Tom Cotton gets a "Four Pinocchio" rating from the Washington Post

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This is great:

"The Pinocchio Test

"Cotton would be on more solid ground if he had looked into the camera and said that, despite a tradition of merging food stamps in the farm bill, he was tired of the politics as usual and took a firm stand against the longstanding practice. Instead, he uses President Obama as a straw man, suggesting the president purposely pushed Congress in a different direction.

"By creating a fantasy version of history, Cotton certainly sounds like a career politician. We wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, but Cotton’s self-righteous tone tipped this to Four."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/09/23/tom-cottons-invented-version-of-farm-bill-history/?tid=trending_strip_1

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1. First thing out of my mouth when the ad ran on my TV was , "Well Tom

didn't learn much about Congress in the 6 months he was there since food stamps have been a part of the farm bill for decades."

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2. What I don't understand is, how can he have so much support?

He should be behind by 20 points at least, and yet he is very much in contention.

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3. how does

Mark Pryor's awful stumble when asked about ebola affect how you see the election?

We have 2 bozos for choices for U.S. Senate. I do not trust Mr. Cotton and Mr. Pryor sounds completely out of touch. He is not his father. Not even close.

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4. I've said many times that Mark is not David

I actually met David Pryor in Springdale while he was Senator, and he really impressed me. Back then, we had two excellent Senators, Pryor and Dale Bumpers. In fact, Arkansas had had some remarkable representation in the Senate since the 1930s, including Joseph Robinson who was FDR's right-hand for New Deal legislation in the Senate, and J. William Fulbright of Fulbright scholarship fame, who was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright was succeeded by Bumpers. Unfortunately, our recent Senators have not been able to fill the shoes of their esteemed predecessors.