THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
(apologies to Keith Olbermann)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) defended Senate Republicans’ refusal to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The first-term GOP senator appeared Sunday on KATV’s “Talk Business & Politics” program, where he insisted the delay was not simply partisan foot-dragging to prevent the Democratic president from fulfilling his constitutional duties…. “This is not a stall tactic simply to stop President Obama from making a decision, this is a decision to let the American people make that decision,” Cotton said. The Arkansas senator mainly toed the GOP party line, arguing that Obama should not name a replacement for the reliably conservative Scalia during a presidential election year…. “I think it’s important that we let the American public decide,” Cotton said.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) may have a well-deserved and hard-earned reputation as the Dumbest Congressman ©…but it would be difficult to argue that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) faces any serious threats to the crown as the Dumbest Senator ©. I may not be the most objective observer when it comes to Republicans, but it certainly seems that whenever Sen. Cotton opens his mouth, something beyond the merely run-of-the-mill stoopid is virtually guaranteed soon to pour forth in massive quantities.
In this case, it’s the hapless junior Senator from Arkansas claiming that he was elected with the mandate to stop The Black Guy in the White House © from doing the job he was elected to do.
Uh, yeah…about that; the intellectually-challenged solon is conveniently refusing to acknowledge one salient point. When he claims that “I think it’s important that we let the American public decide” about filling the Supreme Court vacancy, he’s ignoring the glaring reality that the American public has already decided- TWICE. There are these little things I like to call “elections,” in which people cast their votes and the person who gets the most votes wins. Barack Obama won two of those- in 2008 and 2012- which, by any yardstick normally employed by freedom- and democracy-loving Conservatives like Sen. Cotton, means he’s a duly-elected President with a job to do. One of his responsibilities is to forward a nominee to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court when it becomes necessary to do so.
Obama has argued that Americans did decide who should nominate Supreme Court justices when they re-elected him three-and-a-half years ago — but Cotton sees things differently.
“They’ve rendered something of a split decision in the last two elections,” he said. “In 2012, they did elect President Obama, in part to nominate justices and judges, but in 2014 they elected me and a net nine new Republican Senators, in part, to say: ‘Stop. Stop to the Obama agenda.’”
Uh, no. Hell, no. It’s not uncommon for voters to elect a President from the party not in control of Congress, but while the meaning of that may well be, and very often is, the subject of intense debate, few have been arrogant enough to claim- as Cotton is- that they KNOW what the message is. Voters did not, in fact, didn’t say “Stop. Stop to the Obama agenda.” any more than they said “Damn, but those Green Bay Packers suck donkey balls.”
Essentially, Sen. Cotton’s argument is that the American Sheeple are beginning him and the “net nine new Republicans Senators” to save them from themselves and their own irresponsibility. WTF??
Cotton argued that was reason enough to deny Obama his constitutional responsibility to name justices to fill the U.S. Supreme Court.
“They’ll have a choice in just a few months to fill not just the White House and the Congress, which is rare enough, but also to decide who is going to control the balance of power on the Supreme Court,” Cotton said. “I don’t think there’s any reason to rush into that decision.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Mordor) has already said that the Senate won’t take up the nomination of Merrick Garland even if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidency. This speaks to the truth that Republicans believe that Congress and the White House should rightfully be their property and that any Democrat who dares to resist that common wisdom must be summarily destroyed.
Republicans honestly seem to believe that regardless of the decision of the American people as manifested via the democratic process, THEY and ONLY THEY are the rightful heirs to power. As haughtily arrogant as that may sound, it’s difficult to draw any other conclusion. Of course, The Black Guy in the White House © mustn’t be allowed to nominate Antonin Scalia’s successor; he’s a Democratic President, and therefore unworthy of putting forward a candidate.
What Sen. Cotton is doing is articulating the anti-democratic and distressingly arrogant views that Republicans…and ONLY Republicans…possess the wisdom and gravitas to be entrusted with the task of operating the levers of power.
Hmm…I suppose that would explain the wars and considerable economic mismanagement evidenced by Republicans when the American Sheeple have acquiesced in granting them their rightful place as America’s ruling class.
VOTE REPUBLICAN: Because arrogance, incompetence, and mismanagement is what it takes to lead!!
