Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:39:35 PM
Sign the petition!
Subpoena Senator Tom Cotton Concerning All Private and Official Correspondence Related to His Atrocious Letter to Iran
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/subpoena-senator-tom-cotton-concerning-all-private-and-official-correspondence-related-his-atrocious-letter-iran/0c9hBGXC
Cotton Can't Take Hot Water; Commences Spin Cycle by Hiding Iran Letter From
There is a Weasel Faced Troubadour of Bigotry currently on tour in America.
The Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) "Electric I Drank Too Much Acidic Kool-Aid Test" bus has left the station, folks...all of the tickets were snapped up by the mush-mouthed Muslim haters, but we can follow along on the old internets...(and please sign the White House petition below)
Anyhoo, 8,190 comments later, 99% of which ripped him a new one, the King of the Weasels decided to "disappear" his possibly treasonous, absolutely confused, and definitely laughable "letter to Iran" from his Facebook page! Ain't that just a special little trick!
Once there was a post showing for March 9th.
Then...there wasn't!
Now, I don't like to dish, but....here's the meat of it, so to speak.
The not-so-soft racism of Tom Cotton
By David Atkins
Reagan adviser Lee Atwater:
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “N——-, n——-, n——-.” By 1968 you can’t say “n——-” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N——-, n——-.”
GOP representative Tom Cotton, telling a gross lie:
“(My dad) taught me early: farmers can’t spend more than they take in, and I listened,” Cotton said in the ad. “When President Obama hijacked the farm bill, turned it into a food stamp bill, with billions more in spending, I voted no.”
Of course, Cotton isn’t even in the ballpark of truth here. Food stamp bills have long been attached to farm bills in a cat’s cradle knot to encourage urban and rural legislators to vote for each others’ programs. It was the GOP who dissociated them in the hope of cutting food stamps. Obama had nothing to do with it.
But it’s worse than that. It’s no secret that food stamps (now called the SNAP program) have long been racial code for Republicans, even though a large plurality of SNAP recipients are white. When a Republican politician tells his base that he favors cutting food stamps but not farm subsidies, he’s using Atwater’s dog whistle, promising to deliver the pork to rich (white) agribusiness to boost their profits, while stiffing a lot of minorities (most of whom do work at least part-time) who would actually benefit the broader economy by receiving spending money.
Republicans bristle at being called racist in their policies: they feel that Democrats use every opportunity brand any conservative policy as racist. But that’s because they’ve grown so used to their own dog whistles that they don’t even realize that other people can hear them and take offense.
Tom Cotton isn’t just lying to rural voters about the history of the farm bill. He’s also playing a deliberately divisive form of racial politics that has no place in modern America.
Just an educated guess here- ol' Weasel Face has problems Handling the Truth. Got hisself into a bit of a tight spot here with comments like this flowing over his Facebook page like piss down a lame horse's flanks.
Tehran Tom calls food stamp recipients "addicts" while he sucks Koch and prostitutes himself to war mongering "defense" contractors.
Sucks what, where?
Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst and Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton directly credited donors present at the June 16 retreat in Dana Point, California, for propelling them forward. Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner told attendees that his race would likely be decided by the presence of "third party" money -- an obvious pitch for generosity from the well-heeled crowd.
-Sam Stein / HuffingtonPost
Check.
And does what to whom pray tell?
24 hours later, Cotton will appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying and professional group for defense contractors.
-Lee Fang / The Intercept
CHECK.
The legal title of the Logan Act is "PRIVATE correspondence..."
This is better! (and the very next law in the book)
18 U.S. Code § 954 - False statements influencing foreign government
Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between a foreign government and the United States, willfully and knowingly makes any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, under oath before any person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government, or of any officer or agent of any foreign government, to the injury of the United States, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the United States or any department or agency thereof, to the injury of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/...
we petition the Obama administration to:
Subpoena Senator Tom Cotton Concerning All Private and Official Correspondence Related to His Atrocious Letter to Iran
A subpoena duces tecum requires the witness to produce a document or documents pertinent to a proceeding.
We the People want to know who is behind Cotton's egregious and false letter to Iran. We think he has violated his oath of office. Being influenced by right-wing pundits and lobbyists to commit such a gross and false breach of international protocol should be punished.
Also, all 47 Senators may have violated 18 USC § 954- False statements influencing foreign government.
"There’s a reason for ...suspicion. Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel gave Cotton nearly $1 million in his race for the Senate just five months ago. Cotton also got $165,000 from Elliott Management Paul Singer’s hedge fund. Singer is the billionaire who is trying to stop Obama’s Iran talks."- mondoweiss.net
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Doesn't he look a little glum as he waves goodbye to his credibility?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/22/1372560/--Cotton-Can-t-Take-Hot-Water-Commences-Spin-Cycle-by-Hiding-Iran-Letter-From-Facebook
Subpoena Senator Tom Cotton Concerning All Private and Official Correspondence Related to His Atrocious Letter to Iran
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/subpoena-senator-tom-cotton-concerning-all-private-and-official-correspondence-related-his-atrocious-letter-iran/0c9hBGXC
Cotton Can't Take Hot Water; Commences Spin Cycle by Hiding Iran Letter From
There is a Weasel Faced Troubadour of Bigotry currently on tour in America.
The Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) "Electric I Drank Too Much Acidic Kool-Aid Test" bus has left the station, folks...all of the tickets were snapped up by the mush-mouthed Muslim haters, but we can follow along on the old internets...(and please sign the White House petition below)
Anyhoo, 8,190 comments later, 99% of which ripped him a new one, the King of the Weasels decided to "disappear" his possibly treasonous, absolutely confused, and definitely laughable "letter to Iran" from his Facebook page! Ain't that just a special little trick!
Once there was a post showing for March 9th.
Then...there wasn't!
Now, I don't like to dish, but....here's the meat of it, so to speak.
The not-so-soft racism of Tom Cotton
By David Atkins
Reagan adviser Lee Atwater:
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “N——-, n——-, n——-.” By 1968 you can’t say “n——-” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N——-, n——-.”
GOP representative Tom Cotton, telling a gross lie:
“(My dad) taught me early: farmers can’t spend more than they take in, and I listened,” Cotton said in the ad. “When President Obama hijacked the farm bill, turned it into a food stamp bill, with billions more in spending, I voted no.”
Of course, Cotton isn’t even in the ballpark of truth here. Food stamp bills have long been attached to farm bills in a cat’s cradle knot to encourage urban and rural legislators to vote for each others’ programs. It was the GOP who dissociated them in the hope of cutting food stamps. Obama had nothing to do with it.
But it’s worse than that. It’s no secret that food stamps (now called the SNAP program) have long been racial code for Republicans, even though a large plurality of SNAP recipients are white. When a Republican politician tells his base that he favors cutting food stamps but not farm subsidies, he’s using Atwater’s dog whistle, promising to deliver the pork to rich (white) agribusiness to boost their profits, while stiffing a lot of minorities (most of whom do work at least part-time) who would actually benefit the broader economy by receiving spending money.
Republicans bristle at being called racist in their policies: they feel that Democrats use every opportunity brand any conservative policy as racist. But that’s because they’ve grown so used to their own dog whistles that they don’t even realize that other people can hear them and take offense.
Tom Cotton isn’t just lying to rural voters about the history of the farm bill. He’s also playing a deliberately divisive form of racial politics that has no place in modern America.
Just an educated guess here- ol' Weasel Face has problems Handling the Truth. Got hisself into a bit of a tight spot here with comments like this flowing over his Facebook page like piss down a lame horse's flanks.
Tehran Tom calls food stamp recipients "addicts" while he sucks Koch and prostitutes himself to war mongering "defense" contractors.
Sucks what, where?
Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst and Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton directly credited donors present at the June 16 retreat in Dana Point, California, for propelling them forward. Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner told attendees that his race would likely be decided by the presence of "third party" money -- an obvious pitch for generosity from the well-heeled crowd.
-Sam Stein / HuffingtonPost
Check.
And does what to whom pray tell?
24 hours later, Cotton will appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying and professional group for defense contractors.
-Lee Fang / The Intercept
CHECK.
The legal title of the Logan Act is "PRIVATE correspondence..."
This is better! (and the very next law in the book)
18 U.S. Code § 954 - False statements influencing foreign government
Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between a foreign government and the United States, willfully and knowingly makes any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, under oath before any person authorized and empowered to administer oaths, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government, or of any officer or agent of any foreign government, to the injury of the United States, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the United States or any department or agency thereof, to the injury of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/...
we petition the Obama administration to:
Subpoena Senator Tom Cotton Concerning All Private and Official Correspondence Related to His Atrocious Letter to Iran
A subpoena duces tecum requires the witness to produce a document or documents pertinent to a proceeding.
We the People want to know who is behind Cotton's egregious and false letter to Iran. We think he has violated his oath of office. Being influenced by right-wing pundits and lobbyists to commit such a gross and false breach of international protocol should be punished.
Also, all 47 Senators may have violated 18 USC § 954- False statements influencing foreign government.
"There’s a reason for ...suspicion. Kristol’s Emergency Committee for Israel gave Cotton nearly $1 million in his race for the Senate just five months ago. Cotton also got $165,000 from Elliott Management Paul Singer’s hedge fund. Singer is the billionaire who is trying to stop Obama’s Iran talks."- mondoweiss.net
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Doesn't he look a little glum as he waves goodbye to his credibility?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/22/1372560/--Cotton-Can-t-Take-Hot-Water-Commences-Spin-Cycle-by-Hiding-Iran-Letter-From-Facebook
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