WisPolitics Budget Blog

In a new book, Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics, Lott fingers Frist as one of the ''main manipulators'' in the events that led to Lott's fall from power.

Lott lost the majority leader's post in 2002 after making racially tinged remarks. Lott wrote that Frist's actions amounted to a ''personal betrayal.''

Frist ''didn't even have the courtesy to call and tell me personally that he was going to run,'' Lott wrote. (News story)

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Maybe that's the problem, spending a lifetime in elected office; always in search of the next office, the next campaign, the next donor. Even the best become disconnected.

Term limits - if they're good enough for Ronald Reagan, they're good enough for Congress.