Look Who's Talking About Making a Comeback in the Senate

[Judi Lynn]

Look Who's Talking About Making a Comeback in the Senate

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: November 27, 2005

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 - Trent Lott is talking again - and again and again and again.

It has been three years since White House officials and some Senate Republicans orchestrated Mr. Lott's ouster as Senate majority leader amid an uproar over racially insensitive remarks. Now, as he contemplates his future, Mr. Lott is tweaking the Republican elite at every turn and jangling the nerves of official Washington as never before.

As he ponders re-election next year, Mr. Lott, Republican of Mississippi, is also dropping hints about a possible bid for a return to the Senate leadership. Democrats are enjoying the show. Some Republicans are cringing, but others are eyeing Mr. Lott with some appreciation.

During an appearance last weekend at the University of Mississippi, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, predicted that Lott would become Republican leader again, adding, "I will tell anyone that of all the majority leaders we've had in the United States Senate, I believe that Trent Lott was the finest leader we've had."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/politics/27lott.html

[babylonsister]

1. McCain's mouth must get tired from being opened wide

continually.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

2. This just in - McCain willing to whore for anyone.

If the repugs turn back to Lott they are desperate.

[punpirate]

3. These photos...

... must be retouched. McCain's had his nose buried so deeply in so many asses that it must be permanently stained brown.

Talk about naked ambition.

[sallyseven]

4. Lott at least compromised

with the democrats. Not like kitty killer or newt Gingrich. Hastert is scum. None of them are any good but he is better than the rest of them.

[punpirate]

7. Somehow, I find that very, very...

... funny--an openly racist ideological Republican asshole gets points over other Republican assholes because he occasionally deigns to compromise with Democrats (which I have some doubts about--if there was any spirit of compromise in Lott, it rose to the surface rather infrequently). :) Sort of like all the Republicans strung out on the x-axis and Lott is still negative, but a bit closer to zero than the rest. :)

[Drum]

5. Wow...McCain

really makes it hard for us to have the sympathy and admiration that we should for someone who went through the hell that he did.
Doesn't he realize that the handle on his head (aka rubber stamp) doesn't disappear at will? He still wears the stink of his recent betrayals of folks who trusted him, and probably always will....

As for Lott, who cares...he's too tainted as well, like Newt...whatever happened to THAT comeback? Leave 'em in the dustbin...there are plenty of up-n-comers emerging yearly...that older edition is shelved.

[itzamirakul]

9. No longer any such thing as being "too tainted..."

I, like you, used to believe that it was possible for a "leader" to become "too tainted" to be reinstated in the public trust. But after Nixon's lying men became television and radio stars and consultants and respected men, AFTER COMMITTING TREASON WITH NIXON, I realized that no such thing is possible. All a person has to say is "I'm sorry" and whether or not they actually mean it, they are accepted once again into the fold. (That is, if they were important enough in the first place and had enough friends in high places.)

The only person in recent history who has NOT been forgiven for an indiscretion is Monica Lewinsky. Even Bill has been allowed to wallow in the halo of ex-prsidency, while she who serviced him has found it necessary to leave the country to gain at least a little privacy and peace of mind. While she lived here in NYC, she was followed by and constantly harrassed by the papparazi. She would go out to a restaurant for dinner and other dinner guests would openly point at her and laugh and make loud, unpleasant remarks. Yet Bill can go wherever he pleases and he is accepted as a hero.

Men like Newt Ginrich and some of the others who were outed as philanderers during Clinton's impeachment are still seen as guest speakers on talk shows and treated with a great deal of respect. I have heard of none of them being treated as Lewinsky has been while dining out. I am not sure if it is a gender thing or not...but it is something to think about.

I honestly believe that no man, with the right connections, can be too tainted to resume his place in business or politics if he just waits long enough for the inital furor to die down.

[Leilani]

6. Whether you like Lott or not,

he was effective.

Not long ago it came out that he was pretty close to Bill Clinton.

Frist, on the other hand, is an idiot.

McCain is right...Lott was a good leader.

[opihimoimoi]

8. But Trent is now over the HILL...stained by Foot in Mouth Disease..

whether he comes back or not...the Pubs have been weakened big time by the antics of BushCo..

[leftofthedial]

10. he's gon' be sittin on his porch in Miss'ippi

watchin' the darkies and po' people pick his cotton

and it's gon' be a better than ever porch too