Trent Lott Is a Maroon
In my opinion Trent Lott should be seeking different employment:
Lott Lashes Out! GOP Senate whip Trent Lott attacks “these talk-radio people who don’t even know what’s in the bill.” The New York Times reports:
Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”
I think the most shocking thing about the Immigration Amnesty bill is how vitriolic Republican leadership has been to its base that disagree with them. Nearly all conservatives oppose amnesty. I guess you can disagree with your base but you need to do it without intentionally alienating them.
I absolutely don’t understand the motivation of the Republicans who support amnesty for illegals. We’ve tried it before and it made the matter worse. What’s happening is that the politicians know they can’t sell their real reasoning to the public and they can’t convince anyone based on the merits of the bill. Apparently this is creating a huge frustration in them so much so they are lashing out and attacking the motives of those people they need to support them in other legislation.
I used to think although President Bush was dead wrong on immigration he truly thought it was the best policy for the country. But when he lashes out and says the people that oppose amnesty don’t want what’s best for the country I have to question HIS motives. After all if it really was best for the country the proponents could make that case, but they aren’t.
So now Trent Lott is threatening talk radio. He’s saying that talk radio doesn’t even know what’s in the bill. If that’s the case then he could point out where Rush is dead wrong on an issue, but he doesn’t. We don’t need to know the details of the legislation we only need to know the broad aspects of it. People that broke our law will be rewarded for breaking that law. People that fled orders to leave will be granted amnesty too. Illegals who didn’t pay their taxes will not have to pay their back taxes. We won’t take internal immigration enforcement any more seriously in the future.
Trent Lott needs to find another job.
