With the election this week of Trent Lott as the number two Republican in the Senate, the GOP has once again proved that it is unwilling to move into the 21st century. Lott, the authoritarian, white, christian, male epitomises the mid 20th century mindset of the segregationist south.

The Republican Party has failed to get the message of the recent election cycle; America is moving forward. The conservative agenda is no longer operative, and yet, the Republican Party clings to it. They are deeply mired in an ideology that no longer reflects our country.

When Karl Rove engineered a takeover of the federal government in 2000 they made a huge miscalculation. They started to believe that the unreal numbers they had generated were in fact real. They were not, they never were, America was never that conservative. What the Republicans had done was to suppress the vote, demonize Al Gore, corrupt the count and use their political hacks on the Supreme Court to make it appear as though George W. Bush had won the election. George W. Bush then ran out and claimed a mandate.

Bush never had a mandate, he had extremely talented political operatives who managed to keep him and the Republicans in power for the past 6 years, that's all. Now in 2006 we see the results of the failed Bush Administration. The people have registered a mandate to the Democrats. Get rid of the Republican agenda that has put our lives, our security, our freedoms and our prosperity at grave risk.

The Republican's answer to this mandate given to the Democrats is to revert to form. Appoint the argueably racist, Trent Lott to the Senate minority leadership. That is why I have taken it upon myself to develop a new logo for the GOP; a dinosaur...

God willing the dysfunctional Republican Party of the mid 20th century will soon be as extinct as is their new, unsolicited, mascot. But there is hope for the Republicans, as we all know, decaying dinosaur fossils generates oil and Republicans just love oil.