Cotton And The War Caucus Count On Constituents’ Ignorance
yes, he does--and it so true.
Cotton And The War Caucus Count On Constituents’ Ignorance
March 18, 2015 6:00 am / 16 Comments / Featured Post, Memo Pad, Politics
When a Man’s fancy gets astride on his Reason;
When Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses; and
common Understanding, as well as common Sense,
is Kickt out of Doors; the first Proselyte he makes,
is Himself. --Jonathan Swift, 1704
As near as I can determine, Senator Tom Cotton’s biggest worry about Iran is that its government is as bellicose and fanatical as he is.
The good news is that based on the Islamic Republic’s response to the condescending, adolescent tone of the “open letter” he and 46 Republican senators addressed to Iran’s leaders, that seems unlikely. Judging by their measured responses, Iranian politicians appear to understand that they weren’t its real audience.
Rather, it was a grandstand play directed at Cotton’s own constituents among the GOP’s unappeasable Tea Party base. Its actual purpose was to express contempt and defiance toward President Obama, always popular among the Fox News white-bread demographic — basically the same motive that led Cotton to repeat Obama’s name 74 times during a 2014 election debate with Senator Mark Pryor.
That big doodyhead Barack Obama’s not the boss of them.
Except that particularly with regard to foreign policy, he is. But hold that thought.
Javad Zarif, the American-educated Iranian foreign minister involved in intense negotiations with Secretary of State John Kerry, observed that the senators’ letter has “no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy.”....................
http://www.nationalmemo.com/cotton-and-the-war-caucus-count-on-constituents-ignorance/
