BWAH! Trent Lott is basically telling Cheney to STFU

From Roll Call:

Lott Urges Control Over Lunch Topics

By Paul Kane
Roll Call Staff

November 10, 2005

Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), angry about leaks from the Republican Conference, said Wednesday that Vice President Cheney should no longer be permitted to talk about anything “sensitive” at the weekly party policy luncheons.

“If the vice president of the United States can’t speak to a room full of Senators only, that’s not good,” the former Majority Leader declared, noting that at last week’s GOP meeting Cheney outlined his opposition to an anti-torture amendment and details of the discussion ended up in The Washington Post.

“If we’re going to do that again, I’m going to object,” Lott said.

The idea of trying to prevent Cheney from speaking at future luncheons — a rare enough occurrence as is, since he almost never speaks at the gatherings — didn’t win much support from the Republican Conference.

Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) declined to even acknowledge that the vice president spoke at last week’s lunch and ducked the question of how he would force his fellow Republicans to keep quiet about future vice presidential declarations.

“I can’t even talk about it,” Frist said.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_50/news/11210-1.html

some payback to Frist for taking his position.

Iraq and this country and he knows he lost his position because he beleived in compromising with Dem's at times for the good of the country. Actually, my opinion of Lott has become slightly more favorable recently.Not much, but some.

Trent Lott is as much an embarrassment to the Senate as his hero Strom Thurmond was.

Just because he's become the enemy of our enemy doesn't make him a good man.

a nice wrap-around porch that ole George was going to sit on? :shrug:

Maybe Trent knows and sees the writing on the wall that he figures what the hell, just get it over with....

I liked the part where chatty-Fristy says he can't even talk about it.

:rofl:

The Culture of Cover-Up has become an obsession with these people.

if you keep talking like that! Careful now.

you mean we oprmised a porch? Nah, he sees an opening and is taking it.. when you swim with sharks you may loose a limb you know. He is still smarting over loosing the leadership over comments at a B'Day party... so he is starting to get even with bushco

hope people take him seriously. I'm surprised he's been able to contain himself for this long.

He rightly sees that the leadership was taken from him, not so much for what he said, or the Democratic stink it raised, but rather was the Republicans who silently pushed the story with the media.

He knows what DeLay did to Newt, and he saw the same thing happen to him. He's righting the books. And he is smart enough to know when and how to strike.

He took the wind right out of the Republican diversion of the CIA leak by telling everyone before the RW media could ratchet up, "hey, it was the Republicans who leaked it."

And what are they going to do to him?

and the people back home aren't so much in love with bushco anymore.

that Bush and Cheney aren't on speaking terms atm.

Who was going to sit on Trent's Front porch after it was rebuilt?

You think Trent has been asked to shove things around a little by a certain somebody?

is deciding who to root for....

I suppose I could hope they politically destroy each other in some way....

It's kind of like those Alien vs. Predator movies or King Kong vs. Godzilla

was asked who he would root for this year if the World Series was between the hated White Sox and the hated Cardinals (this was before the Cardinals lost to Houston) and the Cub fan said, .........

"Injuries"

security clearance. Keith interviewed an attorney who has defended several government employees who lost their clearance - mostly for minor reasons.

One of the things the attorney said that really struck me is that if the Pres., V-Pres, Sec. of State or Defense reveals classified information "It is no longer classified".

If this is true, when Cheney told Libby about Valerie Plame and told the Repugs senators about the prisons then the info is no longer classified.

Comment ?

but no, i think that if cheney were to reveal it to someone not authorized to know, then it would be declassified. but libby had clearance and was not authorized to disclose the info

they are called Yankee white cases to OPM

to clarify that statement I use to work with them (cases) occasionally

n/t

people on DU know a lot about security/clearance issues and can probably give us some good info but it is generally confusing to me and many others.

is let out into the public arena it can no longer be "classified." Plame's status was compromised and was no longer classified information. The morally superior republicans are now trying to outstupid each other about the Prisons; Roberts: There aren't any prisons so how can there be a compromise of info. Frist: yeah trent you big dummy.

One of the things the attorney said that really struck me is that if the Pres., V-Pres, Sec. of State or Defense reveals classified information "It is no longer classified".

If I reveal classified information, it would no longer be classified, if Rove reveals classified information, it is no longer classified, if anyone reveals classified information, it is no longer classified.

For opening up his trap and pulling that stunt to start an investigation without telling anyone about it, since, as it turns out, the leak almost certainly it now seems, came from a Repub, potentially Roberts himself, and perhaps even Cheney since it was discussed at this lunch BY Cheney! So, Cheney may be responsible for yet ANOTHER leak of classified info! And the idiot Frist wants it investigated!

They are I.M.P.L.O.A.D.I.N.G!

The administration is sinking and Lott is positioning himself for post Bush/Cheney era.

that he is smelling the rotting flesh of the neo-republican party.

didn't the president say that he was looking forward to spending some time on Trent's new front porch?? :evilgrin:

LOL!

up for a tremendous fall and coconspirators!!!

Lott is yelling shut up, Frist says he can't say anything, and Cheney is hardly ever at those things anyway.

Hey they can just keep on shutting up, that's fine by me.