{"id":820,"date":"2002-12-20T03:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/20\/bye-bye-sen-lott\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:45:44","slug":"bye-bye-sen-lott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/20\/bye-bye-sen-lott\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye Sen. Lott!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15592,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/ny-uslott,0,180863.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20021228132808\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newsday.com:80\\\/news\\\/nationworld\\\/nation\\\/ny-uslott,0,180863.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:11:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 17:15:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 20:15:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 20:15:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While he stopped short of resigning from the Senate, Trent Lott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/ny-uslott,0,180863.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines\" title=\"Lott resigns Senate post\">has stepped down<\/a> as Majority Leader.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Bowing to harsh criticism from fellow senators and the Bush White House, Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader Friday after colleagues worried about the repercussions of his racially insensitive remarks openly lined up behind Sen. Bill Frist.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;In the interest of pursuing the best possible agenda for the future of our country, I will not seek to remain as majority leader of the United States Senate for the 108th Congress, effective Jan. 6, 2003,&#8221; said Lott, whose fall was historically unprecedented on Capitol Hill.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowing to harsh criticism from fellow senators and the Bush White House, Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader Friday after colleagues worried about the repercussions of his racially insensitive remarks openly lined up behind Sen. Bill Frist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}