Sorry, Charlie: John Cornyn declares the NRSC to be irrelevant
NRSC's Cornyn to Charlie: just pretend we're not even here...
Despite the fact that he turned out to be right about New York 23 — Dede Scozzafava was a solid local candidate, who might have won that race had the entire Republican establishment not turned on her, while Doug Hoffman was as much a carpetbagger as the RedStaters and Palins who tried to shoe-horn him into office — and despite the fact that the jihadis strategy of purging so-called RINOs in favor of unelectable wingnuts proved to be a spectacular failure (resulting in a Democratic pick-up of two more House seats) … John Cornyn has decided to fall on his knees before the teabaggers anyway, starting with walking … no, make that running … away from Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Read more
Cornyn slams Bush thought police … only he calls Bush ‘Obama’
It’s official, the Republican Party is 100 percent crazy people. The latest mental patient to be let out of the ward on his own recognizance: John Cornyn of Texas. Per Politico:
The White House says it’s just trying to root out disinformation by asking people to flag “fishy” opposition to the Obama health care agenda. But Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) thinks it’s a little creepy.
In a scathing letter to the White House Wednesday, Cornyn said a White House effort to track and fight health care reform attacks is more like a “White House program to monitor American citizens’ speech opposing your health care policies.” Cornyn was responding to an e-mail Tuesday from White House new media director Macon Phillips asking supporters to keep the administration in the loop regarding attacks on the health care plan. “If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov,” Phillips wrote.
While this type of tactic was successful during the Obama campaign, Cornyn thinks it’s a step too far.
“I am not aware of any precedent for a president asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed ‘fishy’ or otherwise inimical to the White House’s political interests,” Corynyn wrote. “By requesting that citizens send ‘fishy’ e-mails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, e-mail addresses, IP addresses and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House.”
John Cornyn … now, I’m thinking I’ve heard of that guy before … oh, right! He’s this John Cornyn:
During the Terri Schiavo affair, the former Texas Supreme Court Justice was at the forefront of the GOP campaign to intimidate and threaten judges. … [and]
Back in December 2005, Cornyn dismissed the New York Times’ revelations of the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Regurgitating the same “Give Me Death” defense offered by colleagues Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Jeff Session (R-AL), Cornyn sneered:
“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead.”
Never mind that Cornyn and his fellow thugs on the right (he got his idea from RedState, of course,) are making it up entirely that somehow the Obama White House is “creating an enemies list.” These wingers are so insane, they think the government is downright Hitlerian for daring to try and give you healthcare coverage, but have no problem whatsoever with a Republican government that monitors your phonecalls and reads your email. And Cornyn is at the forefront of Republican demands that the abuses of the Bush administration and its extensive domestic spying and torture program never be investigated.
Jesus, what kind of cabbage are these people smoking? (Perhaps only our drug-addled friend El Rushbo knows for sure…)
Sotomayor approved 13-6 (and Miss Lindsey says yes)
Sotomayor's nomination now headed to the full Senate.
… by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her nomination will now go to the full Senate. The only Republican to vote in favor of her was Lindsey Graham, which is interesting, given his tisking, Catholic school nun performance during her confirmation hearings. Meanwhile, Utah’s Orrin Hatch had already put the speculation to bed on whether he would put Sotomayor through last week (as did John Cornyn of Texas,) although his vote today marks the first time in his 33-year Senate career that he has opposed a Supreme Court nominee, meaning he was fine with voting for Robert Bork, or provably racist nominee (and current Senate colleague) Jeff Sessions, but not Judge Sotomayor, and an ironic turn of events given that his was one of the votes who put her on the Second Circuit Court to begin with. … Hm. … We’ll see how Hispanics in Utah react to that one in 2012. Or maybe Hatch is so grandfathered in to his seat that he doesn’t care. Or maybe, he isn’t running for re-election so it doesn’t matter.. Cornyn may care a bit more, given the demographics of his state, but he was just re-elected last year, and doesn’t have to face the voters again until 2014. By then, he is probably gambling that the fast-growing Hispanic voting population in his state will have forgotten this vote. Or course, he could be totally understimating the political memory and sophistication of the Hispanic vote, while also forgetting about women (the righties tend to downplay it, but Sotomayor is one of those, too…)
Meanwhile, as the Sotomayor saga nears its end, a few things will stay with us:
- The tragicomic irony of ConfirmThem.com …
- The lessons in racism we were treated to, by Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh – who, after all, should know…
- The overreaching of corporate-sponsored winger groups with video cameras …
- The sniveling asshattery of the almost congenitally mistaken Bill Kristol, who first pronounced the Sotomayor nomination politically irrelevant, and then couldn’t shut up about it (then again, we’ll always be treated to the sniveling of Bill Kristol. It’s who he is…)
- And last, but not least, the musings of Karl Rove, who thinks Sotomayor, who graduated at the top of her class at Princeton, is dumb, while George W. Bush, who would have been laughed out of Yale if his name hadn’t been George W. Bush, is smart … and who despite all of his hard work, is still not doing time.
I wish I could say I’ll miss them, but damnit, they’re still here.
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