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...Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President. Or was it that odd moment when he promised to rebuild Mississippi Senator Trent Lott's house--a gesture that must have sounded astonishingly tone-deaf to the homeless black citizens still trapped in the postapocalyptic water world of New Orleans. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house--he's lost his entire house," cracked Bush, "there's going to be a fantastic...
...second trip to the disaster zone. It was better than his first on Friday. He didn't offer any untenable defenses of the federal response and he didn't say anything too off key like he did last time when he vowed to rebuild Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's home and fondly recalled his partying days in New Orleans. Bush visited victims of Katrina at a shelter near Baton Rouge, where he was joined by T.D. Jakes, the charismatic African-American religious broadcaster. The President met with emergency managers in Baton Rouge and in Mississippi as well...
...overcome--what they cannot accomplish on a simple up-or-down vote, since Republicans have 55 Senate seats to their 44. Neutralizing the filibuster may sound like little more than a bit of parliamentary housekeeping, but, given the tactic's long tradition in the Senate, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott christened the move the "nuclear option." Frist ignited the fuse last week, bringing up the long-stalled nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Ostensibly, the fight is over a handful of long-blocked appellate court nominations, but both sides acknowledge that...
SENATOR TRENT LOTT: Yes. On page 178 of the written response submitted to the committee by the nominee, we learn she has driven cross-country. Can you elaborate, Ms. Marx...
...SENATOR LOTT: I put it to the committee and all of America that this is the kind of person we need in our government...