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.
Who’s Trent Lott?
Lott = Major RINO. The Rats best friend.
/johnny
I think so.
Power Sharing Lott
A RINO Pussey!
The Old School in the GOP just doesn’t get it and, if they don’t change soon, the GOP is going to be a lump of wreckage you walk by in history.
The Christian Science Monitor is not even Christian
He’s the recreation coordinator at the Mississippi Home for Retired Cheerleaders.
Raccoon head cheerleader is still around?? (Typo - I meant to say raccoonhead — but there always have been rumors so maybe I’ll leave it in)
By 2016 Cruz will be so Palined Palin will appear a great candidate.
THE TIME IS NOW TO DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT THIS. See another thread; Mark Levin is trying. But will he be heard by the right people?
How to get low info voters to understand that Cruz will give them their freedom back? Freedom to earn and live exactly how they want, as per the constitution of this great nation? That it is the Democrat platform created to keep a plantation of slaves open mouthed and categorized by their ethnicities.
HOW TO DO IT??? Isn’t there anyone smarter than me who could come up with a unique way to beat the Media Controlled US of A, and actually inform the people?? Time is running out. Once Cruz is fully PALINED, he is over.
Dewhurst was the GOP-E favorite and he lost.
/johnny
Trent DontknowaLott shows why he was an ineffective leader in his time in the US Senate. The Democratic Party has been a sitting duck since 1994. If the Republican Party had a backbone and implemented conservative principles the country would be in much better shape today and the hapless Democrats would be repudiated and relegated to minority status, but it wasn’t to be. How many times have we had that party on the ropes only to have the GOPe cave in and give their side a reprieve from destruction. It convinces me and most of you I’m sure is that both parties establishment wings are in bed together. Bonehead and McCoward are united hand in hand with Stretch Pelosi and Ripoff Reid. Not a dime’s worth of difference politically between them and frankly between the two major parties either.
ROTFLOL ..!!!!
These people are just waaaaaay too funny.
They are in panic mode and there’s almost 2 years to go to the next election.
Anyway .. they just continue to tell us about the person they are most afraid of. AND .. THEY SHOULD BE ..!!!
You’d think Lott’s loss of the Leader position due to the hyper PC insanity over his kind words for the ancient Strom Thurmond would have filled him with some rage against the machine that torpedoed him. Instead he seems to have become a lapdog for the interests that destroyed his senate career.
I'm sure the Chamber of Commies paid him nicely to come out of retirement slinging poo.
Apparently it was an open secret, before and during the Clinton trial in the Senate, that Trent Lott hired male prostitutes. Why didn’t anyone ever publish that story?
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