[Virginia Ridgerunner]

“You want to be sure that the newbies, when they hit town, do not necessarily bring their campaign staff to run their Congressional offices, because in some cases they are totally ill-equipped,” one veteran Republican lobbyist said. “Winning an election is one thing, running a Congressional operation is another. A lot of these folks are really, really new to politics.”

Oh, I get it---newly elected GOP congress critters, most of which are Tea Party backed, are supposed to leave the people who worked hard on their campaigns behind and accept professional good ol' boy "minders" who can coopt them into the beltway system?

No dice!!!

Jay Bookman Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’

[Al B.]

Rush talked about this at length today. Here's the transcript:

Ruling Class GOP Looks to Get Staff Hooks into Tea Party Newbies

[Brices Crossroads]

Palin knows what these weasels are up to. So does O’Donnell.

They will be taken under Demint’s wing, not(vacant)Lott.