The Who-Will-Replace-Trent Lott-ery
Tomorrow's USA Today will carry a Walter Shapiro column that savages Trent Lott.

Here's an excerpt:

The odds on his survival plummeted Thursday when George W. Bush rebuked the man who stubbornly clings to the notion that he can serve as the appealing public face of Senate Republicans.

Such is the power of the bully pulpit. All it took was the president to declare, "Any suggestion that the segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive and it is wrong. Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized, and rightly so." Those three sentences launched the Lott lottery, the contest to pick the date the beleaguered senator will relinquish his leadership duties.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has a nice ring to it, doncha think?