From where I stand, much of America (northern, southern, western & eastern) are STILL holding onto racist ideals.

None of us is better then the next. Maybe Trent is finally getting to understand that and is ashamed of his actions (and those of his cronies). Maybe he has recognized it's time for the OLD GUARD to step down. Either way, we will have a fresh persepctive in the White House come '09.

I just hope this great nation of ours decides to come to our senses and quit the infighting. We USED to be the greatest nation...now, not so much. Together we can make anything happen. Let's focus on change for the better already.

This is the real reason he is resigning. Please report the facts.

And as for Strom Thurman and the like, I love how they are for segregation unless it's between them and female slaves, then integration is just fine. Who knows how many descendants we have who were born as part of the ultimate hypocrisy.

It's a common pattern.

As of January 1st, if you are in the US congress (house or senate), you have to wait 2 years to become a lobbyist. So Trent here is trynig to beat a deadline.

I guess, profits before people , as usuall. What a low-life dog this guy is, I always knew it, but now he proved it, to EVERYBODY.

Maybe that is why all these Republicans are quiting their house and senate seats this year?

Hmmm, makes you wonder doesn't it, truthseeker?

A nation of ignorant apes murders each other over which tastes better-Coke or Pepsi.

Meanwhile, corporate plutocrats and oligarchs and their military industrial complex drive the nation further into ruin.

It is so very enjoyable to watch history in action. An entire nation with a rich history, bathed in blood and baptized in the sufferings of native peoples and colonized populations all over the earth, gets its cosmic comeuppance as it is torn to pieces from the inside and unable to defend itself from the outside.

Democans and Republicrats dangle the keys in front of the infant's eyes, while their hands greedily reach into the cookie jar-stealing from the people, while at the same time dismantling the foundation that the once-great nation was founded upon.

You apes are hilarious.
Destroy, apes, destroy!
Tear each other to pieces with your false gods of money and oil!
Is your neighbor doing something he shouldn't be, ape?
Put a camera in his house!
Have you consumed enough for your god to love you, ape?
Have you spent enough money to go to heaven, ape?

Kill for your god, apes!
Kill for the Homeland, apes!

Vote for that one, ape.
No, vote for that one, ape.
They truly care about you.
They really do.
The politicians love you, apes.
They really enjoy kissing your babies.
This one will save you, ape! Vote for him!
No, that one will save you, ape!
Vote for her!

Ignorant little animals.
What a tragic farce you are,
(Dis)United States.

You drug-infested morons will batten down the hatches come 2009, because that's when the REAL fun starts in this country. Better start learning to speak spanish also

A racist Republican demonizing Democrats with false generalities—say it isn’t so!

I've been drunk once, stoned never, don’t smoke, badgered my wife to stay off nicotine, and am generally against the notion of better living through pharmaceuticals.

I wish Obama hadn't done drugs. But I just don't see many people using "the president used to" as a reason to start drug use.

You see, I don't care about empty rhetoric or moral grandstanding. I care about the consequences of the election. I think those consequences will be best under Obama.

As for speaking Spanish, there's far less need for me to study Spanish (Hablo español ya, tonto) than there is for you to get over your racist views regarding Latinos—they’re the fastest growing segment of our population, you know.

It is not hard to see why you are upset by liberals celebrating Lott’s departure from Congress. But it’s a good thing for America, trust me.

This pig is leaving to make easy money off taxpayers. A fitting ending for a useless lawmaker that did nothing while in office but fight for the far right.

First the rank-and-file, now the leadership. The Republican Party surely is falling apart.

It just proves the old adage about how you reap what you sow.

By the way, good riddance. Four terms in the Senate and his state is no better off than before his term. I would know , I used to live there. And the notion that Chip Pickering is even being considered is crazy. Last I heard he lives in Virginia and doesn't even own a home in Mississippi.

Forget about any "representative gov't" notions with guys like this-and most of the DC crew are exactly the same.

Care to tell me why my posts are often censored?

I've seen cars for sale ads on these posts and they seem to be ok with CNN moderators. Is censorship something CNN embraces?

One could only conclude that Lott is also a dangerous and immoral person.

The rest of the people's homes in the area? Ah, they're not friends of the program!

Good riddance to this phoney bigoted
nut..He can hang out with the other right wing kooks at some "think tank"
or make up some phoney company and become a war profiteer like the rest of the recent ex-officials and their family members.

Southern Democrats were Conservatives before the late sixties because of loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal policies that provided employment, rural electrification, and many other benefits to the grandparents of today's Southern Republicans. Those grandparents remembered not Lincoln's conquest of the Confederacy but Herbert Hoover's indifference to their welfare during the first four years of the Great Depression, between 1929 and 1932, when FDR won 42 of 48 states, including the entire South. The solid South remained with the Democrats through Johnson's landslide election in 1964.

When Lyndon Johnson campaigned in for Congress in Texas in the thirties, he said he had three planks in his platform: "Roosevelt, Roosevelt, and Roosevelt," and the poor farmers of Texas' Hill Country liked all three planks. No Democrat should be proud of FDR's tolerance of southern segregation, but he left a much better America to us after his 15 years as President and we embrace every good thing he did and cherish his memory.

Harry Truman, who succeeded Roosevelt, said in 1947, "My forebears were Confederates. ... But my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten." Strom Thurmond, a Democrat found that his stomach was turned by Truman's attitude, so he switched to the Dixiecrat Party and promoted a return to segregationism.

The FDR coalition of Northern Liberals and Southern Conservatives lasted until the Lyndon Johnson jammed two unacceptable laws down the Southern throat: Medicare, which integrated Southern hospitals and the Voting Rights Act which allowed Southern Blacks to vote. After the passge of those laws, Lyndon confided to an associate that (I'm paraphrasing) "I think that we have given the South to the Republican Party for the rest of my lifetime." but poor Lyndon didn't live long enough to see the South return to the Democratic Party.

After that, Southern Democrats turned Republican in wholesale numbers. Nixon, in 1968 was very aware of segregationist dissatisfaction with the Great Society's accomplishments for poor Blacks, and he pioneered the Southern Strategy, allying himself pretty openly with segregationists by waving the flag of "States' Rights". Later, Ronald Reagan and then Newt Gingrich fine-tuned the strategy, building a truly unholy alliance of Southern Segregationists, economic Conservatives, and Evangelical Christians.

No Liberal can be a Segregationist, but the door is open wide to all former Segregationists who are tired of low wages, no benefits, and crappy jobs.

Mr. Sheridan...you have it RIGHT ON!!! You hit the nail on the head for Chris and other like-minded, dis-heartened repubs. Their party was hi-jacked by the far right, starting around 1980, and its been getting worse ever since.

The problem has been that too many of these people who believe themselves to be conservative, or who just like to be labeled that way, have bought into the republican lie machine....and have ignored the facts in front of them. Up until a few yeasr ago, there was a 'split' gov't, and the "communistic/socialistic" dems could always be blamed for all the evils, despite the repubs. being in power too. Now after these few years of monolithic repub. rule, it is very much harder for that lie machine to confuse people as to just who messed up. The sorry thing is: who are the ~30% of Americans who actually think Bush has done a good job, and who are these people, like Chris, running around still trying to find cover in a repub. party that goes against their own self-interest and that clearly does the counrty great harm? This is like a child burning his hand on a stove, and then contuing to try to find excuses to go back and do it again. This kind of hyper-partisan, ignorant, even stupid behavior does not bode well for our country.

The dems are not perfect, but at least with them in power we can get the public debate back on track....with a dose of input from a grounded rupub. right. But hopefully with only an amusing nod to the poor rightwing nutjobs who are still battling against the "Enlightnement".

Posted By Michael Sheridan, Grand Rapids, MI : November 26, 2007 11:14 am

I was thinking cartoon characters, by if you care to personalize, I'll just say Ted Kennedy and leave it at that.

Sure, that's when you guys are going to explode the fertilizer bombs. I've heard it all before. And the income tax is illegal. Boo hoo.

I've taken to using the term "Publican Party" when talking to any dittohead or Bush "dead-ender" who insists on the childish "Democrat Party" usage. "Publican" is a something of a dirty word in Biblical meaning – publicans in Roman times were tax collectors and (probably overpaid) government contractors.

And it's a polite enough term that it will survive comment moderation – where more accurately descriptive vernacular words beginning with letters like "A" probably won't.

And to all Republicans who support this wicked man, I say to you: you are truly lost souls. You're hopeless.