Word: lott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McConnell who was most persuasive. He told Lott that things had changed since the process had begun in April. His Senate candidates were safe; in tight Senate races, such as in North Carolina and Kentucky, defending tobacco would help more than hurt. Besides, McConnell argued, the industry was promising to run ads on behalf of G.O.P. Senators to defend them against charges that they'd killed the bill. "We can walk away from this," he told Lott...
G.O.P. Senators held a special conference in Lott's private offices Wednesday morning. From the moment Lott started the meeting, it became apparent to McCain that it had been called in order to choose a procedure for killing his bill. But McCain gave it one last try. "This has become a Republican bill!" McCain argued. "Are we going to say no to a tax cut and no to funding for the drug war? Are we going to say no to the two highest priorities in the Republican Congress?" The answer was still yes. "We're pulling it down, John," Lott...
...lusciously cynical switch, the amendments that various G.O.P. Senators had tacked on to make the bill more palatable now made it easier to deride as a huge, mangled monument to Big Government. And so Lott spun in place and called for a vote on whether to let the bill come to the floor, knowing full well that McCain did not have the 60 votes he would need. And with that, any chance of passing a comprehensive bill died, stalling the engine that was meant to power the last two years of the Clinton presidency...
...Lott believes the President could have got a deal if he really wanted one. According to a source close to him, Lott began telling lobbyists last year that they had better get Clinton on board if they wanted a deal. "We're not gonna walk the plank alone," Lott told them. The two men spoke over the phone on occasion, but most of Lott's contact was with chief of staff Erskine Bowles--someone Lott "likes and trusts." The President remained disengaged, which surprised Lott as he watched Clinton's window of opportunity closing fast...
...always seems to carry (this week's is a classic: Hitler and the Occult). These offerings may seem emblematic of cable, but if you think they represent its most popular shows, you are very wrong. Cable TV's true signature is not a conversation between Larry King and Trent Lott; it is a Hell in a Cell bout between Stone Cold Steve Austin and his archrival Kane...