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Sen. Tom Cotton - would be traitor?

In some ways the letter sent to Iran by 47 Republican senators is the logical outcome of the rise of the Christofascists (including those hiding under the Tea Party moniker) within the Republican Party.  The "godly folk" consistently see them selves as above the laws and practices that govern the rest of us and consistently put their "deeply held religious beliefs" over science and objective reality.  Thus, it should be little surprise that those in the U.S. Senate who have prostituted themselves to the embrace of ignorance and bigotry demanded by the GOP base would act as they have.  As a piece in the Washington Post notes, it is all part of the Christofascist/Republican desire to form a break away nation state where their batshitery reins supreme.  Here are column excerpts:

The New York Daily News branded Senate Republicans “TRAITORS” in large type across its cover Tuesday, saying, “GOPers try to sabotage Bam nuke deal.”

That’s not quite right. It’s true that 47 Republican senators did their level best to bring us closer to war by writing a letter to Iran’s mullahs, attempting to scuttle nuclear talks with the United States. But Republicans aren’t exactly subverting the United States. It’s more as if they’re operating their own independent republic on Capitol Hill. Call it the State of Republicania. 

Its prime minister, John Boehner, invited his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to criticize U.S. foreign policy last week before a joint meeting of the Republicania parliament. The American president wasn’t consulted.  


Mitch McConnell, the Republicania home secretary, wrote an op-ed last week in the Lexington Herald-Leader explicitly urging states to refuse to implement a major new power-plant regulation issued by the U.S. government.

And now we have Tom Cotton, Republicania’s young foreign minister, submitting “An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” counseling Iran’s leaders that any agreement reached by the United States but not ratified by Republicania could be undone “with the stroke of a pen” (assuming the next president comes from Republicania).

But why stop there? . . . Jim Inhofe, Republicania’s environment minister, could undo recent efficiency improvements at the Capitol Power Plant, and the Capitol Police could become Republicania’s military, under the command of John McCain as defense minister.

[T]he breakaway republic could abandon church-state separation and everything else in the Bill of Rights except for the Second Amendment). Thus could Republicania become a happy little city-state — a Luxembourg on the Anacostia. 

Cotton provided a clue about his motives: He’d had a breakfast date with the National Defense Industrial Association — a trade group for Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and the like. 

You’re not allowed to know what Cotton said to the defense contractors. The event was “off the record and strictly non-attribution.” But you can bet it was what Dwight Eisenhower meant when he warned of the military-industrial complex.

If Senate Republicans blow up nuclear talks, it makes war with Iran that much more likely — and nobody would benefit as much from that war as military contractors.

Cotton, who after just two months on the job has led his colleagues to break with more than two centuries of foreign policy tradition.

Cotton, appearing on CNN on Tuesday morning, maintained that his effort was not political. “Nor do I believe this letter is unprecedented,” he said — although the Republicania national archivists have not found a precedent. . . . Republicania archivists are unlikely to locate such documents, because they were never written. 

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of just seven Republican senators not to sign Cotton’s letter to the ayatollahs, said she thought it “more appropriate for members of the Senate to give advice to the president” and U.S. negotiators.  Spoken like a true American — which, in the corridors of Republicania these days, is nigh unto treason. 

Yes, the piece is satire in some ways, but it gets to a truth that the majority of Americans need to grasp and soon: today's GOP is unfit to govern and needs to become a permanent minority party unless and until it permanently exiles the Christofascists and their minions to the political wilderness and again embraces science, logic, reason and objective reality.  Like its delusional base, the GOP has now become a threat to America.  As for Tom Cotton, if the GOP gets its wish and involves America in another Middle East war, lets make him resign from the Senate and send his sorry ass in the first wave of ground troops in Iran.