Cornyn: We Can't Investigate Bush Because of the Bad Economy

[babylonsister]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/goper-we-cant-investigate-bush-because-of-the-bad-economy.php

GOPer: We Can't Investigate Bush Because of the Bad Economy
By Elana Schor - February 18, 2009, 3:40PM


The AP finally takes a look today at our January Sleeper Bill of the Month, the congressional proposal for an independent commission that would investigate civil-liberties and human-rights abuses permitted during the Bush years.

Shocking as it is, Republicans tell the AP that a post-Bush "truth commission" is a terrible concept. But you've got to applaud the sheer chutzpah of Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) response:

This is not only a bad idea, it is a diversion from the economic crisis we face.

I can't wait until the economic recession becomes a reason not to debate union organizing rules and pass health care reform. :)

[steelmania75]

1. WTF???

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Box Turtle Boi,

You need to resign your U.S. Senate commission immediately and demand GoodHair to appoint a DEMOCRAT in your position, if you don't want to do it the hard way.

Sincerely,
Hawkeye-X

[Deja Q]

3. Typical corny response.

That's his name. Corny. John Corny.

[Mike 03]

4. LOL. Sad and True and Amazing all at once. K&R. This is

how they operate and have operated for decades, but the magnitude of their idiocies is expanding by the day, until it is getting so obvious that everyone will be able to figure this out.

[tanyev]

5. Well, John, since you and Kay and Gov. Perry obviously won't be accepting

any of the stimulus money you so disapprove of, why don't we use that to set up a truth commission? Hmmm?

[babylonsister]

7. Ooh, snap!

:thumbsup:

[marmar]

6. Why must we continue to share oxygen with this man?

:argh:

[The Brethren]

8. Any excuse is a good excuse

when it comes to politicians. No surprise unfort., they've covering for one another for years. Meanwhile.....back at the ranch, junior is probably laughing his arse off over this article.




Know what you're paying for. The Stimulus Plan ("American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009"): Orig. House version -- http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/RecoveryBill01-15-09.pdf , House spreadsheet -- http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pV-c6t5fOVmNorqMpHvnCMw ; Senate version -- http://appropriations.senate.gov/News/2009_02_02_The_American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009.pdf ; and Senate compromise -- http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1 , Text and $$$ details of Senate compromise -- http://appropriations.senate.gov/News/2009_02_08_UPDATED_Appropriations_Provisions_of_American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act.pdf?CFID=4043629&CFTOKEN=40573040 . In addition to -- http://readthestimulus.org/amdth1.pdf , along with -- http://www.readthestimulus.org/ . Final version, Feb. 13th, 1500 pgs. worth -- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/arra_public_review/ , more details on the final version -- http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1913&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS , including spending -- http://cbs4denver.com/national/Web.government.accountability.2.937188.html

[yella_dawg]

9. Hey Cornyn

What's up with you taking "fact finding junkets" in the Caribbean? You know, the ones financed by the Houston Ponzi schemer who is now under indictment.

Time to STFU, just ask Tom Delay.

[babylonsister]

12. And who was Cornyn's unidentified companion?

Inquiring minds...

[tbyg52]

10. That's my Senator!

:puke:

[SoCalDem]

11. Okay, John, but we CAN afford to investigate YOU and your swindler-banker buddy

:)

[DemoTex]

13. Can't investigate Bu$h because Cornyn will go down like the Titanic.

Remember "Funeralgate" in Texas? Cornyn was governor Bu$h's attorney general in Texas at the time, and Cornyn helped cover-up "Funeralgate" so that the Bu$hboy could run for president in 2000. That's just the tip of the iceberg (to continue that Titanic metaphor).

[blogslut]

14. Thank the powers that be, that man is so dumb

There's a slow train coming for you, big John. All aboard the http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/cornyn_took_caribbean_junket_on_stanfords_dime.php">Stanford Express!

[Snarkoleptic]

15. Typical Cornyn, although he did forget to suggest tax cuts and deregulation in his comments.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. You knew it was coming.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. And just you never mind that burning fuse!

And the KABOOM to follow.

Let's not look into the things that got us here. Who would that serve.

*Extra Drippy* :sarcasm:

Hey sis :hug:

[gratuitous]

18. And if the economy was good, we shouldn't investigate

Because after all, nobody should be complaining about a robust economy!

So see, heads the Republicans win and tails the GOP wins. It's really quite simple, and when you're looking for simple, look no further than Sen. Cornyn.

[babylonsister]

22. True that, all of it. nt

[tblue37]

19. Of course, CheneyBushCo malfeasance is precisely why we are in this economic mess, and

it is one of the reasons they need to be investigated.

Repub chutzpah reminds me of the old chestnut about man who murdered his parents and then begged the court for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

[spanone]

20. who said if you have nothing to hide you should invite an investigation?

or something like that

[malaise]

21. We should investigate him over

Stanford.

[cascadiance]

23. Investigating one of the CAUSES of this economic crisis is a diversion? WTF?

So, why wouldn't you investigate WHY we spent so much more money (aka the Iraq money pit both in terms of raw cash, subsidies to corruptly aligned companies like Haliburton and Blackwater (NO, I'm not going to call them "Xe"!), or the huge amounts on the war itself?

Uh Cornyn, we SHOULD investigate the causes of this economic crisis (which is SO much what the last president was doing in more ways than just the Iraq war, and shut DOWN those involved in causing it and any possibility that someone else will do the same thing again and make things worse!

Can you imagine where we'd be if we allowed Bushco to privatize social security earlier? We'd all be dead meat now!

[VP505]

24. That's about as lame as

lame excuses can be be. I think it shows just how stupid Cornyn thinks we the people are.

[Geek_Girl]

25. Crap like this is why I hate Republicans

nt

[Fleshdancer]

26. Here that kids? If you commit a crime, just f*ck up the economy and nothing will happen to you.

:wtf:

Although I have never voted for this idiot, I still feel the overwhelming need to apologize for him. We Texans have a difficult time containing our stupid. Obviously.

[babylonsister]

29. I live here, too, and I share your pain. He's a clueless idjit. nt

[undeterred]

27. Yeah, its always gonna be sumptin.

[ProgressIn2008]

28. I don't think he even needed to say this. Bush was never going to be investigated

Not by Obama, not by Pelosi, not by Reid. If it helps to attack a slimeball GOPer, okay, whatever, but it doesn't change the fact that very soon, we need to admit the truth. We let a war criminal go free. Either we live in a society where power flows from the people and we let this happen or, alternatively, we need to grow up and deal with the fact that we don't live in a society where power flows from the people, and we were helpless to act.

In the latter case... what kind of a society do we live in, then, where the people are helpless to act?

[MyOwnPeace]

30. Sorry Mike, but...........

I disagree (post #4). "until it is getting so obvious that everyone will be able to figure this out."

When you have 27% of the people thinking that Bushco was "OK" and 47% of the electorate voting for McLAME, you're NEVER gonna' get them all to figure it out!:crazy: :crazy:

[Ganja Ninja]

31. I agree 100%

So once we get all the troops out of Iraq why don't we just turn Bush, Cheney and Rummy over to them and let justice be done.

[bdamomma]

32. he's from Texas what do you expect? a bushie loyal.

[struggle4progress]

33. IIRC, Cornyn himself is a leading manufacturer of bad ideas and diversions