Here is the letter an Arkansas voter sent directly to Senator Cotton...

[Playinghardball]

[KamaAina]

1. Arkansas Granny, is that you?

[B Calm]

4. She don't live in Little Rock. I think she lives in Ft. Smith.

[KamaAina]

5. And I doubt that her name is Marck.

[B Calm]

6. LOL

Probably not. .

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Yes, I do live in Fort Smith.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. No, but that's a good letter! I read the comments in our local paper when they first ran the

article. The response was 8 to 1 against the letter.

[Duval]

28. Wow! It was in your

local paper? That is great!

[Arkansas Granny]

29. I meant when the first report of Cotton's letter ran in our paper

not the one printed above. I thought you might have misunderstood which letter I meant.

It surprised me that so many people in our deep red town disapproved of the Senators actions.

[SusanCalvin]

33. Dallas Morning News

Had comments running about 100 to 1 against the 47.

[Art_from_Ark]

47. Wow-- and Ft. Smith is such a conservative area, too.

I hope the folks there finally start to realize that voting for idiotic Republicans isn't such a great idea.

[Arkansas Granny]

48. I was really surprised, too. I expected more support for the letter than opposition.

As you probably know, Arkansas was a mostly Dem state until just a few years ago. The tea party found fertile ground here with religious conservatives.

[Art_from_Ark]

49. It seems like things started going really downhill after Bill Gwatney's murder

He had been the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, and while he was at the helm, Dems were in control at the state level. But now,

[Art_from_Ark]

50. Someone ought to put up some billboards with Mark Pryor's picture and the words

"Miss me yet?"

[Spazito]

2. Excellent letter!

"You have declared that you want "regime change". So do I, particularly in the US Senate."

Love it. Kudos to Mr. Beggs.

Edited to change LTTE to letter as I mistakenly thought it was a Letter To The Editor instead of one directly to Tehran Tom.

[drynberg]

45. Yes, Cotton deserves the pokey while awaiting trial for Sedition.

[Plucketeer]

53. All forty-seven signers do! nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. Another vote for legislative and judicial brach regime change.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. YES! Dammit YES! More calling them out! n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Good letter.

[lewebley3]

9. Great Voter response: Tom Cotton trying to line his pockets with Dead soldiers

Never forget the Tom Cotton was given money to do this awful
deed.

He is not in public serves, he is working or the Defense contractors,
and took 1 Mill from BiBi buddies, just before the end of his campaign.

He was and is bribe-able, he cannot trusted with American lives, we need
a grand jury, we need to know if crimes were committed.

[daleanime]

22. +1

[tomsaiditagain]

10. Tom Cotton is right though

99.9% of all republicans are right on any subject. They will argue and stomp their feet when you disagree with them, or tell them the truth of the matter.

What a sad bunch they are.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. He'll get the same dumb reply from Cotton's off that the rest of us got.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Yep. He said it was good to hear from me, but he didn't address any of the statements I made.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. My reply was a carbon copy of yours. I deleted them.

[City Lights]

24. At least you heard from him.

My senator (Kirk) has not responded. He's probably still trying to figure out how to spin it.

[Arkansas Granny]

30. I sent a copy of my letter to my other Senator, John Boozman, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.

[sinkingfeeling]

54. I just told Boozman that I had always thought he was too smart to sign such

a stupid letter. Said I now knew I'd been wrong.

[progressoid]

16. Well,

technically, as a citizen of the US, he can't be a traitor to Germany, GB etc. can he?

[mwooldri]

20. Other nations can view specific foreign people as treacherous.

Synonyms of the word "treachery" include: breach of trust, duplicity, dirty tricks, deceit, deception, chicanery, stab in the back, backstabbing, double-dealing, untrustworthiness, treason.

A treacherous person is a potential traitor.

So I agree with you in that 46 of the 47 senators can not be a traitor to the UK, Germany or any other country involved with the Iranian negotiations. Senator Ted Cruz however is/was a Canadian citizen, and although Canada isn't part of the negotiations he could still be a traitor to the Crown i.e. Queen Elizabeth II, whose UK government is in the negotiations.

[Thespian2]

40. Excellent!

[maddiemom]

17. I'm amazed at how the GOP is letting these grandstanding newcomers

lead them. First Cruz, now Cotton. But, wait! Could it be that those ineffectual veterans such as McConnell and Boehner are sitting back and letting those nakedly ambitious fools test the wind and take the flack for their own sedition and Obama derangement?

[DocMac]

23. I think you're right.

Republicans will sacrifice a few turds to see what the limits are.

[geretogo]

18. Excellent letter . Well worded and right to the point . It's just too bad Cotton being a Koch

sociopath , that letter to him means no more than a an itch on his nose .

[mountain grammy]

19. I like this letter. I sent comments to Senator Gardner

who I'm sorry to say is my new senator.

I didn't call him a traitor, but did ask him how he thought this letter might affect our relationship with our allies who are negotiating along with us. I also asked him to please be more thoughtful in the future and think of his constituents.

I got a "thanks for your letter" response.

[oldandhappy]

21. Excellent!!!

[City Lights]

25. Excellent letter!

[LiberalFighter]

26. He should go to the front line.

[Duval]

27. Hurrah for Marck L. Beggs

Hmmmm Wonder if I could copy this and send it to Tillis and Burr here in NC. They also signed. Beggs' letter should be posted in the New York Times and Washington Post, but I doubt that will happen even if Mr. Beggs tries. We must do something about our media, which does Corporate bidding instead of presenting the people with facts on both sides of any argument that SHOULD lead to a Discussion. Sigh! But, thank you Mr. Beggs. You said it for me much more eloquently than I could.

[iandhr]

31. Nice to know there is at least

One smart person in Arkansas.

[H2O Man]

32. Beautiful.

Recommended.

[Maineman]

34. I am afraid I was a little nastier with my senator (not now one from Maine)

What the hell makes you and 46 other stupid ass Republican senators think they should undermine the President, the Secretary of State, and half dozen other countries who are working to accomplish the goals you claim? Your obvious objective was to insult and discount the President. It was the most despicable thing I can ever remember seeing from any group of elected officials... and I was an Eisenhower Republican. Today's Republicans are the biggest idiots on the planet, owned by FOX "News," the Israeli lobby, the Koch brothers and their comrades, the war making industry, and radical right wing "Christian" zealots.

[KingCharlemagne]

46. Good response. The Cotton Letter ranks right up there in its despicability with Nixon's

sabotage of LBJ's Vietnam peace talks in 1968 or H.W. Bush's alleged sabotage of negotiations with the Iranians for release of the Embassy hostages on behalf of Reagan in 1980.

That the American people did not rise up immediately in righteous fury to toss out those 47 rapscallions says much about the ill health of our civic public space and the republic we purport to cherish. "Separation of powers" is now quaint and obsolete, at least when POTUS is African-American and the Senate is controlled by the fascists. Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves. As conservative as he was, Eisenhower would be a Dem today, no doubt about it in my mind.

[rhett o rick]

35. Good letter. Mine would have been much shorter. nm

[BigDemVoter]

36. It IS gratifying to see someone with some sense for once.

Too often, we are treated to terrible (and true) tales of the truly stupid and uninformed.

[blkmusclmachine]

37. As long as we let Corporations "count" our votes with their secret black box vote "counters,"

we will get NO satisfaction from Washington DC!

[I hate liars]

38. My reply to Colorado Senator Cory Gardner's dissembling response to my original protest...

* I know this falls under the category of a rant, but couldn't resist adding to the outrage in this thread *

Mr. Gardner,

I received your response to my email regarding your endorsement of Tom Cotton's open letter to the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

First, let me address some of the points in your response. Here’s what both of us know:
• The uranium enrichment that Iran is engaging in falls far short of the level required for the development of nuclear weapons – it is clearly aimed at civilian applications
• If Iran does develop a nuclear weapon, it will take many months – at least a year – before they are able to threaten the USA with a second weapon. That gives us plenty of time to consider a measured response.
• No national security agency, not the CIA or the Mossad, believes that Iran is engaging in activities to develop nuclear weapons. That casts ample doubt on your claim of a threat to our country.
• Citing Senator Menendez as a co-sponsor of S-269 is laughable, considering how demonstrably corrupt he is. Americans who care about their country want corruption to go, regardless of political party.
• The destabilization of the Middle East is primarily due to actions taken by the US in Iraq (ISIS is a prominent case). Iran might be taking opportunistic advantage of the situation, but if so, that’s of our making.
• Sanctions applied by the US have more to do with corporate interests abroad than they have to do with national security. Labeling them as national security measures does not make them so.

In short, Iran is not an imminent threat to the US. But it is an attractive target for neocons and defense contractors eager to attenuate American power and generate revenue for companies that profit from the deaths of innocents. A negotiated treaty that prevents uranium enrichment sufficient to produce nuclear weapons should be our goal. But your actions are clearly aimed at preventing that goal from being achieved.

Now back to the primary point. Your participation in what was clearly a politically-motivated stunt brings dishonor to our state and our country. You and the other co-signers of this letter intentionally undermined sensitive negotiations aimed at reducing tensions in the Middle East, and gratuitously insulted twice-elected President Obama.

I disagree with many of Mr. Obama's policies and actions, but those concerns pale in comparison with the unprecedented sabotage you and your co-signers have attempted.

I understand that you feel compelled to issue a boilerplate response in defense of the indefensible. But your response is an insult to any American who is paying attention.

And I think your response underestimates the outrage you have triggered among Independent voters, like me.

[magical thyme]

44. your letter(s) need their own thread.

this is too beautifully written to be buried here!

[tavernier]

51. Agreed!

[Cha]

39. This letter from Marck L. Beggs to Cotton has hit all the important points quite eloquently!

Mahalo to him and to you, Play~

[liberalhistorian]

41. Good for him! That's quite similar

to the letter I sent to my state's two teabilly loonies who signed it. Not that it will do much. Good, considering their refusal to listen to constituents that disagree with them or that aren't big business or big oil. My state is truly fucked.

[Lifelong Protester]

42. I pretty much

sent verbatim that first line to Senator (#Ourdumbsenator) Ron Johnson. I heard him say tonight that he was surprised by the responses he's gotten. Really? What a dipsh**.

[barbtries]

43. mine was not quite as civil.

haven't heard back yet.

[sellitman]

52. My , my

A total spanking!

Bravo!