How embarrassing! I got distracted by a telephone call and completely forgot about Monday night's exercise class with Step One's glamorous aerobics fanatics. Instead, I went to a late-Thanksgiving dinner with a group of liberals in Davis.
(Gabe asks: Liberals in Davis? Liberals in Davis? Is that possible? I respond: Yes, Gabe, there are liberals in Davis!)
The question of the evening was: Why did Trent Lott decide to resign from the Senate? He stated that his health wasn't to blame, which only deepened the mystery about what was to blame.
So we kicked around some ideas:
- Bush is putting big plans into action and insisted on total support from all Republicans in the congressional leadership, support that Lott couldn't extend;
- We are about to attack Iran, and Lott didn't want anything to do with it;
- Larry Flynt's recent ruminations about a brewing sexual scandal point at Lott;
- Republican electoral prospects look poor at the moment, and Lott didn't want anything to do with it;
- It's time to shepherd all the liberals into Guantanamo-style prison camps, and Lott didn't want anything to do with that either;
- Lott saw big opportunities in lobbying, and he wanted to jump the gun on the new law that takes effect soon that requires a two-year waiting period before becoming a lobbyist.
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