Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’
12:27 pm July 19, 2010, by Jay Bookman
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The money quote from a Washington Post piece on the Tea Party and Washington’s GOP establishment:
Here is what is wrong with Washington on both sides. We the people need to rise up and remove any that join Lott as he urges standing in the way of the people of America.
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”
But Lott said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,” he said.