Alexander mulling minority whip post in Senate, replacing Lott

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 11/26/7 | Michael Collins

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Trent Lott’s decision to resign from office may open the doors for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander to win an influential leadership position in the Senate.

Aides to Alexander said today that the Maryville Republican is considering running for the minority whip position currently held by Lott. The minority whip is the Senate’s No. 2 Republican.

“Sen. Alexander is looking at all options and will be having conversations throughout the day,” said his spokesman, Lee Pitts. “We’ll be making a decision soon about what, if anything, that he plans to do.”

Alexander ran for whip last year but lost to Lott by just one vote.

[NeoCaveman]

Lamar is lame,

We want Jeff Sessions.

[K-oneTexas]

Right, we need to look to better men and better Republicans and better conservatives to be replacing Lott, not Lamar ... possibly Coburn, Cornyn, DeMint, Ensign, Inhofe, Sessions or Vitter.

I'd like to see Sessions replace Mitch McConnell.

[MarkT]

Welllll, Trent is a eunuch and so is Lame Alexander - no improvement there.

[stephenjohnbanker]

BUMP

[CalvaryJohn]

Replace one Establishment loser with another. Great.

[Rodm]

Alexander eeeYuck!

[depressed in 06]

Alexander does not have the back bone to do what must be done.

[NeoCaveman]

I agree on all but Vitter.

Great conservative, but he needs a few years to live down the whole hooker thing.

[ARE SOLE]

I agree with you but it strikes me that the Rats never take time to live anything down. Still happy to see that gay caballero Lott go. Watch him get rich now. Like all our overlords.

Regards

[padre35]

LaMarr Alexander and “whip” just do not belong in the same sentence...

Jeff Sessions sounds good, maybe John Cornyn.

[dbacks]

When hell sucks buttermilk. John Kyl!

[NeoCaveman]

Still happy to see that gay caballero Lott go. Watch him get rich now. Like all our overlords.

Hastert & Lott will probably start there own lobbying firm. Sorry excuses for Congressional "Leadership"

[Red Badger]

Great conservative, but he needs a few years to live down the whole hooker thing.

At least we KNOW he ain't gay!................

[NeoCaveman]

LaMarr Alexander and “whip” just do not belong in the same sentence...

Yes they do.

When Lamar was a governor and proposed taxing the internet I wanted to whip some sense into him.

[NeoCaveman]

At least we KNOW he ain't gay!................

Maybe we need to run him for President.

"David Vitter 2008, the straight choice".

[bert]

Although I have his circa 197? campaign poster on my wall, I’m not a gung ho supporter. He doesn’t really make it in the big leagues.

My take is that he does nothing without instructions from Howard Baker’s office

[Bahbah]

Please NOT Alexander.

[BlackElk]

Is Lott eloping with Larry Craig?

[imahawk]

A sqweeshy republican,just great.Jeff Sessions is my pick.

[JohnLongIsland]

This has to be a Scrappleface headline.

[ARE SOLE]

At least we KNOW he ain't gay!................

LOL RB! Dude should make that a part of his platform

Regards.

[TexasCajun]

Replace one Establishment loser with another. Great.

My thoughts exactly!

I'd like to see John Cornyn, he's been fighting hard against comprehensive immigration reform and securing our borders first.

[Grammy]

Great, replace one rino with another. As a Tennessean, I can say I hope someone runs against him next year. He was really pro illegal alien until we slammed his phone and email lines. I am still not sure he will vote the right way any time it comes up, so I certainly wouldn’t trust him in any position of leadership.

[TN Conserative]

amen

[TN Conserative]

I personally don’t think anyone will. Lamar has too much power and influence with the state rinos.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Oh, PLEASE, no. Lamar! the RINO needs to join Lott in retirement. Either Sessions or Dr. Coburn for Whip.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Kyl jumped the shark on shamnesty.

[BillyBoy]

>> Either Sessions or Dr. Coburn for Whip <<

Or preferably, put them both in the leadership with Coburn for Republican Leader and Sessions for Republican Whip. ;-)

[fieldmarshaldj]

Even better. Of course, Coburn is too much of an iconoclast to get him a leadership posting.