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GOP senator [Sasse] slams Trump: 'John Lewis's 'talk' changed the world'
The Hill ^ | Jan 14 2017 | The Hill

Posted on 01/14/2017 8:43:26 AM PST by WilliamIII

A Senate Republican is blasting President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), praising the lawmaker for his leadership in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Saturday seized on Trump's characterization of Lewis as "All talk, talk, talk - no action," pointing out that his "talk" made a significant contribution in the civil rights movement.

"John Lewis and his 'talk' have changed the world," Sasse tweeted.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Georgia; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: bensasse; butthurt; election; georgia; johnlewis; lewis; nebraska; nevertrump; sasse; thehill; thehillary; theshill; trump
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To: WilliamIII
What was the name of Michael Corleone's diphsit brother, the one with the aviator glasses?

The one who had to have it explained to him to never take the side of an adversary against his family?

(And who was eventually unmasked as a traitor?)

81 posted on 01/14/2017 9:34:18 AM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Conservative Review is a nevertrump cesspool.


82 posted on 01/14/2017 9:34:36 AM PST by hotsteppa
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To: WilliamIII

Nothing against anyone who wears aviator glasses, mind you. Apologies in advance for the insinuation.


83 posted on 01/14/2017 9:35:29 AM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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To: OKSooner

Sonny played by Michael Caine. And Fredo too


84 posted on 01/14/2017 9:36:24 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

He’s a Prairie Home Companion RINO. Sad that Nebraska is our neighbor but at least their not in our conference any more.


85 posted on 01/14/2017 9:37:35 AM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: WilliamIII

Like McMuffin Sasse the Ass works for Soros & the Saudis.


86 posted on 01/14/2017 9:37:55 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Mercat
"He’s a Prairie Home Companion RINO."

OW!!

Oh, man... keeping it real, telling it like it is.

That was good.

87 posted on 01/14/2017 9:42:28 AM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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To: Lumper20

With dumb asses like Sasse it’s no wonder Pubbies always get rolled by democrats.


88 posted on 01/14/2017 9:48:46 AM PST by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: WilliamIII

The GoP has an illness.. both within and without. The media will make him a hero for their cause.. MY my,, who would have thought the media would have so many to cheer, even when Trump won and decisively so.

There is no lesson to be learned, unless there are willing students in the seats. ben, go to the principal’s office.


89 posted on 01/14/2017 9:53:29 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: WilliamIII

Sasse is wrong. That’s what John Lewis once was. Since then, he has become a hyperpartisan hack of a politician and has become, in many ways, exactly what he was once again - marginalizing and smearing people just because they are different (witness him attacking Jeff Sessions - someone he just in 2015 shared an emotional moment with at the anniversary of the Selma March) to push a partisan Democrat agenda. It is quite a shame.


90 posted on 01/14/2017 9:55:55 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Gaffer
... and Lewis is a member of the blatantly racist "Congressional Black Caucus" which excludes white representatives who represent "black" districts.
91 posted on 01/14/2017 9:58:16 AM PST by glennaro
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To: glennaro

Actually, all I can think about is a song from a 1939 BW/color movie that had a song in it that had lyrics like “.....if I only had a brain....”


92 posted on 01/14/2017 10:00:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: WilliamIII
Not all change has been positive.


93 posted on 01/14/2017 10:02:22 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: WilliamIII

Sasse graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in government. He also studied at the University of Oxford during the fall of 1992 on a junior year abroad program.[5] He graduated from St. John’s College in 1998 with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies and from Yale University with a Master of Arts degree (M.A.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), all from the Department of History, in 2004. Sasse’s dissertation, The Anti-Madalyn Majority: Secular Left, Religious Right, and the Rise of Reagan’s America won the Theron Rockwell Field (best dissertation) and the George Washington Egleston (American history) Prizes.[5][7]


94 posted on 01/14/2017 10:10:14 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: deweyfrank
Is this jerk going to be there for the next 6 years like McLame, Linda, and little marco?

I don't think so. I'm not sure, but I think he is up for reelection in 2 years.

95 posted on 01/14/2017 10:17:25 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: WilliamIII

Uber cuck Sasse opens his GOP-e mouth, crap spews. As usual.


96 posted on 01/14/2017 10:37:56 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: WilliamIII

George Will orgasming.


97 posted on 01/14/2017 10:38:58 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!)
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To: WilliamIII

Here it is:

Rep. John Lewis: ‘I Don’t See Trump as a Legitimate President’

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/john-lewis-trump-won-t-be-legitimate-president-n706676

Trump was elected by the people fully according to the election laws and rules.

These anti-US people should move to China or Cuba.


98 posted on 01/14/2017 10:44:51 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: higgmeister

a smart ass, as in intelligent ass. but still an ass


99 posted on 01/14/2017 10:49:21 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

These pantywaists think that apologizing and grovelling at the feet of leftists will somehow win them some street cred or something like that; are just plain ignorant idiots.


100 posted on 01/14/2017 11:02:42 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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