Ah, don’t be offended. Most politicians are scumbags. Many are rednecks (hell, I have been called a redneck many times).
But in the case of Trent Lott (R Scumator Ms), the audacity is amazing. Remember last November when he announced that he was going to retire from the Senate. With a Senate Ethics Committee’s rule of registration when negotiating with a future employer, he was asked if he had done so. He explained that he hadn’t because he hadn’t made any formal plans.
LOTT: Well, I have not yet, but I’m not really involved in negotiation. I’ve tried to stay away from that. There are some opportunities out there that I want to be able to consider, but I have nothing that we’ve agreed to or lined up.
But damn, if fortune (and prophecy of Biblical proportion) didn’t miraculously smile on Trent because just this month he and former La Senator John Breaux announced that they were going to form a new lobbying group called “The Breaux Lott Leadership Group”. (God does work in mysterious ways, huh?)
But here lies the problems with calculated lies… you should not be as stupid as Lott to even attempt it. At the very least, rehearse and make sure your partner and you have the same story as you told to begin with.
On Hardball, Lott was interviewed with Breaux and said that ”It just seemed like it was time” to “leave the Senate” to form the ”bipartisan firm” with Breaux.
LOTT: Plus, John and I’d talk about the idea of getting together and forming a bipartisan firm, for years we kind of joked about it, and then it just seemed like it was time for us to see if we could do this. I think there’s going to be a big demand frankly, for someone who can talk to both sides of the aisle.
Here is the truth of the matter… Lott broke the Senate rules (as IF this ever made any difference to anyone in this country before???). He lied, lies and will continue to lie about this. Why?
Money, of course. The new rules would have kept him from lobbying for 2 years, so after his run and win for Senate in Mississippi (never having mentioned that he was considering this), he immediately lies to his constituents (and the rest of America) and does what he knows the rules will disallow. How do we know he lied? Because 6 weeks BEFORE Lott announced his retirement, his son, Chet, registered the domain name “breauxlott.com”.
The prophetic foresight of Trent’s son is “Jesus miracle” worthy…
OR
He played you people in Mississippi, just like he always has.
I hope you are proud of your very own lying, racist, Tort-reforming scumbag.