What a disappointment. Red as red can be Texas has two U.S. Senators that have decided to accelerate the breakneck speed our country is taking down the path to socialism.
There is no way to justify the votes of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Sen. John Cornyn regarding the pork laden ‘bailout’ bill that President Bush pushed. No possible way. Just look at the pork contained in the bill that Matt and Shannon noted yesterday.
It is sad, I think, especially in Sen. Cornyn’s case. He has let down every single Texan with this vote, be they conservative or liberal, because this bill is bad for America and bad for Texas. Sen. Cornyn has a brilliant mind and is certainly more conservative overall than his opponent in November, Rick Noriega. He does have a tendency, however, to vote for big government spending bills, such as this and farm subsidies.
That tendency isn’t sitting well with a lot of conservatives. Sure, most will still vote for him in November because the option simply isn’t an option. But there will be some that do not vote at all in that race. If the polls tighten and Obamamania gets more people to the polls, those skipped votes might just put Noriega over the top.
And that will be bad for Texas. And the only one to blame will be Sen. Cornyn for sticking his finger in the eye of conservative voters one time too many.
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Yup - I am disgusted with Cornyn. Kool-aid drinkers have no place in the Senate or House. I pray Culberson stays away from this group-think stupidity.
This is supposed to be the most critical bill of my life time. This is where the ideology of those voting is brought to the forefront. If I want a democrat socialist, I’ll vote for an authentic one, not a knock-off. I’m not fond of knock-offs. If I want a purse, I suppose I could go to the Westpark area. I’m voting for an original, socialist minded democrat. On the important issues, I’ll know what I am getting. I don’t plan to hire a phony who caves. I’ll hire a lock step who is consistant. My tummy won’t burn at night with worry, about how he will vote. I won’t spend my time writing letters, calling, because I know how he will vote. I want predictable.
I won’t vote for Noriega, but I am also not voting fo Cornyn. I quit voting for my state senator after the business tax vote, and I will note vote for John or Kay ever again for anything. It wasn’t enough to drive us down the socialist road, which thrills the Dems, they had to add another 100 billion of pork. They could have taken a stand for Texas and the bill still would have passed. These senators have sold us down the river before, why are we surprised now?
Have either of our Senators offered any sort of explanation?
I’m with Klayman. Copied from my comment on Matt’s post:
I won’t vote for Noriega or any other Democrat. I’ll be skipping some boxes this year. There may be a few bright spots on the ballot and voting for them while skipping the ones who voted for socialism will send the right message. Voting for Marxists over socialists will give those idiots the idea we agree with them.
Skipping the box is effectively voting for Mr. None of the Above and will send the right message to Republicans without giving the Democrats a false sense of mandate.
I too am very disappointed with our two Senators. The essence of this bill has not changed from the House version…the taxpayers are still on the hook. One Congressman earlier this week referred to the House version as a cow patty with a marshmallow on top. The Senate version is the same exact cow patty. The only difference is that now there are several more marshmallows on top. Enjoy!
Excellent points BigJolly.
Noriega has three more votes as of today.
Mark to Market was quietly changed. Over night the banks portfolio grew in value. Why didn’t that change the $700 billion number? The senate has a bill, the house will sign on, and the market is dropping. I thought this bill was to save things.
#4 Adee
Cornyn’s Explanation
Jolly,
He voted to protect the folks who support him the most.
Corny is #5 in the senate with regards to donations taken from the Mortgage Insurance Companies and Hedge Funds.
Sheesh….which way did you expect him to vote?
Simple
And Kay is assembling her “exploratory” committee for her run for Governor? great.. let’s take this kind of thinking local..
Blood almost shot out of my eyes this morning when some Senator had the unmitigated gall to stand in front of a camera and say “This is how the system is supposed to work”.
http://senateconservatives.com/ pan down to view Jim DeMint’s comments. Can we adopt this guy???
I keep saying that I’m gonna skip the box and everybody calls me names. Now you people are talking about skipping the box?! I’m glad you people have finally woken up, but I think it’s too late.
#10 Shannon
He didn’t talk to me. Just this week I pulled some money from my line of credit at the bank with no problems. I’d like to speak to these business owners. Who are they?
Maybe Cornhole needs to come to Hammyworld and see how its done.
I wont vote for either one now. It is quite apparent that the American people are willing to make sacrifices to do what is right over what is easy. Especially Texans, we have never been a people that takes the easy way out. We do what is right, period.
Apparently our senators are unwilling to do what is right and chose the easy route.
Once you vote against freedom and that includes free markets, you have lost my vote.
Sadly I just don’t think it really matters anymore and these people in office know it. They have enough lemmings that will go pull the lever for them and keep them in power.
** Well I wanted to go write an email to the senators and slam them both, but apparently Cornyns website is down…..I wonder if its just over whelmed with angry Texans…..
Just wrote to both of them:
Upset, frustrated, disappointed, disgusted….
Also wrote to Ted Poe, told him to stand firm.
#14 - Everyone has a breaking point, just in different places.
#18 hamless
I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!
Both Senators are idiots. Have them stop by my house one eve and I’ll tell ‘em the same thing to their face. I’m sick of taking care of myself AND all the slackers out there as well. Nobody paid off any of my cars, or houses, or credit cards–I did it all myself. Others should do the same or face the consequences. Let the market fail–I’ll survive. Hopefully all the slackers will die off.
I may lose the sale on my home due to tightening credit. I may lose my job as the low man on the totem pole. My wife may lose her job at a small manufacturing company. The conditions and consequences we face are serious.
However, none of these things, even on a mass scale, afford our “leaders” the right to trample over our wishes. I have had it with these people. I will not be voting for McCain or Cornyn in this election. I will not vote for anyone who is not beholden to conservative ideals and principles, and if you have to ask me what that means, RNC, you will not benefit from my participation either.
Change is painful, but necessary, and please don’t mistake that statement as support for Obama. I am a man without a party.
Well at least my Alabama Boys voted NO
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
There a good Libertarian named Yvonne Adams Schick that those of you who cannot stomach either Cornyn or Noriega. Helps build that third party in Texas some of you want., too.
Just sayin’ …
The only thing wrong with simply “skipping the box” is that it could be looked upon as apathy instead of outrage.
The duplicitous pricks in both parties will continue BAU to grow government, cater to special & corporatist interests, and then lie directly to our faces about their actions.
The either think we’re all idiots, or are so confident that we can’t change anything that simply don’t care.
Don’t skip the box! Send a strong message to the parties responsible for this farce by haning your chad for the most palatable independent or third party candidate you can find.
Hey, it’s not like they could win…
Yet.
Bob42
True true, but ya know what? I have registered my “vote” just the same.
BTW I am studying Bob Barr. I am familiar with his “Republican” tenure but have not kept up with him in the Libertarian ranks.
Thanks Shannon for posting the Cornyn excuse. It’s sad.
Make no mistake about it - this bailout bill is to the current crisis what the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was to the Great Depression. The similarities are actually pretty chilling:
1. The Smoot-Hawley tariff began as a government overreaction to events on Wall Street, and had the effect of causing wild and harmful fluctuations in the Dow Jones as nervous traders watched it advance through Congress. The 2008 bailout bill has done the exact same thing.
2. The original Smoot-Hawley bill quickly turned from a simple, albeit misguided, tariff revision into a monstrosity covering tens of thousands of tariff categories. The 2008 bailout bill went through the exact same process and is now several hundred pages long.
3. Sponsors of Smoot-Hawley tariff got the rest of Congress to go along with them by loading up the bill with protectionist pork for crony industries in their home districts. The 2008 bailout sponsors have done the same thing to get their votes.
4. In 1930 Frank Taussig, chairman of the Harvard Economics Department, sent President Herbert Hoover a letter signed by 1,028 economists warning that the Smoot-Hawley tariff would bring economic disaster. Hoover dismissed it as the misgivings of a bunch of stuffy academics and signed the bill anyway. In 2008 a group of economists including several nobel laureates have prepared a similar letter opposing the bailout. They currently have 230 signatories and the number is growing by the day. Bush has already publicly dismissed the letter and called the economists a bunch of stuffy academics who are supposedly “out of touch” with the real world.
5. Smoot-Hawley was ram-rodded through Congress by its sponsors, Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley. They held stacked committee hearings that favored all their cronies who supported the bill, and they excluded virtually all testimony opposed to it. Bush, Pelosi and backers of the 2008 bailout are doing the exact same thing.
6. Smoot-Hawley directly instigated a nationwide banking and monetary crisis by killing off U.S. trade with the world. The bailout bill will instigate a nationwide banking and monetary crisis by killing off the value of the U.S. dollar in the world.
7. Smoot-Hawley’s supporters claimed it was necessary to prevent an emerging recession from getting any worse. Instead, it caused the worst depression in history. The bailout bill’s supporters claim it is necessary to prevent an emerging recession from getting worse. Take a guess what it will really do…
Blast from the past…
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/mortgage_protest.htm
I tryed to call and email my senators yesterday but was met by “mail boxes full-no messages accepted” on both . Probobly doesn’t matter, they don’t care what I think anyway. They will, though, when I enter the voting booth. That’s when I’ll remember that they forgot and/or ignored me….and I have a long memory, I won’t forget.
I sent off an email to Senator Cornyn about 7 p.m. last night. I’d copied Laura’s eblast that Luv2hammer posted here. It didn’t make any difference, of course, but I tried. Next time I make my statement at the voting booth. In fact good incumbents may have a tough time keeping their seats this time. Change may mean all new faces.
#25 Squawkbox, Barr’s history tends to make me cautious but I’ll probably end up voting for him, partially because he seems actively sincere in his adoption of more reasonable views, but mainly because Texas is indelibly red, and regardless of where my chad falls Texas is will deliver 34 electoral votes to the Palin/McCain ticket. I plan to make my protest vote count, this time and in the future.
#30 American Woman, My hat is off to you (and others here) because you took the time to participate in precinct and district primary events. That is where true change begins, and where most of our real hope is found. Please do keep it up!
John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison both voted FOR the bailout last night.
Today I dropped my support of Sen Cornyn and his re-election to the post of Senator, and I sent the Cornyn campaign and Sen Cornyn himself an email letting them know, it can be read in the thread linked above.
In a very short time I was contaced by Vincent Harris, wanting my phone number, their campaign manager wanted to talk to me, and I told him NO, I could not, and would not support ANY candidate that voted to bailout $700B, a figure that is still low, actual figures are reported closer to $820B, and that I was pulling their logo from TexasFred’s, The American Conservative and The Texas Connection, and I did.
Jimmy Kerr of But That’s Just My Opinion posted a message in my comments saying he had done the same thing. Jimmy and I are trying to contact and encourage as many Texas bloggers as possible to contact Vincent and let him know that YOU are doing the same thing as well, lets send Cornyn a HUGE, Texas sized message!
Please, if you believe that this is a very important issue, PLEASE contact Vincent and tell him that you’re dropping the logo too, and ask to be removed from their blog roll, no LINK is that important, request that your blog be taken OFF of their roll…
Contact Vincent here:
vincent@johncornyn.com
http://www.johncornyn.com
http://TexasFred.net/
I will not be skipping the box for US Senator or US Rep.
I will be voting for Yvonne Adams Schick (LIB) instead of Cornyn.
I will be voting for Brian Stevens (LIB) instead of Kevin Brady.
I will be roasting some coffee beans for ST!
Bob: Just signed up….
Pssst! I like my coffee strong.