America can't have it both ways: fostering Judeofascism abroad will inescapably backlash at home... That's the real, if hidden, meaning of the Lott controversy:
December 17, 2002
White House turns up the heat on Lott
By Bill Sammon
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The White House yesterday repeated its sharp criticism of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, calling his praise of Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign "repugnant," and declined to defend him against a challenge to his leadership.
Some Republicans began to grumble that the administration's harsh criticism of Mr. Lott, after first offering only mild criticism and assurances of support, had prolonged the controversy and emboldened critics on both sides of the aisle.
A source close to the White House rebutted claims that the president had betrayed Mr. Lott by calling his remarks at Mr. Thurmond's birthday party "offensive" and "wrong" in a speech Thursday.
"I don't think this is throwing somebody to the wolves," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Look, there's always people who have their opinions, especially on presidents - they're Monday-morning quarterbacks."
White House officials say the president's scolding of Mr. Lott was necessary because he had inflamed racial tensions with a remark that his critics - first among them the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - interpreted as an endorsement of segregation. Democrats and newspaper and television reporters asked him to repudiate Mr. Lott's remarks.
Several Republican senators who had publicly excused Mr. Lott's remark at Mr. Thurmond's 100th birthday party say they feel "blindsided" now by the president's belated and blunt attack on Mr. Lott.
One Republican aide on Capitol Hill said Mr. Bush "cut the feet out from under" these senators by remaining silent for a full week after Mr. Lott's comments, and then to go on the attack.
Party strategists note that Republicans are less likely than Democrats to protect one of their own who is caught up by controversy.
"We do circle the wagons, but we tend to point the guns in," said Republican strategist Rich Galen. "There's a difference in approach because there is a double standard."
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Besides, don't you find it worrisome that G.W. Bush casts himself more and more as a Republican JFK of sorts? I mean, considering the tragic fate the real JFK met with.... |
