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And one would think the Trent Lott would at least make an effort to hide his racism after being kicked out of his Republican leadership position for praising Strom Thurmond and his racist policies.

Not really.

Now Lott is comparing Hispanics to his Mississippi goats.

“If the answer is ‘build a fence’ I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence.

“Now people are at least as smart as goats. Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple times they quit trying to jump it.”

Once a bigot, always a bigot.

And the GOP welcomed him back with open arms.

According to a just released Newsweek Poll Bush’s approval rating has dropped 2 points to a record low since the beginning of May, from 28 to 26%.

This 26% rating puts Bush lower than Jimmy Carter, who sunk to his nadir of 28% in a Gallup poll in June 1979.

Only Nixon, with an approval rating of 23% in January 1974, seven months before his resignation over Watergate, has a lower rating than Bush in the last 35 years.

This means that just over one in four Americans approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65% disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.

By now some of you may know that Cheney decided a couple of years ago that the Office of the Vice President “is not an ‘entity within the executive branch’ and hence is not subject to presidential executive orders.”

Cheney made this decision In 2004, when he blocked inspectors from the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives from conducting an on-site inspection of their White House office, as the ISOO was required to do under Executive Order 12958, signed by President Bush.

Henry Waxman has written a letter to the VP questioning his decision. He is also obviously worried about its national security implications since, as Waxman puts it to Cheney,

“Your office may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information.”

Fortunately, the office of Rahm Emanuel has come up with an excellent suggestion following Cheney;s twisted logic and has illustrated the new structure of the US government as viewed by the VP with an easy-to-red graphic:

Rahm’s statement:

“Today, we discovered that everything we learned in U.S. government class was wrong. Evidently, the Vice President does not consider himself a part of the executive branch, and therefore believes he can obstruct meaningful oversight and avoid being held accountable. If the Vice President truly believes he is not a part of the executive branch, he should return the salary the American taxpayers have been paying him since January 2001, and move out of the home for which they are footing the bill.”

Definitely a Gore-Obama ticket is a very interesting possiblity that I have been thinking about for some time.

An intelligent and principled president with ample domestic and international experience working alongside one of the best progressive young leaders of our generation. Just what we need to get us out of the mess we are in and back into being a real and civilized democracy

This fun video was made by The Young Turks.