Arkansas Blog

They've tried. And they'll try again. It's an uphill battle when you're trying to convince politicians to vote against their ability to immediately make more money than they are now after they term limit out. Perhaps a compromise: loosen term limits, invoke the lobbyist waiting period. Seems fair to me.

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Hastert resigns today..

If it were not for the lobby income potential, I would be wondering just what old Larry Flyntt might have been up to this weekend.

Hell....let's make a special that runs to December 31st of this year. Get your sorry ass out now and we'll only make you wait 6 months before you can start sucking up the cash as a lobbyist. It might just empty the whole damn Congress and then we could get some new blood in there and get busy rescuing our country.

I was hoping they'd caught Trent with a buck naked 12 year old boy, but no matter how he goes....I'm delighted he's gone! Let's make them a deal they can't refuse and be rid of the Lott of them.

Has anyone telegraphed Mark Pryor's office and reminded him of the Dec. 31st deadline? If he'll just quit now, he can make millions heading up the Torture lobby to the US Congress. Think of your kids Mark! They'd be so much better off if Daddy was a lobbyist. Do us a favor and quit now!

Did Trent Lott ever get his porch fixed?

Lawless Mississippi governor Barbour may be made to follow state election law by Democrats!

In the wake of Trent Lott's announcement that he's resigning from the Senate, several news accounts have reported that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, will immediately appoint a replacement - and Barbour further announced today that a special election will be held to fill the seat on election day in November of 2008.

This would be a big boon to Republican efforts to hold Lott's seat. That's because it would allow whoever the appointee is the next 11 months to build up a record, raise money, and amass the advantages of incumbency in advance of the special contest.

But what does election law really hold?

National Dems who are scrutinizing the relevant statute say that they think that in fact it stipulates that the election is to be held within 90 days of the date of Lott's resignation, which he hasn't announced yet.

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Because of all this, the statute also creates an interesting dilemma for Lott. Dems note that the statute holds that there is a way around the 90-day problem: If Lott were to set his resignation date for some time next year, that would nullify the 90-day provision. That's because the statute says that if the resignation happens in a year when a Congressional election is already set to happen, the contest to fill the vacancy happens on that year's election day. That would help the GOP, because the special appointee would hold the seat for much longer before the contest.

But if Lott resigns next year, rather than in 2007, that will create a problem for him. That's because next year a new lobbying law will take effect requiring him to wait two years before entering the lobbying biz.

So, in effect, Lott has to choose between resigning this year, which would help his short term lobbying career, and resigning next year, which would help the GOP hold his seat.

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And we all knew the rent a boy rumors would kick in:

http://www.queerty.com/news/did-trent-lott-keep-gay-rent-boy-20071126/

And Devil Cheney has an irregular heartbeat.....I'd believe that if I thought he had a heart.

If the Democrats would start tomorrow piling it on Cheney, using every legal means to make his life as miserable as he's made the world, the old bastard's heart would finally explode and we'd all be safe again.

Politics are heating up! Looks like Senator Clinton is no longer considered a sure-win against the Republicans. Obama is looking better and better. Man, I love election time! Click blue name.

Crap. Blue name didn't work. Just copy and paste then :-P http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2645320920071127?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Is this one of those days were all things come in threes?

Maybe Lott is preparing to be ready for Cheneys seat... it does look like MS will have to hold a special election for Lotts seat.. MS law says within 90 days of vacancy... though Gov Barb wants to appoint someone now and have an election next Nov.

Click on my name when you got a minute and read about the Republican octopus in Alabama that reached over into Arkansas and wrapped around Robbyn Tumey. Notice that their strateegry is working too.......Robbyn has been silenced.

But I'm on to Herr Rove now. A little heavy reading about the rise of the Nazi party, not what it did so much as how it started and grew like a cancer on the people of Germany. It's way way too close to the neo-con plan that spawned the current Klonvocation occupying our White House today. Nothing about Cheney-Bush is an accident...it's a rock solid plan that is still working. Read it and weep.

What good does this law do, as long as a politicians family and relatives, or even mistress are lobbying him.

ES, I heard that rumor about the rent boy as well. But from my days living in DC in the late '90s several doors down from the esteemed gentleman from Mississippi, I don't put much stock in it since all he ever came off to me in the neighborhood quick-e-mart was as a dork.