"Why did you bring this piece of s--t to the Senate?"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

That's what Trent Lott told the impeachment managers when they brought the Articles Of Impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate because he knew it was a political loser.

In that vein I suspect the Republican candidates for president, at least the serious ones, are praying that the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality so that issue is taken off the table for the 016 election. Opposition to marriage equality is a political loser and the only way marriage equality is defeated in the Supreme Court is if all the Republican justices oppose it. They will own it...It would politicize the court to an extent greater than any ruling since Bush V Gore.

[47of74]

1. Their hatred of the man was a lot stronger than their good sense.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I wish I was a fly on the wall...

Trent Lott was a political animal. He knew a yay vote on impeachment alienated the yay voter from the American people and a nay vote on impeachment separated the voter from other Republicans.

[Unknown Beatle]

2. Greater than Citizens United? NT

[undeterred]

3. I thought you were talking about Ron Johnson.

[Scuba]

4. Perfect!

[n2doc]

6. Yet Lott voted Guilty on both counts

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/

Don't give him any credit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Of course he did because that was the political straitjacket the House Pugs put him in.

Of course he did because that was the political straitjacket the House Pugs put him in and that's why he called it a "piece of shit" behind closed doors.

He knew it was a loser for the party on the whole even while it played to their base. The House impeachment manager put the Republican Senate in a pickle; they could alienate their base or alienate the American people, on a vote which had absolutely no chance of passing.