Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott hospitalized
Source: Reuters
By Emily Le Coz
JACKSON, Mississippi | Thu Aug 8, 2013 9:21pm EDT
(Reuters) - Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is being treated in a Mississippi hospital for a ruptured appendix, a former aide said on Thursday.
Mississippi radio station WLOX said Lott, 71, was in fair condition. Supervisor Chris Nail at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, confirmed that Lott was a patient but declined to disclose any details, citing patient privacy rights.
Lott's former aide, Lee Youngblood, said he spoke to the former Senator's family members, who told him Lott's appendix had burst.
[font size=1]-snip-[/font]
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-lott-idUSBRE97801820130809
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)I never cared for his politics, but I wish the man well.
jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)I can understand charity and magnanimity to people you can have an amicable disagreement with. But what about those who are the enemies of our common humanity?
Could anyone offer a genuine well-wish for Hitler for anything? About the most charitable I can get is you don't torture the man, you don't kill him ugly, you don't enjoy it. You kill him clean and neat, business-like. That's not a civility to him, that's to protect your soul. You don't ever want to enjoy that sort of thing.
I am not going Godwin here, just establishing a precedent. Churchill asked a woman if she would sleep with him for a million pounds. She said she supposed she might. He then asked if she would sleep with him for one. What kind of woman do you take me for? That we have established, he said. Now we are simply haggling.
Lott isn't Hitler but he's also not anything resembling someone I would want to call a countryman or even a member of my species.
While blind hatred leads to pogroms, I think that blind civility leads us to embrace to our bosoms vipers whose heads would be more profitably crushed. There's simply no way to engage with them that won't see us bitten and envenomated. It is their nature.
Alhena
(3,014 posts)jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)We're not talking about Governor Goodhair.
mpcamb
(2,855 posts)While I don't want to heap ill wishes on anyone, I don't feel like I've got the what it takes in me to hope for good to befall Idi Amin or Pinochet or people who've caused untold suffering.
I keep coming back to their victims, homeless, family members lost, displaced, poverty-stricken.
I think there's a toll to be paid for wishing evil upon others, but one too, for forgetting the evil that spewed out of certain people's conscious and hurtful actions.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)I hate his fucking guts.
Thank you California Peggy. Like you, I never care for his views or politics. That being said, I wish him well in his recovery.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Dislike his politics and Homophobia but he is still human.
valerief
(53,235 posts)tosh
(4,422 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)his politics are still wrong, wrong, wrong and I suspect he will have to pay dearly for them when he does eventually pass to the worms and maggots.
CBHagman
(16,968 posts)I seem to recall this was what happened with Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Get better soon, Mr. L.
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Get well soon, Mr. Lott, have an epiphany and atone for your sins.
CBHagman
(16,968 posts)...a ruptured appendix.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It's a terrible way to learn yer full of shit.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)However, the threat of bad karma keeps me from being too gleeful...just sayin'...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)niyad
(112,435 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)only because of Karma.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)Oh wait, he's still alive and will be back "strategic advising, consulting, and lobbying" in no time.
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)are dead. But that's just my opinion as a vet.
denbot
(9,894 posts)I'll join Miss CP on the high road and wish him a speedy recovery. Also since I'm not really that evolved, I hope he develops a terrible case of hemorrhoids to go with it.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Hypocritical and bigoted and probably corrupt as well.
But compared to McConnell, Boner and Cantor he wasn't quite so bad.
There, I've said something nice about him in case he croaks.
niyad
(112,435 posts)(oh, how well I remember that charming scene at lott's house)
?1357415998
On Friday, 67 House Republicans voted against $9 billion in funding to replenish FEMA's flood insurance program in the wake of super storm Sandy. Among those naysayers were five Gulf State Congressmen including Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo, whose 4th District was one of the most extensively damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Of course, back then, no one from the Mississippi delegation was demanding a "relief package that includes spending offsets" from elsewhere in the budget. Led by Senator Trent Lott, Mississippi secured billions in aid from Washington.
On September 5, 2005--six days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast--Senator Lott declared, "I am demanding help for Mississippi." He need not have worried. After all, Congress rushed passage on an initial $10.5 billion aid package, funds blessed by the House in a voice vote. As President Bush explained at the time, "I want to thank the Congress for acting as quickly as you did, but I've got go to warn everybody that's just the beginning."
And that beginning would begin at home. Trent Lott's home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, that is. As President Bush announced on September 2, 2005:
"We've got a lot of rebuilding to do ... The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."
For his part, Lott took matters into his own hands. When his insurer State Farm refused to pay his claim for the destruction of his home, the legendary foe of trial lawyers turned plaintiff. He won a settlement against the company two years later. Nevertheless, he continued his attack on the "venal people" of the insurance industry. "I'm like a woman scorned,'' Lott said. "I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people."
If Mississippians like Trent Lott ran into problems with the insurance industry after Katrina, the Bush administration and Congress greeted them with open arms and open wallets. As the AP reported on September 6, 2005, "Mississippi politicians in position to direct flow of aid; State figures are well placed on committees, in good standing with Bush." In addition to Lott, the AP explained:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/05/1176605/-A-modest-proposal-The-Trent-Lott-Super-Storm-Sandy-Relief-Act#
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Well,....you know...
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I hope they have a good vet working on him.
Edit: Maybe it's just a shit eating virus?