With Bill Frist retiring from the Senate--the Tennesseean and current Republican Senate leader had promised to serve only two terms in the upper chamber--a shake-up for the new minority party leadership was inevitable.
In my opinion, the GOP needed a new look in the Senate, instead, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican Whip, got promoted to Senate Minority Leader. Replacing McConnell will be Trent Lott of Mississippi, the former Senate Republican leader who was forced to resign in 2002 from that position after making bizarre pro-segregationist comments at a celebration for the 100th birthday of the since-deceased Strom Thurmond. He stayed on as a senator.
I think Lott's been exiled in the wilderness long enough--but if the GOP is going to win back the Senate, the House, and keep the White House, fresh faces are needed. Which is why Lamar Alexander, also of Tennessee, should've gotten the Whip job over Lott.
But it's McConnell and Lott. Get to work, fellas.
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