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.
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.
What do you think about Scott Walker?
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. :)
Trent has been a regular chatty cathy today.
Don’t know much about him. What is his stance on immigration and the 2nd Amendment?
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.
Trent Lott went to Ole’ Miss, not Yale. Skull & Bones only exists at Yale.
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.
Why after being out of the news has Trent Lot surfaced? Is he going to be someone’s running mate?
Hillary?
He is too far left for her.
A supporter of obama and the democrats and especially the inside the beltway crowd.
And former a former DEMOCRAT.
Who?
Why should I care what he says?
Yea, silly Trent makes Thomas E. Dewey, Thurmond’s 1948 opponent, seem a little rsespectable.
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.
From the mouth of a talking ass, Trent Lott is am assclown! Needs run out of town.
Lott has no principles, confederate or otherwise.
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.
Glad to know you are alive. Hope you are doing well.
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