@serendpitoussomnambulist wrote:
The piece by Jon Stewart was well thought through, carefully researched. It was very effective yet very very funny. Let us not forget that the last Senate Majority leader that the Republicans had was Trent Lott, a racially divisive Mississippi politician, who frequented and spoke at racist gatherings and collaborated with white supremacists.
This was not a Republican from Reagan's generation and the 60's folks – it was the last Republican Majority Leader