Say what you want about Tom Daschle but he was able to out-flank helmet head time and time again on the Senate floor. Daschle basically wound up being the de facto Majority Leader thanks to Trent's ineptitude.
Even the great compromiser himself, Bob Dole, never became the kind of door mat that Lott was.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus