Cotton will ‘stand with’ foreign leader against US foreign policy

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Cotton will ‘stand with’ foreign leader against US foreign policy

By Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog, MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cotton-will-stand-foreign-leader-against-us-foreign-policy

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Put aside the debate over the Iran deal and consider this story in more abstract terms. An elected U.S. senator traveled abroad as part of his partnership with a foreign official. Together, they hope to undermine American foreign policy.



In the not-too-distant past, this would have been considered a pretty extraordinary breach of U.S. protocol. Now it’s simply considered Monday.



Towards the end of the Bush/Cheney era, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) traveled to Syria and met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. She did not, however, go to sabotage American foreign policy – she coordinated with Bush administration officials, and State Department personnel literally joined the meeting.



But at the time, the right was outraged anyway. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney complained to Rush Limbaugh, “The president is the one who conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House.”


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[randys1]

1. Arrest him the INSTANT he puts his foot on US soil. How complicated is that!

THere is NO comparison to what Nancy did and if a Dem did this they would be hounded to the ends of the earth

[djean111]

2. I wonder if Cotton has presidential aspirations and is just waiting for Trump to fizzle out. n/t

[Fred Sanders]

3. Yet a number of Democratic Party Congressfolk are going to stand with Cotton and a foreign leader

as well???

Religion in politics is cancerous.

[CincyDem]

4. Imagine, if you will...

Assume for a moment that a US Senator is one of the country's "Top 250" senior leaders. Cotton may be #20 or he may be #249, doesn't matter.

Let's move over to the corporate world. Let's take, for example, John Doe...you know him...he's the Uber Senior VP of Whatchamacallits at Apple...and he's clearly in their Top 250.

So John Doe comes out with a statement that he "stands with Sergy Brin (or whoever that is) over at Google in their quest to have Android dominate the smart phone market".

How long do you think it take for John to get a call from his boss at Apple with the details of his severance package.

(For this in the back of the class it would take...3...2...gone)

I know government isn't business but there might be something to be learned here.

Cotton needs to be looking for another job come 2020, if not sooner.