Posted on 02/17/2014 2:20:21 PM PST by jimbo123
In the heat of a re-election campaign, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s press office issued a strong statement today condemning the 5-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Democrat-led stimulus package into law. Yet Cornyn was one of two senators — both Republicans — who were absent when the measure first went before the Senate in 2009.
“Five years later, our economy is still sluggish, Americans are dropping out of the workforce by the thousands, and the President’s latest big government experiment, Obamacare, is now on track to slash 2 million more jobs from the workforce,” wrote Cornyn about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He added: “We have reached a point where reining in the government is our only chance for a fiscally stable future, and it’s time to come together to enact sensible reforms that restrain Washington’s runaway spending.”
The stimulus legislation was passed by the Senate on Feb. 9, 2009, by a vote of 61-36-2. Cornyn's vote would not have changed the outcome, however.
According to an article Michele Malkin on the day of the vote, Cornyn was absent from the cloture stimulus vote because he was speaking at an event in New York City. He was present the next day to vote against final passage.
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Cornyn said GOP must pass amnesty to win in 2016. I guess the GOP should try to get more hispanic votes in Texas and California and ignore the working class people in the midwest.
Cornyn has for some time now chosen no longer to represent the people of Texas who largely put him in office.
His time in the US Senate is — I pray — about to come to an end.
His time should have come to an end in 2008, after he voted for TARP.
Didn’t stop Cornyn from trying to get a chunk of the Porkulus money for Texas, did it?
Total weasel behavior from Cornyn. He could have voted against Stimulus cloture, but skipped the vote to ensure it would pass. Then he sent letters to the EPA begging for stimulus money for his Chamber of Amnesty buddies in Texas.
His time should have come to an end in 2008, after he voted for TARP.
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By your reckoning, I guess he is living on borrowed time as far as his Senate tenure is concerned..... and I hope you are correct, Sir.
I’ve found may in my area who think the same way about Cornyn. The problem is that the major metro area’s seem to like RINO’s, and Cornyn is a huge RINO.
I’ve found may in my area who think the same way about Cornyn. The problem is that the major metro area’s seem to like RINO’s, and Cornyn is a huge RINO.
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I fear you may be correct, but ... praying that you are wrong.
Cornyn’s defense of conservative principles fills me with as much admiration as the warfighting skills of a cigar-store Indian.
All show (yes, he LOOKS the part), but virtually NO GO!
I’ve found may in my area who think the same way about Cornyn. The problem is that the major metro area’s seem to like RINO’s, and Cornyn is a huge RINO.
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I fear you may be correct, but ... praying that you are wrong.
Cornyn’s defense of conservative principles fills me with as much admiration as the warfighting skills of a cigar-store Indian.
All show (yes, he LOOKS the part), but far TOO LITTLE GO!
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