Lobbyist and proven failure Trent Lott says it's imperative to 'co-opt' new tea partiers coming to DC

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11/20/10, "Revolutionary Do-Over," Wall St. Journal, John Fund

"An old Washington story goes that when Martians land near the White House, everyone inside the Beltway flees in terror. Everyone, that is, except for the folks at the favor-factories known as Congress's Appropriations Committees, who rush to greet the spaceship and say, "We're here to help with the transition."

• There is always a danger that this election's invading aliens—aka, tea partiers—will gradually succumb to Beltway mores.
  

Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a big-time Washington lobbyist, has already told the Washington Post that

• it's imperative for his tribe to "co-opt" the tea partiers arriving in D.C."...

Dick Armey "sent each new member of Congress a seven-page memo on

• how not to be co-opted.
  

Mr. Armey's top agenda item for the 112th Congress is, he says, "to defund, repeal and replace the government takeover of health care and adopt a patient-centered approach."...

• "The first rule of conservatism," he chuckles, "is to accept that if you are true to yourself,
  

Hollywood celebrities will never hug you in public. Ultimately, serving the people and upholding the Constitution will be much more satisfying.""

• (Trent Lott and his friends were happy and rich being in the minority, didn't want newcomers, still don't. As for Mr. Armey, he is not in office, had his chance and blew it, is not the head of the Tea Party, and it's nice he wants to repeal ObamaCare). ed.
  

via Lucianne.com