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Saturday, April 12, 2003

# Posted 11:56 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

TRENT LOTT JR.: This past week, Rep. Barbara Cubin made some extremely offensive racist remarks during a debate on the floor of the House of Representatives. And she has refused to apologize. As both the WaPo and Josh Marshall ask, "Where is the outrage?"

To be sure, there is a war going on which has distracted just about everyone from idiocy on the homefront. And Cubin isn't exactly a power player like Trent Lott. However, the fact that she isn't Majority Leader should make it that much easier to punish her for her misconduct. Moreover, Cubin is from a very safe Republican district, so there is almost no risk that punishing her will benefit the Democrats.

So here's what I propose: I'd like to all prominent conservative publications and websites to insist that Cubin apologize immediately or have the GOP run a strong candidate against her in the 2004 primary. Hopefully, that will give the issue enough weight to get mainstream attention and force Frist, Hastert, etc. to condemn their fellow partisan.

I'll let y'all know if this happens.
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