Associated Press:
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the No. 2 post Wednesday for the minority GOP in the next Congress.
But Lott deferred to newly-elected party leader Mitch McConnell when asked whether he feels vindicated by the 25-24 secret ballot. "The spotlight belongs on him," Lott said of his Kentucky colleague, unanimously chosen to succeed Sen. Bill Frist as the top-ranking Senate GOP leader.
But Lott's comeback-kid victory was generating the most buzz in the Capitol hallways, nevertheless. Lott, who was pressured to step down from the Senate's top spot over four years ago, returned to the center of power by nosing out Sen. Lamar Alexander, who had made an 18-month bid for the post.
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Lott relished his duties as majority leader but stepped down in 2002 under pressure over remarks that were interpreted as racially insensitive. He has long hinted at making a comeback bid.
It's too bad Mark Foley's out. They'd put him right back on the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
The Republicans have looked at their losses and concluded they weren't big enough asses, I guess.
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