Archive for posts ‘John Cornyn’

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Now You Know Why That Burger Tasted Kinda Dirty

Just a friendly suggestion.

  • Ew. More than half of foodworkers surveyed admitted to the FDA that they don’t wash their hands before handling food. I wonder how we all got the swine flu? (Quad City Times via CityDesk)
  • Hillary Clinton was poor (like the rest of us) after losing to Barack Obama, but now she has millions of dollars again! (NY Daily News)
  • Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Fake VA) also says that the southerners are ruining the GOP. Wonder if David Vitter will teach him about values too? (Political Wire)
  • While there may be some debate over whether Sgt. James Crowley acted racistly when he arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Boston cop and National Guard commander who called Gates a “jungle monkey” is definitely racist. (ABC News)
  • According to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), it is racist for Democrats to nominate a minority to the Supreme Court and then point out that most Republicans voted against her. (TPMDC)

7/30/09 10:55 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Showing that Gandhi Guy Who’s Boss

With our F-22s, we'll show that Ghandi guy who's boss!

  • Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is very disappointed that Congress cut funding for the F-22 because how else will defend ourselves against India, our most dangerous enemy? (True/Slant)
  • Why is Rahm Emanuel so racist against Maytag men, our nation’s most loveable washing machine repair professionals? (CNN Political Ticker)
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he would have a beer with Barack Obama and Sgt. James Crowley. Hooray, racism is over again! (The Root)
  • Texas Tech faculty are not pleased with the schools’s decision to hire distinguished legal scholar Alberto Gonzales to teach the children about how awesome waterboarding is. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
  • Charles Lincoln, the birther attorney who didn’t get his law degree from the Internet, was actually disbarred five years ago. (Orange County Weekly/Washington Independent)

7/25/09 3:28 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

George Bush Will Always Treasure the Time He Personally Arrested Saddam Hussein

"...And then I ripped the gun from his hands, and that's how I single-handedly beat Saddam."

  • The centerpiece of the George W. Bush Presidential Library will be Saddam Hussein’s gun which Bush kept in the Oval Office so he could pull it out and shout, “See! Mission Accomplished!” whenever someone mentioned that we were kinda still fighting in Iraq after 2003. (New York Times)
  • Woohoo! A federal judge ruled that GM can go ahead with its restructuring plan by selling off everything to the government. Camaros for everyone! (New York Times again, because the Washington Post can no longer be trusted)
  • Vice President Biden will swear in Al Franken tomorrow as America’s 100th Senator. Who has to pick up the pieces of Bill O’Reilly’s head after it explodes? (MSNBC)
  • So it’s another work day for America’s Governor™ Mark Sanford, now back from his family’s Independence Day vacation. Making up for missing Father’s Day, I guess. Anyway, state Republicans are keeping busy deciding whether to impeach Sanford now or later. (CNN)
  • Uh oh, Texas teabaggers do not care for Republicans Sen. John Cornyn and Gov. Rick “The Hair” Perry. Cornyn was booed for not letting the U.S. economy sink into oblivion while Perry earned boos for, um, toll roads? (Austin American-Statesman)

7/6/09 11:26 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Cornyn: Racial Attacks on Sotomayor “Terrible”

NRSC head Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) responds to the parade of Republicans who have blatantly called Sonia Sotomayor a racist:

“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”
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“We are all a product of our upbringing and who we are and I think it’s a fact people do have different backgrounds, but I don’t think those background ought to determine what the law is,” Cornyn said to NPR of Sotomayor’s Berkeley comments. 

How strange! Cornyn, who represents a state with a large Latino population and is also in charge of electing more Republican Senators, does not think all of these unelected Republicans should call the popular first Latina nominee to the Supreme Court a racist! Of course, the only question that remains now is, when will Cornyn apologize to Rush?

Update: Audio of Cornyn on NPR (now working):

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5/29/09 8:03 am | Comment (1) | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

Sen. Daniels (XXX-LA)

  • Porn star Stormy Daniels is considering running for Senate to replace Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, who was a regular client of the “D.C. Madam” prostitution ring. I can’t wait until they start talking “family values.” (CNN)
  • Norm Coleman says God wants him to win the still-ongoing Minnesota Senate election. You’d think that if the Big Guy was serious He could have just tossed Norm a few hundred more votes… (UMN Smart Politics)
  • Looks like “Independent” Sen. Joe Lieberman’s creepy McCain-love isn’t going the way he planned. A new poll has CT’s Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal crushing Holy Joe in 2012 by a margin of 58%-30%. Also, in any election matchup, Lieberman is the de facto Republican candidate. Sounds right to me. (TPMDC)
  • Wondering where John Cornyn (R-TX) was when the cloture vote on the stimulus bill took place? Cornyn, the only Senator to miss the vote, was at a GOP fundraiser in New York. If even Ted Kennedy came back to vote, what’s Cornyn’s excuse? (Dallas Morning News/Boston Globe)
  • More change we can believe in! Tickets to President Obama’s town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, yesterday were given out on a first-come first-served basis, as opposed to President Bush’s policy of only giving out tickets to his supporters. Obama lost Elkhart County by 12 points.

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