We've heard from Gore and now Clinton weighs in on the Trent Lott controversy. He was asked whether Lott should be removed as Majority Leader, and responded:

"That's up to them, but I think they can't do it with a straight face. I think the way the Republicans have treated Senator Lott is pretty hypocritical since right now their policy is, in my view, inimical to everything that this country stands for. How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway? I think what they are really upset about is that he made public their strategy.

They've tried to suppress black voting, they've ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina. And from top to bottom, the Republicans supported it. So I don't see what they're jumping on Trent Lott about. ... I mean, look at their whole record. He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the backroads every day."

Quick, someone go take Rush's blood pressure.

Go Bill! I voted for this guy twice, but I just didn't understand why he didn't speak out more forcefully in his second term. Perhaps it's the ex-presidency that's the bully pulpit.