i also just watched chuck schumer (of whom i'm no great fan) on the daily show pointing out that changing the band leader doesn't much matter if you plan to keep playing the same tune (that was his metaphor, not mine). but i can't believe that after his performance on BET that lott can survive.
who are the contenders outside of nickles?
j
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 10:34 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Several blogs were on Nickles and Ashcroft very
> quickly, as the Lott meltdown proceeded and consideration
> of similar cases began to surface.
>
> Even some right bloggers took note of Nickles and the
> gay-bashing (especially the Hormel case). The right-wing
> bloggers tend to be strongly libertarian on social issues.
>
> mbs
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Fisher
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:06 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: trent nickles, don lott
>
>
> can it be? CNN beat the lefty press to the punch in pointing out what
> we did already know, namely, that don nickles is really no better than
> lott on the race issue (or anything else). did i miss some atrios post
> lambasting nickles?
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/lott.nickles.ap/
>
> "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Don Nickles, the first Senate Republican to
> suggest that Trent Lott should be replaced as their leader, has built a
> civil rights voting record that is nearly identical to that of the man
> he would depose.
>
> "The NAACP says that over the past decade, Nickles and Lott have voted
> the same on almost every issue deemed important by the civil rights
> community. And in almost every case, their votes were contrary to the
> wishes of that community. "
>
> plus ga change, indeed. ;-)
>
> j
>
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