Trent Lott will resign from the Senate by the end of the year and now has new career choices ahead of him.

The folks at DailyKos claim his resignation is so he can take a job as a lobbyist before new rules take effect next year. 

A Lott friend said part of the reason, and a factor in the timing, is a new lobbying regulation, signed by President Bush in September, extending the existing lobbying ban  for former members of Congress from one to two years. The lobbying ban takes effect at the beginning of the year.

However, John Perr over at PERRspectives, takes a more humorous approach. 

Here are just some of the future careers Trent Lott might pursue:

Editor, Southern Partisan Magazine. Lott would be a fitting leader for Southern Partisan, a journal of ante bellum nostalgia whose mission its web site describes as "under construction." In 1984, after all, Lott took to the pages of the neo-Confederate publication to offer his own personal rebel yell, referring to the Civil War as "the war of aggression."

Washington Lobbyist, Council of Conservative Citizens. Lott would be a natural choice to head the CCC, the latter day incarnation of the White Citizens' Councils of Jim Crow days. As the CCC's political epitaph for Lott today noted, "When Trent Lott stated that America would've been better off had Strom Thurmond been elected in 1948 he was dead on right." Though unhappy with Lott's later positions over immigration and his denunciations of the group, CCC members no doubt fondly remember Lott's 1992 praise for the organization.

President, Conservative Clothing Company. Rumors are swirling that Lott may be tapped to head a new firm offering designer clothes for conservatives. The unnamed company claims its apparel will be the rage among "anyone who's anyone in the GOP." Among its featured products is the "White Hot Republican Hoody," a "snowy white robe and matching hood made of fire resistant fabric to withstand even the hottest cross-burning."

CEO, Cracker Jack Genes. Lott purportedly has an offer on the table from Cracker Jack Genes, a genealogy firm specializing in tracking the down the illegitimate black offspring of prominent segregationists. Hoping to capture the public imagination following the revelations surrounding the surprising familial ties of Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton, CJG promises customers "we can keep a secret, at least til election day."

 Personally, we could care less what he does.