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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2013, 06:29 PM Oct 2013

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Is Ted Cruz the biggest A-HOLE to have ever disgraced our U.S. Senate? [View all] MoonRiver Oct 2013 OP

I'd say it's a 3 way tie: gopiscrap Oct 2013 #1

Yeah, I can see that. MoonRiver Oct 2013 #4

Oy - i thought you said Congress and you said senate el_bryanto Oct 2013 #2

Okay, but John C Calhoun wins best historical hairdo BainsBane Oct 2013 #8

Yeah, my thoughts as well. TDale313 Oct 2013 #7

The competition for this title is pretty stiff. QC Oct 2013 #9

I'd have to say JOE McCARTHY Pyrzqxgl Oct 2013 #6

McCarthy and Nixon come to mind as worse. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2013 #10

Yeah, but what, at four months into their first terms, were they doing? MoonRiver Oct 2013 #14

But Cruz has already jumped the shark pscot Oct 2013 #22

I wouldn't say THE biggest, LeftofObama Oct 2013 #11

+1 Incitatus Oct 2013 #13

Strom Thurmond was plenty bad. ananda Oct 2013 #12

No way quinnox Oct 2013 #15

Senators Joesph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran Kaleva Oct 2013 #17

Ted Cruz is the best thing to happen to us in a long time. geek tragedy Oct 2013 #19

There was one senator in the 1960's... Archae Oct 2013 #20

Jesse Helms is way ahead. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #23

Without- ruffburr Oct 2013 #24

Strom Thurmond. Scurrilous Oct 2013 #25

That's My Choice Strom Thurmond Wolf Frankula Oct 2013 #26

I give you...Strom Thurmond VanillaRhapsody Oct 2013 #27

Thurmond. McCarthy, runner-up. nt riqster Oct 2013 #28

Cruz is a puppy at this. nt bemildred Oct 2013 #29

I'd place him in the top ten. n/t louslobbs Oct 2013 #30

Preston Brooks. Remember him? dimbear Oct 2013 #31

Well my personal favorite awful senator has to be John Ensign, late of NV. kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #32

I am not even sure he is #1 today - he is the loudest rurallib Oct 2013 #33

He is a gift! Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2013 #34

since we still have zombie joe mccarthy, it remains to be seen. pansypoo53219 Oct 2013 #35

The competition is too great for me to make a definitive selection. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #36

No MFrohike Oct 2013 #37

That would probably be Theodore Bilbo. Spider Jerusalem Oct 2013 #38

The one I hate the worst Spirochete Oct 2013 #39