BreauxLott.com registered weeks before Lott gave notice.
Last month, after Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) announced that he was retiring before the end of the year, it was widely speculated that Lott may be considering a lobbying partnership with former senator John Breaux. As ThinkProgress noted at the time, any pre-negotiating between Lott and Breaux would violate Senate ethics rules. The Hill reports today Lott’s son, Chet, “secured the rights to the domain name” breauxlott.com “six weeks before his father announced his retirement,” raising further questions about whether Lott broke Senate rules.
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Quack. Quack. Quack. It’s an effin’ duck, already.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:36 amHe’s leaving at the end of the year right? I’m pretty sure he doesn’t give a hoot about breaking any rules.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:37 amLet me guess…Chet says he was going to be Breaux’s partner at that time, not his dad. But he decided that the lobbying life was not for him so his dad valiantly stepped up.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:42 amGood Riddance Lott. OK to leave tomorrow if you want.
Although not a perfect solution, I have come to believe that ” we the people” ’s only defense against these corrupt pigs is term limits.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:52 amLott has already noted that the Dems aren’t going to do a thing to stop any Republican from breaking any rules or laws. Heck, they can go out and commit crimes with impunity and the worst the Dems will do is send a stern letter.
Lott’s objective is obvious. And he’s not even pretending to hide it anymore.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:53 amlott is nothing more than a (R) criminal.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:55 amTP, please correct the spelling on your headline:
BreauxLott.com
December 11th, 2007 at 11:57 amSweet! Filthy lucre rules!!!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:03 pmThere’s a simple explanation:
This is the free market.
You see, Daddy told Chet that he was thinking of leaving the Senate. And Chet, being the born-and-bred laissez-faire ace pilot (just check out that picture on his website if you don’t believe me), took a shot and registered breauxlott.com in the off chance that Daddy would want to hook up with his old buddy and trade off their names and connections.
Now Chet, having spent 19.95 registering breauxlott.com stands to make a killing when Daddy and his friend buy the domain off of him for 250 large. Then watch Daddy lobby like crazy to have inheritance tax abolished, and Chet wins again. Finally, he writes a song about how he’s a self-made millionaire, and his life’s work is complete.
And this proves Wingnut Rule #2 - When you get rich, it’s because of the free market. (And don’t let the nasty facts tell you differently.)
December 11th, 2007 at 12:04 pmGood grief, if no one cares about the Bush administration’s blatant disregard for the rules of the US (AKA the Constitution of the United States of America), who is going to concern themselves with some US Senator breaking some obscure senate rule? Anyway, what are the going to do, not show up at one of his Christmas parties in the Senate dining room?
December 11th, 2007 at 12:06 pmIs this really news? I mean… isnt it kind of like reporting that the sun rose in the east again today?
In other… more unexpected news :( Slash and Burn at the DOD
http://www.armytimes.com/ news/ 2007/ 12/ military_dod_layoffs_071210w/
December 11th, 2007 at 12:09 pmAnyone see the Lewis Black special on Com Central? It was great!
He started off explaining the show was ‘07 in review. Then he explained it would take the whole show to just review Bush’s phuck-ups. Eventually they ended up in Bush’s ass & found the Constitution, the aluminum tubes from Niger, WMD and some of Cheney’s things.
Lott fits Bush’s regime well, but money talks. He stands to make a fortune in just a few years with K Street. DeLay does, too.
They show their ‘family & moral values’ are always subject to change. Monetary ‘change’, that is.
December 11th, 2007 at 12:12 pmWell, if pre-negotiating is against ethics rules and the domain name was secured 6 weeks prior to Lott’s retirement… if the shoe fits…
December 11th, 2007 at 12:34 pmThat’s the whole Lott
December 11th, 2007 at 12:48 pm‘Whole Lott of Snak’n goin’ on!’
December 11th, 2007 at 1:08 pmOf course he broke the rules, he’s a Repukian and that is to expected from their side.
Not following rules or laws is what the ReichWing is all about, self before party, party before country.
And what will congress do about it…..NOT A FREAKING THING. Maybe a nice letter or two, just to say they did something.
Bush/Cheney/Congress
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 11th, 2007 at 1:11 pmJust a random thought here that probably wouldn’t work for several reasons, but as Lott’s retiring at the end of this year to avoid the new law that begins next year requiring a two-year gap between serving in the Senate and jumping into lobbying world, could a wrench possibly be throw into his scheme if a special but brief session in the Seante were to be opened on, say, the 31st and did not end until after midnight? Wouldn’t that technically move him into the no-no zone?
December 11th, 2007 at 1:16 pmSince when has the law been any impedement to the Greedy Old Perverts?
December 11th, 2007 at 3:38 pmMaybe I’m missing something, but wouldn’t you think that Trent Lott’s son would have reserved “LottBreaux.com” rather than (or in addition to) BreauxLott.com.
What was he thinking?
December 11th, 2007 at 3:57 pmI don’t believe that Breaux or Lott is so stupid as to not know that information like this - proving the disingenuousness and deceit of Lott - would become public knowledge.
December 11th, 2007 at 4:00 pmI think it is more a case of they “don’t give a sh*t” because they can do what they will do, and it doesn’t make any difference if they are unethical - the people with whom they will do business are also unethical - this is just business between friends.
That immoral, unethical racist, Trent Lott and his crony John Breaux — two rotten peas in a pod.