WASHINGTON — Don’t go looking for a chapter on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in fellow Sen. Trent Lott’s new book.

Lott was holding court in the halls outside the Senate earlier this week opining on the current gridlock that has overtaken Congress, when he went on a riff about the book he plans to write after he bows out of the Senate later this month.

His working title is “It’s Called Leadership,” and he envisions 20 chapters, one on each member of Congress who the Mississippian believes has shown leadership – from former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to current Republican Sen. John McCain.

Sort of a “Profiles in Courage,” as one reporter offered, referring to the 1957 Pulitzer Prize winning book by then-Sen. John F. Kennedy on eight senators who took principled stands even when it was unpopular.

Will there be a chapter on Reid?

Lott thought about it for a moment before breathing out the next four syllables with his Southern drawl as if each were a word unto itself: “Probably not.”

Our colleagues at Politico, also in that hallway gaggle, also noticed the missing chapter on Reid.