Lott Prepares for a Possible Return to Senate Leadership Role

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=au5uN4Z9n3iM&refer=us

Lott Prepares for a Possible Return to Senate Leadership Role

May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Trent Lott keeps a dog-eared piece of paper in his pocket showing which senators supported his proposal to spend $700 million to move a railroad line in his home state of Mississippi, and which opposed him.

Lott keeps the paper so he can ``pull it out and remind people who voted with me and who didn't,'' he said.

A former Senate majority leader, Lott, 64, has never stopped keeping score as he eyes a possible return to the Republican leadership after the November elections.

Lott said he might run for whip, the No. 2 job, if Mitch McConnell of Kentucky moves up to replace retiring Majority Leader Bill Frist and the No. 3 Republican, Rick Santorum, loses his tight re-election race. Lott doesn't rule out a bid for the top spot if Republicans lose so many seats in November that the caucus demands leadership changes and resists promoting McConnell.

[crizzo5137]

1. rut-ro

[saigon68]

11. The TURD floats to the surface of the Toilet Bowl.

[MadMaddie]

2. Just what we need...another corrupt fat cat Republican...

[rpannier]

3. When Lott was pushed out I didn't think the pukes could do worse

But, they did. All three cat-killer, mccorkey and satanorum are much worse than Lott.

[Dr.Phool]

4. And it only gets worse.

McConnell, Sanitarium, Stevens, Cochran. Lott almost looks like a blessing. Maybe they can find a leadership position for Bunning or that other bat-shit idiot from Oklahoma. Or Hatch!

The more I keep thinking of names of republican senators, the more I contemplate moving to Canada. And I hate cold.

[rodeodance]

6. darn, I thought he would go find his rocking chair.

[Jane Austin]

5. What a lineup.

The March of the Misfits.

I hope McConnell does move up to Majority Leader. He is such a priss.

I'll bet he reminds every normal American of somebody intolerable from their Junior High.

He could single-handedly tip the balance against Republicans forever.

[pepperbear]

7. every now and then, a man's words have to follow him

so I hope the strom thurman episode becomes the chain he "forged link by link, and yard by yard."


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anyway, doesn't he have a bright new shiny house to go to on the gulf?

[Hawkeye-X]

8. He can keep on dreaming about Majority Leader..

He'll be stuck as a Minority Leader for the next oh, say, 20 years until the fossilized skeleton decides to retire.

[MADem]

9. He really doesn't care what's in front of the word LEADER

I've been saying this for eons, he wants that job back. And I'll bet he might get it, McConnell notwithstanding. He's bidin' his time....

One thing about Trent, he's a pragmatist. And he doesn't burn bridges. It's not an accident that the first Senator to call and offer him help after Katrina was none other than John Kerry, who sent him a planeload of stuff.

He knows how to make deals and compromise. A lot of that partisan bluster is more for the cameras than anything else; the Senate being a more collegial atmosphere (or it USED to be, pre-Bush) than the House. Frist, on the other hand, is a bridge burner extraordinaire...

[truthisfreedom]

10. isn't he still in the middle of court cases?

[w4rma]

12. LOL! You can't make this $#!^ up!

:rofl: :spray: :popcorn: