Swimming with Sharks

The Tennessean reports that Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., “accuses Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of betraying him during a GOP revolt in a new, tell-all biography that expresses little remorse for the racially tinged remarks that led to Lott’s loss of power and Frist’s ascension.

In ‘Herding Cats: A Life in Politics,’ available in bookstores Aug. 23,” Lott “blames the media and a handful of his GOP colleagues for the loss of his Senate leadership job in December 2002.” Lott writes that ‘“I consider Frist’s power grab a personal betrayal,’” because ‘“When he entered the Senate in 1995, I had taken him under my wing. ... He was my protege and I helped him get plum assignments and committee positions.’”

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My momma would say:

"You swim with sharks, you get bitten."

"You're known by the company you keep."

But perhaps Honest Abe (the last honest Republican) said it best:

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."