[Howlin]

Lott is the one who CREATED the disfunction when as majority leader he refused to lead.

Exactly. The reason we are living this hell on earth today is because of one person, trying to be chummy: Trent Lott.

Power sharing!!!! Don't ever forget!

[Miss Marple]

Besides the infamous power-sharing deal, I seem to recall that Lott rigged the voting for majority leader in 2002. It seems to me he had the vote before the new Congress took session, so that new people couldn't vote.

At the time there was talk of replacing him, so he did some sort of finagling end run and got to retain his position. Do you remember this? A lot of us were pretty upset at the time.