I saw comments, like Stewarts on the Daily Show last night, that showed this isn't unique to Republicans, with a look back a Nancy Pelosi meeting with Assad in 2007, going outside normal protocol.
I also saw a bunch of other Dems of note, spanning back over the years, doing likewise. Ted Kennedy, former President Carter when Reagan was Pres, blah blah. So as I'm researching each instance, I start seeing a pattern. In almost every instance, where the decorum run around occurred, Dems were trying to open lines of communication, broker friendly negotiations, peace.
It was quite the contrast in reasonings. I'm not excusing it, but it makes a whole hell of a lot more sense and an effort of note to try to initiate positive, peaceful dialogue, compared to ole Cotton and his 47 colleagues, who basically hit the ground running with the tone, "Don't trust us. Don't Trust this Pres. or the next one in 2017, whether Repub or Dem. We're gonna fuck you over." Bravo assbags, bravo.
Then Good ole Cotton, less than 24 hours after sending the Open letter, in what I'm sure was just coincidence *coughcough* seems to have a meeting with the defense industry...I'm not kidding...
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Cotton is scheduled to appear at an “Off the Record and strictly Non-Attribution” event with the National Defense Industrial Association, a lobbying group for defense contractors, less than 24 hours after the letter was sent, reported The Intercept.
The first-term senator is known as a foreign policy hawk, particularly on Iran.
Cotton said in December that Congress should consider supplying Israel with B-52 bombers and “bunker-buster” bombs – which are manufactured by NDIA member Boeing – for a possible military strike on Iran.
Other NDIA members include Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, ManTech International, Oshkosh Defense, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
The lobbying group’s director of legislative policy said it was “highly likely” that Cotton would discuss the Iran letter during the meeting."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/gop-senator-behind-iran-letter-to-meet-with-defense-industry-lobbyists/Well, isn't that convenient...and probably not to shabby where campaign donations are concerned. He's a war hawk, plain and simple. And it's not a stretch to imagine this jackoff, and the 47 other signets, are chomping at the bit to get us involved in another bloody theater. Sure Iran has to be watched, sanctioned...but these fuckers who always want to address everything with war first, instead of as an absolute last unavoidable option, are detestable.
