I WAS ABOUT TO ASK "WHO WOULD READ THIS?", BUT THEN...

Another tell-all book, but this one may have some interesting bits inside.

Incumbant U.S. Senator and former GOP leader in the chamber Trent Lott (R - MS) has written Herding Cats: A Life In Politics, which hits bookshelves one week from today. The Jackson Clarion-Ledger takes a look at what's inside, and he's still pissed off at some of his collegues...naming names while he's still in the Senate:

Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who replaced Lott as the leader of Republicans in the Senate, comes off as traitorous.

"I consider Frist's power grab a personal betrayal," the book says. "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."

As for the racially insensitive comments he made during a gathering for former Senator Strom Thurmond (R - SC), Lott expresses little remorse. He said that while the remarks were "innocent and thoughtless", Lott noted that most of the "vultures" among the media treated them as a "hanging offense" and that he would have survived the political storm had it not been for Frist and other Republicans.

Also, although President Bush is treated much, he doesn't completely escape Lott's claws. And he names senators who he says helped him, as well as those who he believes worked against him.

It will certainly be interesting to see how the "rough and tumble" Pascagoulaite will do before heading back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.