Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi is calling it quits. He’s going on to bigger and better things. He’s done all he can do in the Senate. He is going to go and make the big bucks before he can’t.

Phrases can’t really capture how disgusting the news reports over why Trent Lott is retiring (before the end of the year) is to me. Local Twin Cities talk radio news is reporting that he is leaving before the end of the year so that the new ethics reforms for Congress won’t bar him from becoming a lobbyist.

Trent Lott may be the text book example of why average Americans despise Washington politicians. This guy was just reelected in 2006 to a 6 year Senate term, and is now going to quit so that he can go make millions as a lobbyist.

I’d call him a greedy scumbag, but that is insulting to scumbags. I’ve never really liked Lott, but now I truly understand why the early 21st Century Republicans were so dismal. If Lott’s Senate leadership of the Republicans was anything like this move, it is no wonder why the Republican base and semi-reliable right leaning independents revolted in recent elections and threw Democrats into the Majority in both Houses.

Lott is further proof why we need term limits. Life forms like this do not belong in Congress.

Oh and this also goes to show that the Democrat’s sweeping reforms to clean up Washington are completely useless. All Pelosi and Democrats did when they implemented the ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists is ban anyone else from becoming a lobbyist. You see, these old guards of the Washington way, have theirs, too bad for the rest of us.

And people wonder why Congress is thought of so lowly in the average Americans’ eyes.

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