Unfortunately most Coloradans missed out, as South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reports:
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo held a series of meetings Monday with visiting U.S. lawmakers, during which they reaffirmed a robust alliance, his ministry said.
Han met with Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), head of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, at his office, hours after North Korea fired another ballistic missile…
Gardner was quoted as telling Han that the Capitol Hill’s support for and assistance with the alliance will continue.
Sen. Cory Gardner’s junket to South Korea during the congressional recess makes sense on the one hand, as his role on the Foreign Relations Committee puts diplomacy with South Korea firmly in Gardner’s wheelhouse. On the other hand, taking diplomatic junkets to Asia when you’re the only elected federal official from Colorado in either party who has not held a public forum with Colorado voters since Donald Trump took office looks really bad–particularly to Coloradans wondering why Gardner is afraid to face them, but not afraid of visiting the world’s most militarized frontier.
Last time we checked, South Korea doesn’t elect Senators from Colorado…
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Thank you Sen Gardner for dealing with the real threats to America. I don't need to meet with you personally,, it would just give liberal vandals a chance to attack you unfairly. Colorado supports you.
You're pathetic.
Give me my ACA and Russia articles Moldy.
Moddy, the real threat to America resides at 1600 Penn in NW DC. He is an existential to the rule of law and the Constitution that you trumpet when it's convenient for you and ignore entirely when it runs counter to your love of the kakistocracy. Sen. Gardner is in that same boat. Colorado does not support him.
Cory Gardner deserves credit for going to Korea. Paris is a "junket." Korea is a fact finding tour. My brother served two tours there in the Army and it is no picnic. With the possible exception of the designated hitter rule, Korea is the most serious problem facing the world today.
I think you've mistaken Korea for the Julesburg Jihad, V. Besides, don't you think the world clutching their pearls over the little man and his nuclear toys is an orchestrated set-up? The more they taunt him, the more he tries to show them what a big man he is? Blowing off his useless missiles every other day? It all seems a little Reaganesque – forcing the man with the tiny member to incinerate tens of millions in toys to prove what? That he has nothing? They're bankrupting the little bastard one failed launch at a time.
He should have taken Buck and Stillborn with him.
And left them there.
He'll count this trip as one of the "hundreds" of town halls he claims he's had. Meanwhile, citizens are summoning him to a town hall in the Springs on June 1.
I SUMMON YOU! OR ELSE!!! Stupid liberals.
Why are you shouting? You do know that all-capps is the internet version of shouting?
Remember, chb, Moddy's proudest moment was that time when he farted in a crowded elevator.
Hey, they already tried the Mariachi band, and the Missing posters. Constituents tried to reason with a cardboard cutout, and 10,000 signed on to his telephone town halls. Summoning is worth a try.
I wonder if Gardner had to explain why the current occupant of the White House blurted out information about the two nuclear submarines dispatched to be off the coast. Or how "extra" THAAD batteries were deployed before anyone thought to mention them to the new government. Or how an entire military fleet was described as on its way to the waters off Korea without mentioning its “side trip” for joint maneuvers with Australia.
I've yet to hear any sort of explanation of what Gardner thinks the future with North Korea should be. Does he think another 65 years of US garrison duty is the best to be hoped for?