Trent Lott is the glorified ideal of the Senate's pissoire mentality. Even back in his home state of Mississippi, where caution runs rampant, Lott rode into the Senate on the slogan. I'm Afraid of It. It is time to lock the lavatory at the United States Senate and throw away the key. At an age when most people have trouble getting their urine out, Senators have trouble holding it in.
Sieves hold water better than Senators do.
The Clinton impeachment trial caused the Senate to release enough urine to extinguish Mount Vesuvius. On the first day of the proceedings, the corridor leading to the Senate chamber resembled the Yellow Brick Road. Ten minutes after it started, the Presiding officer looked like he was standing in a wishing well. The atmosphere in the room was so fraught with apprehension, there was not a dry fly in the house. The room, always awash, is the only legislative chamber in the world that has a high water mark.