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...That's why Lott had developed a sudden affection for Dean Barkley. "We're offering to be helpful to him in any way we can," the Mississippi senator told TIME with a coy southern drawl. Get Barkley to side with the Republicans on leadership votes and Lott could score a counter-coup on Daschle...
...Putting the MAJORITY LEADER nameplate at the front of his desk may seem premature, but not by Lott's calculation. He hopes to be majority leader not just at the beginning of next year when Republicans have 51 or more seats in the Senate - but next week. In fact, last Tuesday afternoon, as Lott sat in his ornate office on the second floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that...
...Lott saw an opening and he was working feverishly to grab the Senate from Daschle during the lam-duck Congress. The chamber was divided 49 Democrats to 49 Republicans with the independent Jeffords standing with the Democrats on leadership votes. But if Lott could get his hands on one of Daschle's votes, the chamber would be split 50-50 with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the tie-breaker to put Republicans in charge during the lame-duck session. Former Republican Congressman Jim Talent who beat Carnahan, was supposed to fill the unexpired term of Carnahan's dead husband...
...Boschwitz and Lott traded intelligence on the campaign to win over the Minnesota independent. Boschwitz was already lobbying Barkley and getting others in the state to phone him. Lott was organizing a Senate blitz from Washington. "I've got Arlen on the trail talking to Barkely," Lott told Boschwitz. The moderate Specter would likely be an ideological soulmate. Lott also managed to get the jump on Daschle, getting a phone call himself through to Barkley before the Democratic leader had managed to reach...
...Last Thursday morning, Lott was back at his desk between press conferences, fielding calls from senators around the country to talk about next year's agenda, but still plotting to snare the Senate from Daschle next week. A phone call came in from Vice President Dick Cheney. "You in some undisclosed location?" Lott joked. The Secret Service always seemed to be whisking Cheney away because of a terror threat. This time Cheney wasn't hiding. Ironically, he was in South Dakota for some hunting. "Did you bag any Democrats out there," Lott said with a laugh. After trading stories about...