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Monday, August 25, 2008

Trent Lott on 2006 Republican Defeat

Saw this linked on Instpundit, thought it was worth passing on:
“John used to harass me because I would get earmarks—or pork barrel projects—in Mississippi,” he said. “And I would say, ‘Well, yes, John, I’m a senator from Mississippi and we’re the poorest state in the nation.’

“But we’re not anymore, that pork paid off.”

Then Lott made a couple of admissions I found startling.

“But you know what, in my heart I knew he was right,” he said of his pork barrel ways. That’s no way to do business, we shouldn’t be doing all that earmarking—it got completely out of control.

“It got out of control with Republicans and that’s why we are being punished a little bit,” he added. “Because we forgot how we got there, what we believed in, the principles that after 30 years put us in the majority, gave us the White House, the congress, the senate, the house. And then we ran out of ideas...”

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C, go ahead and correct your headline, it’s funny but I think you might want to change it.


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on August 25, 2008 at 10:23 am

Naw, leave it, it’s a classic.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on August 25, 2008 at 10:28 am

Yeah it is kind of ironic. Unforunately I am not a big Trent Lott fan, however, he is still beter than a lot of the dems in the Senate.


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goon on August 25, 2008 at 11:15 am

Too funny.  I corrected it anyway.

Freudian slip?

Carrick on August 25, 2008 at 02:37 pm

“Because we forgot how we got there, what we believed in, the principles that after 30 years put us in the majority, gave us the White House, the congress, the senate, the house. And then we ran out of ideas...”

It could lose republicans THIS election even with Mr. Empty Suit running.  Repubs and Dems both lost their principles and without a kind of Morality Competition we’re stuck with the bickering of who does worse among the KoolAid drinkers here.

FlyOnTheWall on August 26, 2008 at 08:49 am

That’s no way to do business, we shouldn’t be doing all that earmarking—it got completely out of control.

I gotta give it to Lott. At least he is willing to admit his own role in this fiasco. He and others allowed the neocons to run away with the gov. Talk like a con, walk like a con, spend like a lib. The liberals gain, the conservatives lose. Hoist by thier own petard.

dragon poker on August 26, 2008 at 03:15 pm
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