Politics – Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is planning on resigning from the Senate this year and may make a formal announcement as soon as today. If he resigns, Lott would become the sixth Republican senator to announce they were stepping down this election cycle.
The Republican Party in Mississippi is thoroughly inbred. Gov. Haley Barbour will make certain that Lott has a place to use his talents.
Gov. Barbour also has been rebuilding his state in record time and making fools of those next door. Also, he has done that without making one single chocolate city comment.
Yeah, if you call a land grab for building casinos rebuilding.
Is that what's happeneing? Hmm, I did not know that. You see, the three crews that left my company and set up shop in Miss. right after the hurricane have always said different. But hey, what do a bunch of contsruction surveyors know about the rebuilding?
Scroll down to about a third of the page:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/tran...
Start here and read down:
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: "This is what you see when you're not on the official tour of Mississippi. Houses that were flooded sitting empty and unrepaired. People still living cramped inside those slim FEMA trailers. Across this state, tens of thousands of people are in similar circumstances. For these places, the heralded recovery in Mississippi seems to have skipped on by."
Continuing:
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: "Everywhere you look down here, the contrasts are striking. New condominium towers sprouting up next to storm wreckage. Along the beach in Biloxi, brand new casinos so big and so shiny that for a few blocks at least, you can almost forget what Katrina did to this place."
DERRICK EVANS: "When Hurricane Katrina hit, legislators went to Jackson in their pajamas and immediately enacted legislation to allow casinos to rebuild on land, so as to not lose any of them and to increase there number. In the meantime, it took the governor's commission weeks, to realize that in addition to tourism infrastructure and finance, they needed to have a committee on housing, affordable housing, to deal with the fact that over 70,000 houses were destroyed, rendered uninhabitable by Hurricane Katrina. So, housing was not anything that was on their mind."
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: But governor Barbour wanted to loosen those federal rules. He argued he could do a better job if Washington wouldn't tell him how to spend the money.
GOVERNOR BARBOUR: Let me just thank you.
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: In his former life, Haley Barbour was one of the most powerful corporate lobbyists in the county. He was also chairman of the Republican National Committee, so he has friends in Washington. When Barbour asked for waivers of those federal rules, he got them.
OK - he's 66. Not really EARLY retirement by most standards. Maybe he's just tired of the B.S. and finds that he CAN retire - so why not? He's doubtless got a very good pension thanks to us taxpayers (many of us NOT having pensions at all) so why not? Hell, if I COULD retire, I would.
joeblow,
I could and did retire in 2005, i must admit i love it!
However, these guys NEVER retire, they are just too greedy to give up a dime. All the money in the world is never enough for them.
Did you notice this post was from a neocon rag - even they are starting to see what sleazebags their "good ol boys" are
On both sides yes they are indeed,,,,
Human Events, Mar 6, 2006 by Carpenter, Amanda
Bob Dole Represents UAE Here, Madeleine Albright Represented UAE in China
The proposed deal to allow foreign-government-owned Dubai Ports World to manage some U.S. port facilities has highlighted another aspect of the Washington lobbying ' scene: Foreign governments can and do hire former members of Congress and former high-ranking U.S. officials to be their paid advocates.
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R.-Kan.), former Rep. Tom Downey (D.-N.Y.) and Carol Browner, who served as director of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton Administration have all been hired by the UAE-owned company. Browner currently works for The Albright Group, a consulting firm headed by former secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served as America's top diplomat during the Clinton years.
"Joy to the World....Another Rat jumping ship!"
....Yes, and only 24 more to go, before the people exiting the Bush administration equals the number of rats that jumped ship (or were murdered, or mysteriously "disappeared") from the Clinton administration 14 years ago.
THAT pandering, jerry-built, collapsing ruin of an administration had more secrets, dirty deals, scandals, foul play, misappropriations and shame-faced lies than any administration before or since. Just ask Vince Foster.
Oh, that's right. He's dead.
Clinton left office in 2001. By my reckoning that is only 7 years ago, not 14. As for people killing themselves, he committed suicide. What about Bush pardoning a convicted felon, namely Scooter Libby? Your sanctimony seems to have clouded your judgment.
David, he/she was refering to events that took place while Clinton was still in office.
As for Scooter, he did not pardon him, he commuted part of his sentence. Also, and lets be honest, can you remember what you told a co-worker, or a friend or anyone else for that matter several months ago? I can't. Apparently Scooter could not either. Not to mention that Scooter was not even the one who "leaked" her name. That was Dick Army. Yet no charges were ever filed agaisnt him. Funny.
Yes. When it's something that important, I remember what I told a friend or co-worker several months ago.
I don't know why no charges were filed against Dick Armitage. But just because he admitted to leaking does not mean he was the only one. In fact, Patrick Fitzgerald had evidence against FOUR leakers. Why they were never charged is beyond me, too.
Clinton pardoned a bunch, look them up, dope dealers and the like. A little more felonious than Scooter. Does the name Roger Clinton ring a bell?
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/storie...
Roger was just conspiring to sell cocaine, no big deal....
and b4 anyone else gets to say it...
I bet he was selling it to bush...
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AP is reporting that he has now scheduled 2 news conferences for later today to talk about his plans.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071126/ap_on_go_co...
And the motive for his resignation is slowly now revealing itself. If he stayed on for his entire term, and didnt leave before Jan 1st 2008, he would fall under new ethics laws that go into effect that would not let him become a lobbyist for 2 full years.
Don't let the door hit ya on the way out Trent,,,, ah a lobbyist? Not only should lobbyist be a thing of the past,,,, being one after getting out of office should be out lawed
Don't let the doorknob Hit Ya!
where the good lord split ya!
I can't believe I just agreed with slate.
"There are no problems. I feel fine," Lott said. [quote from a story I posted earlier today http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2007/11/26/-... ]
"There are no problems." [read: I've amassed enough wealth for 5-6 lifetimes.....thanks Mississippians!"]
"I feel fine." [read: Conscience, what conscience?"]
LOL Crespi,,,, there had to be one thing we see eye to eye on,,,,, I'm not a Kool-Aid drinker you think I am on all issues, in fact I'm actually liberal on a few things
There is a Moonbat here that noticed.
I'll try to keep it under my hat.
as soon as I find it that is.
Dang wings keep buzzing it off.
Well, now if only they can get rid of the real sleaze bags like Harry "bribe me with land lots of land" Reid, Diane "hook hubby up with illegal war contracts" Feinstein and John "Unindicted co-conspirator" Murtha, then they'd REALLY be cleaning house.
They're going nowhere, so why even bring it up?
Reid, Feinstein, and the rest of them that take money from foreign intelligence organizations like AIPAC should be cleaned out!
Of course, people targeted by the neocons and AIPAC, like Murtha, probably have something bad, too.
Buy buy, you will not be missed.
Aidenag, i wonder if being a lobbyist is the only reason Trent is leaving or if he has skeletons that are creeping out of the closet. Nothing would surprise me any more!
ahhhhhh. I knew there was an ulterior motive.