Screw all the spin, Lott is giving up.

He threw in the towel.

Sure he may put in a few days a month as a lobbyist, that's the spin, but in reality he knows the GOP is in the toilet and destined for a long run as the minority party, maybe decades worth. What possible reason is there for him to stay?

I think the Republicans are quitting. Let's hope it becomes a trend.

Ever. They will always being trying to get back on top by whatever means they can find.

:hi: It's already a trend. I think we're up to 16? 18? repukes resigning?

The Old Guard and even a few younger ones are jumping ship.

Between the Abramhof (sp?)/Cunningham/Delay/Stephens/Palfry, etc... associations, the exposure of electronic election fraud, KKKarl no longer having "the math", Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, the current bunch won't live long enough to regain the privileges they lost last year. And that's discounting any upcoming or continuing investigations.

"Republics Gone Wild" doesn't begin to describe what's happened to the GOP since '92 and, finally, enough of the American people realize they've been had that the message is beginning to get through to the sexually repressed, sexually deviant hypocrites that have been running things on the hill. We're not going to take it anymore and enough of us are demanding payback for what they've allowed to happen to the country under their watch.

He's gettin' out while the gettin's good.

that mandates a one or two year time period (can't remember the exact details, but it's in another thread about Lott's retirement) before a member of Congress can take a job as a lobbyist.

Trent Lott is resigning now so he can get in under the wire.

wait 2 years kicks in on jan. 1

so he's got to get out before then

and that he stands to recoup beaucoup bucks by going private now. This Admin is doing everything possible to ensure their big corporate buddies land in the big money time before they hand over power to the next bunch of greedy thugs. Lott knows that his bread and butter hangs with BFEE, and he's putting himself out there as their employee instead of as a poorly paid govt lackey.

He's not quitting because the GOP is in the toilet, mark my words. He is quitting cause he needs to be out before lobbying reform hits the streets in '08, and BFEE pays a shit load more bucks than being a Senator.

In fact, I read Lott's resignation as proof positive that fascism is more imminent than ever. Lott was a true blue believer in the good old US of A, and now he understands intimately that we are just a corporatocracy. He's getting out while the getting is good - he's no fool and will maximize this transition with maximum dollars.

Otherwise, he'd have to wait two years, IIRC, before descending on Wall or K Street. And no Puke worth his salt is going to wait that long for the Big Payoff.

for POTUS. Running on a white american first platform.

"...the GOP is in the toilet and destined for a long run as the minority party, maybe decades worth."

they still have pockets, swaths, and even states of support...and the media- that's the biggie.

It seems to me that Repub politicos' retirements already *is* a trend.

Too bad its six years too late.