Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott hospitalized
Source: Reuters
By Emily Le Coz
JACKSON, Mississippi | Thu Aug 8, 2013 9:21pm EDT
(Reuters) - Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is being treated in a Mississippi hospital for a ruptured appendix, a former aide said on Thursday.
Mississippi radio station WLOX said Lott, 71, was in fair condition. Supervisor Chris Nail at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, confirmed that Lott was a patient but declined to disclose any details, citing patient privacy rights.
Lott's former aide, Lee Youngblood, said he spoke to the former Senator's family members, who told him Lott's appendix had burst.
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only because of Karma. 
(oh, how well I remember that charming scene at lott's house)
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On Friday, 67 House Republicans voted against $9 billion in funding to replenish FEMA's flood insurance program in the wake of super storm Sandy. Among those naysayers were five Gulf State Congressmen including Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo, whose 4th District was one of the most extensively damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Of course, back then, no one from the Mississippi delegation was demanding a "relief package that includes spending offsets" from elsewhere in the budget. Led by Senator Trent Lott, Mississippi secured billions in aid from Washington.
On September 5, 2005--six days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast--Senator Lott declared, "I am demanding help for Mississippi." He need not have worried. After all, Congress rushed passage on an initial $10.5 billion aid package, funds blessed by the House in a voice vote. As President Bush explained at the time, "I want to thank the Congress for acting as quickly as you did, but I've got go to warn everybody that's just the beginning."
And that beginning would begin at home. Trent Lott's home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, that is. As President Bush announced on September 2, 2005:
"We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ... The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."
For his part, Lott took matters into his own hands. When his insurer State Farm refused to pay his claim for the destruction of his home, the legendary foe of trial lawyers turned plaintiff. He won a settlement against the company two years later. Nevertheless, he continued his attack on the "venal people" of the insurance industry. "I'm like a woman scorned,'' Lott said. "I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people."
If Mississippians like Trent Lott ran into problems with the insurance industry after Katrina, the Bush administration and Congress greeted them with open arms and open wallets. As the AP reported on September 6, 2005, "Mississippi politicians in position to direct flow of aid; State figures are well placed on committees, in good standing with Bush." In addition to Lott, the AP explained:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/05/1176605/-A-modest-proposal-The-Trent-Lott-Super-Storm-Sandy-Relief-Act#
