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Senator (Tom Cotton) Behind Iran Letter Is Latest Freshman Republican to Stir Things Up
NY Times ^ | March 11, 2015 | Jennifer Steinhauer

Posted on 03/11/2015 8:33:19 PM PDT by Zakeet

First there was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who held up bills, conducted an antidrone talk-a-thon and generally annoyed his colleagues. Next was Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who whipped up a campaign that shut down the government.

Now comes Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, another Republican freshman, whose letter to the leaders of Iran warning against a nuclear deal with the Obama administration has caused an international uproar.

At 37, Mr. Cotton is the youngest member of the Senate and had served as of Wednesday exactly 65 days. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, Mr. Cotton served as an infantry officer in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq in 2006, one of the bloodiest periods of the war.

So while Mr. Paul and Mr. Cruz influenced the Tea Party, libertarian wing of their party, Mr. Cotton personifies a wave of Republican newcomers to the Senate who back a hawkish, interventionist foreign policy.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: 114th; arkansas; cotton; iran; senate

This special forces dude is smart, well educated, articulate, conservative, patriotic and principled ... which is precisely why us Rats and Rino's don't like him!

1 posted on 03/11/2015 8:33:19 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

NYT: “All the news that’s print to fit.”


2 posted on 03/11/2015 8:35:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: Zakeet

Senator Cotton finally brought testosterone back to Capitol Hill. Look out girlymen!!!


3 posted on 03/11/2015 8:36:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hillary 2016! Because we don't have anybody else! - The DNC donors)
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Go Tom go! Show the drunken yellow puke and turkeyneck what its like to be a REAL American.

TAKE NO PRISONERS.


4 posted on 03/11/2015 8:39:11 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Zakeet

Senator Cotton used a pen and a “Forever” stamp to trump the Kenyan’s pen and cell phone! Old school is good!!! LOL!


5 posted on 03/11/2015 8:40:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hillary 2016! Because we don't have anybody else! - The DNC donors)
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Jennifer needs to remove her head from her butt. Those three senators are showing her they have balls....as big as Hillary’s.


6 posted on 03/11/2015 8:47:49 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: kiryandil

Bingo!!! I would have put it this way: “All the news that fits to print.” You can always tell when the NY Slime is agitated—they attack the conservatives. Hey Pinch; go home to Carlos Slim, your savior. You are doomed.


7 posted on 03/11/2015 8:51:27 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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Just listened to Cotton being interviewed on Fox News. I am awe struck at this guy! He’s got the David going up against Goliath kind of courage, and sharp as a tack to boot. Exactly the kind of man we need in this hour. We have the good people of Arkansas to thank for putting this man in the senate!


8 posted on 03/11/2015 10:46:39 PM PDT by sasportas
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Praise from the pig sty may explain his refusal to an invite to do a talk to talk on Mark Levin’s talkie.


9 posted on 03/11/2015 11:02:56 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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Seems to me he was out in front


10 posted on 03/11/2015 11:41:43 PM PDT by stanne
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Same strategy with a letter used by John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and other Democrats during the Reagan years.


11 posted on 03/14/2015 2:44:55 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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