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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 12:13 PM Mar 2015

10 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 women’s 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 women’s 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 him“Ted 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 OP
my bad father founding Mar 2015 #1
This fuckwitted shitbag is not just another reichwing noodlehead. hifiguy Mar 2015 #2
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
2. This fuckwitted shitbag is not just another reichwing noodlehead.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 03:08 PM
Mar 2015

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

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