Showing posts with label Senator Tom Cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senator Tom Cotton. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2016

'Vulgar, Incoherent Ramblings,' 'Cancerous Leadership'





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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

This speech will be discussed all day, so get up to speed now...



◼ 7 noteworthy quotes from Tom Cotton's Senate speech on the Iran letter - Washington Examiner

 1): "During the last four or five years the world has grown gravely darker…. We have steadily disarmed, partly with a sincere desire to give a lead to other countries, and partly through the severe financial pressure of the time. But a change must now be made. We must not continue longer on a course in which we alone are growing weaker while every other nation is growing stronger."

 2): "Rather than confront our adversaries, our president apologizes for our supposed transgressions. The administration is harsh and unyielding to our friends, soothing and supplicating to our enemies. The president minimizes the threats we confront, in the face of territory seized, weapons of mass destruction used and proliferated, and innocents murdered."

 3): "The president's suggestions, in other words, that the war on terror is over or ending are far from true. Indeed, the Director of National Intelligence recently testified that "when the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled." Yet the president won't even speak this enemy's name."

 4): "I will simply note that the deal foreshadowed by the president—allowing Iran to have uranium-enrichment capabilities and accepting any expiration date on an agreement— to quote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 'doesn't block Iran's path to the bomb; it paves Iran's path to the bomb.'"

 5): "What is to be done, then? Our experiment with retreat must end. This Congress must again recognize that our national security is the first priority of this government. Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats."

 6): "But the best way to avoid war is to be willing and prepared to fight a war in the first place. That's the alternative: military strength and moral confidence in the defense of America's national security. Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States."

 7): "I will now yield the floor, but I will never yield in the defense of America's national security at any time or on any front."
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Friday, March 13, 2015

A Contrived Controversy and an Emboldened Iran



◼ ADVANCE EDITORIAL from the March 23, 2015, issue. - Stephen Hayes/Weekly Standard

Finally, a debate about Iran. Last week, 47 Republican senators released a public letter addressed to the leaders of the Iranian regime. The letter made what might have seemed a self-evident point: If the Obama administration reaches a deal with Iran, Congress will not be bound by parts of the deal to which it has not assented.

Then, hysteria....
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Sen. Cotton Responds to Obama’s Jibe About Iran Letter: ‘There Are Nothing But Hardliners in Iran’



◼ Forty-seven GOP senators signed an open letter informing the Iranian regime that they will consider any nuclear agreement that Congress does not approve “as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and [supreme leader] Ayatollah Khamenei.” - CNS
“The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time,” stated the letter, initiated by Sen. Tom Cotton, a freshman Republican from Arkansas.

Responding to Obama’s jibe about a coalition with “the hardliners in Iran,” Cotton said later, “There are nothing but hardliners in Iran, nothing but hardline Islamic extremists who’ve been killing Americans around the world for 35 years.”

“That’s why Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“If they’ve been the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism for 35 years, imagine what they will do if they have a nuclear umbrella.”
◼ HOW TOM COTTON’S IRAN LETTER SETS UP ‘CHECKMATE’ ON OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL - Joel Pollak/Breitbart
Democrats are pushing back against the letter, circulated by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and signed by 47 Senators in all, that warns the Iranian regime that any deal it signs with President Barack Obama could be voided by the next president if it is not ratified by the Senate under the U.S. Constitution. They have enlisted Vice President Joe Biden and even retired Sen. Richard Lugar to disparage the effort. In so doing, they have proved Cotton’s point–and checkmated the administration.



















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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Senator Tom Cotton remarks while questioning Brian McKeon, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, on Guantanamo Bay Prison

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