John Cornyn Up In Arms Over All The Earmarks Not Requested By John Cornyn

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John Cornyn Up In Arms Over All The Earmarks Not Requested By John Cornyn
Jason Linkins
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First Posted: 12-15-10 12:25 PM | Updated: 12-15-10 02:32 PM

The lame duck session of Congress wends on and on! Today, the bitter battle is enjoined over the omnibus budget bill, and the chief complainant is Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). See, Cornyn is very upset about all of the earmarks that are in the bill. And it's easy to see why! A few weeks ago, he was one of 39 senators who voted to ban the practice entirely, in an effort that was ultimately unsuccessful.

Of course, as I've already documented, many of the people who have long complained about earmarks, who have targeted the practice as a key means of reining in spending, and who made the banning of the earmark practice a central promise of their 2010 campaigns, have been having second thoughts lately. Maybe some earmarks are good. Maybe all we need is a new name for the earmarks. Maybe we could just earmark when we're out at bars. I can stop whenever I want!

Well, surely "Big, bad John" is standing on firm ground, unshakable in his conviction that the practice needs to end. Here's Cornyn on Fox News, with Bill Hemmer, Wednesday morning:

HEMMER: My next guest says Washington still does not get it, Senator John Cornyn is on the senate budget committee, he's live on the hill. Good morning to you. We were told yesterday this is a total mess and that, quote, all hell is breaking loose. Is that true?

CORNYN: Well, yes. I think people are just so profoundly shocked that here we are, a year after we jammed through Harry Reid and the democratic majority, jammed through a $2.7 trillion health care bill and we know what's come of that, that they're dropping this 2000 page, $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill that no one has had a chance to see until yesterday, and the more we see it the less there is to like about it, and it's just -- to me it is completely tone-deaf as John McCain said, after coming off this election when the American people said very clearly that this runaway Washington spending and this unsustainable debt were unacceptable and they're sending new people in come January 5th to represent them better than the people who are leaving. So it's really shocking, and it's disrespectful.

[w8liftinglady]

1. sigh. My senator.

who has done absolutely NOTHING for his constituents.."didn't like the tax and spend"...but gladly took grants and funding.

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2. Bet the "Tea Party Patriots" with the Cornyn bumper stickers on their pickups

are STRANGELY SILENT about Cornyn breaking that trust that they re-elected him on ... "no earmarks" ...

Of course, they'll probably rationalize it as "bringing in jobs" (with Govt. taxpayer money wasted) ... imagine if a liberal was doing something to create jobs ...