Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton appeared on Fox News Channel’s Life, Liberty & Levin over the weekend. As we await the enlargement of the war on Israel this week, Senator Cotton speaks for me. The Biden/Harris regime poses the question Why Not the Worst? — far worse than Jimmy Carter’s Why Not the Best? presidency. Carter at least learned something from events. The contemporary Democrats exhibit a highly developed immunity to such learning. There is no event that can refute their worldview. Every development calls for more of the same.
Here is my transcription of a part of Senator Cotton’s remarks to Levin on Harris (again, this is my transcription):
I served with her for four years, not just in the Senate at large, but on the Senate Intelligence Committee. That committee meets several hours every week when we’re in Washington. It meets behind closed doors, where people are a little bit more of their true self than when the cameras are rolling at other committees and I can tell you — Kamala Harris is dangerously naive and weak.
And again, you saw it when Prime Minister Netanyahu came to Washington. She came and immediately condemned Israelis, effectively blaming them for all the civilian suffering and deaths and starvation in Gaza, which is solely the responsibility of Hamas.
I met with the Prime Minister after that. He said this has emboldened Iran’s terror network. And what happened? Less than two days after Kamala Harris used that kind of language. You had Hezbollah blowing up kids on an Israeli playground.
Every time Kamala Harris or Joe Biden comes out and puts more pressure on Israel than Iran, it causes Hamas or Hezbollah to increase their demands for any kind of ceasefire or [to] become more aggressive with Israel because they know that the Biden/Harris administration will put more pressure on Israel to restrain itself than they put on Iran and its terror network to pull in its horns.
You saw another example of that last week. The Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran. Rather than rejoicing at the death of a hardened terrorist who had the blood of Americans on his hand[s], whose terror group still holds Americans hostage to this day, you had Kamala Harris and the Secretary of State fretting about what it meant for negotiations about a ceasefire with Hamas since the leader was now dead. Well, Hamas can have a ceasefire any time it wants if it would simply lay down its arms, unconditionally surrender, and return our hostages.
That’s what you’re gonna get though with Kamala Harris — is you’re gonna get someone who consistently puts more pressure on Israel, who looks the other way on Iran funding pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests in America and would be, again, the weakest president we’ve ever had.
I have posted video of Levin’s segments with Senator Cotton below. An excruciating ad interrupts the proceedings from minutes 5:00 to 9:15 or so. Be prepared to advance the video if you take in the whole thing, which I found it well worth my time to do.
Quotable quote: “I suspect she’s going to try to hide out for the next 13 weeks.”
Senator Cotton also appeared on Face the Nation yesterday. The video below comes without the advertising interruption. This too is fantastic.
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