Trent Lott is back in the Senate leadership, which is controversial because the guy is both a porker AND a closet segregationist. (Apparently its only Democrats who are allowed to have racists in the party...)

No doubt Glenn Reynolds is going to be groaning over this...oh, look, here he is now.

Back in the early nineties, I worked with a guy who, well there is no other way of putting it, was a pig. He looked like pig, talked like a pig and acted like a pig. I found the guy hard to be around--but he was for reasons I never quite fathomed, a hell of a successful salesman. We put up with his piggish behavior because frankly, we needed him.

Trent Lott, for all of his faults, is a guy you want on your team when procedural maneuver is going to be a key skill set in the Senate. The Democrats have some savvy guys in the form of Schumer and Reid and Republicans are going to have to match them blow for blow.

So stop whining and get ready to slug it out with the Crat street fighters.