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Silent Nights?

I can’t explain to you or any person just why Trent Lott waited so long to resign. Instead of getting no one to pay attention, he allowed himself to be the exclamation point, resigning on the Friday before Christmas. Bill Frist won the office of Majority Leader on Christmas Eve, while everyone was busy digging out from the Nor’easter. African Americans are piling it on high and deep with Frist, especially since he didn’t send out any Kwanzaa cards from the GOP. Even so, the President is hiding at the ranch, Cheney in the cave, and Lott is probably still hung over in Shreveport after Ole Miss’s stunning win over Nebraska.
Lost in the fray was news that Joe Lieberman is all but certain to run for the Democratic nomination for president. As mentioned earlier, Howard Dean, Al Sharpton, and John Kerry are wondering how many more people from the Northeast can file a bid. However, when you look at the number of states Al Gore won in 2000, can you blame the New England contingent from being the most confident? Not Joseph and the Technicolor Head Shot.
Yet with Donald Rumsfeld seemingly looking to pick a fight with every member of the Axis of Evil (at once!) more and more conservatives seem to be doubting Bush’s motives for war in Iraq. Oh yeah that’s right, Daniel Pipes can talk about peacenik liberals all he wants, but this time, Nebraska Senator and Republican Chuck Hagel is beginning to disagree about the path to peace running through Baghdad. Moreover, it seems that he would have buried on page A24 save for CNN’s own Robert Novak weighing in on “Sharon’s War”. It’s hilarious to hear an old guard guy like Novak rip apart the Bush plan so eloquently, but he does it to perfection. Israeli politics are going to make the Bush administration choose which constituency he favors more: oil or Jews. Until the New Year however, expect things to be quiet. Maybe too quiet.

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