Past Time To Take His Hair Spray Away

Is there any better example of why Impo-Trent must go as Majority Leader than the threats coming from his staff (which he, of course, distances himself from -- neat, huh?!) that if he is removed as leader, he will step down from the Senate and let a Democrat governor appoint a replacement?

It's all about taking care of the frat-boy to Impo-Trent, rather than the good of his party or the President's agenda or the country.

THAT is precisely why he must go -- on his own if that can be engineered, and with some help if not.

His comments and apologies were so remarkably stupid and ill-considered that there is simply no rehabilitating him as majority leader. He must go. If the GOP loses a Senate seat along the way, that's one of the costs of maintaining a principled Party of Lincoln that is not compromised by majority leaders who can no longer lead effectively because they've said extraordinarily stupid things.

Why the guy was ever retained after the GOP lost the majority in the first place should be the question we're asking ourselves, not whether he should go now.

[Posted at 10:58 CST on 12/15/02] [Link]