In Senate, it�s d�j� vu all over again on Voting Rights Act extension

This is freakin' pathetic that we find ourselves back here again, under this Republican controlled government.

In a half-way conscious public, this should be causing riots.

This whole bloody mess could errupt big time in November.

In Senate, it�s d�j� vu all over again on Voting Rights Act extension:

"An extension of the Voting Rights Act is running into some of the same objections in the Senate that it faces in the House, where the bill was pulled from the floor schedule last week after rank-and-file Republicans rebelled against their leadership.

Southern Senate conservatives are raising concerns about reauthorizing Section 5 of the law, which requires jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination to pre-clear voting-law changes with the Justice Department. Some Southerners argue that the requirement is unnecessarily onerous and that their states should not be singled out in perpetuity.

'Our part of the country, no matter how good we do, we're going to be treated differently than the rest of the country,' said Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.).

Lott, one of two current senators who cast a vote against the 1982 extension of the original 1965 law, said he would most likely support the bill but did not commit to doing so."

Well, gee whiz, this is rich, ccoming from Strom Thurmond suck-up, Lott.