Tom Cotton(remember him?)Screwing Up The One Good Thing Congress Might’ve Done This Year
Tom Cotton is capable of ruining anything
Tom Cotton Screwing Up The One Good Thing Congress Might’ve Done This Year
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I AM THE DUMMEST AND I BREATHE OUT OF MY MOUTH
This motherfucker
Wow, it looks like Congress is actually going to accomplish something for once, on prison reform! Surely, no one can screw this one up for us, right? Ohhh, you sweet summer child.
So who’s here to rain on our happy nice time parade? Why, it’s Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, Wonkette’s 2015 Legislative Shitmuffin of the Year, who continues to vex the entire country by wasting perfectly good oxygen. Senator Treason, whom you may remember from that time he was very publicly a traitor to his country, thinks prison reform is bad, and he is trying to kill it.
Just as a refresher, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, costing us $74 billion in 2007. In 2011, nearly half of all prisoners were in jail on drug charges, which is totally fair, since smoking weed is clearly way worse than rape and murder. It’s gotten to the point where lawmakers from both sides of the aisle — like Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, whose only common ground is the staggering whiteness of their respective home states — have looked at the situation and concluded, “Damn, this is some fucked up shit right here.”
So last fall, an actual, real reform measure made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee with bipartisan support. At this point, seeing Congress accomplish anything turns the average American into the Double Rainbow guy, so the bipartisan committee passage was a thing to be celebrated. Cotton, however, wants it dead, because he doesn’t want to see “the release of thousands of violent felons.” This would be a bad thing, if true!
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Yeah, but you can’t trust the word of noted liberal pinko communist Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who — wait, John Cornyn was ranked as the second-most Conservative Senator in 2012? Well, what about bill sponsor Mike Lee? He’s probably a bleeding heart progressive Obama-lovin’ — what? A study from 2015 declared him the most ideologically extreme member of the Senate? Well, shit.
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