{"id":3931,"date":"2015-03-24T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:28:33","slug":"cotton-cotton-this-guys-rotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"Cotton, Cotton; This Guy&#8217;s Rotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all familiar now with the name of Tom Cotton, the brash young Senator from Arkansas who <strong>stupidly<\/strong> authored a letter signed by 47 <strong>idiotic<\/strong> Republican Senators to the leaders of Iran behind President Obama&#8217;s back thus putting his negotiations with Iran on a possible nuclear deal in jeopardy and also committing treason. Well the wing nut Teabaggers in the Republican leadership are <a title=\"Arkansas lawmaker unveils bill allowing Tom Cotton to run for White House and Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/03\/arkansas-white-house-senate-run-tom-cotton-115972.html\" target=\"_blank\">already trying to clear the way for a Cotton presidency in 2020<\/a>. Yes, Cotton makes Teabagger darling Ted Cruz look good by comparison. Maybe that&#8217;s what the Republican plan is: to keep coming up with more insane candidates to make the previous lunatic look sane by comparison. Shut down the government; run for President. Commit treason; run for President. Just another day in the wacky, wonderful world of the GOP!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3937\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3937\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3937\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3937\" title=\"cottoncruzrepublicanleaders\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottoncruzrepublicanleaders.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Tom Cotton, checks with his insanity mentor, Ted Cruz, to see if he 'dun gud'.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottoncruzrepublicanleaders.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cottoncruzrepublicanleaders-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author of the Iran Letter, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, checks with his insanity mentor, Ted Cruz, on his job performance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking of stupidity, Ted Cruz has announced his candidacy for President in 2016 but apparently didn&#8217;t have the foresight to secure the domain name tedcruz.com. Yes, what a great leader he&#8217;ll be. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the site <a title=\"Ted Cruz supports President Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.com\" target=\"_blank\">tedcruz.com<\/a> as of today. Hilarious!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3938\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3938\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3938\" title=\"tedcruzwebsitescreenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tedcruzwebsitescreenshot-e1427250319307.jpg\" alt=\"tedcruz.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">tedcruz.com supports President Obama.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all familiar now with the name of Tom Cotton, the brash young Senator from Arkansas who stupidly authored a letter signed by 47 idiotic Republican Senators to the leaders of Iran behind President Obama&#8217;s back thus putting his negotiations with Iran on a possible nuclear deal in jeopardy and also committing treason. Well the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cotton, Cotton; This Guy&#8217;s Rotten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,3,198],"tags":[1056,252,69,22,389,27,1053,783,9,679,21,43,98,596,235,19,785,47,48,784,1054,1034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}