Dick Morris applauds the "new leadership" of "Gingrich Republican" Mitch McConnell

[Human Torch]

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/110906.html

House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has been a disaster and the rest of the House and Senate leadership has not been any better. The lean, ascetic, ideological purity of the Gingrich Republicans of 1994 had yielded to the corrupt, feather-your-own-nest psychology of the current Republican congressional leadership. They assumed that the partisan gerrymandering of 2000 left them invulnerable and they dipped into the till to get earmarks for their favorite lobbyists in return for contributions and free vacations. It’s time to get rid of this kind of leadership and to bring in people with a fine, tough partisan and ideological edge.

In the Senate, the problem is a little different. There the issue is not impurity but incompetence. Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was not a man of the Senate. He didn’t know how to make the trains run on time. He was helpless when it came to using the tools and procedures of the body to control the floor and force action. Whether the Republicans are in the majority or the minority in the Senate, they need new leadership. Since Frist is retiring, they will get it in the person of Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, a partisan in the mold of a Newt Gingrich or a Phil Gramm.

But McConnell needs someone to run the shop and tie up the Democrats in knots with procedural moves and skillful parliamentary tactics. The man for the job is Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott (R). The Republican Senate caucus should make Lott the whip. As majority whip, he would make the Senate an effective instrument of McConnell’s and Bush’s will. As minority whip, he would stop the Democrats from passing crazy legislation and befuddle them with his maneuvers.

It’s time to bring in the “A” team again. The Republican congressional caucus needs leaders who put ideas ahead of patronage and who know how to get the job done. They need to reach back into their past and recapture the tough, raw partisanship that animated their return to power after 40 years in the wilderness.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Leave it to Dick Morris to "TOE" the line...

;)

[WCGreen]

2. This guy get's so much wrong....

Why is he still even allowed to speak on behalf of the political process....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. well, he's right about Frist, but McConnell is a slimy little dweeb

who loves closing in with a knife hidden in his palm. He is one evil, greedy, criminal SOB and someone to watch out for.
His TV persona is so mild, sweet and kind, when in reality, this guy is a mean, manipulative, lying cheating POS. Some of his dealings with K Street and Defense don't even come close to passing the smell test. Watch for McConnell to retire when the subpeonas really start flying.

[mediaman007]

4. Sorry, Dick(head), but the American public has seen too much of

the "raw partisanship." Trace it back to the late 80's with the emergence of Rush Lim(p)baugh. Everyone is moving on and the Republicans are being left behind. I guess that includes Dick Morris too!

[Toots]

5. Boy talk about a dumb shit...He is the prime example of why the GOP was

thrown out on their butts......It is about America not Party partisans. They refuse to get it...