Posted on 12/19/2007 10:49:05 AM PST by MplsSteve
Sen. Trent Lott retired from Congress late Tuesday with characteristic flair, making public with 16 minutes' notice that he would relinquish his seat when the Senate closed for business.
A press release issued by his office at 11:49 p.m. said Lott would not return to work Wednesday. The Senate turned out the lights at 12:05 a.m.
Lott spokesman Lee Youngblood said the formal announcement came so late because Lott had to resign at least a day before the Senate recesses, which could be as early as Wednesday, but wanted to vote on important bills that were being considered well into the night.
In a 35-year career, Lott, 66, rose from the Republican ranks of the House to the helm of the Senate, was toppled by his own racially insensitive remark in 2002 and reinstated as a GOP leader four years later by the thinnest of margins _ winning by one vote in a last-minute bid to be the vote-counting Republican whip.
It was one of his favorite jobs. Lott, who kept at least one bullwhip in his office, seemed to relish a job others have loathed: rounding up votes in a chamber of outsized egos. But with Republicans likely to lose seats in the next election and stay in the minority, Lott said he was ready to go. One of Congress' jolliest and most effective deal-cutters, Lott sounded tired of the bitterness that ruled the chamber this year when he announced his retirement last month.
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I agree, I also (after reviewing many FR threads) completely understand why no one sane would go into politics; just look how people on the same side as he is react to a man that has worked for the republican cause for a generation.
Adios Amigo!
I was wondering if Lott has a wide stance.
As a going away gift would someone please give him a spine
“Taxed2Death said it was Trent Lott that promised the border fence money would be gutted.”
I might be wrong...perhaps another Freeper can correct me...but I recall him making a VERY smug remark re: amnesty being shoved down our throats.... I think it was Lott who bragged that all of the security measures (including funding for the wall) would be stripped from the Shamnesty bill.
I’m First!?!
LOL BTTT
A book by Trent Lott trashing the GOP, which will be the hit of every liberal media outlet.
Heard it here first.
Your recall does sound familiar. And, if that is an accurate recall, I bet the border fence gutting buried in the Consolidated Appropriations Act is related!
Lott’s few career accomplishments were overshadowed by his numerous lapses into nonsense.
Nope. He announced this a couple months ago and the likely reason is that Senate rules for the no lobbying period after leaving is going from one to two years as of January 1st. He can get on the K Street gravy train at the end of 2008 instead of having to wait until 2010 if he left two weeks later.
>> Good riddance.
+1
He retired early to beat new lobbying restrictions, right?
What a piece of work.
Trentie talks a good game, but has no substance. I remember going to a Lion's Club Youth Political Camp in High School. A young Representative named Trent Lott was the speaker. I asked him about the Neutron Bomb (big issue back in 1978). He gave me a nice long answer (prefaced by "That's a good question"), and I was happy...until some other guy told me, "He never answered your question". If he was a truly principled Conservative, he'd have come out strongly for it.
I can tell you he's a political animal, more concerned with process than principle. The only reason Trent Lott was a Conservative was because he was elected to the House in 1972 from the Mississippi Gulf coast, the most conservative district in the State.
If he were elected to the House from San Francisco, he'd have hair down to his a$$, a "special friend" named Raoul, and he'd be the most leftist member of Congress.
He lost me when he voted for the Chemical Weapons Treaty Clinton was pushing. I know it was more symbolism than anything, but as Senate Majority Leader he had a chance to stick it to Clinton, but instead just rolled over and hoped he'd get scratched by the Democrats. When he started as Majority Leader, the GOP was on the verge of a Filibuster-proof Senate. By the time he was booted as Leader, the Dems had regained dominance.
Besides the fact he's a never-worked-in-the-private-sector-a-day-in-his-life Washington weasel, he was also an Ole Miss cheerleader.....GO DAWGS! GO TO HELL OLE MISS!
Bye...
>>>He announced this a couple months ago
Where did it say that in the article?
Good bye, so long, get the hell out and stay gone. Just another RINO down the drain. Now I guess Mississippi will rush to vote in a Marxist Dimocrat to replace him.
See ya later Trent. Bye.
No Loss!
Well bye! Don’t let the door hitcha where the Good Lord slitcha.
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