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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 02:12 PM Mar 2015

Dem Congressman is calling Tom Cotton "Tehran Tom"

RWers are not liking it

https://twitter.com/jaredpolis

Jared Polis ?@jaredpolis 14h14 hours ago
Tehran Tom asks Iranian Revolutionary Guards for help in battle against US diplomats

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Jared Polis ?@jaredpolis 14h14 hours ago
Tehran Tom took his case directly to the Iranian government

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Jared Polis ?@jaredpolis 15h15 hours ago
47 Republican Senators have aligned themselves with Iran's hard-liners... who would have thought?

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Dem Congressman is calling Tom Cotton "Tehran Tom" (Original Post) Enrique Mar 2015 OP
Love this guy. Just got a whole bunch of new followers NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #1
LOL, perfect. n/t FSogol Mar 2015 #2
I hope more Democrats will follow his lead. stage left Mar 2015 #3
Right-wingers have a long history of end-running the WH to curry favor bullwinkle428 Mar 2015 #4
And just as Prescott Bush and the Dulles brothers did with Hitler. forest444 Mar 2015 #40
LOL cyberswede Mar 2015 #5
K & R !!! - Perfect !!! WillyT Mar 2015 #6
I like "Cotton Pricker" Chipper Chat Mar 2015 #7
I would prefer ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2015 #12
Tom Cottonmouth in Arkansas as in cottonmouth snake LiberalArkie Mar 2015 #17
Ya got ma vote! erronis Mar 2015 #24
Sweet malaise Mar 2015 #8
Josh Marshall referred to the 46 Senators signing on to Cotton's letter... DonViejo Mar 2015 #9
I'm thinking "Cottonheads". Cha Mar 2015 #13
Or, 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2015 #14
I was just coming back to say or Cottonmouths. I thought I remembered there was a snake by a name Cha Mar 2015 #15
Yes ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2015 #16
So I read..! Cha Mar 2015 #44
Laughable Scarsdale Mar 2015 #52
Add in a play of "dont tread on me" and you get the republican logo. cstanleytech Mar 2015 #46
TraitorTots - blm Mar 2015 #23
like that one bermudat Mar 2015 #31
another du'er named them traitortots. niyad Mar 2015 #55
I prefer "Rotten Cotton." n/t RoccoR5955 Mar 2015 #10
Tehran Tom has a nasty catchy ring to it.. Thank you, Jared Polis!.. mahalo Enrique Cha Mar 2015 #11
Ouch!!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 #18
He is not to be taken lightly.. He is a very dangerous Koch politician. LiberalArkie Mar 2015 #19
yes it's important to make sure he is seen as controversial Enrique Mar 2015 #22
Love it! JohnnyRingo Mar 2015 #20
Perfect, absolutely perfect! Spazito Mar 2015 #21
I wonder if they'll side up with ISIS hard-liners next. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #25
ISIS does have "traditional values" n/t Enrique Mar 2015 #27
Tehran Tom works samsingh Mar 2015 #26
Dead ringer for Anthony Perkins in ......Psycho! n/t Peregrine Took Mar 2015 #28
We need more of this! City Lights Mar 2015 #29
Get to Googling it, folks! frylock Mar 2015 #30
NBC News says Tehran Tom denies Marthe48 Mar 2015 #32
But he said right out loud that undermining the negotiations WAS his intent, "a feature, not a bug." tblue37 Mar 2015 #47
Coward cannot even stand by his own attack. Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #51
Could be a desdendent... ReRe Mar 2015 #33
ROFL SoapBox Mar 2015 #34
"Traitor Tots" wins it for me. Richardo Mar 2015 #35
Revolution coming soon tomsaiditagain Mar 2015 #36
Sung to the tune of Dixie: louslobbs Mar 2015 #37
+1 mercuryblues Mar 2015 #41
I didn't vote for the guy...I never picked Cotton. silvershadow Mar 2015 #38
"Tehran Tom" - I'll bet Jane Fonda is laughing her ass off. AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #39
100% Cotton mercuryblues Mar 2015 #42
... napkinz Mar 2015 #43
Tehran Tom, Tehran Tom, Tehran Tom. Kinda rolls off the tongue. I like it, let's keep it. GoneFishin Mar 2015 #45
"Dishonorable Traitor Tehran Tom" Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #48
Tom Fiddle-fart Miigwech Mar 2015 #49
Welcome to DU, Miigwech! calimary Mar 2015 #59
Thanks Miigwech Mar 2015 #62
Cotton is just the fall guy folks. It was the AIPAC crowd behind this .. Bil Crystal was mentioned. YOHABLO Mar 2015 #50
"Tehran Toomey" for our PA Senator who signed the letter? Number9Dream Mar 2015 #53
We should be referring to them ALL that way. ALL 47 of 'em. calimary Mar 2015 #60
I like it! Let's call him that, from now on. (nt) Paladin Mar 2015 #54
Cotton? More like Satin, the Devilish Dark Lord Arugula Latte Mar 2015 #56
I hope this sticks! oldandhappy Mar 2015 #57
How 'bout TRAITOR tom? calimary Mar 2015 #58
I love Jared. Atman Mar 2015 #61
Cottonelle Blue Owl Mar 2015 #63

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
4. Right-wingers have a long history of end-running the WH to curry favor
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 02:18 PM
Mar 2015

with the hawks in Iran. Just look at Reagan's ghouls and the October Surprise.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
9. Josh Marshall referred to the 46 Senators signing on to Cotton's letter...
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 02:25 PM
Mar 2015

and anyone supporting him/them as "Cottonites."

Cotton actually has as much in common with the Frank Gaffney/Crazy Town Steve King/Michele Bachmann world.


-snip-

Cottonites think the (Barack Hussein) Obama White House is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and is bringing down the border fence to facilitate incursions by the Mexican Drug Cartel/Hezbollah/ISIS alliance to launch the decisive attack your local convenience store.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026342601

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
52. Laughable
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:06 AM
Mar 2015

Most of the signees are long term office holders. They made complete asses of themselves by siding with this wet behind the ears nrwly arrived traitor. I thought McCain sunk to his lowest level choosing brain dead Palin as his VP, but this trumps even that decision. He really can not accept the fact that the BEST MAN won the election BOTH times. It helped that President Obama NEVER came in 895 th from a class of 899, either Johnny. McCain is like the Bush "kids" not very bright, so Daddy helped fix everything for them, schools, grades, elections. Homely little bastard should have retired years ago.

Cha

(297,436 posts)
11. Tehran Tom has a nasty catchy ring to it.. Thank you, Jared Polis!.. mahalo Enrique
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 02:32 PM
Mar 2015
Deidrick Bennett @hsbenn
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@SenTomCotton "Tehran Tom" the treasonous coward met with War Profiteer lobbyists right after trying to start one.
#47Traitors
6:03 AM - 10 Mar 2015 13 Retweets 3 favorites

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/03/10/chat-away-542/

Jared Polis.. Rep from Colorado's Second District.. Boulder!



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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
22. yes it's important to make sure he is seen as controversial
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 03:27 PM
Mar 2015

one thing I'm not hearing people point out is that the White House singled him out in its comments yesterday. Very unusual, especially when it's a freshman senator.

JohnnyRingo

(18,638 posts)
20. Love it!
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 03:26 PM
Mar 2015

I hope this sticks because regardless of what the senator says now, this hurts among his peers and constituents. I hope someone initiates a campaign to Google bomb him with this like they did Santorum.

K&R

tblue37

(65,457 posts)
47. But he said right out loud that undermining the negotiations WAS his intent, "a feature, not a bug."
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:34 AM
Mar 2015

tomsaiditagain

(105 posts)
36. Revolution coming soon
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:42 PM
Mar 2015

Its all about control and war with these no good money grubbers. I see a revolution coming in the near future because when the apathetic wake up its on.

louslobbs

(3,238 posts)
37. Sung to the tune of Dixie:
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:42 PM
Mar 2015

Oh Tehran Tom's last name is Cotton
Traitor Tom is really rotten
So they say
So they say
So they say
Traitor Tom

Tehran Tom writes a letter that Won't be forgotten
With 46 others who are just as rotten
So they say
So they say
So they say
Traitor Tom

Tehran Tom is in a Fixie
Hooray hooray
Republicans just roll that way
Flunkies frauds and pixies

Hooray hooray
Flunkies frauds and pixies
Hooray hooray
Tehran Tom is in a Fixie

Lou

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
38. I didn't vote for the guy...I never picked Cotton.
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:50 PM
Mar 2015

Caveat: I don't have sound on my computer right now, so I am assuming this one is ok

calimary

(81,383 posts)
59. Welcome to DU, Miigwech!
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:46 PM
Mar 2015

Glad you're here! I like that - "Tom Fiddle-fart." He's been a Senator for - what? Sixty days or so? WOW... THAT certainly makes you the hot new go-to guy on foreign policy issues, doesn't it! I suspect he fancies himself as President someday, and knows he needs to make a splash and stand out from the crowd, and do so as early as possible. After all, they picked joni ernst to do the State of the Union response, so he probably felt he needed to show her up and elbow his way to the front of the freshman pack so that HE can establish as the Alpha. He's looking for something to make himself more famous.

Well, the New York Daily News certainly took notice of him, didn't they!

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Dayum - I sure do LOVE spreading this image around!!! I hope it sticks to rand paul, too, when he pushes his bid for the White House. Hey, America! Wanna vote for a real American TRAITOR???? Well, there he is, so labeled and identified, right there on the cover of the New York Daily News!

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
62. Thanks
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:59 PM
Mar 2015

Glad to be here at DU - provides me a place to go that has intelligent, ethical, honest and interesting people !!!!! I don't always post but I read everyday. .......... this place makes me laugh and THINK. Love your posts!

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
50. Cotton is just the fall guy folks. It was the AIPAC crowd behind this .. Bil Crystal was mentioned.
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:21 AM
Mar 2015

Cotton has been on the job for three months. To climb the Republican ladder, it would seem he volunteered to put his leadership in front of this pack signing this letter.

Number9Dream

(1,562 posts)
53. "Tehran Toomey" for our PA Senator who signed the letter?
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 08:32 AM
Mar 2015

Could we steal it and evolve it into "Tehran Toomey" for our PA Senator? Joe Sestak should start using it frequently.

calimary

(81,383 posts)
60. We should be referring to them ALL that way. ALL 47 of 'em.
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:48 PM
Mar 2015

Either Tehran somebody-or-other OR the alternative - TRAITOR somebody-or-other.

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oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
57. I hope this sticks!
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:34 PM
Mar 2015

Tehran Tom is probably too immature to learn anything, but we can try to teach him his real job is important and stepping out of line has consequences.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
61. I love Jared.
Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:50 PM
Mar 2015

I did his campaign material. Proud to have them in my portfolio. Some of the best work I've ever done.

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