Posted on 09/23/2009 9:39:56 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
This story looks like a local one on the surface, but has implications for Senate seats across the country. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is manipulating the Senatorial primary process, and maneuvering to retain his own power in a minority party rather than trying to win a majority.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Cornyn is nothing but a RINO! He moved away from the conservative base of the GOP many years ago. As one of my current Senators, I can say that the day this A$$ and Kay Bailusout are no longer representing my state, I will be extremely happy (unless Mr. Slow himself, Mayor Bill White (Houston) is their replacement)!!
I will vote for the local dog catcher before I vote for this fool again!
Having dealt with the corruption in Houston’s City Hall, I hope it isn’t White.
Don’t worry. Come next election, Cornyn will put on his cowboy hat that he only wears during the election season (or TeaParty’s), and put out commercials with him riding a horse in some unknown W. Texas locale, as tumbleweeds roll by, and then he’ll end the commercial around a campfire cooking up some beans telling Texans to vote for him because he is a Conservative.
AND HE’LL GET RE-ELECTED!
COMPLETE FRAUD!
My wife, my mother (Pamlet), and myself went to DC to protest Porkulous with JimRob and and the DC Chapter. Cornyn is one of our Senators as well, and we were quite displeased by what he did during the Porkulous debacle. He voted against it when it was on the floor, but he was “not present” when the vote for cloture came on Monday of that week. (The cloture vote was the only possible way of stopping this abomination of a bill.)
When we approached his staff about this, they informed us he was “out of the office for the day.”
The largest single spending bill ever to come across the floor of the Senate, and he has more important things to do?? I don’t care if a child was being born, he represents millions of Americans and should have been there to attempt to stop the vote... unless of course... he wanted it to pass...
- plewis1250
Yep, ol’ Bill is more of a tool than Obama!! As slow as Bill is, I know he has had a handler for years; otherwise, he would have been hit and killed by a runaway train or stampede of roaring elephants!!
As much as I hate hearing Obama speak, Bill is worse (he can’t even read a teleprompter)!
the Bob Michel strategy....there’s a winner! We need to ship them all off to reality TV....
For votes of cloture, "not present" is a no vote. The only votes that matter on cloture are the "YES" votes, there must be 60 of them or cloture fails.
So be mad if you must, but not over this -- Cornyn's absenses was exactly like voting "no".
That’s just it, Cornyn wanted it to pass!
What gets me is the way these congress critters vote: they have “safe” members vote first so that as the end comes up, those not so safe can vote against something so they can go home and say, “See, I voted against XYX, so I am on your side!” Even though it was passed.
I think every vote should be done in alphabetical order, starting on a random letter for each vote. This way, no one can play stupid games like this.
It is like Barney Frank saying, “I voted to regulate Freddie and Fannie, but the Republicans couldn’t get it passed, so that is not my fault.” He excoriated the Republicans during the Committee and stood up for Freddie & Fannie; however, he knew the Republicans didn’t have enough votes to pass it in the full house, so he was safe to vote FOR it in Committee, but was “not present” for the House vote!!
I have never been able to understand Cornyn’s appeal. I don’t think the average Texan could even identify his picture. He makes ol’ John Tower look really colorful in restrospect.
I like John Cornyn and plan to vote for his re-election.
Of course I don’t agree with him on everything, but he’s a solid conservative and an independent thinker who tries to do the right thing.
You can’t say that about many people in Washington.
We are saddled right now with corrupt and evil leaders in our national government. John Cornyn is not one of them.
We need to be concentrating our efforts on removing the Democrats, not eating our own.
Flame on. I’m right about this.
Well, I know that he won’t be getting my vote, nor: my wife’s, my mother’s, my grand-mother’s, my three uncle’s, my six or seven really close friend’s, etc... VOTES!
And I am trying to tell EVERYONE that will listen that he is a RINO, past his prime and needs to be GONE!!!
This is a prime example of the Republican Party Elite ignoring the base - acting like they are not even aware of the huge pool opposition against Obama and the DemoRats... made up of a lot of people new to the system.
I guess these Repug elitist believe that the Tea Party Protesters and the Town Hall Protesters are just Card Carrying Republicans chomping at the bit to line up and vote for the Republican Party anointed liberal RINOs and DIRT bags. Well - they couldn’t be more wrong.
All over America, a mass of energized people at the Tea Parties, the March on DC and the Town Hall Meetings are actually Independents, individual Republicans and Democrats, Libertarians and other non affiliated folks...
By in large, most all are Conservatives to moderates - ... These folks are against Obama and the Reid/Pelosi leftist liberal thrust. This highly energize group is clamoring for common sense Conservatives and moderately Conservative candidates. They are not looking for more of the same hand picked (Democrat Lite / Liberal Lite) limited choices given out by the Republican Party.
The Republican Party never learns - they just listen to Democrat criticism and fall in line - so they will be loved by the media pundits.
Well, I guess the cure for this kind of poisoning is to put them out of office.
Sorry, but I don’t agree with you and I am sure you are NOT “right on this.” He is in charge of the Republican Senate Committee, and without listening to the people of Florida, he has already started spending committee money to get Crist elected over Rubio - and we KNOW Crist is a RINO!
He supports McCain - the KING of RINO’s! You cannot be a conservative and support these people that are dragging America down a socialist path!
Cornyn needs to be GONE! Just for the record, they ALL need to be GONE! If we re-elect any sitting member of Congress, then we might as well start acting like the Communist nation that we are soon to become!
So who would be a good candidate to replace him ?
Didn’t McPain hurl obscenities at Cornyn in 2007 or so? I guess he just can’t learn.
Sorry, Jedidah, you are wrong. Last cycle I got a call asking me if I could find a bunch of pump jacks for background in an ad he wanted to produce. It was the first time he’d ever seen one.
The only reason he is a Senator is because KR called Senator PG and asked him to resign early so W could appoint a Senator to run as an sitting office holder. PG asked who he was going to appoint. It was Tony Garza. PB told him hell no, he would only support Henry Bonilla. In the fuss, Cornyn saw a void and announced for Senate.
Remember, he was the Texas Supreme that fathered the Robin Hood decision that steals money from “rich” school districts to fund “poor” school districts. No Conservative in my mind.
I will vote for the local dog catcher before I vote for this fool again!
Then Bill White or Chris Bell is what you're likely to get. I'll vote for Cornyn because he will be better than the 'rat alternative. Maybe not a lot better, but better. At least he opposes the 'rat Health Death Care bill.
At this point and time, I don’t know who will be running when his seat comes up in 2014. I can only hope and pray that we have some new true conservative people running for higher offices by then.
Cornyn used to be a conservative, but he has let the beltway cloud his views on things and he tries to play too many of the Washington games and he ends up looking the fool for doing it! It is an old, but very accurate saying: lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas!
Absolutely no “conservative” would have voted for the bailout that Bush/Paulson put together last year, and both my sellout RINO’s did! They MUST go!
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