Jackson Jambalaya

And so it begins...................................

Maybe Philbo is keeping him propped up on his pillows in the hopes that Tatter Tot will appoint him Senator if he gets elected Guv. Than again, if the law permits, Philbo might just appoint himself Senator. Talk about a horrible scenario for Mississippi.

When is Brad going to run for something? He's been working behind the scenes for a minute.

I would like to introduce you to Senator Chip Pickering---WOW---just as planned.

What a bunch of sorry BASTARDS we have elected !

Billy Mounger and Trent Lott win again.

Brad who?

One way or another Chris McDaniel is getting into the senate, just a matter of time. All you MS republicans are a joke. And not a very funny one at that.

I'm not sure you are right about that 11:09 but MS Republicans are a joke and I've been one for 57 years. The State is run by Trent Lott and Billy Mounger. Mounger is just a little older than me---he is 80+ and still in total control. He has had a long run at f--king things up and Lott is in second position. I could say a lot more about these two jokers but I'm not because it does no good !!!!

Never had a UTI, have you? Well, they're wicked and not very responsive to antibiotics these days due to the overuse.
And, I've been a Republican all of my voting life, and Chris McDaniel and his like are not what the Party is about.

Billy Mounger (the elder) is 90+ and one of the smartest guys in MS period.

12:01, you tell us what the party needs---I know it's not McDaniel and his like. There is not one man that I know of that can pull this State out of our problems. We all know the Republicans that put us in 50th place.

I hate this State and everything it stands for---I'm to old at 75 to make a move but most of you are not to old to move.

12:05, I didn't say he wasn't smart but being a member of the Lucky Sperm Club sure did help him survive.

McDaniel will get a senate seat. He won the majority of the republican vote last go around. The only reason old Thad got reelected is because of the democrats. Everyone knows this.

12:26

I’m going to listen to you.

12:49: None of which matters a hoot. Heck, the people who put Trump in office voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Guess he deserves the boot.

@1:08

I was just making the point that the majority of republicans support McDaniel. Regardless of what you RHINOs say.

"Mrs. Cochran informed me..." please, give me a break. Why do all these guys act like their wife is driving the train? Even Feel Bryant begins all of his statements with "Deborah and I".

I like the Mabus approach instead.

If you are referring to old people as RHINOs---then I guess I'm a RHINO but let's make it perfectly clear that my generation of Republicans have had their belly full of Thad and all the backers that put him over the top at election time. I think "PAY BACK" is going to be hell when someone else is elected. Most Republicans here in Mississippi are wealthy (due to Daddy's Money) and continue to run this State in the ground. I'm tired now, time for my power nap. I'll be back in a little while to tell you more facts. They would put a bounty on my head if I told everything I know about them---.

Hate to say it but I worked and threw away my vote to bring Thad Cochran across the finish line. Wish I hadn't now -- this week is appropriations mark up -- Thursday and our boy is not there, however let's be honest - he probably never was there (intellectually) like Stennis and Eastman and others who worked to improve and REPRESENT the state. He never took a stand or represented anyone, except for the universities and funneling money to them for their "projects" (safe for reelection campaigning).

I would never have thought about voting for McDaniel in the last cycle, but I will not vote Wicker this cycle -- and whomever runs against Wicker, has my vote. Roger --- are you listening?????? Chris or SOMEONE ELSE HOPEFULLY step up to the plate - there are a lot of frustrated people in MS and 2:55 confirms it has been building for decades. Corker figured it out -- Rog might want to do the same. I'll hold my nose and vote McDaniel if that's my choice this time.

Is it “RHINOS” or “RINOS?” I need to brush up on my backwoods RWNJ patois.

3:20 You can’t educate Niknar on acronyms any easier than any of us could educate McDaniel on how not to fail at practicing law.

Oh no!!! Time to hide the old people from photographers, and lock up the county courthouses from the tea baggers. Time to prop up old Thad again, and pay the crackheads in the hood just to be republican for one day. Oh buy the way Russ Laton Americans for Prosperity is being bought by the Koch Brothers. You think Americas for Prosperity is looking out for you. Yea right only putting money in their pockets.

"And, I've been a Republican all of my voting life, and Chris McDaniel and his like are not what the Party is about."

Please define 'the party'. Are you talking about the Billy Monger party, the Trent Lott party, the Pete Perry (hic) party, the Haley Barbour party or the up and coming 'Kim Wade' party?

What we need is some kick-ass people like Chris McDaniel. Like Trump, he scares the literal hell out of you entrenched republicans who realize your days are numbered. NUMBERED, you assholes....Listen to me....NUMBERED!

6:30 -- I tend to agree and I wouldn't have in 2016 -- the problem with the MS Republican Party is that they decided who was going to be invited to the "party" and who was not, and those who were not were just told to "sit down, shut up, and vote the way they were told". Those "in charge" were so much more experienced at politics and therefore the rest of us should defer to their brilliance. We're still 50th by most standards so how did that work out for all of us.......NOT WELL!

I am NOT a fanatic or rabid anti-government person by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm finished with Establishment Republicans. In addition, my family (both nuclear and extended) is, and trust me they're just people who work daily, pay their taxes, go to church, raise their children, etc. and are sick and tired of sending people to DC and watching them either (1) enrich themselves or (2) not be representative of their "word" or what we elected them to do. I may not be a person who works for the "anti" Establishment candidate, but I can promise you I"ll vote for him/her, and THAT at the end of the day, should be why the Republican Party of Mississippi should be afraid......very afraid....of the next election cycle. Thad -- stay home......well, that would require him to go back to Washington wouldn't it?

Y'all so funny, y'all elected that rino Trump too.

"We all know the Republicans that put us in 50th place. "

Your ignorance is really comical. When did Haley get elected governor? When did the Dems lose control of the state legislature? All within the last 10 - 14 years, right?

So, where did Mississippi rank in everything for the preceding century when the DEMS had control of EVERYTHING?

75 years old and you apparently haven't noticed anything all around you or learned anything about Mississippi.

Sad.

12:26 Good grief. It is "too" not "to". You think someone of your age would have read that word a time or....aw never mind.

California is the most poverty-stricken state in America. #1. How wide-spread is that poverty? “More than a third of its 39 million residents are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state-federal program of medical care for the poor.” Overall, California for a decade has had over 30% of the nation’s welfare recipients and only around 12% of the nations’ population.

As long as Bryant doesn't promote the tan-nosed RINO Gregg Harper.

Baptist Republicans have driven us down to 50th place and kept us there with social bills that scare away industry and jobs.

10:15 -- If you drill down, there is more information. In 2017, California was the 6th largest economy in the world.......they have "business there" and at some point in time understood business models, how to attract them and how to sustain them.

THEN.......they allowed Democratic social policies to gain traction and starting taxing and spending the wealth the state had gained. Now they have a huge juxtaposition -- 6th largest economy in the world and high high poverty rate ...... the Democratic mantra of "income inequality" is highest in their strongest economic state.

Problem in Mississippi is NO one in government understands business. You see it continually in how they recruit, and in the results. When you put people in charge of recruitment or support in state run agencies who have never been responsible for a payroll, but they're going to recruit and explain to everyone else how to effectively succeed in business, it is a plan for failure. Again and again, we see it. I had a 26 year old kid come in to my office, and explain to me how to do work internationally. I just smiled and listened. No need to shoot the messenger.

At the end of the day Mississippi will remain in last place because of a lack of business support in the state and competent recruitment. If we had California's GDP and fiscally responsible, and competent government employees (I know ..... an oxymoron), we'd be #1. It has to be a multifaceted approach -- business and working with competent government ......which we don't have, and California at some point had, but lost it. We're both in last place but for very different reasons. They have it and cannot handle it and we have no clue how to get it.

I'm a shame that he is ill, but it just reminds me of how sorry I thought he was for even running last time. At his age there was no reason to run again. It appeared that the plan was to have the gov. appoint someone to complete the term, thus giving that someone a leg up on the seat. The complete arrogance of this is part of why people like Trump get elected. That seat belongs to the people. If Thad cared about Mississippi he would have stepped aside long ago. Of course the obvious counter argument to this is - well it was the people who sent him back up there. They knew how old he was. I have no answer for this. The thing I kept hearing was about his 'seniority' and my reply was you lose that seniority at the funeral home. If he serves two years and has to quit what did you gain? You got two years, but you allowed the party to chose the next senator.

12:15 -- I agree with you however, the "plan" was to keep him on Appropriations and take care of the State before he lost that position (Chairman), and then exited stage left.

Problem was we sent him, he did nothing as usual, and we're just two years farther down the road....ultimately losing that position anyway, and nothing completed or supported in the past 2 years by EITHER of our 2 U.S. Senators. Same old business as usual. Short sighted, and shoring themselves up in DC before they leave, but caring nothing for the welfare of Mississippi or the citizens of the state.

I'm a Republican -- was a die hard one -- voted on him -- wouldn't do it again, nor would I vote Wicker. Time to clean house and at least hold the new ones accountable. They had power and they threw it away -- so what's the difference if we just have new faces and no power or influence. Either way, we the citizens have NEVER had the representation we deserved. I'm on board whomever is against those currently in office. Couldn't be any worse than what we currently have up there doing the "people's business".

Your ignorance is really comical. When did Haley get elected governor? When did the Dems lose control of the state legislature? All within the last 10 - 14 years, right?

So, where did Mississippi rank in everything for the preceding century when the DEMS had control of EVERYTHING?

Talk about comical ignorance! Republicans gained control after voters decided that democrats weren't representing them and their views. In less than 10 - 14 years, voters are realizing that establishment is establishment, and there's not a dimes' worth of difference whether they wear a D or an R. (In fact, lots of R's are former D's who shifted when the political wind did.)
There's the select group of corrupt cronies... and all of the rest of us. Corruption permeates everything in this state and that sure hasn't changed in 10 - 14 years!

I live in Jackson, I saw what was going on when Cochran (barely) got reelected (without my vote!) It was sickening to see, but that's what happens when someone is unabashedly self serving.

3:13, 7:09, and 12:15 nailed it. Their sentiment is NOT unique. Check recent election trends if you disagree.

For the record, I think Chris McDaniel and Donald Trump are both complete douches.

I voted for both. And may do it again.

They may be douches, but their opponents are beyond that. The opponents are truly despicable.

Yeah, you vote for a douche, that makes you a bigger douche.

And for all of you referencing us RINOs (and incorrectly RHINOs, which, for your information, is "a large, heavily built plant-eating mammal with one or two horns on the nose and thick folded skin, native to Africa and southern Asia. All kinds have become endangered through hunting."), we are the true Republicans, and those of you falling off the far right cliff, have infiltrated our party, endangering us like the poor rhino. Go away and make your own party and leave ours alone. Go Senator Wicker and Congressman Harper, and much respect for the service of Senator Cochran.

1:54 p.m. - what does it make you if you voted for this?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/18/thad-cochran-says-not-retiring-senate-243918

My guess is an under-represented citizen or one represented by 24 year olds, we didn't elect, and who have no life experience or capabilities that support them being in positions of handling "votes" by Senator Cochran. I don't need someone my son's age making decisions for me.

BTW -- I voted Cochran and wish I hadn't. He should have gotten out a long time ago -- he's a poor sad, old man and those around him should feel tremendous guilt, including his immediate family who should have see this coming. This last election was a sham that should never have happened.