Too many hat-tips to dole out, so I’ll just choose one at “random” – Michelle
Trent Lott is back in power. By a 25-24 vote, he edged out Lamar Alexander for minority whip, the #2 position in the Senate.
Personally, I would have left the position open like they did between 1937 and 1946. Alexander just proved how worthless he is at getting votes, the main job of a whip. While Lott was a moderately-successful whip back in 1995-1996, he has been caving to the ‘Rats ever since he assumed the “leadership” position. Just a couple of gems from Lott:
- He couldn’t get 51 of 55 Pubbie Senators to convict Bill Clinton on either of the impeachment charges tried in the Senate in 1999.
- On the Tony Snow radio show in 2005, when describing why he wouldn’t accept criticism from Pubbies for working with ‘Rats, he said, “(T)hey’re the same ones who threw me overboard. I’m free. I don’t have to work with them anymore.”
I don’t know if there’s enough Maalox in the world to fix this bleeding ulcer.
