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Trent Lott rips Ted Cruz for standing his ground, compares to Elizabeth Warren
The Washington Examiner's Washington Secrets ^ | December 4, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:49:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

First Democrats, now a former Senate GOP leader is attacking Sen. Ted Cruz for standing his ground instead of compromising on key issues.

Trent Lott, a former Senate majority leader from Mississippi and now a lobbyist, dubbed Cruz one of the “problems” in the Senate and urged incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to quickly “co-opt” new Republican senators before Cruz and others in the “Far Right” deputize them.

“There are problems,” said Lott, pushing bipartisanship at a media roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “Yes, we’ve got the Ted Cruzes in the Republican Party, and we’ve got Elizabeth Warrens in the Democratic Party,” he said answering a question about which party is gumming up the Senate more.

He urged McConnell to lower the boom on the outspoken Republicans who won’t follow the GOP leadership. Top Republicans, said Lott, have to “deal with some of these members.”

He blasted the government shutdown that Cruz had a role in orchestrating. “That shutdown was one of the dumbest things I ever saw, it was a total fraud,” said Lott, who added that “I just don’t think you can tolerate that.”

He also ruled Cruz out as a potential presidential candidate. “I hope it’s a governor or a former governor. Period. In other words, no senators,” he barked.

Lott said McConnell should go to work fast on the new Republican senators. “I think the leadership should move quickly to co-opt them, bring them into the loop, pull them close to leadership, don’t let 'em drift over to the far right,” he said.

That comment won support from his colleague Tom Daschle, himself a former Senate Democratic leader. Daschle, in a reference to McConnell’s team, said, “There are a lot more people in his caucus who come with the belief that standing your ground is the right thing to do, who don’t want to compromise.”

Lawmakers like Cruz don’t think that standing for their ideas is wrong.


TOPICS: Kentucky; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Ohio; Texas; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; cromnibus; cruz; csm; election2014; election2016; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; johnkasich; kentucky; lieawatha; massachusetts; mcconnell; mississippi; mitchmcconnell; ohio; randpaul; tedcruz; texas; thekycandidate; trentlott
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To: Travis McGee
I know bro. Nice thing is, we are on the right side. God moves mountains with ease, should He choose to do so, and if not, then there is a reason and that's okay too.

Kinda an interesting point here: If there was ever any need to clarify we are on the right side, the mutterings of the Enemy confirm it well. Just recently, for example, Hillary exclaimed "Don't look to business for jobs!" This sort of insanity is a good confirmation: They are on the side of absurdity and lies, and we are on the side of truth.

Keep the faith brother. Much love.

41 posted on 12/04/2014 8:34:00 PM PST by Lazamataz (It's insanity to support those who hate us, no matter they call themselves Democrats or Republicans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What do you think about Scott Walker?


42 posted on 12/04/2014 8:37:13 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: Travis McGee

In fact, your reason — writing for the record — is similar to mine. It’s why I continue to cut up and make people laugh. A) Why not, and B) Humor brightens lives. It’s almost at the very end game, so, what the hell, have fun. :)


43 posted on 12/04/2014 8:37:16 PM PST by Lazamataz (It's insanity to support those who hate us, no matter they call themselves Democrats or Republicans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trent has been a regular chatty cathy today.


44 posted on 12/04/2014 8:37:56 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Aria

Don’t know much about him. What is his stance on immigration and the 2nd Amendment?


45 posted on 12/04/2014 8:40:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. trent Lott ain’t elected to nothing no more, so he best just shut up!

Also, find who he is a lobbyist for, and put their stuff all over the Internet, just like those liberal journalists wanted to do.


46 posted on 12/04/2014 8:42:06 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: riri

Trent Lott went to Ole’ Miss, not Yale. Skull & Bones only exists at Yale.


47 posted on 12/04/2014 8:43:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Yaelle

This is one of the biggest issues facing us while we try to stop the slide we are in, dialogue. These snake oil salesmen talk like this because they think it makes them sound intelligent. They say, “Bipartisanship, work together, come together to address the issues,” all of which means rule over the people. Somehow we need to make conservatism sound intelligent again, and one thing is certain, we can’t do that with elected officials that chastise, and ridicule conservatism.


48 posted on 12/04/2014 8:46:42 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why after being out of the news has Trent Lot surfaced? Is he going to be someone’s running mate?


49 posted on 12/04/2014 8:48:14 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

Hillary?


50 posted on 12/04/2014 8:49:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is too far left for her.


51 posted on 12/04/2014 8:56:19 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: FlingWingFlyer

A supporter of obama and the democrats and especially the inside the beltway crowd.


52 posted on 12/04/2014 8:57:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: EagleUSA
"Lott = Major RINO. The Rats best friend."

And former a former DEMOCRAT.

53 posted on 12/04/2014 9:03:25 PM PST by StormEye
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who?

Why should I care what he says?


54 posted on 12/04/2014 9:16:00 PM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Lazamataz

Yea, silly Trent makes Thomas E. Dewey, Thurmond’s 1948 opponent, seem a little rsespectable.


55 posted on 12/04/2014 9:19:19 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: StormEye

Think about this... RINOs from way back getting back in to punch the TEA party in the nose.

It means TEA is getting under their skin. And Tom Delay is doing a lot to defeat the Uniparty with DiscovertheNetworks.com.

Flak, target, Cruz will be waking dead RINOs from their grave to denounce them before too long!

Cruz has the right enemies and they are my enemies as they show themselves.


56 posted on 12/04/2014 9:24:27 PM PST by txhurl (No more taglines)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From the mouth of a talking ass, Trent Lott is am assclown! Needs run out of town.


57 posted on 12/04/2014 9:24:49 PM PST by Busko
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To: Aetius

Lott has no principles, confederate or otherwise.


58 posted on 12/04/2014 9:26:55 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

trent lott, that arrogant lobbyist, and former senator from the poor state of Mississippi, is really a pusilanimous version of Jiminy Carter. Year after year, he becomes more unintelligible, and has long ago “jumped the shark” Why anything he or barbour says is expounded upon is beyond this pilgrim’s ability to unnerstad.


59 posted on 12/04/2014 9:35:49 PM PST by Boowhoknew
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To: JRandomFreeper

Glad to know you are alive. Hope you are doing well.


60 posted on 12/04/2014 9:41:52 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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