Trump’s GOP
by digby
No need for civility anywhere:
As a junior ranking senator, [Arkansas senator Tom] Cotton spends lots of his time presiding over the Senate. And, as a result, a lot of time listening to Reid. And on Wednesday, Cotton had enough of it, leaping to the defense of Sen. John McCain after Reid bashed the GOP for rushing through a massive defense bill.
“I’m forced to listen to the bitter, vulgar, incoherent ramblings of the minority leader. Normally like other Americans I ignore them, I can’t ignore them today,” Cotton said of Reid’s complaints. “When was the last time the minority leader read a bill? It was probably an electricity bill.”
Then responding to Reid’s protestations over the Senate GOP’s schedule, which appears headed toward working the least days in session in 60 years, Cotton said there is a silver lining.
“Whatever you think about that, the happy by-product of fewer days in session in the Senate is that this institution will be cursed less with his cancerous leadership,” Cotton said.
Reid then came on the floor, mostly to engage with McCain on a back-and-forth over the proper procedure of handling the big defense policy bill. But he did fire a shot at Cotton, the youngest senator who has served for a year and a half in the chamber.
“I think it would distract from what we’re doing here today to go into the statements by the very junior senator from Arkansas,” Reid said.
There is obviously no love lost between these two.
I still think Tom Cotton looks eerily like this guy:
