such as California Rep. Maxine Waters; he was done in by conservatives who saw an opportunity to finally rid themselves of a "leader" who constantly led them down the garden path and into the wilderness. Or to paraphrase the Gipper: Conservatives didn't leave Trent Lott; Trent Lott left conservatives. And while most didn't stick the knife in his back, they sure didn't rush to his side once wounded, either. For better or worse, right or wrong, warranted or unwarranted, Trent Lott became the political equivalent of Typhoid Mary for the Republican agenda and has finally been quarantined. Now, the GOP has turned to a physician to find a cure for what ails 'em: Sen. Bill Frist. Sure beats Dr. Kevorkian. # # # Mr. Muth (www.chuckmuth.com) is editor and publisher of an Internet newsletter "Chuck Muth's News & Views" and president of the Goldwater Club.
