Former GOP Senate leader Trent Lott may quit after Katrina(Raw Story)

[laststeamtrain]

Hurricane Katrina's destruction of the Gulf Coast region is factoring into Sen. Trent Lott's (R-MS) decision about whether to seek a fourth term, as he weighs his own family's financial situation with the dire needs of many of his constituents and neighbors, Roll Call's Mark Preston will report in Thursday's editions, RAW STORY has learned.
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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Former_GOP_Senate__leader_Trent_Lott_may_quit_after_K_0914.html

I got dibs on the hair. Unless the Smithsonian already does.

[Arkana]

1. Won't be sorry to see him go--the Senate will be better off.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Good. Please step down. An open seat in a pissed off state

would be nice.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Cry Me A Hurricane Trent.....

Go rebuild your house so Shrub can come and visit. LOSER!

[willing dwarf]

4. Mr Lobbyist

S'ppose he could make a Lott more by being an official deal broker on whatever contracts Haliburton left on the table...

[Cobalt Violet]

9. Sure He could change his name to Trent Loot.

[Liberty Belle]

5. He ought to go out with a bang--by introducing an impeachment

resolution against Bush. You'd think losing your own house would be enough to make one rethink loyalties to a party that caused so much misery for so many.

[willing dwarf]

6. Creak creak, I can hear them rockers squeak...

Then they'd have lots of time to enjoy lemonade together on his own front porch...once Bush finished doing time at the Hague of course.

[longship]

8. Ooops! Not in the Senate.

The House of Reps has sole impeachment authority. The Senate has *no* power to impeach.

[rateyes]

11. Well, then, he could hang around long enough

to vote "guilty," and be one of the crossovers that makes * the first to be impeached and removed from office.

[longship]

15. Yes, that could happen.

Sorry about the correction, but I'm a bit of a stickler on Constitutional division of labor.

If RugHead goes, it certainly could figure into an important switch if the new MS Jr Senator was a D.

I really see the Dems taking back both houses. But first they need to insure that by all getting spine transplants. I know what will happen, and that will be suitable. The Black Caucus is carrying the water for the Dems right now. They have things started now. Waters, Jackson-Lee, Conyers, et al have started an inquiry, the first step to impeachment. The Repugs have to allow this. If *'s poll #'s continue their plunge, which is highly likely, some of this is going to catch. If Fitzgerald comes through (rumors and timing says he will), or any other scandal catches up with the neocons, a reckoning will complete the turn-around.

We're already beyond the tipping point, maybe way beyond. Cindy Sheehan saw to that. Katrina pushed things over in a huge way. By the time the dust settles, it will be cover over the scant vestiges of the Bush administration.

The GOP is dead. They don't know it yet. But they are finished as a political entity.

When all is said and done, the country is going to owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Congressional Black Caucus, the patriots who kept and protected the conscience of a nation while the rest of us forgot what it meant to be patriots.

[rateyes]

19. From your mouth to God's ears!

Let it be so!

[struggle4progress]

7. Trent will be a great addition to the dustbin of history. eom

[longship]

10. The Rug is retiring? Good.

Maybe we can get a Blue Dog in there. Or, better yet, a Yellow Dog.

Take back the Senate!!!

[eleny]

12. More money to be made lobbying, you suppose?

[Raster]

13. that new porch ain't cheap

[koopie57]

14. I think he knows he has no chance of winning

and doesn't want to be made a fool of.

[sarcasmo]

16. This is to good to be true.

[mitchleary]

17. Too bad

Trent could not be like he was on the Daily Show, he resembled a human being.

[triguy46]

18. Gotta get a-buildin'!!!!

El Presidente is comin' for a visit, need to get the porch built of my grand new mansion that he promised me, the one that will inspire a nation and symbolize what this country is about, (the rich getting richer).