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Harry Reid Forgets Democrats’ History

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:06:08 GMT

“[V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat.” On December 5, 2002, Republican senator Trent Lott toasted 100-year-old Republican senator Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist, at a private birthday party,...
Source: La Shawn Barber's Corner

Lott and Breaux pull in millions by lobbying Congress

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:44:50 GMT

As former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott well understands, politics is all about timing. In 2007, Lott abruptly announced that he was resigning from the Senate.
Source: Muckety.com

Tosca: Italian king

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:24:21 GMT

Tosca has a long list of high-profile regulars, including former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Podesta Group’s Tony Podesta, Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf and former Bush adviser Nick Calio.
Source: The Hill

Harry Reid: Speak Wobbly and Carry No Stick.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:12:50 GMT

I've written in the past how the Republicans and Democrats pick their leaders in the Senate for diametrically opposed reasons: the GOP wants an authoritarian taskmaster who gets Senators to vote with the party position; and the Dems pick a leader (in...
Source: BuzzFlash

Time for the "Nuclear Option" to End Republican Filibusters

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:55:29 GMT

In 2005, Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi coined the term "Nuclear Option" for the threat of Republican Senators to abolish the practice of filibuster in the Senate.
Source: Associated Content

In Defense of Principled Moderates

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:24:47 GMT

I've always respected Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. Likewise former Rep. James Leach of Iowa. And Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware.
Source: American Spectator

Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Advocated ‘Queering Elementary Education’

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:01:34 GMT

Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education.
Source: CNSNews.com

Quoted in 'Are right-wing bloggers abandoning Gingrich over Scozzafava endorsement?'

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:08:44 GMT

said in Media Matters for America:

For the Republicans, it will never be 1996 or 2006 again. There's no more room for school-lunch debacles, government shutdown miscalculations, Trent Lott, George Allen, Mark Foley... or Newt Gingrich.

Putting property over people

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:42 GMT

Mississippi, voted for retroactive NFIP, yet voted against expanding SCHIP health insurance program for children. Why aren't people as important as property? What's more important, property or people? I'd say people.
Source: The Norwich Evening Sun

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:12:44 GMT

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton looks at the portrait of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R) as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), left, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R) pose for photographers during a ceremony unveil...

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:10:10 GMT

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton looks at the portrait of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R) as they pose for photographers during a ceremony unveiling Lott's portrait in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington September 16, 2009.

Quoted in 'CBS’s Schieffer: Joe Wilson Shout ‘Ugly Sign of Mindless Meanness’'

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:37:33 GMT

said in Newsbusters:

How different it was in the aftermath of a far more difficult time, those days after 9/11...I remember watching then not far from where that congressman hurled his insult as senate Republican Leader Trent Lott put his hand on the shoulder of his Democratic counterpart Tom Daschle to announce the Senate had passed a $40 billion emergency appropriations bill and passed it unanimously.

Sen. Specter (R-PA) Defends Trent Lott's Thurmond Comments

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:05:08 GMT