John Cornyn

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• Deep Stupid

  
  Hungry Hungry Hippos — Authority: 124
  Hey, 2 in one week! Today’s winner is Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC). As you probably heard, the GOP had a bit of a problem in this week’s special election for the congressional seat from New York’s 23rd District.  The local GOP chose Dena Scozzofava as their candidate.  Meanwhile, a member of the Conservative ...
  3 days ago

• DeMint: Recruiting moderates who can win "doesnt make any sense"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 807
  More GOP civil war: [NRSC Chairman John] Cornyn has gambled much on finding and promoting centrists able to win Senate seats in swing states and even some Democratic redoubts. And he’s decided to do so even though those candidates in at least four states — California, Florida, Kentucky and Connecticut — ...
  3 days ago

• The Texas Trib and its polls

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
  I’ve been so immersed in the Houston elections that I forgot to give a warm welcome to the Texas Tribune , which made its debut on Tuesday. I really like the look of the site, I like their lineup of writers, and I like what they’re aiming to do. Once their RSS feeds become available , I’ll be really happy. So ...
  3 days ago

• Sen. Cornyn: Dont jump to conclusions over Fort Hood shootings

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 849
  (CNN) - Before making judgments about the shootings at Fort Hood, a thorough investigation needs to take place, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Thursday. "It is imperative that we take the time to gather all the facts, as it would be irresponsible to be the source of rumors or inaccurate information regarding such a ...
  4 days ago

• Cereal Wingnuts

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 496
  From The New York Times : WASHINGTON — Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power. The victories, ...
  4 days ago

• Hutchison irks right by including gay judge as U.S. attorney pick

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 579
  Hutchison irks right by including gay judge as U.S. attorney pick WASHINGTON – Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has sent the White House two suggestions for the post of U.S. attorney in San Antonio. One of the candidates is a highly regarded career prosecutor and judge who also, it turns out, is openly gay.Some Republicans ...
  4 days ago

• Sorry, Charlie: John Cornyn declares the NRSC to be irrelevant

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 526
  NRSCs Cornyn to Charlie: just pretend were 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Moderates Need Not Apply

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 607
  The GOP purity purge is accelerating, despite their loss of NY-23. It’s no wonder the teabaggers feel empowered – they were being interviewed all over the media yesterday. They see the loss of NY-23 as a big win for their movement – the movement to make a smaller, purer GOP. The purgers [...]
  4 days ago

• Cornyn Forced by Teabagger Base to Keep NRSC out of Senate Primaries

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Um. OK. (photo by Steve Rhodes) This is pretty big news that shows the institutional power of the tea party conservative base. In the wake of last night’s disaster in NY-23, John Cornyn, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP campaign arm for Senate races, announced that his ...
  5 days ago

• NY 23 – The Aftermath

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 607
  Listening to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Company, one would think the sky fell on American conservatives and the Republican Party last night. She and her ilk couldn’t be more wrong. Did Bill Owens win the election? Yes. (How much help he had from Acorn and the WFP may never be known.) But does the defeat ...
  5 days ago

• Its a Hoffman Victory After All

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 626
  Well it seems its a victory for Doug Hoffman after all, but not in the way he intended. While he isnt going to Congress (this year), he has gotten the attention of the NRSC. ABC News reports that John Cornyn got the message loud and clear: "Theres no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have ...
  5 days ago

• Hutchison Recommends Gay Candidate for US Attorney

  
  lazy circles — Authority: 429
  Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn have endorsed two applicants for US Attorney for the Western District of Texas: Robert Pitman , a U.S. magistrate in Austin, and San Antonio criminal defense lawyer Michael McCrum . Pittman also just happens to be openly gay. Hutchisons role has ...
  5 days ago

• Dear RedState: “I Hear You, Washington Hears You, and the Idiots On My Staff Who Did This Hear You.” Respectfully, Sen. Cornyn

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  Well, the one Republican in Washington, D.C. today who seems to have had a realistic assessment of what took place yesterday is John Cornyn, the Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He made sure to tell a reporter that the NRSC will not spend any money in Florida for Crist or against Rubio. ...
  5 days ago

• Cornyn: ‘We Will Not Spend Money in a Contested Primary’

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 558
  ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed at the party establishment. "We will ... Naked Politics ...
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• John Cornyn Puts The Target On His Own Back

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  This is stunning hypocrisy. The head of Republican Senate campaign efforts said late Monday that GOPers in New York’s 23rd district “[paid] the price” for picking a nominee in a hotly contested special election behind closed doors . But wait . . . it gets better. NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh said on Monday ...
  1 week ago

• Senators Seek To Continue Government Spying On You Without Justification

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 503
  Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the ...
  1 week ago

• Deep in the Cornyn hole of Texas

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 584
  By Capt. Fogg I got an e-mail from Texas Senator John Cornyn this morning. Somehow I had the urge to take another shower. In the relentless crusade to mock, rebuke, deride, insult, sneer at and taunt the "opposition"Cornyn is an endless cornucopia of crepuscular reasoning and shady opinions, such as his assertion ...
  1 week ago

• Courtesy of Fox News: "Death Panels" - Theyre Ba-ack!

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 807
  Having been a bit too nuts the other day even for them, yesterday Fox News decided to stick to their tried-and-true tactics and returned to the "death panels" : In a Fox and Friends segment this morning, a Fox News legal analyst asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) whether the House health care bill has any ...
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• EAT POOP AND DIE NEWT! DEDE QUITS!

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 134
  NEWT GINGRICH - THE GREAT AMERICAN RINO (ENDANGERED SPECIES) It has been great to watch the Great American RINO Newt Gingrich commit political suicide over a libtard RINO named Dede “fuzzybean” Scozzafava! Conservatives are on the march and we will not fortet who has crossed over to the dark side. They will ...
  1 week ago

• With Push From Fox, Cornyn Takes Death Panel Bait

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 801
  In a Fox and Friends segment this morning, a Fox News legal analyst asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) whether the House health care bill has any changes "with regard to the death panel." Cornyn responded that its "certainly something well be focusing on." The analyst, Peter Johnson Jr., began the interview by saying ...
  1 week ago

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