GOP Leaps to Take Bullet for Dems

Just when the Dems are on the verge of incurring massive damage by their leadership choices reaking of corruption, the GOP Senate leaps to take the bullet by electing ... Trent Lott back to leadership. While I could care less about his politically incorrect statement about Strom Thurmond, electing Lott to a leadership position is a clear signal that the GOP Senate did not learn any lessons from last Tuesday's election. Trent Lott is an old face from the old boy's club that should be forever banned from leadership. Lott is an enemy of spending control as demonstrated by his history, his obstruction to the porkbuster database , and his resentment of those trying to stop pork.

While the election of Lott hardly compares to the corruption of Harry Reid and John Murtha, it gives the media an opportunity to either limit the focus or turn it away from the Dems to the GOP and Trent Lott. Even if the media does not take the bait, this choice still blunts the mileage that can be gleaned from the Dems corrupt choices to head "the most ethical Congress".