Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Wanker of the day
Trent Lott: "I'll just say this about the so-called porkbusters. I'm getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina."
Fool.
4 Comments:
By 
Olivier Blanchard, at
Wed Apr 05, 09:48:00 PM:
By 
, at
Wed Apr 05, 10:10:00 PM:
I always remember that Lott was very ineffective as Majority/Minority Leader, seeming to put success in the Senate ahead of any goals of the national Republican Party. Always quick to cut a deal, as if achieving consensus was more important estabishling and standing on principle. These comments simply reinforce my perception of him as just another politician that probably shoule be term-limited out of office. When are we going to embrace, nationally, the Iowa model of drawing congressional districts so that we might have a chance of throwing these bums out.
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Apr 06, 12:53:00 AM:
By TigerHawk, at
Thu Apr 06, 06:13:00 AM:
Dawnfire82, Iowa is the only state in the country (I believe) that does not gerry-mandering Congressional districts every ten years. Instead, it has a bi-partisan commission charged with drawing districts with the straightest lines and most coherent geography. I think it makes a real attempt to have it track county lines. This makes Iowa's Congressional races substantially more competitive, and in any case largely does away with the absurd gerry-mandering you see everywhere else since people learned to apply computers to house-by-house census data.
That having been said, the Iowa model would not have done away with Trent Lott, who is, after all, a Senator. No redistricting. We have all of Mississippi to blame for him.
