Is Ted Cruz the biggest A-HOLE to have ever disgraced our U.S. Senate?

[MoonRiver]

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[gopiscrap]

1. I'd say it's a 3 way tie:

Cruz, Joe McCarthy and Jesse Helms

[MoonRiver]

4. Yeah, I can see that.

I would call McCarthy a threat to national security. Helms was a revolting, in the extreme, racist. But somehow Cruz, maybe because he's currently on stage, just strikes me as the most a-hole like.

[el_bryanto]

2. Oy - i thought you said Congress and you said senate

I was going to vote for Representative Preston Brooks who took a cane to Senator Charles Sumner - an abolitionist.

Bryant

[BainsBane]

8. Okay, but John C Calhoun wins best historical hairdo

[QC]

3. Close, but still trailing slightly behind McCarthy, Thurmond, and Helms. n/t

[TDale313]

7. Yeah, my thoughts as well.

[QC]

9. The competition for this title is pretty stiff.

Give Cruz a little more time, though, and who knows?

[FSogol]

5. Maybe right behind Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm (Texas), and Joseph McCarthy. n/t

[Pyrzqxgl]

6. I'd have to say JOE McCARTHY

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. McCarthy and Nixon come to mind as worse.

[MoonRiver]

14. Yeah, but what, at four months into their first terms, were they doing?

Cruz jumped right into the shit pool and hasn't poked his head out yet. I think he'll give those two a run for their money.

[pscot]

22. But Cruz has already jumped the shark

McCarthy caused a huge amount of grief for almost 10 years, and Strom infested the place for decades.

[LeftofObama]

11. I wouldn't say THE biggest,

but he certainly ranks in the top five.

[Incitatus]

13. +1

[ananda]

12. Strom Thurmond was plenty bad.

And Joe McCarthy.

[quinnox]

15. No way

others named were far worse. Cruz is just a very ambitious fellow, and he is trying to draw attention to himself. I am not impressed at all, he is nothing big, or important. I think duers spend too much time on him.

[spanone]

16. he's getting there. he's only had since january. he could be 'prick of the year' in 2014

[Kaleva]

17. Senators Joesph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran

[Rowdyboy]

18. You forget Jim Eastland, Theodore Bilbo, James K Vardaman-and thats just from Mississippi

There have been some incredible assholes in the senate over the years-Ted's just the latest shit-stain to grace the hallowed halls of congress, certainly not the worst.

Top 10? Maybe. Top 20? Likely.

[geek tragedy]

19. Ted Cruz is the best thing to happen to us in a long time.

I love that crazy, arrogant, rightwing blowhard bastard! He's a chunk of concrete tied to the Teapublican's ankle.

[Archae]

20. There was one senator in the 1960's...

He said the post office needed zip codes because "Them niggers can't read."

I don't remember the Senator's name though.

[GreenStormCloud]

21. I am sure that some pro-slavery senators from pre-civil war were worse than Cruz.

I don't feel like doing the research to find the names.

[NuclearDem]

23. Jesse Helms is way ahead.

[ruffburr]

24. Without-

Going into the past ,While the Cruz has a low number on the top 10, I would also say in the running are Gohmert , Bachmann, Ryan, Bohner , Oh that's the house, So yea I guess he is

[Scurrilous]

25. Strom Thurmond.

Racist fuckwit had to be carried out of the Senate.

[Wolf Frankula]

26. That's My Choice Strom Thurmond

Nutty as a fruitcake.

Wolf

[VanillaRhapsody]

27. I give you...Strom Thurmond

who got in the car with a woman going to death row and offered to have sex with her on the way! Or so the story goes...

[riqster]

28. Thurmond. McCarthy, runner-up. nt

[bemildred]

29. Cruz is a puppy at this. nt

[louslobbs]

30. I'd place him in the top ten. n/t

Lou

[dimbear]

31. Preston Brooks. Remember him?

Savagely beat another senator (Charles Summer) with a cane in May of 1856.

Those were the days.

[kestrel91316]

32. Well my personal favorite awful senator has to be John Ensign, late of NV.

But he's far from the worst ever - it's just that I know him personally so it's especially nice to be able to list him here.

[rurallib]

33. I am not even sure he is #1 today - he is the loudest

but McConnell has stalled damn near everything for 5 years, McCain I still maintain is a top notch asshole, Jeff Sessions is about as racist and neo confederate as they come. And the two clowns from Oklahoma, good god!
Cruz has simply pissed off his fellow travelers which others never attempted.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

34. He is a gift!

[pansypoo53219]

35. since we still have zombie joe mccarthy, it remains to be seen.

[Uncle Joe]

36. The competition is too great for me to make a definitive selection.

Joe McCarthy would certainly rank up there along with a host of others.

Thanks for the thread, MoonRiver.

[MFrohike]

37. No

Theodore Bilbo, Jim Eastland, Joe McCarthy, Bully Brooks, and Jim Bunning rank way ahead of him. He's not even the clear number one currently, as Rand Paul is working hard to reclaim that title on a daily basis.

[Spider Jerusalem]

38. That would probably be Theodore Bilbo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_G._Bilbo

[Spirochete]

39. The one I hate the worst

is still Joseph Turncoat Lieberman. I expect the Republicans to be assholes. I don't think they're capable of anything else. But this vomitous cretin called himself a democrat, helped throw a monkey wrench into a democratic presidential campaign, then left the party when a real democrat took him out of the primaries.