Tosca has a long list of high-profile regulars, including former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Podesta Group’s Tony Podesta, Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf and former Bush adviser Nick Calio. Full Article at The Hill

I've written in the past how the Republicans and Democrats pick their leaders in the Senate for diametrically opposed reasons: the GOP wants an authoritarian taskmaster who gets Senators to vote with the party position; and the Dems pick a leader (in... Full Article at BuzzFlash

In 2005, Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi coined the term "Nuclear Option" for the threat of Republican Senators to abolish the practice of filibuster in the Senate. Full Article at Associated Content

I've always respected Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. Likewise former Rep. James Leach of Iowa. And Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware. Full Article at American Spectator

Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education. Full Article at CNSNews.com

Mississippi, voted for retroactive NFIP, yet voted against expanding SCHIP health insurance program for children. Why aren't people as important as property? What's more important, property or people? I'd say people. Full Article at The Norwich Evening Sun

“We’re leading the Southeast region,” he said. In Jackson County, the environmental impact survey starts in November for Leucadia National’s proposed $2 billion gasification plant on the former International Paper site in Moss Point. Full Article at Biloxi Sun Herald

Nearly six months after Kemp succumbed to cancer at age 73, "A Celebration of His Life and Work" drew hundreds of luminaries to the storied Willard Hotel. Full Article at FOX Sports

NHDP, on Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte: A close examination of Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte's FEC report confirms, today, that she is the candidate of Washington Republican insiders, not the people of New Hampshire. Full Article at Blue Hampshire

In 2001, news outlets variously reported that former Rep. Tom DeLay personally or congressional conservative Republicans generally were engaged in a boycott of CNN. Full Article at Media Matters for America

Anita Dunn, is described by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as "one of the major decision makers of the Obama campaign" and as one of Obama's "four top advisers (along with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs)." Full Article at Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Gulf Coast’s Salute to the Military is an annual fete built with the help of Mississippi politicians — former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, first, and Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor after him. Full Article at The Politico

John Breaux is a former Democratic senator from Louisiana and served as Co-Chair of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Full Article at U.S. News & World Report

Trent Lott, Kid Rock, and even the late liberal lion of Massachusetts all make an appearance in former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's new book, which is chock full of nuggets that political insiders will feast upon including his hindsight view of... Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

Unlike people without health insurance, homeowners have access to public option flood insurance. Full Article at Angry Bear

The Old Senate Chamber might have been a Southern prayer campground Wednesday, with past sins and sinners forgiven — all in the name of former Majority Leader Trent Lott. Full Article at The Politico

WASHINGTON -- Set aside the images of lawmakers in hallowed halls of the Capitol yelling about who's lying and why, and picture this: Two Republican heavyweights and the Democratic president they tried to eject from office a decade ago, perched... Full Article at NewsMax

WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss. , did what few politicians could accomplish Wednesday — bring together former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. , and current Democratic and Republican Senate... Full Article at Biloxi Sun Herald

But on Wednesday afternoon, it really happened. The three old adversaries who ruled the nation in the mid-1990s got together to talk and laugh, not in a saloon but in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol. Full Article at Dana Milbank: Washington Sketch (Wash. Post)