Senate Unveils Trent Lott Portrait

[LuvNewcastle]

ASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., did what few politicians could accomplish yesterday – bring together former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and current Democratic and Republican Senate leaders in a bipartisan show of force for the most genteel of occasions – the unveiling of Lott' portrait in the U.S. Capitol' ornate old Senate chamber.

A buoyant Lott joked "all my friends are referring to it as my hanging," just before the event, which was a family reunion for the Lott family, his current and past Senate and House colleagues and Lott’s staff over his 35 years of public life, including one-time staffers Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and former Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss.

All eyes, however, were on the three who in the late 1990s were the most powerful figures in the country -- the president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader.

Gingrich said that "the three of us" - he and Clinton and Lott – "came out of nowhere and couldn't believe it when we got here and were confused by the experience."

Clinton, who was introduced by Gingrich, was the big scene-stealer, saying, "I'm still wondering what I'm doing here.”

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/75557.html

[Arkana]

1. I'd like to hang that racist old fuck, all right--from the nearest tree.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Me too.

He's a lobbyist now, you know.:puke:

[Arkana]

3. For what?

Greasy McFuck Enterprises?

[LuvNewcastle]

5. LOL

He's in a firm with former LA Senator Breaux. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/04/trent_lott_man_of_the_people_f.html

[Mari333]

4. he's a hunka burnin love says the GOP ladies

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Jeezus!

That guy looks just like him. The King is spinning in his grave!

[JBoy]

7. Would be easy to make an action figure out of him. Already got plastic hair.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Trent Lott's portrait?

[gratuitous]

9. Is he sitting on his porch?

Another broken promise from the Bush administration.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. It's been four years and, as far as I know,

that house still hasn't been rebuilt. I guess he and his wife are living exclusively in Washington now.