{"id":11075,"date":"2015-03-11T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11075"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:55:16","slug":"politics-of-stupid-dont-cotton-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=11075","title":{"rendered":"Politics of Stupid: Don’t Cotton to It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of deserved criticism of late for Arkansas’ freshman U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Neocon<\/a> Tea Party<\/a>) for the ridiculously condescending (and, ironically, Constitutionally inaccurate<\/a>) letter he authored to Iran in hopes of undermining sensitive negotiations concerning their nuclear program.<\/p>\n

But while Cotton richly deserves all the criticism he is now roundly receiving, even from some in his own party, let’s please not forget about the other<\/i> 46 U.S. Senators,<\/a> all Republican, who also signed onto that letter.<\/p>\n

This was not a hundreds-of-pages-long bill or something. It was five simple paragraphs long and each Senator appears to have signed onto it by hand. They have no excuse.<\/p>\n

You’ve probably heard about it, but may not have actually read it in full. Until I did, I figured it was likely another bit of obnoxiousness from the GOP, akin to inviting Netanhayu to speak to Congress without White House approval, but the outrage around it was largely a partisan attack from Democrats against Republicans who’d written the letter for the usual, silly partisan reasons.<\/p>\n

But it’s way<\/i> worse than that. It’s unprecedentedly<\/i> obnoxious, embarrassing and just childishly condescending. And it doesn’t take any particular allegiance to the Democratic Party or the White House to see that. It just jumps off the page.<\/p>\n

Again, it’s just five grafs long and rather astonishing. Read it, if you haven’t. It’s posted in full below or read the PDF<\/a>. And remember: 47, theoretically grown-up U.S. Senators actually signed onto this thing. On purpose. Including the entire GOP leadership<\/i> in the U.S. Senate, none of whom had the adult sense to stop them!…<\/p>\n

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Lots of deserved criticism of late for Arkansas’ freshman U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Neocon Tea Party) for the ridiculously condescending (and, ironically, Constitutionally inaccurate) letter he authored to Iran in hopes of undermining sensitive negotiations concerning their nuclear program. But while Cotton richly deserves all the criticism he is now roundly receiving, even from some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-tom-cotton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}