KKKarl tutors CORNYN on how to veterans-BAIT & pander-bear

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("Pander-bear" is a Tweety coinage.)

So Shrub rubberstamp CORNYN, supposedly a "senator" from Texas, feels the need to enlist KKKarl into his campaign (this early?). Could it be that the Dems just MIGHT have some credible opponents revving up---finally? One WATTS, who CORNYN is focusing on as a TRIAL LAWYER. But the other, Rick NORIEGA, a distinguised VETERAN via Afghanistan, just might be the Dem knight in shining armor.

So what is CORNYN doing here in this link? Why, doing the veterans' baiting thing in a heavily Hispanic/Dem area, South Texas, where a long standing beef has been the lack of a veterans hospital. Funny how CORNYN didn't get it done in 5 years of Shrub-running.

When will vets ever learn?!!1 By the bye, a veterans hospital is not necessarily the best answer. It just MIGHT be better for the VA to contract with plentiful local hospitals.

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http://www.themonitor.com/news/cornyn_3911___article.html/announcement_boswell.html

Karl Rove in Valley

Daisy Martinez (Valley Morning Star)
July 19, 2007 - 9:52PM
HARLINGEN — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Karl Rove, presidential adviser to President Bush, are slated to be in Harlingen today.

Cornyn, R-Texas, is expected to first visit with city commissioners to make an announcement regarding the U.S. Senate’s effort to address the need for a veterans’ hospital in the Rio Grande Valley, according to his office.

The meeting is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at City Hall, 118 E. Tyler.

“I’ve always supported a veterans’ hospital in the Rio Grande Valley,” Cornyn said during a conference call Thursday. “I have an important announcement to make (Friday). I’ll leave it at that.” ....

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1. I believe it has already been announced

that the city of (I think) La Feria, a few miles west of Harlingen on 83 will donate several acres of land for a new VA hospital in the Valley. Right now, vets have to travel some 250 miles to San Antonio, often by shuttle bus and then spend the night in some pretty low-class hotels there. It's really a very tough situation for Valley vets.

I think Cornyn will try to run a scorched earth type campaign next year. However, he does so at his own peril. Henry Bonilla tried the same thing in his runoff against Ciro Rodriguez and ended up getting his ass kicked.

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2. Besides being more fiscally smart and innovative, contracts with local hospitals

would remove the rude and crude factor of VA employees/veterans browbeating patients. Plus allowing the muliple choices of hospitals even closer to their own homes, closer than even one locality in their area.