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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: epicure who wrote (331427)	12/20/2002 10:52:22 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) of 769670

<<If the republicans have a need for a blood sacrifice over this, in order to appease the media, Lott will have to go. But it isn't fair.>> Nor is it that simple. One error most Americans make is that they VASTLY over-simplify the republic's politics. Poor public education and sound-bite news are the main culprits. No, it doesn't seem fair to go as far on Lott as the Senate Republicans are likely to go, especially after the same bunch let themselves get rolled so badly by the left on the impeachment of the worst criminal ever elected to public office. But sound-bite news and general ignorance of citizenship actually make politics more secretive and more complex. Much of Lott's downfall is his years of incompetence, failure to hold the Senate during and after the 2000 election, and failure-once in the minority-to highlight the nefarious anti-American actions of Daschle and the domestic enemy in the Senate. With the Republicans back from the Jeffords treachery, Lott's well of favors and good will had long since run dry. The current incident and its controversy is, as they say, "a vehicle"...

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