Posted on 02/06/2016 3:52:15 PM PST by JSDude1
Former Senator Trent Lott – who, as you might remember, walked into a political buzzsaw in 2002 over comments that effectively destroyed his Senate career – highly disapproves of this Senator Ted Cruz fellow. Not least because Senator Cruz said some awful, awful things about former Senator Lott’s good friend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It’s always interesting to see how a lobbyist defines ‘inappropriate behavior,’ really. Hoover up all the political pork you can? That’s Senatorial. Call Mitch McConnell a liar over the Export-Import Bank? Call out the Sergeant-At-Arms:
“Having been majority leader, I’ve never had someone stand on the Senate floor and call me a liar,†Lott said in an interview with The Hill’s Molly K. Hooper. “In fact, if I had been in the Senate at that time I would have moved to have him removed from the Senate chamber physically.â€
A few things, here. First, note the on the Senate floor. That’s there because any number of people have called Trent Lott a liar over the years. Second: …I have been doing this gig since 2001, 2002. I am pretty familiar with how people operate in Washington, DC. And I can say this without much fear of contradiction: Trent Lott is absolutely lying, there. There is not a chance in Perdition that Trent Lott would have willingly provoked a confrontation on the Senate floor like that, pretty much because the inevitable result would have been twofold. First: Lott’s faction in the government would have had even more trouble shoving through the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Second (and much more importantly): Trent Lott would have been a dead man walking in his next Senatorial primary*.
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He was such a filthy hack G.W. Bush helped run him out of town.
I was pretty secure, not quite smug, in my support of Cruz until today.
Trump's a 60's liberal at heart, I think ("New York values", gay-friendly and pro-abort and all that), Rubio's a GOP-E shill (did someone mention Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott?), and now ... now it turns out Cruz is all for adding a VAT.
The VAT would totally replace corporate income taxes, something the Chamber has been foaming at the mouth to get since the 80's, when superlobbyist Charls L. Walker was using his Treasury undersecretary job to agitate fulltime for a VAT and repeal of corporate taxes.
The deal is, their tax load comes directly to you. Business lobbytoads will tell you, we all pay their taxes anyway ..... but it's also true that you don't pay their taxes unless you voluntarily buy their product. You don't pay Wheelabrator's taxes until you buy a Wheelabrator product. But with a VAT in place, you will .... even when you're buying dog food to live on.
Feel the burn yet? This is just so incredibly disappointing. If Ted Cruz is going to go for a VAT (and of course it'll be piled on top of our income taxes, by the magical legerdemain of Congress and the House of Lobbyists, including Lott), then of course he'll roll over on immigration, too, which some people here in FR have suggested he would.
So we're screwed. Everybody in the GOP, even Cruz, wants to help the Chamber cut our throats, crushing wages while they roll business taxes to our backs, while they exhibit the most tender solicitude for the Great Vampire Squid of Wall Street.
I’ll bet Cruz is really really really concerned about not having Lott’s approval. Hey Trent, head back into your cave. Whoever you are lobbying for will take a big hit if Cruz is elected and no one will want to hire an albatross.
Interesting. Why does Chris McDaniel speak highly of Ted Cruz?
Thank you for busting ObamahatesPAcoal. I knew he was fudging the truth.
You’d be surprised how much the Mississippi people still admire their Trent.
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