{"id":183096,"date":"2015-03-15T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/15\/the-stupid-it-burns-us-4\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T12:20:00","slug":"the-stupid-it-burns-us-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/15\/the-stupid-it-burns-us-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid, It Burns Us!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hbvyYOp.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hbvyYOp.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Too True<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\"><p><i>Tehran Tom took his case directly to the Iranian government<\/i><br \/><i>\u2014 Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaredpolis\/status\/575141929815515136\">March 10, 2015<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Thank you Congressman Polis.  You have described Tom Cotton perfectly.<br \/><\/i><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2nuX5lA.gif\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2nuX5lA.gif\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Geography 101: Tehran is <b>the capital of Iran<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Iranian response<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In an interview with Bob Schieffer on <i>Face the Nation<\/i>,. &#8220;Tehran&#8221; Tom Cotton said that the Iranian regime cannot be trusted because, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2015\/03\/15\/3633912\/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran\/\">they already control Tehran<\/a>: (Vid at link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>SCHIEFFER<\/b>: What do you want to happen here? What is your alternative here? Let&#8217;s say that the deal falls through. Then what?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>COTTON<\/b>: Well, as Prime Minister Netanyahu said, the alternative to a bad deal is a better deal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The Iranians frequently bluff to walk away from the table. If they bluff this week, call their bluff. But Congress stands ready to impose much more severe sanctions. Moreover, we have to stand up to Iran&#8217;s attempts to drive for regional dominance. <b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">They already control Tehran<\/span><\/b>. Increasingly, they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad, and now Sanaa as well.<\/span><br \/>They do all that without a nuclear weapon. Imagine what they would do with a nuclear weapon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously?!?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>The distinguished gentleman from Arkansas is suggested that theIranians have seized control of Tehran?<\/p>\n<p>Next, he will say that the British have seized control of London, or that Mexico controls Mexico City, or that Arkansas has cornered the market on blithering idiots.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that last one is true:  In electing Tom Cotton to the Senate, the voters of Arkansas have <b>clearly<\/b> cornered the market on blithering idiots, as evidenced by their election of &#8220;Tehran&#8221; Tom Cotton to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too True Tehran Tom took his case directly to the Iranian government\u2014 Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) March 10, 2015 Thank you Congressman Polis. You have described Tom Cotton perfectly.Geography 101: Tehran is the capital of Iran The Iranian response In an interview with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation,. &#8220;Tehran&#8221; Tom Cotton said that the Iranian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,964,1105,1034,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-foreign-relations","category-geography","category-iran","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}