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Sen. Cornyn Exposes Dems on Senate Floor

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-09 11:16|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No way - the DemocRATS are using bogus facts about the war for political gain? I'm shocked!!

Posted by Raj 2005-11-09 11:27|| 2005-11-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Good. If GWB isn't going to do this then somebody in Washington has to. I guess Cheney is damaged goods right now, and Rice and Rumsfeld are busy. Might as well do it in the Senate. If I were Frist (first, I'd be more competent), I'd have a different Republican offer this up every single day. I'd make sure it was on C-SPAN. I'd work to get it into the press. And I'd make sure I ratcheted up the obnoxiousness level, in calibrated steps, until I got the Dems to respond.

Posted by Steve White 2005-11-09 11:27|| 2005-11-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3
Gosh. The people elected the Republicans as a majority, and they are finally standing up and speaking.

What took so long?

Posted by RG 2005-11-09 11:28|| 2005-11-09 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The Dems managed to get the red state chattering classes prattling away for months about Plamegate and we spent no time discussing local politix and this off-year election. We lost two governor's races and ALL of Arnie's referenda. A bug or a feature? You decide.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-11-09 11:37|| 2005-11-09 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The dems and their media supporters have been very successful in getting huge numbers of people to believe that the Bush admin manipulated the intel.

However, this was only possible because the intel was wrong and the Bush admin didn't anticipate the dishonesty (the latter I suppose is another form of bad intel)

Posted by mhw 2005-11-09 11:51|| 2005-11-09 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Seafarious -

As a California resident, who voted with Arnie I am sickened. The fact that through lies, duping the typical voter in California, who has the brainpower of radish or turnip, uniongoons like this Barbara Kerr, head of the Teacher's Mafia were able to protect their defacto Totalitarian hold on California. By producing big-lie ads, and snookering so-called voters on Proposition 75.

This Kerr, and evil old broad was also, guess what? When the presidential electors met she was one of the Kerry gang, and was elected as the "chairman" of the electors. For anyone out here who has to endure her sandpaper-Tony Soprano like intonations promoting her issues, we are well aware Arnie was up against a battle royal, in retrospect he couldn't win. I pity the poor 5-year-olds who have to endure this old witch in Riverside who have to listen her in her Kindergarten classroom.

Fortunately, because her gadfly galavanting around the state, they probably have the blessing of a substitute half of the time.

As to the reapportionment issue. The commercials featured Judge Wapner. Yes, I'm not a judge (anymore) but I play one on TV, so vote against Proposition 77.

We are screwed bigtime in California. It's not Arnie's fault. He put up the good fight, and I wouldn't blame him if he threw up his hands and didn't run for re-election. Suprisingly, as bad as his poll numbers are, at this point he would still probably win, because such midgets as "Moe" Angelides the treasurer, or "Curly Joe" Lockyear, the atty general, are among the leading Dems to run for Gov... (Warren Beatty isn't running).

Posted by BigEd 2005-11-09 11:54|| 2005-11-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 We lost two governor's races and ALL of Arnie's referenda. A bug or a feature?

Both of those governor's seats were held by Democrats. Woulda been nice to pick them up, but it's no gain for the Donks.

While Arnold's referenda lost in CA, Soros' referenda lost in OH. Had Soros won, the Donk fraud machine would have cranked into high gear, Republican House Reps would have been gerrymandered out of office, and out-of-state union cash would have flooded the state -- while other sources were limited or banned -- in '06 and '08 to ensure Donk victories.

CA went for the Donk in '00 and '04. A loss of OH would have meant a definite loss of the White House.

Yesterday wasn't great, but it wasn't the rout the left wants you to think it was.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-09 11:58|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-09 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 BigEd - time to get those back on the '06 ballot. The teachers' unions and public employee's unions (which I am required to join (agency shop), but pay no political dues) are broke - they mortgaged their property and took advances on dues to kill Arnold's measures. They have no resources. Step on their necks. They also have little to donate to their Democrat slaves in races next year.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-11-09 12:05|| 2005-11-09 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 If you accept the LLL meme that BushRove and the Diebold Corporation have conspired to rig all elections, then the results yesterday must mean that BushRove wanted them to happen, for sinister reasons probably having something to do with Halliburton.

Posted by Matt 2005-11-09 12:08|| 2005-11-09 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 We Texans pased a amendment to our constitution spelling out that marrige is to be only between 1 man and 1 woman by a margin of 3 to 1.

Course, that's just because we're a bunch of homophobes..

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-11-09 12:49|| 2005-11-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Careful, I really do not want to see a graphic of donks exposed.

Won't be prudent.

Posted by Captain America 2005-11-09 13:03|| 2005-11-09 13:03|| Front Page Top

#12 "Don't mess with Texas" -- Steve

Posted by Captain America 2005-11-09 13:05|| 2005-11-09 13:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Who is doin' the fightin' in Eyerack?

Red states heroes that's who.

Posted by Captain America 2005-11-09 13:06|| 2005-11-09 13:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Frank G - Yes, the uniongoons mortgaged their asses off, I'd love to see another crack at this stuff PARTICULARLY 75!

Posted by BigEd 2005-11-09 13:18|| 2005-11-09 13:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Glad to be off topic here! Since San Francisco passed measure to restrict guns and military recruiters can we now just announce that the U.S. will no longer protect SF from any foreign enemies? Also include their passage of the ban on personal guns in the county/city. I wonder which country would conquer them first? France perhaps? P.S. Sen Cornyn did a good job but was ignored by the MSM.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-11-09 13:41|| 2005-11-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Damn Steve, That sounds encouraging! What is the employment situation there like? :))

I'm in the Peoples Republic of Washington (state). It rains so much here I have webbed feet.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-09 14:00|| 2005-11-09 14:00|| Front Page Top

#17 It's not Arnie's fault. He put up the good fight, and I wouldn't blame him if he threw up his hands and didn't run for re-election.

If I were Arnold I sure as hell wouldn't. If the majority in this state can't/won't make the hard choices necessary to get itself on an even footing, then they deserve whatever problems come their way. My only hope is that I'm out of here by then.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-09 14:05|| 2005-11-09 14:05|| Front Page Top

#18 CS Re: your PS.

That's been Bush's problem all along. People, here and elsewhere, yell that he is not getting the message out. Unfortunately he can't really control that. The only thing that will get out is the MSM spun version, if that.

Sure Rush and Sean and Rantburg help, but, given the incessant drumbeat of negativity from the MSM only those who really look for it will find out Bush's side of any story.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-11-09 14:06|| 2005-11-09 14:06|| Front Page Top

#19 I wonder which country would conquer them first?

Oakland? They could just send their high school students.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-11-09 14:19|| 2005-11-09 14:19|| Front Page Top

#20 So, if the unions are out of money, shouldn't those damaged by them sui now ? Would that not tie up all their funds and eventually destroy them ? It worked that way on the KKK, why not unions ? You don't have to sui the union, just the leaders. They will have no funds to fall back on, and no time to fight. Pile on.

Posted by wxjames 2005-11-09 14:30|| 2005-11-09 14:30|| Front Page Top

#21 I keep telling you he need to get a borderline bitch sounding female press secretary that is gentle on the eyes. She should edgy enough that the press would want to cover her comments if only for entertainment purposes. Laced in between tirades she would sow the seeds that portray the Democrats as the fools they are. Ann Coulter would be my first choice, but I am sure there are other that would do just as good a job.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-11-09 14:46|| 2005-11-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#22 Actually, there's an unwritten rule that Senators more directly represent the people than the President, so everyone in the Executive branch treads carefully, including Judicial nominees. Remember the row between VP Cheny and Reid (??), in which Cheney told Reid (??) to f*ck himself when the latter gratuitously insulted him with a Halliburton conspiracy slur. Big whoop-ass screaming until someone noted that the VP is a semi-senator because he casts tie-breaker votes.

Naturally, Democraps don't play by the rules while breaking the ones that inconvenience them.

Thus, the Senator Cornyn HAS to do it, because only a Senator has the "right" to verbally bitch-slap an offending Senator. That, and the Senator's constituents.

Hell, I believe it took place before the Civil War, but a Slave State senator used his cane to beat a Free State abolitionist senator senseless, then claimed that nothing in the Senate rules FORBADE a senator beating the shit out of another senator. That loophole got patched, but that senator got off scot free.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-11-09 15:16|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-11-09 15:16|| Front Page Top

#23 The stuff on the ballot here in California didn't have a chance in hell of passing to begin with. A look at the map shows what was up with most of them.

Red, Blue map split on the real meat shows California needs to be 2 or 3 states.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-09 15:40|| 2005-11-09 15:40|| Front Page Top

#24 Unions are bankrupt? No more political ammo? Hell, that's what dues are for, fellas.

Posted by ArmChair in Sin">ArmChair in Sin 2005-11-09 16:14|| 2005-11-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

#25 Ptah,

Not to be snarky but it wasn't a senator/senator fight, it was a Representative, Preston Brooks, who came into the Senate chamber and beat the crap out of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. In a speech on the Senate floor Sumner had directly insulted Brooks' cousin, Sen. Andrew Butler and roundly abused the South as a whole. He would have been challenged to a duel by numerous Southerners for his remarks but Sumner, coward that he was off the Senate floor, was known to be certain to refuse such a challenge. Besides, the Southerners thought that a bitching dog like Sumner didn't deserve to be considered as the social equal that dueling would admit him to be. Brooks decided he would teach Sumner about the costs of insulting his betters. When came upon Sumner seated in the Senate chamber, he battered Sumner into insensibility, hitting him more than 30 times with a gold-headed cane. It took most of the next four years for Sumner to recover. Brooks was fined $300 and censured by the House. He resigned, went home to South Carolina, and was vindicated by being overwhelmingly reelected. He received hundreds of canes from admirers all over the South, many of them with engraved plaques attached bearing mottoes like "Hit Him Again" and "Use Knock-Down Arguments."
Two things come to mind from this: first, Massachusetts has a tradition of having loud-mouthed scumbags as Senators, and, second, seeing somebody pull a Brooks on Leahy, Jeffords, Kennedy, Kerry, Schumer or Reid wouldn't bother me in the least. They've long since had it coming. I'd probably send whoever did it a cane too.

Posted by mac 2005-11-09 20:24|| 2005-11-09 20:24|| Front Page Top

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