[ex-Texan]

*** [Lott] can only be a drag **** But it is possible for someone simultaneously to suffer unfair attacks, handle himself and his predicament poorly, and be an underwhelming political figure. Trent Lott has managed a trifecta ***

Wonder if that 'drag' comment was intended as I suspect it was? LOL LOL LOL ..... Oh, well, typical whispered D.C. rumors..... Lott is the ultimate embarassment. Trent Lott's Theme Song ought to be:

"I'm too stupid for my shirt ... I'm too stupid for my shirt .... I'm Stupid ..."

GWB must tell him to resign as Majority Leader.

[arielb]

Lott destroyed in 1 minute what Republicans have tried to build for decades. If Paul O'Neill had to go for screwing up then certainly Lott should.

[Mo1]

GWB must tell him to resign as Majority Leader

It's not up to Bush to decided .. it is up to the Republicans to make that call .. they were the ones that elected Lott

[lewislynn]

If anyone thinks he was a Democrat ass kisser before, just wait. When Lott comes back as majority leader he'll move even farther to the left...

[martin_fierro]

I see they have the same barber.

[jordan8]

If Lott is a lousy leader (and he always has been) National Review should have been leading the effort to oust him all along. Despite the 1998 article mentioned in this piece there has been no sustained effort from NR to get rid of Lott over the years. This is reminiscent of the infamous "In Search of Anti-Semitism" episode. It is shabby. In the words of another Senator from Mississippi, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, speaking on a motion to deny Jefferson Davis pension money for his service in the Mexican War:

Sir, it required no courage to do that; it required no magnanimity to do it; it required hate - bitter, malignant, sectional feeling - and a sense of personal impunity. The Gentleman, I believe, takes rank among Christian statesman. He might have learned a better lesson even from the pages of mythology. When Prometheus was bound to a rock, it was not an eagle, it was a vulture, that buried his beak in the tortured vitals of the victim.

[joyful1]

Be gone lott! You do your cause great harm!

If he wants to redeem himself and help his cause, he would have stepped down as leader by now! This guy is very very damaging!