So, Trent Lott is resigning from the US Senate before the end of his term. Is anyone going to miss him? For the love of Pete, for the lat 5 years or so I didn’t even KNOW that he was in the Senate. He was kind of a Herb Kohl to me: The little man who isn’t there. There was a picture of the ribbon cutting at the new Amtrak station in Milwaukee today. I saw some little bald smiling guy next to the governor. “Who’s that little bald guy?” I asked. I found out that amazingly enough he is a US Senator from Wisconsin. It appears that he crawls out from under a rock every 6 years or so to spend a couple of million to buy another 6 year term.
Cripes! How did I get from Tent Lott to Herb Kohl? Well, because either one at his best does all that he can to hide from having to create anything like a stir. Apparently neither one wants to do anything lest he lose his job. Perhaps Lott has it right: Hide from making any tough decisions and then resign before you get kicked out.
