It’s not enough for Trent Lott to make an even bigger fool of himself to save his own job; he’s got to implicate all his GOP Senate colleagues in his own disgrace by implying that they’re racially insensitive for opposing affirmative action. The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes writes: “BET host Ed Gordon asked the Senate majority leader about affirmative action. In that one moment, Lott cast aside years of principled Republican race-neutral policies to save his own ass. ‘I’m for that. I’m for affirmative action and I practice it,’ he pleaded, reiterating his painful claim of having many ‘good friends’ who are black. ‘I’m an affirmative action participant.’ This is nothing less than pathetic, blatant pandering. Lott would have us believe that although one week ago he was waxing nostalgic about the days of segregation, he is now in favor of racial preference programs for minorities. But there was more. Not content to embarrass just himself, Lott once again sought to make his problem the Republican party’s problem. ‘It’s not enough for me to do things differently,’ Lott said, when asked about the GOP Senate conference meeting scheduled for January 6. ‘I’ve got to get my colleagues to join me.’”