If it’s not about Star Jones, I don’t want to hear about it. Today, Friday June 30th 2006, is dedicated to you Star.

As Senate Majority Leader Frist prepares to run for the Presidency, chatter has increased on Capitol Hill surrounding who will replace him if the Republicans manage to hold the majority in the Senate in 2006.

Former leader Trent Lott from Mississippi is looking like he could make a comeback to get his old job back. This, my friends, would not be good for America.

From The Hill:

The prospect of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) returning to leadership next year is creating more and more buzz on and off Capitol Hill, Republican insiders say.

The higher volume of talk has been fueled partly by his former aides who hold influential lobbying positions downtown, but prominent GOP insiders with no special allegiance to Lott say it extends well beyond his inner circle.

Perhaps by coincidence, Senate Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has recently sought a more public leadership role, appearing more often before television cameras set up outside the GOP conference’s Tuesday luncheons, and has otherwise made himself more available to the press.

If Lott were to return he would have to challenge one of several colleagues for a leadership post. At the end of last year, he said he could challenge McConnell’s bid to become majority leader, but he has since backed away from that threat.

Lott resigned his post in 2002 after some pretty inappropriate comments at Strom Thurmond’s 145th birthday party.

“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either,” Lott said at last week’s party.”

The United States Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made it illegal to “desecrate” the American flag. The effort, led by the Republicans in the Senate, marked another failed attempt for the Grand Old Party to throw red meat at its base in an attempt to make them forget that, well, they’ve failed at leading this country over the past six years.

From the WaPo:

The 66 to 34 vote fell just short of the two-thirds majority required to approve a constitutional amendment and submit it to the states for ratification. It marked the latest setback for congressional attempts to supersede Supreme Court decisions in 1989 and 1990. Justices narrowly ruled that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech under the First Amendment.

Personally, I am glad that the GOP is standing up and trying to make it illegal for Americans to deface the flag. The flag, after all, is a symbol of freedom and freedom (as you know) is on the march. It’s the Democrats who are the ones who want to burn their bras, flags, and bibles and that is just wrong.

Wait, hold on. One second…

Oh, ok. Breaking news from the GOP…

Ah, turns out they’re against defacing the flag UNLESS it’s Kid Rock who was invited to perform at the 2004 RNC convention in New York City!

Hypocrites.

A U.S. Marine who was featured in Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9-11” has been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq the AP is reporting.

Plouhar, who was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had taken four years off from active duty to serve as a recruiter in Flint after donating one of his kidneys to his uncle. He is seen in the 2004 film approaching prospective recruits in a mall parking lot.

Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar