Not What He Had In Mind...

I'm sure this isn't what Trent Lott had in mind...

With his buffoonish complaints about talk radio and its role in educating the American public about the flaws in the Senate immigration bill, Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott has done much to energize the conservative Republican base and jeopardize the chances of its passage.

It's a little difficult to figure out what he DID have in mind, frankly. First with the remark about talk radio and then the hilarious remark about electric goat fence...good heavens.

Poll after poll shows the American people are, to put it charitably, very skeptical about the bill. In the past few days, we've seen Republican senators like John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who were thought to be in the undecided column, announce they would vote against cloture. Georgia Republican Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, original supporters of the "compromise," are expected to oppose cloture tomorrow. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has made statements generally supportive of the bill and helped work out a "compromise" agreement with Mr. Reid to bring it back to the floor, now says he is not sure how he will vote. While many factors have helped drive down support, it's increasingly clear that Mr. Lott's over-the-top efforts to silence amnesty critics have backfired and become a rallying point for conservative critics of the legislation.

Personally, I think it's going down again. I see no momentum in favor of the bill whatsoever. Hopefully they'll just let it die this time. We'll see.

JASmius adds: Here's the Trentster playing kissy-face with his good, close, personal friend Dianne Feinstein on the endlessly extollable virtues of bringing back the "Fairness" Doctrine. Note the absence of questions to Lott about electrocuting illegals, illegals as "goats," or to DiFi over her own rampant corruption.

And this was on the dreaded Fox News Sunday, too.