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...some political capital," Bush would say, "so he can go up to Capitol Hill and spend it." Ambitious lawmakers who may run one day themselves did not see Cheney as a rival. The Vice President sat at the Senate's G.O.P. policy lunches, taking notes; when Senator Trent Lott asked for comments, Cheney usually passed. When there was an important bill on the floor, he might say, 'You know, this means a lot to the President. We need to get this done.' And not much more...
...Republicans, by contrast, are completely sincere about wanting Lott to be gone, but they are generally insincere about the reason. They want him to be gone for the same reason the Democrats want him to stay: the sooner he's gone, the sooner this nightmarish issue goes away. No one can doubt that Republicans are saddened by the public revelation that Lott shares the views of Strom Thurmond. Yet there are good reasons to doubt that all of them are as offended as they let on, starting with the fact that Thurmond himself has been a Republican Senator in recent...
...fact the timing of the outrage, both long term and short term, raises doubts about everyone's sincerity. Daily and then hourly come new disclosures of old incidents that seem to confirm the beliefs suggested in Lott's remarks. Each new item is a nail in his coffin. But these incidents were publicly known at the time they occurred and have been no secret since. Just as Lott did, the entire Reagan Administration openly supported Bob Jones University in its claim for charitable tax status despite its rule forbidding interracial dating. There is a rarely acknowledged random element in what...
...around for several days last week before the politicians turned their blood up to boil is also a bit suspicious. Even hair-trigger moralizers like Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain were slow this time. The President's deliberations were exceptionally deliberate. On Days 5 and 6 after Lott's remarks, the White House shrugged the matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other politicians aren...
...RESIGNED. TRENT LOTT, 61, Republican Senate majority leader whose recent remarks implied that he favored racial segregation in the U.S.; in Washington, D.C. Tennessee Senator Bill Frisk has emerged as the White House favorite...