Trent Lott is toast
Nickles Calls For New GOP Leadership Elections.
“Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK), “the second-ranking Senate Republican, this morning said Republicans should consider ousting Sen. Trent Lott as their party leader,” the Washington Post reports” [Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire]
Now if Lott were to resign completely from the Senate, and then Chafee of Rhode Island and the senators from Maine do a Jeffords and leave the Republican Party to become independents, then the Senate would become Democratic majority…