(Image courtesy of the Texas Democratic Party ). Last Friday, Michael wrote a good post on Senator Hutchison's decision to postpone her much-delayed anticipation of a future resignation from the Senate at some indeterminate time in the future, choosing instead to once again ensure she has the proper time to "reassess" the options that have been identical for the past decade. I know when...
The Twilight Zone presidency continues: Holder Announces Plan to Send Alleged Sept. 11 Conspirators to New York Court "Attorney General Eric Holder said Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four others now detained in Guantanamo Bay will be moved to a prison facility near the Brooklyn Bridge and stand trial in a civilian federal courtroom down the street from the World Trade Center buildings that Mohammad...
Whatever was in the mind of alleged shooter Maj Nidal Malik Hasan is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans After an American soldier's tragic outburst of violence at Fort Hood, Texas – the army's largest US post, with some 40,000 troops – dominates the headlines, a fear-mongering hysteria concerning his supposed religious motivations is taking priority over questions regarding...
Yesterday, John Cornyn declared that the Republican Party establishment is afraid of its base : "We will not spend money in a contested primary," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told ABC News in a telephone interview today. "There's no incentive for us to weigh in," said Cornyn, R-Texas. "We have to look at our resources.... We're...
On a 36-25 vote, the State Republican Executive Committee elected Cathie Adams the party's chairwoman over Melinda Fredricks. Adams will serve as chairwoman at least until June, when the state party will meet and have elect a full-term chair. Cathie Adams has spent years as president of the Texas Eagle Forum, an organization, which nationally "has been leading the pro-family movement with strength...
Remember reading yesterday about John Cornyn punching at a reporter/blogger's camera? Well, something must have been in our Senators' water yesterday, because Senator Hutchison had a problem with a reporter, too. In some ways, her story falls farther than Cornyn's. Mike Stark, some may say, blindsided Senator Cornyn to ask him a question. Kay Bailey Hutchison, however, abruptly stalled the journalistic...
So Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is my hero. He doesn't tolerate bullshit and he's managed, with his first piece of legisaltion, to show a certain bunch a Republicans for the insensitive, bought-and-paid-for idiots that they are. His amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act 2010, Franken Amdt. No. 2588 , had this stated purpose: To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with...
Our junior senator is at it again, doing his very best to help Democratic senatorial candidates in 2010. John Cornyn, of course, serves as Chairman of the NRSC, the organization tasked with trying to not lose more Senate seats for the Republicans. But hey, until Bill White can officially get in the race, at least Texas Democrats can take pride in Cornyn's efforts to help our team. With numbers from...
This year, the Senate voted on an amendment to not fund companies which force their employees to forfeit their rights to sue for sexual assault or harassment. Thirty Senators voted against this amendment. All of them republican. This video goes into a bit more detail… I actually emailed John Cornyn, the senator from Texas, using his website and [...]
After Houston Mayor Bill White's campaign reported $1.5 million raised this quarter, leaving them with $4.18 million on hand, national observers took notice. Politico's Josh Kraushaar wrote that White had "posted one of the strongest fundraising totals for any Senate candidate this quarter." Then it was the NRSC, led by Texas' own John Cornyn, who read the good news about White's campaign...
From the Dallas Morning News' blog, Trailblazers : John Cornyn is preparing for a May special election to fill the Senate seat that will probably be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running for governor against fellow Republican Rick Perry. [...] "I've had long discussions with Sen. Hutchison about her intentions," Cornyn said. "I believe she's taking suggestions from a number...
Ed. note: The following is the weekly round-up for the Texas Progressive Alliance, compiled this week by TXSharon. As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup. BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings "amazing and very high" Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to...
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Western Tristan defence ministers approve joint security. Pak Libya Joint Ministerial Conference to be held in July. Add a news gadget for libya to your Google homepage. By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON Senator John Cornyn, the Texas Republican, was not happy when he heard other Republicans toss around the. Euro Zone Retail Sales Inch Higher. Velas Mounting federal budget deficits menace US future. T have...
Former U.S. Senate candidate Rick Noriega laid out an attack on Cornyn while endorsing/promoting Bill White in a Facebook note this morning : Our elected members of Congress are once again making us look bad in Washington D.C. From ThinkProgress , via TPMDC , we learn that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) called Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) out during a markup session in the Finance Committee. ROCKEFELLER:...
WASHINGTON -- It is "a stunning assault on liberty" (Sen. Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona). It is "trying to force or foist a one-size-fits-all solution on the states" (Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah). It is a plan that "taxes too much and grows government too much" (Sen. John Cornyn, Republican of Texas). It is also a massive shift of tax money from constituents...
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