The passing of Lloyd Bentsen has elicited from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid the quasi-elegiac assessment that Mr. Bentsen was the best Senator ever from the great State of Texas.
In case you do not have the list of those Longhorn luminaries committed to memory, please follow this link.
You can't make sausage without breaking links, of course, but is it really necessary to put Uncle Lloyd ahead of Sam Houston and Lyndon Johnson to make the point that he was a fine, capable public servant?
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No, but its a good way to take a shot at the current living senators from Texas.
Ah yes, I remember the Bentsen Act well. Or was it the Bentsen-Rudman Act? The memory fails...
"Senator, you are no Sam Houston"
Yep. "Sam Houston, we've got a problem."
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