Now, if somebody will volunteer to dig up Dick Nixon and get him on the ticket for ‘08—maybe with Buchanan as a running mate (if Agnew’s moldering corpse proves too difficult to keep tethered to a chair in one solid piece)—the GOP can officially finish itself off with one last glut of pork, then, by way of massive party coronary, return us all to our republic’s salad days of Carteresque social and foreign policy.
And that’s really not so bad, is it? I mean, who doesn’t like wearing sweaters and making friendly overtures to communists and terrorists? Or thrashing giant swamp bunnies with a boat oar while shrieking like a Georgia schoolgirl?
(h/t STACLU; see also, Allah , Ace, and Captain Ed)
Comment by gahrie on 11/15 @ 10:25 pm #
Personally, I’m waiting for Dan Rostenkowski to make a comeback. He was pardoned by Pres. Clinton after all.
Sen. Lott’s only offense was to make himself a target of the Democrats, and then provide them with a stupid comment. However, bringing him back into a leadership position is even more stupid.
Martinez at the RNC instead of Steele, Lott in Senate leadership? Why don’t Congressional Republicans just put a kick me sign on their backs?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/15 @ 10:30 pm #
Agnew, maybe?
Comment by McGehee on 11/15 @ 10:37 pm #
If they elected him, they deserve him.
Comment by proudvastrightwingconspirator on 11/15 @ 10:46 pm #
Hell can’t we dig up Herbert Hoover’s moldy carcass and run him on the under-ticket to “Tricky Dick”? I mean if the GOP’s gonna self-immolate, let’s not pussyfoot around.
Lott’s the guy who tok it upon himself to derail the Clinton impeachment and pushed the “power-sharing” agreement with the minority Democrats after the last off-year election. Lott’s only claim to fame (besides a tastless joke about arch segregationist Strom Thurmond making a great president!) is a rug that looks like the “Sam Donaldson Model Autographed Toupee” on steroids.
Geez, what’s a real conservative to do? I suppose
we take some comfort in the fact the Mitch McConnell is minority leader, but let’s face it, he’s about as charasmatic as DMV clerk and he looks like Steve Forbes’ uglier, older brother.
Gonna be a long two years…
Comment by Gary on 11/15 @ 10:51 pm #
I understand Sen Ted “Bridge-to-Nowhere” Stevens vote gave the job to Lott.
Just don’t quote me . . . .
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/15 @ 10:55 pm #
What’s the over-under on Dan Quayle getting the VP nod again?
Comment by shank on 11/15 @ 11:02 pm #
You know, people keep throwing this term around; ‘salad days’, and it’s got me wondering.
What, exactly, the fuck is the origin of such a phrase? Salad days? Dog days is bad enough, but salad days??
Comment by A fine scotch on 11/15 @ 11:05 pm #
shank,
It’s from the Bard.
See here
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/15 @ 11:10 pm #
And if you can’t find it in Antony & Cleopatra, check out Rachel Ray.
Comment by proudvastrightwingconspirator on 11/15 @ 11:12 pm #
The term “salad days” occurs in Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” near the end of Act 1 when Cleo, lamenting her prior involvement with Caesar, states that it happened during “My salad days, when I was green in judgment”. It’s more recently been twisted from it’s original intent, “youthful inexperience” to mean “a period when one was at their best”. How that happened is another, unexplained story that probably has to do with the relative lack of any knowledge of Shakespeare among today’s populace.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/15 @ 11:33 pm #
It looks like it’ll be another 40 years in the wilderness for the Republicans, until we get all the old guard out of office.
Comment by Melissa on 11/15 @ 11:36 pm #
We need to hire Dr. Phil to do a Republican intevention.
Phil: “Some people get it and some people don’t get it and YOU JUST DON’T GET IT.”
Republicans: (sniffling)
Phil: “How long are you guys gonna stay stuck on stupid?”
Republicans: (sobbing)
Phil: “Do you want to change?”
Republicans: (some shaking head yes, some sullen)
Phil: “Well, ah think you need some time to experience the con-see-quences and then we’ll talk.”
Trent Lott: What con-see-quences?
Comment by Attila (Pillage Idiot) on 11/15 @ 11:36 pm #
It had to be Lott. Strom is dead.
Comment by What's for dinner, pork! The other white meat. on 11/15 @ 11:44 pm #
[url="http://" target="_blank"]The Perfect Storm
Finally! It appears that this is a topic that Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, Hugh Hewitt (well at least Dean Barnett), Captain Ed, NRO, Ace of Spades, Protein Wisdom, and Michelle Malkin can all agree on!
<a href=”http://” target=”_blank”>http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/11/hes_back.html [/url]
http://instapundit.com/archives2/2006/11/post_371.php
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/205241.php
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006374.htm
And you thought the GOP couldn’t bring everyone together. I haven’t seen unity like this since Harriot Miers’ nomination! It looks like the perfect storm of GOP and conservative base indignation!
Oh oh, I spoke too soon–there is Powerline messing things up by being equivical about it!
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015918.php
Urgent Message to Powerline: The conservative base needs you to hold the line! Hold the line! Hold the line!
Comment by Richard M. Nixon on 11/16 @ 12:06 am #
Just to let you know I am tan, rested, and ready to do what is necessary. Henry is ready to help too.
Comment by Chairman Me on 11/16 @ 12:08 am #
Man, I miss highschool.
Comment by Strom Thurman on 11/16 @ 12:10 am #
Dick just told me he is willing to help out. Count me in too. If Nancy Pelosi needs a good ass pinching–I am the man to do it. I prefer my chickens younger but a tough old rooster like me can take on a tough old hen like Pelosi. And by the way Trent, thanks for those kind words at my party.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 12:14 am #
Lott is a big southern vagina, but the Whip position is really not the biggest deal in terms of setting policy and projecting a public face for the party. Can the man count votes? Yes. Also, he has just as much opportunity to be a complete embarassment for the party whether he’s in the leadership or not. I’m guessing the mantle of leadership will actually constrain his big southern vaginaesque tendencies. That and the knowledge that he’s holding onto the position by a single vote. So I think it’s safe to take the level of angst down a notch, and focus on electing Senators in ‘08 who we surmise are not eager to be led by big southern vaginas.
Comment by Jeff Goldstein on 11/16 @ 12:24 am #
Did I make a typo?
Remind me to cut myself on the thigh later with a razor. That’ll learn me.
Comment by McGehee on 11/16 @ 12:57 am #
Um, no.
If he’s not in the leadership he’s only an embarrassment to Mississippi, which, what am I saying?
By electing him to the leadership, the Senate Republicans have announced that their threshold of embarrassment is the same or lower than Mississippi’s.
Comment by Lost Dog on 11/16 @ 1:01 am #
The Depublicans remind me of a Mother Goose cartoon from about 12 years ago. It’s got to be at least that long, because MG is in the Daily News, and I stopped reading it about 12 years ago when it was morphing into the rag that it now is.
I can’t remember the name of the dog in the strip, but the first panel is a picture of the dog sitting there looking goofy. In the next panel, two women walk by, and one of them says: “Look at that dirty, disgusting little dog!”,
The dog looks left, the dog looks up, the dog looks right.
The final panel is the dog looking straight out and saying” “Where?”
Yup. That’s our Depublicans, alright.
(It’s gonna drive me crazy ‘til I think of the dog’s name)
Comment by Strom Thurman on 11/16 @ 1:03 am #
Before I died people knew I was crazy when I felt up Patty Murray in the Senate elevator. What was I thinking?
Comment by Big Bang hunter on 11/16 @ 1:05 am #
By electing him to the leadership, the Senate Republicans have announced that their threshold of embarrassment is the same or lower than Mississippi’s.
- That should make Rangle giggle.
Comment by Melissa on 11/16 @ 1:07 am #
Right now, flogging sounds like a very nice punishment for the Senate Republicans. Stocks. Rotten fruit. Flogging. Repeat until they get it.
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/16 @ 1:09 am #
You mean they skipped over Steele and reinstated Lott all in the same week? Sweet!
Comment by Pablo on 11/16 @ 1:10 am #
Strom, buddy? I know it’s gotta be tough keeping things straight when you’re both a million years old and dead, but your last name is Thurmond, ok?
Now, would you mind inviting Trent over for coffee?
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/16 @ 1:12 am #
Lost-
Dog’s named Grim.
Much like the republicans chances in 2008.
Lost
Comment by Big Bang hunter on 11/16 @ 1:20 am #
- Abizaid – We that are fighting, are going to give it until the Iraqi’s either are able to do the job, or show they can’t do it….I give it 6 to 8 months, and then we’ll know…
- Now we know where the Dems got the “Great big fat Greek magic Technicolor Iraq plan”…
(Bush’s desk….)
…Paging Pelosi….Senator Pelosi, you have a call on the House floor curtesy phone….
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 1:28 am #
What’s so yumtastic about Lamar Alexander anyway?
Comment by Jeff Goldstein on 11/16 @ 1:32 am #
He’s not Trent Lott.
Lott’s behavior during Katrina sickened me. I think the race thing was overblown, but Lott looks after Lott.
Plus, his hair frightens me.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/16 @ 1:49 am #
Kay Bailey’s hair is set to be elected to the Policy Committee. Trent’s hair, while scary, does have a certain gravitas in comparison.
Comment by McGehee on 11/16 @ 1:53 am #
Pelosi’s not a Senator. She’s not a representative either, but her title is.
Which says a lot.
Comment by Jeff Goldstein on 11/16 @ 1:53 am #
I think you mean gravity, the result of a preternatural waxy slope.
Comment by McGehee on 11/16 @ 1:55 am #
It would, if I’d given him permission to take out the cork.
Comment by Karl on 11/16 @ 3:11 am #
Murtha is making “unindicted co-conspirator” the new black.
Comment by Strom Thurmond on 11/16 @ 5:42 am #
Well I will be damned (which I am), I got my name wrong again. Baby Jesus, it’s that damn hussy Patty Murray screwing with my head. But there is something about an unkempt dowdy lesbian-looking northern woman wearing sneakers to the senate that stirs something in me. In my loins. I just can’t control myself.
Don’t worry about Trent, barring something unusual happening he has a place reserved here. So does Bobby Byrd, Ted Kennedy and a whole lot of members of congress.
Comment by wishbone on 11/16 @ 6:13 am #
The Dems need a Scoop Jackson.
We need a Barry Goldwater.
The country needs to throw all these clowns out on their asses.
Trent Lott and Jack Murtha. I need several tumblers of single malt. Glenfiddich 18 might do the trick, but Lagavulin fits the bill better for heavy political depression.
Comment by Lost Dog on 11/16 @ 8:13 am #
Lost
Grimmy. How could I possibly have forgotten? My favorite character in my favorite cartoon. Too bad it’s in the Daily News instead of the New York Post. Thanks. It’s been bugging me all day.
Lost
Comment by dtyj on 4/21 @ 1:34 am #
VERY SORRY
Joseph Robinson
Nancy Davis
Patricia Davis
Christopher Martin
Deborah Gonzalez
Richard Lee
Kimberly Lopez
Ruth Hill
Donna Smith
Sandra Scott
George Miller
Michael Hernandez
Laura Martin
Ruth Baker
Susan Martinez
Dorothy Roberts
Robert Hill
Kevin Adams
VERY SORRY
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