Senator Cornyn seems to be proud of the video below as he sent it out in his Lone Star not-so-weekly newsletter. Watch it while keeping these points in mind.
The interview is a setup! What a bunch of softball questions catering to the Senator. The interviewer couldn’t have made Senator Cornyn more comfortable if he had massaged the Senators back while asking the questions.
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank and and is considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the United States. Senator Cornyn wasn’t speaking to his constituents but to lobbyists. You and I elected Senator Cornyn to represent Texans, not Washington insiders. Senator Cornyn is a master at ducking hard questions.
Senator Cornyn’s Balance Budget Amendment is a political hoax. Republican’s don’t want to balance the budget, they want to destroy the social programs like the school lunch program, aid to children, social security, medicaid, medicare. Congress can balance the budget without a balanced budget amendment if they had a Balanced Budget Agenda. They don’t. Their agenda is to protect the rich, the military industrial complex, and big business. Senator Cornyn want to cap spending without raising taxes…forever. A balanced budget amendment with a spending cap and no tax increases, even for the rich, mean they have an excuse to gut programs essential to middle class Americans, the elderly, the disabled, and children.
Senator Cornyn’s trying to look busy while doing nothing. A balanced budget amendment has to be ratified by 38 states. It will take years for approval, if it’s ever approved. So is Senator Cornyn busy working for Texans? No, he stalling…wasting time blustering about the President campaigning while the Senator yaps his mouth and does nothing about the budget or jobs. Senator Cornyn hasn’t spent anytime on serious national issues since he was elected. He spends his time on party politics…so who is not interested in governing? Do you really want a party hack representing Texas?
Senator Cornyn is obsessed with the Fast and Furious gun walking operation. So perhaps mistakes were made by the Justice department. It’s been discussed for months. It’s not Iran Contra or Nixon’s dirty tricks or Clinton’s oval office sex. It was a honest plan stem the flow of illegal firearms trafficking into Mexico that went south…sort of like the Bush wars. The Senator is looking for his pound of flesh out of the administration. I’m sorry that Brian Terry lost his life. I’m sorry for his family. I’m sorry for the thousands of Americans that were killed by George Bush’s wars. But we learn from our mistakes and move on. I think the ATF recognizes that so it’s time to put Fast and Furious behind us.
When I wake up in the morning and I don’t think about Fast and Furious when I read the headlines. I don’t think most Texans do either. I see Texans out of work, school budget’s gutted, people loosing their homes, people without health insurance, and Americans dying in a useless war that costing the tax payers billions. Senator Cornyn ignores that…his focus is on Fast and Furious.
Texas Deserves Better!
