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Thad Cochran gets lost in Senate building, winds up at Democratic event
The Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential ^
| July 8, 2014
| T. Becket Adams
Posted on 07/08/2014 4:28:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., got lost on his way to a Senate Republican luncheon on Tuesday and ended up at the Democrats' gathering instead, the Hill reported.
The Mississippi senator, who recently won an intensely ugly primary election against Tea Party-backed candidate Chris McDaniel, apparently forgot where he was going while navigating the halls of Congress.
“After exiting a Senate elevator on the wrong floor” Cochran re-boarded, the report notes. “He then found the right floor but turned away from the Senate GOP luncheon, a few yards from the elevator, to stroll the opposite direction, arriving at the Democrats' weekly gathering a few hallways away.”
Cochran then entered the wrong room and chatted away with Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., until someone asked the longtime Republican senator if he planned on lunching with Democrats.
“Cochran didn't seem to realize he was in the wrong place,” the Hill reported.
"His father and I were elected to Congress and then to the Senate," Cochran told reporters, referring to Pryor.
The Republican senator then “fumbled” with some papers, trying to figure out where he was....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Mississippi; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: cochran; democrats; mississippi; senility
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You think he really got lost?
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:29:25 PM PDT
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doc1019
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:29:37 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: doc1019
Oldtimer’s will do that to ya.
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:30:38 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Alzheimer’s ? He has my sympathy as an individual but he certainly doesn’t belong in Congress at a time like this.
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:31:53 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:32:04 PM PDT
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doc1019
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He was just trying to lunch with his true allies. What a deranged fool
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:33:05 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
(Rebuke the Repuke!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:33:15 PM PDT
by
donozark
(The voices inside my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Can I help you, Senator?"
"I smell cheese! Ya'll know I love cheese! And butterscotch! Where's Strom? I'm lookin' for Strom!"
Reid: "Shove a piece of brie in his mouth and get him the hell out of here!"
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:35:30 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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07/08/2014 4:35:36 PM PDT
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kaehurowing
(FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
To: doc1019
You think he really got lost? Freudian schlep.
To: 2ndDivisionVet; WKB; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; ...
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07/08/2014 4:43:27 PM PDT
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WKB
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:46:06 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm on my way home.....if I can remember where it is 
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:49:06 PM PDT
by
JPG
("So sue me". OK, we will.)
To: doc1019
I think the old dude hasn’t any clue on the firestorm that’s going on back in Mississippi. Otherwise anyone with a smidgen of ethics would have told his crew to end this charade.
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07/08/2014 4:51:14 PM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: X-spurt
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:52:09 PM PDT
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doc1019
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No harm done. It’s where the SOB belongs anyway.
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:52:29 PM PDT
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El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He didn’t get lost. He needed advice from Rove and Mitch and that was the most logical place to look.
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:54:50 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The media got the guy they wanted. Now they’re free to dismantle him at their own leisure.
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posted on
07/08/2014 4:55:39 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: doc1019
Looking for a lost farm animal maybe.
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07/08/2014 4:56:21 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
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