Lott Settles Scores

Yahoo! News reports The Senate is crammed with "lone wolves and immense egos,"

That is true. It contans 100 people who think they know enough to be President. Fortunately for the country, it usually knows better than to elect a Senator to be President.

former Majority Leader Trent Lott writes in a memoir that settles a few scores with fellow Republicans and recounts an improbable partnership with a Democratic president. In "Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics," Lott wrote that Sen. Bill Frist, his successor as majority leader, was one of the "main manipulators" in the events that resulted in his own loss of power.

Did Bill Frist control Lott's mouth? He got in trouble for what he said, not for what anyone else did or did not do.

Lott lost his post in 2002 after making racially tinged remarks at a 100th birthday party for one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond.

"Frist's actions amounted to a "personal betrayal," Lott wrote. "I had taken him under my wing. ... He was my protege. ... We'd been friends off and on the floor, and that's pretty rare in a governmental body loaded with lone wolves and enormous egos."

In what way did Frist's actions betray you? He did not make you say what you said, did he?

Amy Call, a spokeswoman for Frist, R-Tenn., said the senator "hasn't read the book, so he can't comment directly, but he always appreciates Senator Lott's advice." President Bush also played a role in his downfall, Lott wrote, not so much with what he said, but by saying it in a tone that was"devastating ... booming and nasty." Colin Powell damaged his chances, Lott wrote. "That one hurt," he added, saying he once had prevailed on the president to name the former secretary of state's son to the Federal Communications Commission.

Did Lott expect Bush to praise him, in a nice "tone", for what he said? And because he helped Powell's sone get a job did he expect Powell to excuse what he said?

It looks to me like Lott wants to be certain that he does not get the Majority Leader slot back when Frist runs for President.