Posted on 12/20/2006 12:36:46 PM PST by caveat emptor
A KWANZAA CAROL starring Trent Lott as Ebenezer Scrood with Strom Thurmond, Bob Dole, Jim Jeffords, Al Sharpton and Tiny Tom Daschle
Now that Trent Lott's back in the Senate leadership this seems as good a time as ever to recall that weird moment four years ago when the Singing Senator decided to celebrate Strom Thurmond's hundredth birthday party by trying to drag all the Democrats' segregationist baggage over to the GOP. Trent quickly became the first outgoing incoming Senate Majority Leader in Congressional history. This heartrending vignette on Trent's plight by acclaimed author Charles Dickens came in the midst of his campaign to save his job and appeared in The Chicago Sun-Times on December 22nd 2002:
Bump for later savoring.
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