Another example of the Bush family's loyalty at work

Ever wonder why Sen. Trent Lott R-Miss., is the former Senate majority leader. Simple, he ran a foul of ole Karl Rove and his boss Boy George when paying trubute to Strom Thurmond.

When the official autopsy is performed on the corpse of Trent Lott, it will be revealed that he died of a stab wound that came from above. This time, Caesar knifed Brutus.

Before a black audience in Philadelphia, Bush rose to declare in piety and self-righteousness, "Recent comments by Sen. Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized and rightly so. Every day that America was segregated was a day that America was unfaithful to our ideals."

Thus did the president join those who had placed the most malign construction on Lott's ill-chosen but innocent words of tribute to Strom Thurmond and throw Lott, a loyalist who has hauled water for him for two years on the Hill, to the wolves.

It is hard to see how Lott survives, or why he would want to. His own president cut him dead and collaborated, almost surely at the instigation of "Boy Genius" Karl Rove, with his assassins. And rather than fight the false charges, Lott apologized four times and threw himself on the mercy of a court that had convicted him, without evidence, of a thought crime he did not commit. Now, he is asking forgiveness of the very enemies he was elected to fight.

Let us go back and revisit the exact words of Trent Lott at that party for Sen. Thurmond. Said Lott:

"I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."