Tom Cotton, the Republican's choice for Senate from Arkansas.
Democrats are
shining a spotlight on what a handful of Republican candidates for the Senate—Rep. Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Rep. Cory Gardner (Colorado), Rep. Jack Kingston (Georgia), and Rep. Bill Cassidy (Louisiana)—have done in the House, exposing just how extreme they are. Specifically, they're being exposed for their votes for the
draconian budgets that the Republican Study Committee has released in response to the Ryan budgets. See, balancing the budget in 10 years, like Ryan does, isn't enough for these guys. They think it needs to happen in four years, and to do it, everybody but the wealthy and defense contractors has to suffer.
Here are a few of the highlights of what they've advocated in their budgets for the last few years:
It's sort of hard to believe that there is a more extreme Republican vision for America than Paul Ryan's, but there is and it is the RSC's vision. The RSC has been described as an extremist cabal that took over the Republican House. Now they're trying to take over the Senate, too.