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Tom Cotton: Another bright star in the Republican Party
[link=http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cottons-maiden-address-ending-america-s-retreat-restoring-america-s-military-dominance_889070.html?nopager=1]http://www.weeklystandard…_889070.html?nopager=1[/link]
Tom Cotton. We’ll be hearing more from him. This guy is smart and principled, a la Ted Cruz. Tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Awarded Bronze Star. Harvard College graduate, Magda cum laude. Harvard Law JD. (I bet we can see his grades too). Clerked for the US Fifth Circuit, then went on to actually practice law.
We’ll be needing him if we are ever going to recover from the debacle of the last 7 years. -
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no he will be JB’s fall guy…Peter cottontail cannot be to bright to author that letter…like how many days in office and he falls right down into the bunny trail
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Well, he did bring up Hitler less than one minute into his first ever Senate floor speech so … He’s the “OMG! The world is falling apart and everybody except the GOP are p*ssy Neville Chamberlains” demographic sewn up.
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I think he’s looking for his 15 minutes, kind of like the dude who yelled “You Lie” whom I can’t even remember his name.
Either that or maybe the more senior members leaned on him to do it, so it didn’t look like they penned the letter.-
another rising GOP star bites the dust…say hello to McDonnell as u descend ..oh what will happen to the downtown abbey office…will there be an auction or give away to fellow GOP
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cotton tail look before u leap
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wonder if Aaron will skate given that Jesse Jackson Jr is in jail.. Now Aaron this not about the haters are going to hate..financial issues have to be addressed
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What you are seeing is the return of real men to American politics. It is going to take a while to weed out the wussies in the “progressive” wing of the Democrat party and the Boehner’s, McCain and McConnells, but those with guts and conviction are having their voices heard. Cruz, Cotton and the always steely Dick Chenney are not holding back their opinions:
[i]I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question and thats saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation its a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.[/i]- Dick Chenney.
[link=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-times-dick-cheney-dissed-president-obama-in-playboy-interview-2015-03-17?dist=tcountdown]http://www.marketwatch.co…-03-17?dist=tcountdown[/link]-
so sad aldi what was Aaron not billing..a disgrace imho for the party and himself…the hypocrisy is astounding ,,,met with a friend in la/proud gay..not happy with Aaron
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aldi did u see Anderson Cooper today..Aaron’s dad was optimistic but then said well he may be in jail in 2 years..like thanks dad…real men/real family values GOP politician
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What you are seeing is the return of real men to American politics. It is going to take a while to weed out the wussies in the “progressive” wing of the Democrat party and the Boehner’s, McCain and McConnells, but those with guts and conviction are having their voices heard. Cruz, Cotton and the always steely Dick Chenney are not holding back their opinions:
[i]I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question and thats saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation its a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.[/i]- Dick Chenney.
[link=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-times-dick-cheney-dissed-president-obama-in-playboy-interview-2015-03-17?dist=tcountdown]http://www.marketwatch.co…-03-17?dist=tcountdown[/link] -
the vice prez wants to be revelent
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What you are seeing is the return of real men to American politics. It is going to take a while to weed out the wussies in the “progressive” wing of the Democrat party and the Boehner’s, McCain and McConnells, but those with guts and conviction are having their voices heard. Cruz, Cotton and the always steely Dick Chenney are not holding back their opinions:
[i]I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question and thats saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation its a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.[/i]- Dick Chenney.
[link=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-times-dick-cheney-dissed-president-obama-in-playboy-interview-2015-03-17?dist=tcountdown]http://www.marketwatch.co…-03-17?dist=tcountdown[/link]-
Aaron’s chandelier…will there be an auction
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You dont want to be a ‘rising star’ in the republican party. The next step usually involves disclosures from hookers, financial misconduct or revelations that you beat your wife.
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speaker b since he is all up bibi’s ass imho /not working with the lynch case can offer to give the chandelier or other office furniture to bibi for the so called shabby Israel home he has
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What you are seeing is the return of real men to American politics. It is going to take a while to weed out the wussies in the “progressive” wing of the Democrat party and the Boehner’s, McCain and McConnells, but those with guts and conviction are having their voices heard. Cruz, Cotton and the always steely Dick Chenney are not holding back their opinions:
You mistake the sound of grunting and groaning mixing with the smell of dank sour sweat as “real men” returning to Washington. Didn’t we have enough of 8 years of “real men” creating an unnecessary war for false reasons? Besides what Cotton & the rest of the Republicans are doing is more posing than anything real. Republicans are the Party who can’t govern. They need remedial classes in how to govern as the Constitution says it should be done.
As Schumer states, “They are poisoning their own bills.”
As Ruth Marcus writes, they can’t even pass a feel-good bill without tying it up in knots over posing.
The Party that can’t legislate straight.
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but JB shows his oh I am a man by taking weeks of to visit bibi a declared bigot..
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If you aren’t scared by a lawless president who chooses which laws to execute and which to not (ignore), we’ve got a bigger problem that anyone ever realized.
It’s a non-partisan issue. If future presidents choose to tell people “don’t enforce our laws” selectively, all you have is a king. That’s what Obama and Holder’s DOJ have done.
It is a huge issue, and it’s not partisan. Ask Turley if you want to obey your inner irrationality to dislike my posts. Otherwise, just think for a second.-
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If you aren’t scared by a lawless president who chooses which laws to execute and which to not (ignore), we’ve got a bigger problem that anyone ever realized.
It’s a non-partisan issue. If future presidents choose to tell people “don’t enforce our laws” selectively, all you have is a king. That’s what Obama and Holder’s DOJ have done.
It is a huge issue, and it’s not partisan. Ask Turley if you want to obey your inner irrationality to dislike my posts. Otherwise, just think for a second.
The last “lawless” President was Bush, wasn’t he? When all Republicans supported the Unitary President that was immune to law?
Read up on the opinions. They are truly scary.
[link=http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/constitutional-myth-3-the-unitary-executive-is-a-dictator-in-war-and-peace/239627/]http://www.theatlantic.co…-war-and-peace/239627/[/link]
Yet immediately after passage, Bush’s in-house lawyer, John Yoo, wrote the president an [link=http://www.justice.gov/olc/warpowers925.htm]official memo[/link] stating that Bush didn’t need the authorization. “The historical record demonstrates that the power to initiate military hostilities, particularly in response to the threat of an armed attack, rests exclusively with the President.” Yoo argued, “Congress’s support for the President’s power suggests no limits on the Executive’s judgment whether to use military force in response to the national emergency.”
Peter M. Shane of Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, a former Office of Legal Counsel official, and now a paramount scholar of presidential authority, points to a 1988 dispute with Congress over AIDS as sewing the seeds of the hard-line “unitary executive” theory. Congress passed a statute requiring the Centers for Disease Control to publish a pamphlet setting out the facts about the disease and ways of preventing it. Ronald Reagan really didn’t think AIDS was such a big deal and preferred it not be mentioned at all; the Reagan White House refused to clear the pamphlet. In frustration, Congress by statute instructed the head of CDC–chosen, as White House aides are not, for expertise in public health– to publish the pamphlet without clearance.
[b]The Reagan Justice Department issued an opinion that the law was flatly unconstitutional. “Any attempt by Congress to constrain the president’s authority to supervise and direct his subordinates in this respect,” OLC’s opinion said, “violates the Constitution.” [/b][b]Yoo was deploying a theory of executive power best summed up by his phrase: “no limits on the Executive’s judgment.”[/b] George W. Bush was later to rely on that theory to justify warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens’ phone calls and emails, despite a statute banning the practice, and to override the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, with its absolute prohibition on “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment” ” of prisoners.
[b]Reagan and his attorney general, Ed Meese, regarded the Democratic-majority Congress as the enemy. They needed a theory that would let them act at home and abroad without congressional authorization, withhold information from Congress at their pleasure, and resist any attempt by Congress to find out what was going on or limit their freedom of maneuver.[/b]
To Hamilton’s already radical view of the executive power, they added the “unitary executive” idea. [b]That idea says that because “the” executive power is vested in “a president,” any attempt to limit the president’s control over the executive branch is unconstitutional.[/b]
If Obama is lawless then Republicans have supported worse lawlessness in the recent past. Better make up your minds which it is. The argument that “lawless” only applies to Democratic Presidents is self-evident self-serving BS lies. Speaking out of both sides of your mouths is not an argument. Unless you are arguing to arrest Bush & members of his Administration & prosecute their crimes first as an example? As a sitting President, Obama is immune by dint of the Unitary Executive powers?
Besides, all Congress has to do is vote to rescind Obama’s recess actions, no? Why don’t they? Or, if Obama is truly “lawless,” that’s unConstitution, no? So vote to impeach. You have the votes now that Republicans control both Houses.
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Exactly. The Republicans should repeal, defund and challenge all of the unlawful executive actions, since the Democrat Congressmen and Senators have abdicated their positions. They seem to have bent over for the Emperor. That is why we need more Republicans like Cotton, Cruz and Lee, who will stand up for the Constitution, and less McCain, McConnell and Boehner.
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Snake oil salesmen, Cruz, Lee & Cotton. Among other wannabe snake oil salesmen.
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If Obama is indeed lawless and has broke the law and trampled on the constitution then the republican congress should do their job and impeach him
Why do you think they aren’t doing just that?
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look before u leap…illinois has their rising star under investigation= and then there is rand and comments on christe wife
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I think the republicans should put their money where their mouth is
If Obama broke the law and tramples on the constitution
Then impeach him
See how that works out for you
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look before u leap…illinois has their rising star under investigation= and then there is rand and comments on christe wife
In the image you link only one of those things is in quotes. So does that mean he didn’t say the other things?
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[link=http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/08/398345234/tom-cotton-military-action-against-iran-would-only-take-several-days]http://www.npr.org/blogs/…only-take-several-days[/link]
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[h1]Tom Cotton: Military Action Against Iran Would Take Only ‘Several Days'[/b][/h1]
What he doesn’t realize is that it’s not really about how much time it takes, it’s about the effect of the attack. We don’t just bomb and then go back to square one as if it hadn’t happened.
[link=http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21698/attacking_iran.html]http://belfercenter.ksg.h…98/attacking_iran.html[/link]
An attack on Iran by the United States or Israel will likely add to the ranks of the regime’s supporters. Just as a divided population came together to confront the Iraqi invasion, Iranians of all stripes will unite in opposition to an attack. The upshot will be a stronger, more cohesive, and more militant Islamic Republic….
Even Bill O’Reilly knows about the unintended consequences of a war with Iran.
So maybe we only bomb for 7 days …. this time… but we have to deal with the downstream effects for years or maybe decades. -
Just like the Civil War. Just like the Slam-dunk Iraq War. Did Cotton actually see combat or only in pictures & reports?
How do these fantasy-land idiots get elected?
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He’s from the Arkansas family stump. They celebrate Robert E Lee on MLK day.
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Senate passes Iranian deal review bill 98-1.
Tom Cotton is the only member to vote against.
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Tom needs to not allow the older guys throw him under the bus
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[link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/tom-cotton-to-compare-reagan-and-trump-in-speech-on-future-of-the-gop-11646647200?mod=djemalertNEWS]Wall Street Journal[/link]
[h1][b]Tom Cotton to Compare Trump and Reagan In Big Speech[/b][/h1]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is expected to argue in a high-profile speech Monday evening that presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump share common roots in the Republican Party and that those who suggest the GOP must pick a path that embraces one or the other are wrong.”
Mr. Cotton, a possible 2024 presidential candidate, is the latest Republican invited to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California as part of a speakers series on the partys future following its loss of the White House, Senate and House during Mr. Trumps tenure in office.[link=https://twitter.com/politicoalex/status/1501008584678776835]https://twitter.com/polit…us/1501008584678776835[/link]
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I guess they were both bad for the middle class.
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[link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/tom-cotton-to-compare-reagan-and-trump-in-speech-on-future-of-the-gop-11646647200?mod=djemalertNEWS]Wall Street Journal[/link]
[h1][b]Tom Cotton to Compare Trump and Reagan In Big Speech[/b][/h1]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is expected to argue in a high-profile speech Monday evening that presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump share common roots in the Republican Party and that those who suggest the GOP must pick a path that embraces one or the other are wrong.”
Mr. Cotton, a possible 2024 presidential candidate, is the latest Republican invited to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California as part of a speakers series on the partys future following its loss of the White House, Senate and House during Mr. Trumps tenure in office.[link=https://twitter.com/politicoalex/status/1501008584678776835]https://twitter.com/polit…us/1501008584678776835[/link]
So much for bright.
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In his speech Cotton says the “administrative statea deep state, if you willinsulates itself” from consequences. “The deep state claims the right to rule by ‘scientific expertise,’ but our Constitution rests on rule by consent of the people, not rule by self-appointed so-called ‘experts.'”
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Tom Nichols of the [i]Atlantic[/i]: “If you prefer rule by Tom Cotton to rule by ‘so-called experts’ I have bad news for you about how that will turn out. Cotton relies on experts too, he just prefers the ones he happens to like. I love it when people with Ivy League education b*tch about experts.”Joe Scarborough: “If Trumpers are going to keep bashing Ivy League schools & country clubs, they should probably start electing leaders who didnt go to Ivy League schools and actually live at their own country clubs. Cruz: Princeton & Harvard Law; Hawley: Yale & Stanford; Cotton: Harvard”
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Dont forget DeSantis: Yale & Harvard
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Cotton is as thoroughbred of a Harvard boy and DC insider as you are going to find anywhere. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s exactly the elite they are railing against.
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Nothing wrong with being “elite” in education and knowledge unless you are corrupt.
These people are completely corrupt.
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