{"id":937,"date":"2007-06-18T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/lott-expired-shelf-life\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T18:32:31","slug":"lott-expired-shelf-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Lott:  Expired Shelf Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/15\/washington\/15immig.html?ei=5099&#038;en=0fadcc32e711981d&#038;ex=1182484800&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=TOPIXNEWS&#038;adxnnlx=1181927333-P5hPmYu7q38uxSRhO18Guw\">covers the ongoing immigration flap<\/a>, in which the administration and several senior, superannuated senators are pushing a bill that the grassroots of <em>both <\/em>parties find clearly intolerable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, <a title=\"More articles about Trent Lott.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/trent_lott\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\"><font color=\"#004276\">Trent Lott<\/font><\/a> of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: \u201cTalk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in \u201cyounger guys who are huffing and puffing against the bill.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Lott:\u00a0 before talk radio, conservatives were perennial also-rans in this nation&#8217;s ongoing political discussion.\u00a0 Barring the occasional miracle-worker like Ronald Reagan, conservatism didn&#8217;t <em>become <\/em>a credible mass movement until talk radio gave people like, er, you the ability to bypass the mainstream media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s high time talk radio turned against you, Senator Lott.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Mississippi &#8211; can we work on trading Lott in for a newer model?\u00a0 Someone who&#8217;s gone a little less DC-native?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times covers the ongoing immigration flap, in which the administration and several senior, superannuated senators are pushing a bill that the grassroots of both parties find clearly intolerable. Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}