Discussion for article #238393
Good idea…and another good idea will be for Tom Cotton to volunteer to be on the front lines of our war with Iran. I’m tired of chicken hawks. Either you get your arse into the army or you agree to this deal.
(Look, I don’t think I ever knew he was an Iraq Vet, everyone, but still, I’m tired of hearing people largely advocating for the invasion of a sovereign country without any real justification.)
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Sure, Tommy-Boy. As they say in my part of the world: you ain’t got the git to make it go. Deal will go through, and I sure hope Nancy Pelosi never lets you forget you said this.
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He’s an Iraq war veteran so he’s not a chicken hawk, he’s simply stupid.
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Congress can only advise…they can stop nothing on this deal.
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The Congress will be left trying to override Obama’s veto. And if you do then go ahead and then try and re-impose sanctions. It is going to be tough to do if Europe , Russia and China don’t go along. What a maroon.
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Tom Cotton more briefly: “jiggery pokery”. Cotton has learned that in the GOP, the way you get noticed as a backbencher is to be outrageous and say stupid things [See Krugman comments on Donald Trump]. However in Cotton’s case I am also seeing some genuine mental instability there.
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“I believe Congress will kill the deal, just as soon as I wipe Sheldon Adelson off my chin.”
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At this point, I don’t care if he IS an Iraq War Veteran- his constant drum beat for war without being willing to put himself on the front lines of the new conflict while resigning his spot in Congress makes him a Chicken Hawk. Same goes for Senator John “Bomb Iran” McCain.
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Oh shut up and go back to your honor guard duties, ya weapons industry whore.
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Tommy wants some money from Sheldon Adelson…
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congress might vote against it, in which case obama will veto, and cotton will be seen as the impotent warmonger he is. man, are there two words that go together better than those?
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If Cotton had been elected in 2012, I think he’d be one of the announced GOP pres candidates and very possibly the front-runner. He fits the Republican fantasy of the Southern Christianist Warrior-President perfectly. G. Gordon Liddy would come out of retirement to dreamily opine about how great Tommy would look in a crotch-bulging flight suit.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is accurately explained by stupidity." - - Harlow’s Law
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Exactly. Isn’t this also an international type of agreement–not unilateral or economic–that Congress has little to do with? Or am I thinking of the so many other types of deals they in power have created to get around the public in general (and each other), etc.?
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But the combination is really frightening and dangerous.
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Trump to name Cotton as VEEP candidate in 2016! Pass it on!
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This rabidly partisan posturing and grandstanding and sabotaging of stuff that actually matters in the world is the clearest sign of what’s happened to the Republican party in the last 30 years or so. Just shocking and sickening. If you can’t act like a rational adult one day out of 30 to cooperate and get the best possible deal to slow the spread of nuclear weapons I just don’t know what to say.
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The only deal Tom Cotton is willing to accept is one in which we all agree to go to war with Iran.
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Well, let’s face it – Cotton is FAR easier on the eyes (to the straight ladies and us bi- and gay guys) than Mr. Racist Loud Mouth.
Full disclosure: I like Cotton’s looks but not his politics. Sorta that Palin effect, I guess. It’ll wear off.
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