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| Tom Cotton Has Chuck Schumer Searching For His Adult Diaper |
| 2018-01-21 |
| [RedState] Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer are not the best of buddies. Back in January they had an epic confrontation in the Senate well over Chuck Schumer’s lack of integrity. I sort of fault Tom Cotton for this because he had a pollyannish notion that Schumer’s word was actually worth something. This is how the Weekly Standard describes it The Senate reconvened after the inaugural ceremonies on Friday, with Pompeo’s nomination set to come up at 4:50pm. Cotton angrily confronted Schumer about his broken promise. According to witnesses, Schumer told Cotton to lower his voice and asked him move off of the Senate floor to an adjacent hallway for a private discussion. "We need to take this out into the hallway," Schumer said. Cotton walked with Schumer but loudly rejected his first request. "Don’t tell me to lower my voice!" he shouted, with an additional salty admonition tacked on for emphasis. Burr and Cornyn were present, as was Senator Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and several aides. Schumer told Cotton that the Senate had never previously confirmed a CIA director on Inauguration Day and if Cotton had been around eight years earlier, he’d know that Republicans didn’t extend that courtesy for incoming president Barack Obama. "Eight years ago, I was getting my ass shot at in Afghanistan," Cotton snapped. "So don’t talk to me about where I was 8 years ago." Cotton asked Schumer why he’d gone back on his word. Schumer claimed that he’d only been speaking for himself when he promised to let Pompeo through. "I said that I would not block him," Schumer said, emphasizing the personal pronoun, according to sources who witnessed the exchange. "I never said that I could speak for 47 other Democrats." The Republicans were stunned. At about the 0:05 point you can hear Cotton, who approaches down the center aisle, tell Schumer "this is bullsh**." You can’t hear the exchange, but you don’t have to hear to appreciate what is going on. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #4 Yes, Tom Cotton, we need a second scouring of the Shire, all right. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-01-21 17:58 |
| #3 Pirate King: "Do you mean that in order to save his contemptible life, he dared to impress upon our credulous simplicity? " The Pirates of Penzance - 1983 |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-01-21 17:27 |
| #2 The United States Congress and Senate have an un-official motto. Now all together in your best Struther Martin imitation, "What we have here, is a failure, to communicate" |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2018-01-21 10:35 |
| #1 Schumer is an oily liar whose word means nothing. Start with that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-21 06:52 |