[mkjessup]

I don't fault Lott for shutting down the process. It was in a no-win situation at that point and he was doing his best to protect the party from the mounting backlash.

Oh horsesh*t. Trent Lott wasn't worried about the mounting backlash, he's always been for Lott first, last and always. Lott has a spine of jiggly Jello (that was confirmed years later as we all witnessed his embarrassing groveling and pathetic 'apologies' on B.E.T.), all Lott had to do was to figure out a way to get the data contained in the Senate evidence room out into the public arena ('oops, looks like somebody LEAKED, gosh fellas, you know how that can happen in Washington'), and EVERYONE would have been demanding conviction in the Senate, because if any President of the 20th century was worthy of impeachment AND conviction/removal from office, it was the depraved Emperor Billigula, and Trent Lott screwed the pooch when it came to leading the Senate and getting Clinton convicted.

[CRBDeuce]

I’m sure McLame looks up to “Bendsa” Lott for his “How to be a Republican Senate ‘Leader’ for dummies” instruction book...Tho’ “Bendsa” Dole may have written an early abstract. Explains why no Republican Senator this Century has ever been President, nor should any Senator ever be president for that matter. The Senate is NOT conducive to developing Leaders.

[Badeye]

I had no use for Lott.