Add former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the list of Republican tea party bashers. Lott (R-MS) held little back in a Washington Post interview that was published this weekend, drawing the ire of conservatives far and wide.Lott told the Post that the tea partiers might not help with an already dysfunctional Senate. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” he told the Post, referring to the current Senator from South Carolina. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Lott also told the Post he is not expecting a “tea-party sweep.”
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