This entry was posted on 11/15/2006 1:18 PM and is filed under All Posts.
He's been elected to the GOP leadership again, this time as Senate Minority Whip. For Mr. Lott, that really is an unfortunate job title.
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the No. 2 post Wednesday for the minority GOP in the next Congress.
Lott, who was pressured to step down from the Senate's top spot over four years ago, returned to the center of power by nosing out Sen. Lamar Alexander, who had made an 18-month bid for the post.
His victory over Alexander showcases Lott's lobbying and vote-counting skills. Both men spent the night before intensely lobbying colleagues on the Senate floor — with Lott, also a former whip, casting himself as the candidate more adept at dealmaking and Alexander pledging to be a morale-booster to a caucus still smarting over the midterm elections.
Whether or not you write Lott off as a bigoted, Dixiecrat throwback, I think his ascendancy today is a shrewd move by the GOP. Senate Republicans already had a "morale-booster" as leader for the last 4 years: outgoing Sen. Bill Frist, arguably the most inept majority leader in modern history.
Enough Republicans watched Harry Reid outfox Frist time and time again to learn that it's better to have a parliamentary tactician like Lott running the floor—especially when you're in the minority—than a perfectly-groomed, cheerfully smiling cadaver.
11/16/2006 10:45 AM
Smith, Paul wrote:
Alexander's staff was the one that mastemidned the Racial Slur against Ford. His rain a Gov was most partisan The two anti minoritie Sen along with lone Corkers should work well together. Even Corker preacher indorsed Ford he was so bad in Chattanooga & he lost his home town, even. Reply to this
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