So now we’re told that Trent Lott is going to apologize yet again, but not step down. Who is giving this guy (and his party) public-relations advice? No amount of apologizing is going to put this behind Lott, and as Michelle Malkin so brilliantly points out in her column today, the Dems are going to use this to extract all sorts of legislative concessions from the Majority Leader. If the GOP doesn’t see that it can’t afford Trent Lott as majority leader for moral reasons, then it should at least understand that he is a grave liability for matters of mere legislative politics. I don’t know what’s harder to figure: why the Republicans aren’t showing him the door, or why he doesn’t have enough regard for his party and his president to show himself out.