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'm not sorry to see Lott go. He becamse a king of earmarks and his attitude towards GOP activists was, at best, condescending.
I hope the GOP can retain his seat with someone who will uphold real GOP values.
Comments or opinions - anyone?
Don’t let the door....
I’m First!?!
Good riddance.
Please oh please....go away.
Now if he would only take Larry Craig with him...
Saw this the first post late last night just before going to bed. My thoughts were simply “Oh...OK...Buh bye, and good riddance.”
Yep! I was thinking the same thing!
Sayonara, Buckwheat!
Lott has done some good things in hi career. But his nonsense on amnesty was enough for me.
Taxed2Death said it was Trent Lott that promised the border fence money would be gutted.
Is that recall correct?
Is THIS why Lott had to retire, real quick?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941047/posts
Omnibus Bill Includes Border Fence-Gutting Amendment (This is outrageous!!!)
Don’t go away mad Chester - just go away...
I think deep down he’s a good guy, but he’s been in Washington way too long.
Too bad he didn’t retire 20 years ago.
Say Bye!
Well I guess I have recieved my last Christmas card from the RINO!
We need Wicker.
I’m thinking this might be the first of some hefty fireworks.
He’s been in the Senate since ‘88 and before that, he was in the House since 1972.
That’s definitely too long.
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