Tom Cotton - ‘Dishonest Weasel’ Thomas Bryant Cotton (R-AR)

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The topic was created, in part, because 'Dishonest Weasel' is a terrific way to describe him.

RIGHT WING HYPOCRISY
‘Dishonest Weasel’ Tom Cotton Slammed Over Rant Attacking Biden COVID Relief Bill That Sends Check to ‘Boston Bomber’
Published on March 8, 2021 at 02:24 PM ET By David Badash

A noted fact-checker is among those criticizing U.S. Senator Tom Cotton after the Arkansas Republican was caught lambasting President Joe Biden’s COVID relief bill that will send a check to the “Boston Bomber.” Cotton, in a multi-day rant, attacked Democrats and President Biden’s American Rescue Plan that no Republican in the Senate voted for at all – Republicans in the midst of a year-long pandemic voted to not give any help to the American people. The bill, like the two Trump-era bills before it, does not exclude people in prison. As many on social media noted people in prison also have families and are also affected by the pandemic.

The Senator from Arkansas, who has 2024 presidential ambitions, posted tweets like these pointing out, in the most extreme manner possible, that prisoners will be getting checks.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Bomber, murdered three people and terrorized a city.
He’ll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ “COVID relief” bill.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021

Dylann Roof murdered nine people. He’s on federal death row.
He’ll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ “COVID relief” bill.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021

Cotton, as CNN’s Daniel Dale and others have noted, did not vote for Biden’s relief bill but he did vote, twice, for President Donald Trump’s COVID relief bills, which also sent checks to those who are incarcerated. He then tried to blame a “liberal” federal judge for prisoners receiving checks. “They’re saying, ‘CARES—which passed unanimously—also sent checks to prisoners.’ But they’re leaving out that this is only because a liberal federal judge mandated it over the government’s objections, *months after the bill passed.*”

Dale was not letting that go by unchallenged. “Nope,” the CNN fact checker tweeted. “Prisoners got checks from the Trump-signed, Cotton-backed CARES Act *because nothing in the law said prisoners shouldn’t get checks.* Post-signing, the IRS declared No Prisoners Allowed. The judge overturned the IRS because the law didn’t say that.” Cotton then again went ballistic with another “Boston Bomber” tweet attacking Democrats.

Have any Senate Democrats explained why they voted “no” on this amendment to stop the Boston Bomber from getting a stimulus check? pic.twitter.com/zS5XmGV8Gt
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2021

And other “murderers.”

If Democrats want to avoid the political consequences of sending stimulus checks to murderers in prison, they should have voted the other way. pic.twitter.com/Ti3bCnyMkC
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2021

“Cotton’s attack on Democrats was echoed by North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Twitter on Sunday,” Dale writes at CNN. “Fox News, meanwhile, turned Cotton’s tweets into an ominous headline on the front page of its website: ‘FUNDING CONVICTED KILLERS. Democratic COVID bill gives mass murderers taxpayer money right out of your pocket.'” It did not go well for him.

Tom Cotton voted to send stimulus checks to the rioters who attacked the Capitol.
— B.D.L. (@bigdaddyleisure) March 8, 2021

I just love how Tom Cotton leaves out the fact that if you are married to someone in prison it would cut your refund also. Devil is always in the details Tom. Guess what? Some of us actually read the amendments.
— Colleen Anderson (@ColleenAnderso2) March 8, 2021

This is what Cotton voted against. pic.twitter.com/p9OdGUGMyh
— RamRog (@RamRog3) March 8, 2021

Jesus @SenTomCotton, you are a dishonest weasel. Trump's #CovidReliefBill also gave money to prisoners, you said nothing. #TomCotton https://t.co/EbODq81HXn
— Z-Diddy™ (@Ziggy_Daddy) March 8, 2021

Makes sense as @SenTomCotton @TomCottonAR is a Republican. Their platform is down to lie and deflect.
— Susan (@Susan_M65) March 8, 2021

@SenTomCotton STOP lying! https://t.co/bAOKmEzKld
— Ursula M. #Give Joe a chance #Trump4Jail (@UrsulaMyers13) March 8, 2021

And yet nobody will publish this headline: "Tom Cotton voted to give relief money to prisoners, twice"
The left is letting the right win an asymmetric war of words
— Steve Cohen (@stevec22) March 8, 2021

#LyingTom @SenTomCotton https://t.co/oGqfk6Bvel
— Saintsswimmom (@Saintsswimmom) March 8, 2021

As your constituent I'd like to know why you voted to give murderers, rapist, terrorists etc stimulus checks twice in the past! Where were you concerns then? Buried somewhere under your blind loyalty to making Trump look good?
— Jane Elliot mets Hank Green (@MrsBiology101) March 8, 2021

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Tom Cotton is a bad-faith hypocrite.
Bad-faith hypocrisy is the platform of the Republican Party https://t.co/SZD6aNP2VR
— MICHAΞL BΞRNSTΞIN (@MBerns247) March 8, 2021

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Head of Teachers Union Claps Back at GOP Sen's Suggestion She Can't Teach Because She's Not a Mom

https://secondnexus.com/tom-cotton-rand ... arten-joke

Cotton discussed Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's final rally before election day on Tuesday. Present at the rally was American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.

Cotton proceeded to blast Weingarten for appearing at the rally and for her work as an educator.

Cotton said:

"Isn't it amazing that Terry McAuliffe ends his entire campaign with the head of the teachers' unions? Randi Weingarten is a joke. Randi Weingarten does not even have children of her own. What in the hell does she know about raising and teaching kids? That's probably why she was perfectly fine to shut down schools for two years and force kids to wear masks, because she didn't have to deal with it at home."

The Senator seemed blithely unaware that childless people have been teaching children for centuries. What's more, Republican lawmakers have repeatedly emphasized the line between teacher and parent—saying that vaccinations, sex and gender education, and history on racism in the United States should be left for the parents to decide.

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Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews
The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's foreign minister & alleging there'd be an independence referendum.

Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.
https://reuters.com/world/europe/denmar ... 022-01-13/