[ewing]

There is the just created Deptartment of Homeland Security Chairmanship without a Senator to staff it..

And Lott being 14th in line in Seniority (out of 13 chairs now) would be a good pick for the job.

[Right Wing Professor]

There is the just created Deptartment of Homeland Security Chairmanship without a Senator to staff it.. And Lott being 14th in line in Seniority (out of 13 chairs now) would be a good pick for the job.

Excellent, excellent idea. Homeland Security will be about as far away from racial issues as it could be (except for profiling of Muslims, and I can't believe that's a losing issue for the GOP). And Trent can convince himself it's a post of enormous national importance. It lets him save face, and it gets him out of the way.