President's Statement Welcoming Back Senator Trent Lott as the True Face of the Republican Party

THE PRESIDENT: Today I want to congratulate Mississippi's Trent Lott on his election to Senate Minority Whip. I can hardly believe it's been almost four whole years since me and Dr. Bill stuck a shiv in Trent's kidney just for saying out loud what every closet GOP bigot thinks – even after Trent went and done all that embarrassing groveling on the Colored Channel. See, back then, some idiots in my party still believed we could get America's negroes to swallow that B.S. "Party of Lincoln" line in order to get them to vote for Strom Thurmond's adopted party.

Boy was that ever a fuck-up! Fortunately, Senator Lott's return signals that Republicans are back on the True Path. I trust that Trent will let bygones be bygones, and focus on all the good times we had together. Welcome back, Dippity Do!