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 cares what that assclown Lott thinks?
Beware the void of Vacant Lott.
2nd Div, you are preaching to the choir. But we have a problem. I want Cruz to be President. But he is being Palinized.... BY THE “RIGHT.” (GOPe). The left can be getting pedicures while our STATISTS do all their work.
He is brilliant. Hope he has strategies to fight the media. If we could get the truth to the voters, he stands a chance. But after a certain amount of mocking in the public eye, a candidate gets too tarnished to function.
You get it. bingo. Now help us get truth to the general public. We need outside the box ideas.
Bob Dole didn’t know that BOB DOLE was alive and BOB DOLE should know if BOB DOLE is alive.
Worthless old rino piles of crap need to be disposed of.
They only trash their enemies.
It will take more than "towering genius" to undo the damage. It's going to take a "will of steel" (with more than a "dash of ruthlessness") to overcome the self-centered inertia of the Washington establishment -- as has just been amply demonstrated by Messr. Lott.
And, indeed, Ted Cruz is the only candidate who even remotely qualifies.
A true republican draw bridge. Going up or down to let the democrat/progressive garbage scow pass.
Lotts o’ laughs BUMP!
FUTrent
RINOs are running scared.
He is as relevant as the Whig Party
He was feeling lonely and left out because nobody remembered who he was. So, he figured he'd get out there and say something stupid which would get him some much needed attention.
I bet it earns him an appearance on MSNBC.
Trent Lott was the guy in charge when John McCain was such a Maverick...
Thank God Trent Lott no longer gets to vote on the same things Cruz does.
People in MS though still believe in Trent: nothing tarnishes his image there.
Get lost, Trent.
Lott was voted out. Who cares?
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