Kind Words for Senator Lott

Hey, I am as surprised as you!

Don Luskin admits to giving Lott a hard time, but says we'll miss him when he's gone:

So what would happen if the House sent the Senate back a tax bill with offsets? Lott says, "They’re going to have to eat this. Get over it. Now, Nancy can dictate to all the Democrats she wants to. She ain’t dictating this. If they want the AMT, there ain’t going to be no offsets. Write that in granite. I can guaran-damn-double-dog, you know, guarantee you that."

"Offsets" is just another word for taxes.

Guaran-damn-double-dog! I'll miss that. Lott seems to have philosophically lost his way, but the minority Senate has been impressive. Credit where it's due, Senator Lott knows how to play this game:

In Lott’s last weeks as a Senator, he is blocking new AMT taxes, the excessively large S-CHIP bill, billions in energy taxes and a proposal to raise taxes on capital gains by 135%. The sad news is that no one seems ready or able to take up his whack-a-mole duties next year.

“I’ve been through a lot of end-of-sessions, and I’ve been involved in them very closely, and I’ve been the solution and I’ve been the problem,” said Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., who is leaving Congress at the end of the session. “This is the most bizarre situation and atmosphere I’ve ever seen. Nobody has any idea how to do anything or how in the world we’re going to get out of here, or when.”

UPDATE: Luskin posts that the Double-Damn-Dog Guarantee was honored. Well done Senator Lott!

Baucus legislation will protect 19 million American families from unfair tax increase; minority objections to fiscal responsibility forced elimination of provisions to pay for bill.

Even with the Democratic spin I like it!

Politics Posted by jk at December 6, 2007 4:05 PM