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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.
When you are taking enemy fire you know you are on target......
An idiot.
Trent Lott needs to GO AWAY!!
Trent Lott? What would that RINO know about being a lion? Loser.
Holy crap.
They admit it outright now.
We've always suspected, but now they are admitting it right before us and God Himself.
Must be in the very last stages of the end game.
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Ted Cruz graduated with honors from Princeton and the Harvard Law School, one of whose distinguished professors, Alan Dershowitz, has gone on record to say that Ted Cruz was one of the most brilliant students he ever taught.
Senator Cruz also served as a Appelate AND Supreme Court clerk; was integral in winning Bush v. Gore and Heller, was Texas Solicitor General, came from far behind in the polls to win his Texas Senate seat; and in a matter of little more than a year and a half in Washington has become a front runner for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination, picking up the most coveted Conservative endorsement — Sarah Palin’s — along the way.
Ted Cruz is an expert at winning, and if he thinks he can win the presidency in 2016, who are the rest of us relative mediocrities to disagree with him? [chuckle] After eight years of President Obama, only a towering genius will be able to undo the damage. And Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies. Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, his principal opponents, are both mediocre products of nepotism; they inherited their father’s supporters.
Do we want a better country or not?
Trent Lott is still alive???
So is Bob Dole, if you can believe it...
I stand on the side of God.
Isn’t he(Lott) as relevant as Al Hunt?
At this point, I’m writing for the record.
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Chester the cheerleader.
No chance! Next you'll be telling me Orrin Hatch is still alive.
I recall a graphic in here back with old Trent was relevant.
It featured a photo of him with the phrase “LOTT’S FOR SALE” across the bottom. Looks like nothing has changed except he’s no longer relevant!
John McCain, too.
FUTL.
I think I know how Methuselah lived so long. He was a politician.
Who thought it was a good idea to resurrect this tool?
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