Well, Isn’t That Cute?
John Cornyn is looking a little withered around the edges right about now. He’s taking a hard beating trying to raise money to keep a seat he thinks has his name on it.
But, when you’re groveling to a man convicted of four felonies, you better hide your law and order claims.
Cornyn begged $1,000 from Scooter Libby. Remember him? Yeah, he was Dastardly Dick Cheney’s right hand man.
But, you might have a more recent memory of Scooter. Trump gave him a pardon. He was convicted of four out of five felony charges of charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements to investigators. He lied about outing Valerie Plame.
Look, I’m a liberal. I believe that once a felon pays his debt to society, his past is wiped clean. The problem here is that Scooter never paid his debt to society. Bush gave him a commutation so he didn’t have to go to prison and then Trump gave him a pardon.
So all Cornyn’s tough law and order talk is just that – talk.
Big bad John is playing footsie with Scooter.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told the Fort Worth Star Telegram that at times he has disagreed with President Trump on issues such as budget deficits and debt, tariffs and trade agreements and border security.
But he said he chose to work on those disagreements with the president’s staff in private discussions, rather than by publicly voicing his opposition.
Cornyn described his relationship with Trump as “maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well.”
Let me add the obvious question: who is the husband in this situation?
Law and Order.*
* except for white collar, white men crime
1Quid pro quo?
2Cornyn, his PACs, and the Rethug Party have ramped up their teevee media buys. The spots were bad enough weeks ago, but they have gotten really nasty and extremely deceptive lately.
Methinks he’s getting scared, MJ Hegar appears to be starting to kick his sorry ass.
One I saw running this morning on the Sunday political shows hit most of the MAGAot buttons [and ‘doube rain back to back , wtf]. It started with ‘MJ Hegar is for ‘Single Payer Health Care Insurance’, drivels on, then ‘Hegar will take away your Medicare’.
Lots of others attack Hegar personally, etc, even her patriotism and service.
All the other area Rethugs [Roy, González, etc.] are getting really dirty nasty with negative ads saturating the airwaves against MJ Hegar, Wendy Davis, Gina Ortiz Jones, Castaneda, et al.
They loves to rant about ‘Texass Values, California libruls, DC, Nancy Pelosi, gays, guns, god, riots, lawlessness’, ad infinitum.
Hoping that finally enough voters see through this bullshitfest.
3Nice bit of weasel wording there, John. Now that it is looking as if Democrats will win the Whitehouse and probably the Senate, you rat molesting morons are lining up behind Moscow Mitch to obstruct the Biden administration exactly as you did President Obama. You PsOS have the BTDT t-shirts for obstruction, austerity and budget deficit concern trolling memo left over from the FDR administration.
4IIRC, Scooter Libby took the fall for Cheney.
5As always, stuff like this makes me go to Act Blue and send M.J. Hegar (and other candidates) more money.
6As I wrote on another blog about this, “Comments made in private don’t count, Senator. Votes do.” I hope he loses, bigly.
7Two ways to know how a campaign is doing, check out the polls and watch the candidate to see if they are panicking. That smell in the air? Flop sweat.
8Considering that the R’s haven’t done the job they’ve been paid to do for 12 years now, we should demand our money back. And cut their pensions.
9Jennifer Rubin’s column this weekend was very on target about Cornyn and his repugnantican cohorts. They should all pay by being voted out of office and their legacies demolished forever. Graham, Cruz and McConnell (and plenty more) are right there with Cornyn.
10I am waiting for the expected Blue wave that will wash the Repugnuts out of Texas!
The Trumpster just may be unpopular enough to trigger that Blue wave!
Until then we must keeping fighting against stupidity, ignorance and criminality!
11The Hudson Insitute takes them all, don’t they. The place must be loaded with disinfectant and room sanitizer….betcha they take in dense if he dosen’t go to prison
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