Video: Sen. Cornyn gets an earful
From the very beginning of the Tea Party movement, I’ve reported that activists have directed their disgust at both parties over fiscal recklessness.
It’s an inconvenient truth the Tea Party-bashers would rather ignore.
The anger at Republicans who voted for TARP hasn’t gone away. And Texas Sen. John Cornyn was vividly reminded of that as he spoke at the Austin Tea Party this weekend. Accountability:
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn drew boos from a crowd outside the Texas Capitol this afternoon as he spoke at a “tea party” rally organized by the Texas office of Americans for Prosperity.
Cornyn was booed at the start and close of his remarks, which assailed actions in Washington; there were no boos while he awarded a Purple Heart to a Copperas Cove resident injured in Iraq in 2006.
“You’re the problem,” a crowd member hollered.
Another crowd member yelled that Cornyn voted for the initial federal bailout of Wall Street approved by Congress last year, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Here’s the vid. Watch it all the way through:
More from Texas blogger Robbie Cooper:
Cornyn (I like the guy, actually. Voted for him. Supported for him. But not again. I’m not voting for a single incumbent) kept talking about the bad things being done by “Washington”. But he never acknowledged that he is part of Washington. But, then again, he didn’t really need to. The crowd’s booing and jeering were evidence that they got it.
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This seems to be the recurring ‘illness’ in Washington.
Cornyn talks out of both sides of his mouth. I’ve been off him since he claimed to be against illegal immigration but was in favor of increasing H1-b’s – all the while millions of Americans are out of work. As far as Kay Bailey, she needs to go home and look after the grandkids or something, and contemplate how her standings on immigration will help them find jobs in the future.
God bless Texas, without these two morons. There are some great new conservatives coming up in the party. Seek them out, vett them, and vote them into office.
blowing wind by stating the obvious….how about talking about what he’s doing in fighting the bad things being done in D.C.
I’m in Texas and voted for this spineless coward, but not again.
They lie about everything else so this is to be expected–and good for the Austin Tea Party Patriots–maybe some good person in Texas can get the Senator and his evil twin John McCain jobs at Wally World as Greeters
Throw the bums out.
The biggest problem I have??? The AMERICAN VOTER has the shortest memory in the WORLD… Oh, but we all remembered MR. CORNYN’S transgressions, and most important, that we in Arizona remember MR. MCCAIN’S many transgressions… Ah, but alas, come voting day, we all suffer a major BRAIN FART in the voting booth…
Wow! Quiet no more, eh?
TPs are gathering steam (PUN intended).
Errah, It’s a little know fact that the part of “Two Face” in the Batman movie was actually written with Sen. Cornyn in mind. He couldn’t appear in the film due to a series of previously scheduled flim flamming appearances in preparation to his re-election and they had to get Tommy Lee Jones to star instead.
I actually cast my vote for the libertarian candidate running against Cornyn. I knew I was throwing away my vote… but I wasn’t going to vote for this guy who does not represent me.
Ooooh… I can’t wait for Snowejob and Collins to show their dirty faces in Maine. I’ll be there, very loudly, and with my video camera running.
Footage will be sent to Michelle for posting.
Cornyn used to seem to be a solid guy. Being in charge of the Senate campaign committee seems to have changed him.
Well, he doesn’t run again for a long time, and if he is the GOP nominee, I’ll vote for him*, because the Demonratic candidate will surely be worse, but I’ll support a primary opponent any way I can.
I could forgive the occasional “wrong” vote in the Senate, but supporting a RINO against Rubio in the Florida primaries over a year away, well, reminds me of how Bush supported Specter over Toomey, and see how well that turned out.
If we could get Michael Steele, Northeastern squish, to step down, put Palin in charge of the GOP, and support real conservatives in the primaries instead of reflexively supporting the incumbent or better known politician, well, things would be better.
WEll, dam*ing with faint praise, he is nowhere near as bad as the Country Club Republican, Kay Barely, who claims to favor strict immigration, but secretly helps gut border security bills.
I can think of only two clear cut instances where a Democrat wouldn’t be worse than the incumbent, even squish RINO types. I don’t live in Maine, but I believe both Collins and Snowe are Democrat moles in the caucus, like Lincoln Chaffee was. He as much admitted then when finally defeated.
I don’t know the House as well. Sonny Bono’s widow shows up on the wrong side of a lot of votes. She, like Murkowski, who was appointed by her father, Chaffee, and Snowe, are Republicans because dead husbands or their fathers were Republican.
Murkowski is an awful squish, and I was hoping Palin might challenge her, but even a squish is better than a Marxist, and I believe every Democrat is essentially a Marxist.
Having this RINO tell us about the bad things happening in Washington is like Bill Ayers warning us that Obama is a communist.
Cornyn just can’t see that when he pronounced “Washington” it came out as “I”.
Cornyn is why so many conservatives are frustrated and angry. We have almost no one to represent us which means we have almost no voice in Washington. These Tea Parties are our voice and that’s why the MSM is afraid to cover them. Every party gets a little bigger as people realize that they are not alone and comes out to add to the cries for representation.
I’ve e-mailed him about his support for Arlen Specter (Specter: noun, evil spirit), and other RINO’s, and how he feels just having an “R” by one’s name is good enough.
But he apparently feels he’s smarter than everyone else.
I voted against him last November, I will vote AGAINST HUTCHINSON for whatever she tries to run for in TEXAS. Perry has gotten the point, he stuck his finger in the wind. But people should know Perry was elected to make sure the NAFTA Superhighway got built.
Cornyn ran against a retired Military Veteran on the Democrat side last November.
MM’s other post, “37,000 at Dallas Tea Party — and next steps” has the site Tea Party Patriot’s link. On the link’s menu bar there’s a spreadsheet you can download of all the house/senate members who are up for re-election in 2010. Quite a useful tool. I’ve already copied it to excel and sorted it by party then I’ll add columns of who the challengers are. Finally, I’m getting organized.
No
here when it comes time to vote.
I was there, and watched Cornyn. And we all knew he was just wearing the cowboy hat to try to show us he was one of us. Riiiight. One thing’s for sure. If he has a trace of sense, he’ll LISTEN to what we had to say to him Saturday, and realize that we are about to vote him OUT if he doesn’t shape up.
I brought a couple of liberal friends with me to the rally, and they got to see that I had been telling the truth; the tea party movement really is about both sides being thoroughly disgusted and angry at Washington. They were pleased to see Republicans ripping one of their own a new one, but they saw that both sides were united this time. One of them told me it was very educational to see it in person, and not just what CNN tells us.
I mentioned at one point that “it doesn’t look like he’s gonna get rehired.” And my friend said, “well, the job interview’s sure not going well, is it?”
It was a good rally.
I have voted for Sen. Cornyn, both as a Senator and as a Texas Supreme.
I have had great admiration for this guy for years, and knew him to be a pretty solid conservative with a keen legal mind.
His subversion by the MACHINE is one of those anecdotal lessons that have taught me we can send good people to DC, only to have the MACHINE grind them up.
He will not have my support again.
But that isn’t enough. We have to break the machine. Else, this will merely be a cautionary tale for every “next conservative”.
Cornyn’s opponent was an active National Guard officer who made a big deal about doing two weeks of guard duty.
I respect military service, but anyone who supports Obama’s Marxist programs is a Marxist. George McGovern was in the Army Air Force in WW2, Jimmy Carter graduated the Naval Academy.
Cornyn has gotten squishy, but he isn’t a full blown RINO. Maybe a little heat from home sets him back on the right track.
Lets hope so. If he doesn’t change his tune, I will support a primary challenger with my time and money, but I will never vote for a Marxist, choosing the truly evil over the not very good.
Remember, Democrats who run as members of the DLC or ‘Blue Dog Caucus’, if they support Obama, they are frauds, they are just closeted Marxists.
11 of 49 Blue Dogs opposed Porkulus. 38 supported it. Heath Schuler voted against it because he is planning a Senate run in 2010, and probably got permission from the whip to vote against Obama.
Dems from Marxist districts like San Francisco, inner cities, and college towns/hippy colonies can run openly as communists, Dems from more centrist districts have to lie and obsfucate their true nature.
I know full well Norm Coleman was a squish. Franken in his seat now is no big deal, the two Maine RINOs meant the GOP had already lost the filibuster, but if the GOP picks up 2 or 3 Senate seats in 2010, the loss of Coleman plus the RINOs may be the difference between 59 votes and 60 votes for invoking cloture. Coleman’s win over Franken would not have been close enough to steal except for votes wasted on the third party candidate.
Fight like hell to defeat squishes and RINOs in the primaries, but don’t help elect a Marxist by staying home or voting for someone who’ll get 2 or 3% of the vote.
Unfortunately the people who were screaming out in patriotic dissent will be labeled “hate mongers” spewing “hate speech”.
I would have love to have been there.
Do you think there is a chance in hell that term limits will ever happen? That is the only thing that will fix this problem and avoid all the cronyism and corruption in DC. They must not be allowed to become so comfortable and entrenched in the DC scene that they forget the rest of the country. That is what has been happening and it has reached a point where we must step up and say ENOUGH! Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, et al…lifetime Senators. And the power has taken over their lives. They have NO IDEA how us commoners live and work day to day.
FIFY.
We need conservative candidates, period!
The same philosophy we take on the War on Terror, we need to apply to conservatism. We have to be 100% conservative…99% won’t cut it. That 1% keeps the liberal foot-in-the-door, and maintains the opportunity for governmental abuse of power.
LOL–someone yelled ‘Traitor!’ very loudly near the beginning.
hahahahaha
yes, and we’ll need to support them directly, regardless of party. NRCC, NRSC, and the GOP leadership, in general, are allergic to real conservatives.
It’s funny to see just how clueless and opportunistic these politicians are. They have no idea that they’re the target, thinking they can speak cliched platitudes as if the public can’t see they wear no clothes.
In a perfect world, we’d be able to vote for someone besides Cornyn next time — but it will depend on who the challengers are. Not voting Republican to punish him if his opponent is a liberal Democrat (oxymormon) would be a mistake. Now, if we can get a conservative in a primary race, I’m all for it. At this point I’d rather see a Sen. Ron Paul than a Sen. Cornyn, even though I don’t buy all Paul’s selling.
He probably thought he was safe speaking in Austin. #fail.
Watch the 2 ladies bringing their hands down to quiet the boos at the start of the clip. (Reminds me of the Kerry girls when Kerry was booed in 2004.)
Also, the chubby he/she in the yellow “event staff” shirt puts it’s hand on its hips when the booing continues.
How dare the crowd express its opinion!
Not voting for incumbents has a truly patriotic ring to it.
I’ll vote for Tom McClintock, but I’ll also vote for ANYONE running against Boxer, Feinstein and Pelosi!!!
I e-mailed him once about secureding the border. I think he just laughed.
What a putz.
Also, Duncan D. Hunter is my Rep and we talk at least weekly!
Vntnrse lucky you
This is embarrassing
Cornyn is the very reason we need state governments to regain their control. We don’t need secession, we need state governments with some balls! Those who go to DC, begin to act like they are from DC, Senators especially, which I always claim are the lowest form of all political life.
Cornyn isn’t a bad guy as far as DC politicians go, he is just a Senator. Don’t expect crap to smell any better if you throw it in bed of flowers, but don’t expect it to be any different the opposite way. You put flowers on a pile of dung and they will eventually smell like the dung too, even if they still look kind of pretty for awhile.
And you republicans still expecting some miraculous resurrection of the GOP without actually busting down their door and throwing the bums out are gluttons for punishment.
RINO hunting in Texas – the last place where RINOs should roam is a state where guns are given as presents.
The people may not like the fact that Cornyn voted for TARP… but regardless, that was the worst crowd I have ever seen.. Talk about rude Are you sure they aren’t all Democrats? Sure sounded like it.
What ever happened to the right to be heard. Was Cornyn invited to speak? Then let him say his piece. If you don’t like it leave.
Cornyn has a 92 percent ACU rating. That is not exactly RINO territory.
+1
Tea Parties are about the people speaking; that’s the time for politicians to listen. Sorry but there is no problem with boos; people need to stop wearing their feelings on their sleeves. Just because Cornyn has a 92% ACU so what? Wrong is wrong, and voting for TARP was wrong. When politicians can’t get the easy was ones right, why should we trust them with the hard problems. Give me a break.
I will repeat my thoughts from the Dallas TP thread:
I do not trust any current members of the establishment. They had their chances and blew it badly. Now, they (Dick Armey and others like Cornyn and Fred Thompson) want to latch onto our coat-tails. Screw-em!!! We need to find fresh voices and the faces to match. Those who are not tainted by the stench from inside the D.C. beltway. We can bring about real change by getting back control of the system and electing strict constitutionalists who get it concerning limited federal power and state’s rights. This is not a difficult concept.
Donut44,
Well said and Amen!
I felt betrayed by Cornyn when he voted for Timmy Geithner, and let him know about it. But do not be fooled by his opponent, Rick Noriega, who has just become a community organizer. When it became apparent that the Obama campaign had removed all fraud protection from their donation website, and enabled anyone with any sort of card (including a JC Penney gift card) to donate anonymously, I heard that many Dem websites were also allowing fraudulent donations. So, I tried to donate to McCain and Cornyn using a fraudulent name, to no avail. But Noriega? Noooo problemo! I still get email from ActBlue addressed to Raggedy Ann.
Don’t mindlessly throw the bums out, or vote against Cornyn just to punish him. You may get the next Obama. Look at what the idiots in Minnesota have done to the country by giving us the gift of Stuart Smalley! Instead of commenting on blogs all the time, email your RINO and beat on him or her (verbally) until s/he gets the point! The thing about Republicans in general (except for Snowe, Collins and Specter) is that they usually have consciences. Let them know directly, by tartly worded emails and phone calls, that you’re pissed and getting ready to kick butts and take names. But don’t elect a Noriega, a Franken, or something worse (in the case of Franken, we might have found the worst, though).
And call Cornyn at the NRSC, 202.675.6000, and tell him to stay the frack away from endorsements in the primaries.
In a perfect world, the 17th amendment wouldn’t have passed. In a perfect world, the 17th amendment would be repealed and the state legislators would choose the state’s representatives, i.e. senators, just the way it the founders intended.
BO is the only one who hasn’t figured it out yet: WE’VE HAD IT, AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! The silent majority is not going to be silent anymore!