Discussion: Mika Brzezinski Hammers Ted Cruz On GOP Iran Letter While JoeScar Whines (VIDEO)

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FYI tpm,there is no video

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Republicans are so good at goose-stepping. They keep repeating “bad deal” in unison and they got their right-wing shock troops repeating it too. THERE. IS. NO. DEAL. FINISHED. TO. KNOW. THAT. IT. IS. BAD. Ted Cruz’s entire act is based around feigning ignorance because he assumes enough people are stupid enough to take what he says at face value (and in the case of his own state, he’d be right).

Here is the other part Cotton (who, like Cruz, knows better) pretends not to understand - the sanctions were passed on Iran under the presumption Iran was acting in bad faith. When the other nations (especially Russia and China) get the impression it’s actually the United States doing that, the entire thing collapses and the only next logical step is allowing Iran to have a nuke or war. They aren’t honest enough to say that though.

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No, Mr. Scarborough, you are not a potted plant. A potted plant is sensible enough to keep its mouth shut when it has nothing of value to contribute.

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oddly, the previous segment was with joe klein who just returned from several weeks in israel and had described the letter as disgusting and destructive to the negotiations. wonder why he wasn’t kept around for the segment …

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One morning where Mika wasn’t her usual insipid self. As for Cruz and Scarborough two tea baggers grasping for points.

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“What am I, Willie, a potted plant?” More like chopped liver, you little he-bitch.

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The US is NOT NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN!
The UN Security Council IS! (the US is one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council)
Any agreement will be between the UN Security Council and Iran (a member of the UN and a signatory to the UN’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.)
Thus, the Senate HAS NO STANDING in the negotiations as it will not be a TREATY between the US and Iran.
Everything else is just smoke and mirrors to boost their “I hate the Commie/Kenyan/Dictator/Ni(CLANG!) more than the next white guy running for the Republican Nomination.”

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“What am I, Willie, a potted plant?” Scarborough asked of co-host Willie Geist.

No, you yammering Koch whore, you’re a lying belligerent warmongering sack of shit who had a dead intern in his Congressional office.

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First, I hope Mika remembers to water Joe, his fronds are looking a tad yellowed…
Secondly, mild costar questioning of a guest interrupted by a loud and lengthy host defense on a program with a viewing audience equivalent to one packed theater hardly qualifies as ‘questioning’ the infantile douchebag from Texas though I’m glad the topic remains alive on this low-rated show as someone named Durst dazzles the traitor letter off the higher rated programming.

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yup.Yup.YUPPP…

The BIGGEST little titty-baby He-Bitch!!!

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Tom Cotton:
“The world is growing ever more dangerous, and our defense spending is wholly inadequate to confront the danger,” Cotton said. “To be exact, during the last four or five years, the world has grown gravely darker. We have steadily disarmed, partly with a sincere desire to give a lead to other countries and partly due to the severe financial pressure of the time. But a change must now be made. We must not continue longer on a course in which we alone are growing weaker while every other nation is growing stronger.”

Tom Cotton, 24 hours after sending letter to Iran:

Cotton will appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying and professional group for defense contractors. 
The NDIA is composed of executives from major military businesses such as Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, ManTech International, Boeing, Oshkosh Defense and Booz Allen Hamilton, among other firms. 
Cotton strongly advocates higher defense spending and a more aggressive foreign policy. As The New Republic’s David Ramsey noted, “Pick a topic — Syria, Iran, Russia, ISIS, drones, NSA snooping — and Cotton can be found at the hawkish outer edge of the debate … During his senate campaign, he told a tele-townhall that ISIS and Mexican drug cartels joining forces to attack Arkansas was an ‘urgent problem.’” 
On Iran, Cotton has issued specific calls for military intervention. In December he said Congress should consider supplying Israel with B-52s and so-called “bunker-buster” bombs — both items manufactured by NDIA member Boeing — to be used for a possible strike against Iran.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/09/upon-launching-effort-scuttle-iran-deal-senator-tom-cotton-meets-defense-contractors/

Of course the GOP wants war. It’s what they do. They also want defense industry campaign contributions. So do Democrats. But if you’re the defense industry, where are your dollars wisely invested?

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[This is not snark]

I would use stronger language, if allowed to be uncensored.

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Mika’s trying to make everyone forget how she usually sits like a potted plant and lets JoeyScabs go off on whatever. She seems to do this every so often after she’s been criticized like she was last week after the discussion of rap being the cause of SAEs behavior. She’ll go mute again soon enough.

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Mika was not herself today…She will be back tomorrow.

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Potted plants also produce oxygen [at least when illuminated]; they, unlike Scarborough and Cruz, do not suck the oxygen out of every room they enter.

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A little Pontius Pilate hand wringing er, washing…Tweety and Mrs. Greenspan keep a little jar of milked tears off camera for just this purpose. (The tears traditionally at NBC are personal but, I think in the last few years they’ve switched to a watery, salted gel after that health scare with pirated South American ‘product’.)

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Thats ok, there really isn’t any reporting here either. Just the daily “Morning Joke” promo.
To borrow from Shakespeare, “Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

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It would have brought down the house had Mika said to somebody off-camera, “Could somebody water the potted plant?” and gotten back to skinning the Tedster.