There's statesmanship for you. Cotton, Junior Senator from Arkansas, held up the nomination of Cassandra Butts, a personal friend of Obama's from his law school days, for no reason other than the fact that denying her appointment as Ambassador to The Bahamas would "inflict pain" on Obama. (While her appointment was being delayed, Butts died of natural causes last week at the age of 50.)
Cotton had held up a number of Obama's nominations for ambassador trying to make a political point, but when that situation was resolved, he dropped his opposition to all of the others but Butts.
When she met with him to ask why the hold remained on her nomination, Cotton told her "that he knew that she was a close friend of Obama’s — the two first encountered each other on a line for financial-aid forms at Harvard Law School, where they were classmates — and that blocking her was a way to inflict special pain on the president."
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