Word: lotte
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...states is to trade with them, allowing their people that heady whiff of freedom that floats aromatically off a Big Mac, forcing their governments to lift the economic shackles and unleash an avalanche of entrepreneurial creativity that makes nonsense of Marxism. Well, yes, and no - if you're Trent Lott, that is. According to the Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which is why the GOP leadership is fighting to stop a bill...
...drastic curtailing of second amendment rights that the Second Amendment Sisters (a small group of women who launched a minor counter protest on Sunday) and the NRA would like us to believe. The lives "saved" by guns every year--like the 1,500 murders John R. Lott estimates were prevented by states that allow concealed weapons to be carried in 1992--don't measure up to the 32,000 deaths each year resultant of gun violence...
...groups were ecstatic when Republicans announced Elian hearings last week: the Miami relatives and Democrats. And it's not just Congress's most volatile members giddy with excitement over re-enacting The Story of Elian, but also Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. Undeterred by George W. Bush's lack of enthusiasm for such partisan theatrics, Lott boasted he would get to the bottom of where the obviously hopeless negotiations stood at the time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs...
Gore associated Bush with the views of Republican congressional leaders like Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), whom he dubbed "neo-isolationists...
...Senator Lott's hearings, scheduled for the week after next, are set to hear testimony by the Miami Gonzalez family, mediators involved in last-minute negotiations and Justice Department and INS officials. The senator also remarked darkly that "Juan Miguel Gonz?lez would be a very interesting witness, to say the least." Indeed. But in their enthusiasm to find signs of hidden political manipulation in the Clinton administration's decision, the senators may be missing the fact that all sides of this family dispute have been subject to political manipulation. Putting some of the Miami relatives in a situation where they...