Trent Lott is feeling frisky. He is salivating at the thought that Bill Frist (GOP #1) is leaving the Senate in disgrace, that Rick Santorum (GOP #3) is so far down in the polls, and that the Republicans might take such a severe beating in November that Mitch McConnell (GOP #2) could lose the opportunity to replace Frist as (now) minority leader. It would be a perfect storm that might just allow Lott to retake his position as the leader of his GOoPer caucus.
Lott doesn’t rule out a bid for the top spot if Republicans lose so many seats in November that the caucus demands leadership changes and resists promoting McConnell.
“So much of it depends on how things go the rest of the year, how elections go, what my temperament is later on,” Lott said. “Certainly, I’m keeping those options open.”
Lott is still pissed off at Bill Frist.
Lott, in his book…made clear that he saw Frist, 54, as an opportunist for moving to replace him. Lott said he saw the “power grab as a personal betrayal.”
Lott should be careful, though. Today’s Washington Post reveals that Bill Frist is more than just a cat-killer. He’s a dog killer, too. And he’ll cut out your heart…
In medical school, Frist cut out a dog’s heart and held it in his palm. It continued to beat for a slippery minute.
“Watching it beat, the beauty of it,” Frist recalled. “I decided I would spend my life centered around the heart.”
The beauty of it is the total decimation of the Republican leadership. It’s so bad that Lott actually thinks his segregationist ass has a chance to rise again. I hope he succeeds. Who needs Mitch McConnell’s ugly mug staring us down every damn night on television? Let’s stick with bad hair.
