Trent Gets Ready to Rumble
Trent Lott hates Bill Frist. Remember Frist? Senate majority leader? God's Diagnostician?
Trent's been pissed off for a while: first Frist swiped his leadership position after the Strom 100th birthday kerfuffle, then the big, bad hurricane blew his house down (Frist must have prayed hard for that one).
Now that Trent has announced he'll seek a fourth term, it's almost certain he'll challenge Frist for his old position. While we have no love for Frist, why would anybody (or any body) want to be led by a guy who irons his shirts after they come back from the cleaners and won't let one type of food touch another on his plate? And what about his misty reverence for segregation? That could be important ...
tags: trent lott bill frist right wing
I thought Frist was "retiring."
Also the Lott Hurricane thing had something to do with God. There is something in Kings 1 about God smiting your summer home if you do something bad or something.
Posted by: Crackpot Press | January 18, 2006 at 08:13 AM
Well, if I had to choose between Frist and Lott, I'd go with Lott. He's a stand up guy.
Posted by: comandante agi | January 18, 2006 at 08:37 AM
I bet you'd like to sit out on his new porch and have a lemonade as well, Agi!
Posted by: Chasingdogma | January 18, 2006 at 09:02 AM
You know that things are bad when you find yourself choosing between Bill Frist and Trent "segregation was neat-o" Lott.
Posted by: Marie Antoinette | January 18, 2006 at 10:39 AM
... that shit though when everyone was boo-hooing that rat bastards 'gulf coast' home... made me sick.
You just made me all angry all over again today, blogenfreude! Since you dared disobey my directive, I was forced to mock Nagin all in my lonesome. However, the result of photo editing was that I found him to be kind of sexy toward the end...thats what passes for excitement around here I guess.
Posted by: Lily | January 18, 2006 at 11:03 AM
The Republican Senate needs Lott more than ever. Put some spine back into those wimps who won't stand up to those evil l'bruls. Hell why wait for a filibuster to explode the "nuclear option"?
Posted by: Kvatch | January 18, 2006 at 11:54 AM
My lord, the man has an advanced case of OCD if he's doing those things you mentioned. While I feel most people have some disorder or another, that's a bit frightening (OCD is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, for those not in the know). Both of the examples are extreme OCD. Whew!
Posted by: HelenWheels | January 18, 2006 at 01:02 PM
I have to give Lott a couple of snaps for refusing to take the bait yesterday on Hardball. Chris Matthews was foaming at the mouth about Hillary saying "plantation", and he did his best to get Lott to denounce her. It didn't work.
Otherwise, he comes across as smarmy, and he's been in Washington way too long.
Posted by: Kathy | January 18, 2006 at 02:38 PM
Chasingdogma,
Fuck the lemonade. I'm gonna drink pure Mississippi Moonshine on his porch. President Bush will be there standing right next to the lawn jockey!
Posted by: comandante agi | January 18, 2006 at 03:32 PM
God's diagnostician? Oy, I needed that laugh.
Posted by: The Heretik | January 18, 2006 at 05:51 PM
And that vinyl hairdo---Jeeze! M
Posted by: mandt | January 18, 2006 at 06:53 PM
I almost forgot about Lott. I loved in when said that he was trying to help poor people. Um, yea what the oil companies that only have one mansion?
Posted by: catherine | January 19, 2006 at 11:43 AM