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• Dixie Dianne’s Betrayal

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Pinstripe Klansman, Safe Negro Report, White Supremacy, Nigger, Racial Diversity, Thad Cochran, Wingut Judicial Appointments, Leslie Southwick, Political Expediency, Racist Judges, Dlc, Trent Lott, 2008, Racism, Race, U S Senate, Hillary, Mississippi, Dianne Fe

  voted for another of Trent Lott's Brooks Brothers suited racists to assume a lifetime appointment to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. People for the American Way, The Alliance for Justice, and The Leadership Conference for Civil Rights can usually be depended upon to bring their A game and effectively rally folk to block bigots of this

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• Dept. Of Busking For Blowjobs: Meet the Barbershop Bathroom Quartet

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Dept Of Busking For Blowjobs, Endless Cummer, Funny Pictures, Gop, John Ashcroft, Larry Craig, Republicans, Senate, Sex Crimes, Singing Senators, Trent Lott

  Stance” Craig and Trent Lott, performing Judy Garland songs. They also performed a beloved selection of Barbara Streisand numbers and once opened for Rufus Wainwright Jr. Ha ha, just kidding, they weren’t actually any good so they didn’t open for anybody except the, uh, Oak Ridge Boys in Branson, Missouri. That part is

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• Lawmakers Shudder at Tax Increase To Fix AMT

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Shudder, Tax, Increase, Fix, Amt, Charles Rangel, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Iowa, Brendan Daly, Chuck Grassley, Debbie Stabenow, George W Bush, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Ron Wyden, Trent Lott, Internal Revenue Service, U S Democratic P

  Almost a year after vowing to protect millions of middle-income families from a special tax meant for millionaires, Democratic leaders are still struggling to find ways to raise the billions of dollars needed to fix the problem.

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• Lawmakers Shudder at Tax Increase To Fix AMT

  Published: October 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmakers, Shudder, Tax, Increase, Fix, Amt, Charles Rangel, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Iowa, Brendan Daly, Chuck Grassley, Debbie Stabenow, George W Bush, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Ron Wyden, Trent Lott, Internal Revenue Service, U S Democratic P

  Almost a year after vowing to protect millions of middle-income families from a special tax meant for millionaires, Democratic leaders are still struggling to find ways to raise the billions of dollars needed to fix the problem.

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• Lott Waits for Clinton's Apology and Gets One

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lott, Waits, For, Clinton S, Apology, Gets, One, Bonnie Raitt, Hillary Clinton, Larry Craig, Trent Lott, Diana Degette, National Republican Senatorial Committee, U S Republican Party, Iowa, Dick Cheney, Harry Reid, Susan Mccue, Mississippi, Jackson Browne, Arkansas, Minnesota

  It's a good thing she apologized, because Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was fixin' to give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) a piece of his mind.

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• Delayed Spending Bills Prompt Finger-Pointing

  Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Delayed, Spending, Bills, Prompt, Finger Pointing, George W Bush, Dave Obey, Harry Reid, The White House, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Trent Lott, Woodstock, Iraq, U S House Committee On Appropriations, Virginia Polytechnic Institute State University

  President Bush criticized congressional Democrats yesterday for failing to send him a raft of spending bills, declaring that they should "stop wasting time and get essential work done on behalf of the American people.

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• To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Implement, Policy, Bush, Turn, Administrative, Orders, George W Bush, The White House, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Trent Lott, Iowa, Texas, Utah, Adam Putnam, Chuck Grassley, Jay Rockefeller, Michael Mukasey, Orrin Hatch, Steny Hoyer, Tony Fratto, U S House Republican Con

  The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.

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• To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Implement, Policy, Bush, Turn, Administrative, Orders, George W Bush, The White House, Harry Reid, John Boehner, Trent Lott, Iowa, Texas, Utah, Adam Putnam, Chuck Grassley, Jay Rockefeller, Michael Mukasey, Orrin Hatch, Steny Hoyer, Tony Fratto, U S House Republican Con

  The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.

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• On Water Bill, House Votes to Override Bush Veto for First Time

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Water, Bill, House, Votes, Override, Bush, Veto, For, First, Time, George W Bush, Mitch Mcconnell, Trent Lott, U S Republican Party, Don Young, John Mica, Mississippi River, Steny Hoyer, The White House, U S Army Corps Of Engineers

  The House voted to override a veto by President Bush for the first time yesterday, acting to save a $23 billion water resources bill stuffed with pet projects sought by lawmakers from both political parties.

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• On Water Bill, House Votes to Override Bush Veto for First Time

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Water, Bill, House, Votes, Override, Bush, Veto, For, First, Time, George W Bush, Mitch Mcconnell, Trent Lott, U S Republican Party, Don Young, John Mica, Mississippi River, Steny Hoyer, The White House, U S Army Corps Of Engineers

  The House voted to override a veto by President Bush for the first time yesterday, acting to save a $23 billion water resources bill stuffed with pet projects sought by lawmakers from both political parties.

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• Cheney's Impeachment Literally Fell 'Off the Table'

  Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Cheney S, Impeachment, Literally, Fell, Off, The, Table, David Vitter, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Trent Lott, Daniel Beard, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, John Conyers, U S Republican Party, Mitch Mcconnell, Steve Cohen, Federal Election Commission, Iraq

  Maybe now we know what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meant when she said impeachment was "off the table."

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• Times-Picayune Buries Dartez Defeat - No Mention of 'Buckwheat' Slur

  Published: November 20, 2007, 1:24 pm

  Tags: Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Double Standards, Jena 6, Labeling, Naacp, Race Issues, Carla Blanchard Dartez, Don Imus, Hazel Boykin, Jerome Boykin, Trent Lott, Louisiana, Usa Today, Journalistic Issues

  Just ask Don Imus or Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.). Crossposted on Conservative

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• Mississippi Senator and Minority Whip Trent Lott to Resign

  Published: November 26, 2007, 8:14 am

  Tags: Mississippi, News, Republican Party, Trent Lott

  Senator and minority whip Trent Lott will resign his Senate seat before the end of the year, NBC reported this morning: "While the exactly reason Lott is stepping down before he finishes his term is unknown, the general speculation is that a quick departure immunizes Lott against tougher restrictions in a new lobbying law that takes effect

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• Trent Lott to resign his seat..

  Published: November 26, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Lobbying, Trent Lott

  outlets that are reporting Trent Lott will resign his seat today. Politico and Think Progress are two that have stated it so far via emails I rec'd from both of them. From the ThinkProgress writeup:Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) is reportedly informing close allies that he plans to resign his Senate seat before the end of the year. NBC reports, "It's

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• Trent Lott's Surprising Resignation

  Published: November 26, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: Politics, Trent Lott

  the seat. By quitting now, Lott allows Haley Barbour, Mississippi's Republican Governor and the former G.O.P. national chairman, to choose an interim successor -- presumably Chip Pickering, a 44-year-old congressman who has eyed Lott's seat for years and who earlier this year declined to seek a seventh term in 2008 (presumably figuring Lott

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