Wonkette: Meet Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Tehran), Your Legislative Sh*tmuffin For 2015
The weighty task of selecting the 2015 recipient of Wonkette’s coveted Legislative Shitmuffin of the Year Award was not easy, mostly because our perennial winner, Ted Cruz, was too busy running for president to do too much damage in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body in the past year. Don’t worry, Ted, we still think you’re every bit as terrible as ever! We have every confidence you’ll be on the muck-covered dais again.
Our Runner-Up for the award goes to the deserving Rep. Trey Gowdy, who managed to spend twelve hours of Benghazi Hearing time badgering Hillary Clinton — at times with actual badgers — only to produce no new information about the 2012 attacks in Libya. Gowdy’s “nonpartisan” credentials were undercut a week before the hearings, when he leaked an email (from Clinton’s private GrannyPanties@Clinton.com server) that included the classified identity of a CIA source, then forwarded it to her colleagues. This supposedly proved that Clinton had lied, lied, lied when she said no classified information had ever crossed her private email, and so obviously she endangered national security, outed a secret agent, and didn’t Remember The Maine.
It would have been pretty damning if true, except for how Elijah Cummings sent Gowdy a letter in which he explained he’d asked the CIA whether the name was actually classified, and they said, “No mang, it’s cool.”
Tom Cotton Winned! Yay!
Ah, but Sen. Tom Cotton, the Arkansas Republican who decided in April that the proper job for a United States Senator is to pursue his very own foreign policy with the government of Iran: Here is a shitmuffin indeed.
Clearly taking a cue from Ted Cruz, who also appointed himself President of the United States in his freshman year as a senator, Cotton led a group of 47 Republican senators in sending a letter to Iranian leaders informing them that they shouldn’t even bother signing a nuclear arms deal with the United States, since Barack Obama won’t always be president (and might not even hold office legally right now, if you know what they mean, wink-wink). It’s not that the Republicans were trying to undermine the president’s constitutional authority to conduct foreign policy, no, not at all. They were trying to utterly destroy it, which is a completely different matter altogether. Let’s see, what was that word that Fox News always used whenever Democrats disagreed with George W. Bush on Iraq? Started with a “t”…
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