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Cotton: Senate Fails To Keep Iran From Getting Nukes
Weekly Standard ^ | 8/10/2015 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 09/10/2015 1:44:29 PM PDT by conservativejoy

Senator Tom Cotton is blasting Senate Democrats from failing to block the Iran nuclear deal.

“I am deeply disappointed by Senate Democrats' decision to block a vote on the Iran nuclear deal. I proposed an amendment to Corker-Cardin that would have guaranteed a vote, but it was rejected by Democrats because their goal all along was to deny Congress any vote or say on this deal. That's one reason why I ultimately voted against Corker-Cardin," reads Cotton's statement to the press.

“Political fealty to President Obama’s hoped-for legacy in foreign affairs means this dangerous deal will likely move forward, despite the overwhelming and bipartisan opposition to it in Congress and the clear will of the American people. Obstruction on the part of a minority of legislators is not the foundation on which lasting, consequential arms control agreements are built. A majority of Americans oppose the Iran deal because it compromises the safety and security of not only the United States, but also of the rest of the world.

“History will remember this stunning display of partisan loyalty and willful blindness. And it will remember this Senate as the one that — when given the chance to stop the world’s worst sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the world’s worst weapons — blinked when confronted with that evil.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 114th; bhomiddleeast; iran; irandeal; iraniannukes; miserablefailure; tomcotton
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1 posted on 09/10/2015 1:44:29 PM PDT by conservativejoy
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To: conservativejoy

Hey, look at that! The ONE Senator that did NOT vote for this mess!!!


2 posted on 09/10/2015 1:46:51 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Every YES vote has to be exposed by name and in ads and voted out and that promise needs to be made by the American people now.


3 posted on 09/10/2015 1:48:19 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Put their names and pictures on billboards with the heading ‘TRAITORS!” Take out ads, call them out each and every one. They hide in the crowd, think they’re not accountable because the other traitors stand along side them.

Maybe have a different article every day on one the traitors. This is NOT business as usual, it’s a nuclear future.


4 posted on 09/10/2015 1:50:22 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

So McCookoo didn’t have the gumption to use the nuclear option on the nuclear bill? Figures. He is always in Obummer’s pocket, or its it Obummer’s has his hand in Bitch’s pocket..


5 posted on 09/10/2015 1:50:23 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: conservativejoy
Well, what do you expect from "ISLAMIC TERRORISTS FUNDER" Mitch McConnell ?
6 posted on 09/10/2015 1:50:34 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: conservativejoy

Corker is to blame for this farce.

And make no mistake, it has been a very dangerous farce.


7 posted on 09/10/2015 1:51:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Yosemitest

After the next poll, someone will have remind him why Trump and Carsen got another bump in numbers.


8 posted on 09/10/2015 1:51:57 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: conservativejoy

Corker’s face needs to appear on a wanted poster/ The GOPe is just fine with this outcome. They just wish it wasn’t quite as obvious.


9 posted on 09/10/2015 1:52:14 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: conservativejoy

The “agreement” requires us to come to the aid of Iran if somebody(Israel) attacks their nuclear facilities. How is that not a treaty?


10 posted on 09/10/2015 1:53:19 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: conservativejoy

I voted for Mitt.


11 posted on 09/10/2015 1:54:06 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

How many times has this been said the last few years.

We’ve been sold out and nobody in Washington cares.


12 posted on 09/10/2015 1:54:18 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Yosemitest

His wife’s family may have business dealing with Iran. I think they are a big shipping company. Anyone know?


13 posted on 09/10/2015 1:54:54 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: joshua c

The meaning of is, is....


14 posted on 09/10/2015 1:55:04 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: tennmountainman

Corker is to blame, but so are those who voted for its passage and that includes Ted Cruz. Granted, his vote added to Cottons, would not have made a difference except that it would have been on record against this bill.


15 posted on 09/10/2015 1:55:49 PM PDT by Catsrus (The Great Wall of Trump - coming to a southern border near you.)
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To: tennmountainman
Corker is to blame for this farce.

Along with the other 97 senaturds who voted for Corker's bill.

One of those senaturds happens to be named "Cruz".

16 posted on 09/10/2015 1:57:25 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: joshua c

Those TRAITORS will wind up hand delivering the very nuclear weapons that the Muslims will KILL THEM with !


17 posted on 09/10/2015 1:59:19 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: conservativejoy

Its very much a Republican noisemaking show in Washington.

Even Dick Cheney said the deal was bad, but there should be a better deal. So did Trump and Senator Bob Corker, among others.....

The GOP will use this against Dems in 2016 to elect more Boehner’s and McConnell’s.

Grassroots Conservatives either take out RINO’s in primaries or vote third party or write-in during general elections.


18 posted on 09/10/2015 2:05:04 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Truth29

The GOPe is just fine with this outcome.

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The GOPe is just fine with stabbing its voters in the back and does not represent conservatives in any way, shape or form. What is the point of voting for anyone in the GOP? Haven’t we seen enough?


19 posted on 09/10/2015 2:30:14 PM PDT by Starboard
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or vote third party or write-in during general elections

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Works for me. Many continue to vote GOP in election after election and keep getting the same old non-results. There’s a word for that psychological condition.


20 posted on 09/10/2015 2:32:44 PM PDT by Starboard
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