Trent Lott Settles Old Scores With Republicans, Talks of Bond With Clinton

[steve2470]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVORNNICE.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is crammed with "lone wolves and immense egos," former Majority Leader Trent Lott writes in a memoir that settles a few scores with fellow Republicans and recounts an improbable partnership with a Democratic president.

In "Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics," Lott wrote that Sen. Bill Frist, his successor as majority leader, was one of the "main manipulators" in the events that resulted in his own loss of power. Lott lost his post in 2002 after making racially tinged remarks at a 100th birthday party for one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.

"Frist's actions amounted to a "personal betrayal," Lott wrote. "I had taken him under my wing. ... He was my protege. ... We'd been friends off and on the floor, and that's pretty rare in a governmental body loaded with lone wolves and enormous egos."

Amy Call, a spokeswoman for Frist, R-Tenn., said the senator "hasn't read the book, so he can't comment directly, but he always appreciates Senator Lott's advice."

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[Darkhawk32]

1. And the eating of their own begins... GREAT!!

:rofl:

[Kolesar]

2. Lott describing zen

Sometimes, he recalled, Clinton would call late at night. "I seemed to offer some sort of rare zen role for Clinton - the careful listener on the other end of the line who politely acknowledged the high-level ramblings of the commander in chief, and just as promptly forgot them."

Whatever.

[chaumont58]

3. The Senate is crammed with "lone wolves and immense egos,"

No shit, sherlock! The first line of the article is funny. Trent Lott: Master of the Obvious.

[AlCzervik]

4. I wonder if the name of his book is a swipe at Frist

"Herding cats"

[noonwitch]

10. I don't know, but it is a good title for a book about politics

I'm not a Lott fan or anything, but whoever thought up the title did good.

[bunkerbuster1]

11. Well, there's certainly no reason for US not to think so.

good catch, I hadn't even thought of that.

[pnorman]

5. Interesting, but for far less valid reasons,

He's also enraged at the "personal betrayal" of Senator Jim Jeffords (who left the Reptilican Party, thereby taking Majority Leader position from that Party).

pnorman

[gratuitous]

6. Wakey, wakey Trent!

Gee, we've been saying that about Republicans for YEARS. Nice to see Republican corruption confirmed at the highest levels by one of its foremost practitioners.

[charlie]

7. He and Gingrich

oughta form a Coup Survivors group, hold hands and weep it out. Thank goodness each has found a Clinton to bond to.

[Crankie Avalon]

8. So he still goes around saying Clinton should have been removed...

...for lying about extramarital sex, but he voted against Nixon's impeachment for real, actual abuses of power?????

OK. Trent Lott, a real statesman...not an honorless, worthless, partisan political hack, at all. :eyes: :puke:

[havocmom]

9. And let's not forget, still blaming everybody else for his own demise.

Somebody needs to form Responsibility Shirkers Anonymous for these whiny tantrum throwing blowhards.

[UTUSN]

12. Delicious. How Can He Function Having Slammed EVERYone

Seems like he would pretty much be without a co-sponsor for ANYTHING. As for JEFFORDS seeking projects for Vermont, oh, not like LOTT loading up Mississippi with military dollars. Here he is spilling his guts about betraying his own party's nominee, then whining - whining - whining about how HE was betrayed. Not that I want him to stop, mind you. Will there be a book tour? I want to see him on ALL the cable yak circuses.


Here's another version with a couple of different details:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5217325,00.html
Lott Accuses Frist of 'Personal Betrayal'

On Edit: Oh, and he thinks CLINTON should have been removed (despite having a relationship with him), but he voted against NIXON's impeachment. Got it.