Posted on 12/08/2014 6:08:55 AM PST by cotton1706
Mississippi’s congressional delegation is regaining its clout, former Sen. Trent Lott said Thursday.
Lott noted that, beginning in January, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran is in line to become chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, and Republican Sen. Roger Wicker will take over the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a top leadership post.
“Our delegation has been relatively weak in recent years compared to the past, but with time that is beginning to change,” Lott, a former Senate majority leader, told reporters following a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “They’re building up seniority and influence and respect.”
SPECIAL: Modern Day Patriots, this is the time to stand shoulder to shoulder with our forefathers in Lexington and Concord. We need the Tea Party now more than ever.
Lott was joined at the breakfast by former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, also a former Senate majority leader. The two, co-chairmen of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Political Reform, discussed issues facing the new Congress and prospects for bipartisanship.
“People yearn for their elected officials, their leaders, to lead to try to get things done,” Lott said. “It is harder now, I think. My attitude is, why would you want to come here if all you want to do is raise money and get re-elected? Why wouldn’t you want to make a difference?… Just to do nothing is not a conservative position.”
In Mississippi, Lott said, GOP leaders are working to repair damage from GOP Sen. Thad Cochran’s bruising re-election race against Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a tea party favorite who lost to Cochran in a GOP primary runoff.
Gov. Phil Bryant “is working very hard to get everybody pulled back together, there are a lot of people that are working to bridge that damage that was done.”
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“They’re building up seniority and influence and respect.”
From democrats the good old boy club member notes.
Lott is worthless at best!
A he is supporter of professional, in the club, politicians, not the American people.
Lott actually thinks, apparently, that Democrats will act in a bipartisan way to enact Conservative legislation? He is either stupid, ignorant or a shill for the Dems. Or possibly all three.
To my knowledge, Ted Cruz has never hired male prostitutes, so maybe Trent Lott should shut up.
” Trent.
There is a REASON you are not a lawmaker any more.
BECAUSE EVERYONE HATES YOU. “
Subhuman protoplasm. Inferior biological infestation.
My advice, “DON’T LOSE HEART” Eventually, these “OLD BAGGAGE” will either get dis-elected or die of OLD AGE. One of the two. There are going to be other elections, and we’ll win some and lose some, but in the end, we will win. Let’s look at a bit of history. It took the “REPUBLICAN PARTY” almost 20 years, before they got rid of the “WHIG PARTY”. The idea of a “REPUBLICAN PARTY” started during the Andrew Jackson administration. There were people that were getting very tired of the “WHIG PARTY”, and one by one, these people saw what Andy Jackson did to the constitution, with the “SECRET” blessings of the “WHIGS”, and decided that the “WHIGS” needed to change or a “NEW” party will come to power. The first attempt of the “NEW REPUBLICAN” party, with Zebulon Pike as their leader failed. But in the next election, Abe Lincoln won a narrow victory. So, hold on. Things will change when you least expect it.
Ignorant tops the list some people never learn.
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