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...then 98, collapsed on the Senate floor. But now, Frist, 50, is beginning a different kind of rescue mission, one that he may not be fully equipped to handle. Congress starts a new session this week, and the patient before Frist is his own party, still reeling from the Trent Lott debacle...
...wish I could be a Republican. Seriously. Given my radical tendencies, of course, there's little chance that if I joined a party, it would be the G.O.P. Even so, I wish the Republicans would seize the opportunity presented to them by the Trent Lott fiasco to kick their 40-year addiction to race-baiting politics, make good on George W. Bush's promise to reach out to minorities and compel black voters like me to consider the G.O.P. I'm convinced that the Democratic Party's virtual monopoly on the black vote is bad for African Americans...
...Chicago Tribune: Top 10 Trent Lott Apologies. Pulling in at No. 3: "I don't accept those policies of the past at all... I'm the son of a sharecropper myself...
...Senator Trent Lott’s calamitous experience last month illustrates the extent to which race—and speaking about race—still poses a dark, incendiary threat in American life. At issue in Lott’s case, of course, was his wistful allusion to a time when the races were separate, and when real feelings were harbored but not openly expressed, a time when what we now call “hate speech” showed itself infrequently in the “marketplace of ideas...
...insisting on equitable treatment for their nominees, now and in the future." Rekindling the Pickering nomination also allows the Republicans to "bring the race issue back into a comfortable space for them," says Gregory Magarian, an associate constitutional law professor at Villanova University School of Law. "After the Trent Lott disaster, they want to get control of the race issue before it's defined for them by outside forces," i.e. the Democrats...