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Is Arkansas that red where Tom Cotton can be this dumb. The guy has a great resume, veteran (101st Airborne), Harvard, Harvard Law - he seems to have enough going for him where he doesn't need to be a Trump boot-licker and could really carry the torch forward for the GOP, but some of his positions and actions are ridiculous. I'm guessing he's not a favorite of Mitch's, so he does his own thing to make noise.

 

Tom Cotton, the bobble-throated slapdick from Arkansas.

— CPP

 

Unfortunately so. It's a state where Sarah Huckabee-Sanders can be considered a front runner for the governor's race simply because she was Trump's press secretary.

It's a state where Cotton can rent an empty house on his dad's property for his legal residence and claim to be a farmer without being laughed out of the room. He's been planning a POTUS run since before he knocked the dust of Dardanelle off his shoes en route to Harvard. Y'all need to get ready for it. He's Trump with gravitas. And he's got another 25-30 years to wait until the right opportunity arises to run for the White House.

 

The NYT would be better served by not running any op-eds from politicians of all stripes.

Is Tom Cotton ol' Green Teeth from "Uneasy Rider"?

 

I could see running the thing as a letter to the editor - but why waste the space on an op-ed? Why not ask the Senator if he'd like to contribute something about something that might actually happen, or the border situation or the trade war?

 

One of my pet peeves is newspapers giving elected officials op-ed space. Those guys are newsmakers. They get in the paper when they make news. They wanna spout off? Buy a goddamn ad.

 

I guess its like if someone with Presidential ambitions wants to publish an op-ed on their UFO encounter - you should run it, if only to get it on the record that the person is a crackpot. Newspapers shouldn't be in the business of protecting politicians from themselves.

 

Tom Cotton or Bernie Sanders or any other Senator can get on the Senate floor and say whatever crazy shit they want and it'll all be on C-SPAN. Why give them valuable space in your newspaper for their boilerplate inanities?

 

-- "Satan's Bed," Pearl Jam

 

I've got more gravitas in the head of my dick than Tom Cotton has. He's a dweeb.

 

"Axios reports that Trump brought up nukes during a hurricane briefing in his first year in office. The 2017 hurricane season would turn out to be the costliest on record. As the destruction brought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands revealed, the federal government was deeply unprepared for a storm of that size. Trump could have been asking his briefers actual tough questions about whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ready for the season, and directing them to stage or deploy additional resources. Instead, he was asking the sorts of queries best reserved for stoned dorm-room sessions."

Trump Wants to Nuke His Way Out of Big Problems