Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton Should Be Shamed Out of Office

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Cotton's an ahole for singling this woman out (he knew her and freed up the nominations of two others). 

Nothing leftist about calling out a basic lack of human decency over a fit of pique.

The other two ambassadorships were to Norway and Sweden. Norway is a member of NATO, and Sweden is a key country on the Northern flank of the Soviet Union.
Those ambassadorships served national security purposes. The ambassadorship to the Bahamas was a vacation spot. Cotton released the Ambassador ships that mattered to National Security and did not release the one that did not relate to National Security.

That is a perfectly logical and reasonable response to Obama's refusal to punish lawbreakers within his branch of government.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

So we should nominate people based on sympathy? 

[sinkspur]

The other two ambassadorships were to Norway and Sweden. Norway is a member of NATO, and Sweden is a key country on the Northern flank of the Soviet Union.
Those ambassadorships served national security purposes. The ambassadorship to the Bahamas was a vacation spot. Cotton released the Ambassador ships that mattered to National Security and did not release the one that did not relate to National Security.

That is a perfectly logical and reasonable response to Obama's refusal to punish lawbreakers within his branch of government.

Fine.  You get to explain it that way when this comes up in a Cotton primary.  See how far you get.

[sinkspur]

So we should nominate people based on sympathy? 

Ambassadorships are given out by presidents of both parties on the basis of friendship, how much they donated to the candidate, and other personal factors.   They are purely ceremonial positions.

Cotton gets to figure out how to make this look in a primary run.

[XenaLee]

Fine.  You get to explain it that way when this comes up in a Cotton primary.  See how far you get.

I'm betting that....by the time 2020 rolls around....anyone that has even tried to oppose Barack Hussein Obama and his cabal of radical leftist cohorts will be thought of as a friggin hero.  Bring it. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Ambassadorships are given out by presidents of both parties on the basis of friendship, how much they donated to the candidate, and other personal factors.   They are purely ceremonial positions.

Cotton gets to figure out how to make this look in a primary run.

   Nobody cares man. I didn't even know who Cotton was prior to this.


If I don't care, I doubt the public will.

[sinkspur]

   Nobody cares man. I didn't even know who Cotton was prior to this.


If I don't care, I doubt the public will.

Maybe you're right.   

[Night Hides Not]

Maybe you're right.

Allow me to cut you some slack, spur...even Dirk shoots a brick from time to time...lol.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Fine.  You get to explain it that way when this comes up in a Cotton primary.  See how far you get.

I suspect voters in the GOP Primary probably aren't going to be as butt hurt about this as you are.  So I suspect it will get Senator Cotton the nomination of the Republican party when he runs for reelection.

[Night Hides Not]

I suspect voters in the GOP Primary probably aren't going to be as butt hurt about this as you are.  So I suspect it will get Senator Cotton the nomination of the Republican party when he runs for reelection.

Foolish to blame Cotton, I scanned the headlines from a (very) brief search. She passed away from "undiagnosed leukemia." If it was not diagnosed, how can anyone get mad at Cotton? Considering she played a major role in crafting Obama's early executive orders, why wouldn't you put a hold on her?

[Frank Cannon]

Cotton won election the year this took place by +17. Obama currently has a 64% disapproval in AR. Cotton will win handily if he runs again.

This is a fake story to throw devout Leftist red meat. No one has or will ever care about this except for card carrying Commies.

[XenaLee]

Foolish to blame Cotton, I scanned the headlines from a (very) brief search. She passed away from "undiagnosed leukemia." If it was not diagnosed, how can anyone get mad at Cotton? Considering she played a major role in crafting Obama's early executive orders, why wouldn't you put a hold on her?

It's also quite possible that Cotton knew about her Critical Race Theory activism (Remember Professor Bell?).  For that reason alone I would have nixed her ambassadorship.

[geronl]

They should put a permanent hold on all nominees. I don't see the problem.

[EasyAce]

Charlie Pierce is a former sportswriter who is now a darling of the left.

Pierce was one of the best sportswriters going when that was his main profession. (Especially when he wrote
about baseball.) Now he puts me in mind of an ancient wisecrack by George F. Will:

I still hope to reverse the career pattern of James Reston, who began working in baseball but has sunk to
writing a political column (for the New York Times). I hope to rise as far as he has fallen. I want to be
a baseball writer when I grow up.

[Sanguine]

I had never heard about this, but it confirms for me what I've always suspected about Cotton, that he is a colossal bleep.

Why on earth would you believe something Esquire printed?  Do you consider them an objective and balanced news organization?

[GtHawk]

Ambassadorships are given out by presidents of both parties on the basis of friendship, how much they donated to the candidate, and other personal factors.   They are purely ceremonial positions.

Cotton gets to figure out how to make this look in a primary run.

Purely ceremonial? Like the ceremonial queers that Lord Foul sent to deeply Christian countries? Sorry I don't think any President should have Carte Blanche, there are definitely times when the answer should be no.

[GtHawk]

Purely ceremonial? Like the ceremonial bleep that Lord Foul sent to deeply Christian countries? Sorry I don't think any President should have Carte Blanche, there are definitely times when the answer should be no.

We are bleeping out Queer? The homosexuals refer to themselves as queers, it was not used as a pejorative in my post. :huh?: :wtf!:

Now this is ridiculous, so singular capitalized is A-OK?

[Frank Cannon]

We are bleeping out Queer? The homosexuals refer to themselves as bleep, it was not used as a pejorative in my post. :huh?: :wtf!:

Now this is ridiculous, so singular capitalized is A-OK?

That is very Queer that we can't use that word.

[EasyAce]

Purely ceremonial? Like the ceremonial bleep that Lord Foul sent to deeply Christian countries? Sorry I don't think any President should have Carte Blanche, there are definitely times when the answer should be no.

A more strict interpretation and following of the Constitution denies complete carte blanche to the president---
see Article II, Section 2, part two. It is only with the advice and consent of the Senate that the president can, among
others, appoint ambassadors.