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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 Horrifying Facts About GOP Senator Tom Cotton One of the worst bullies in the Senate?
"Rotten Cotton"10 Horrifying Facts About GOP Senator Tom Cotton
One of the worst bullies in the Senate?
By Medea Benjamin, Nalini Ramachandran / AlterNet
Hailing from Arkansas, 37-year-old Senator Cotton boasts the title of being the youngest member of the Senate, but he spouts the old warmongering rhetoric of 78-year-old Senator John McCain. From Guantanamo to Iran, food stamps to womens rights, here are ten reasons why Tom Cotton is a dangerous dude.
1. He penned an underhanded letter to the leaders of Iran that sparked the trending hashtag #47Traitors.
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2. Senator Cotton said the only problem he has with Guantanamo Bay prison is that there are too many empty beds.
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3. He has compared the negotiations of the UN Security Council (P5+1) with Iran to the appeasement of Nazi Germany.
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4. He thinks the use of killer drones should be expanded.
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5. He claims that bombing makes us safer.
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6. He uses fear-mongering to call for a crackdown on immigrants and a clampdown on the Mexican border.
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7. . He received $700,000 for his senate campaign from the Emergency Committee for Israel.
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8. As an Army Lieutenant in 2006, Cotton called for the prosecution of two New York Times journalists for espionage.
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9. He thinks food-stamp recipients are addicts.
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10. He has opposed legislation to expand womens rights.
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Rep Alan Grayson says Sen. Cotton is already on his way to marking himself as the premiere warmonger of the 114th Congress. Heather Digby Parton from Salon called himTed Cruz with a war record, Sarah Palin with a Harvard degree, Chris Christie with a Southern accent. Whatever your characterization, this much is clear: this freshman senator is an arrogant bully and needs a time out.
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10 Horrifying Facts About GOP Senator Tom Cotton One of the worst bullies in the Senate? (Original Post)
Panich52
Mar 2015
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father founding
(619 posts)1. my bad
I thought cloning was illegal. Obviously a clone of them all, how did they do that ?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)2. This fuckwitted shitbag is not just another reichwing noodlehead.
He is a very, VERY dangerous creature. And the 'pukes are gonna strap a rocket to his ass and shoot him straight to the top of the tower of turds that is the repuke party.
Too bad this goon didn't get the Niedermeyer treatment