TX-Sen: John Cornyn Helps Keeps Anti-Minimum Wage Hike Filibuster Going

Let's hang this one around his neck (4.00 / 4)

Box Turtle has, throughout his political career, cared much more for corporations than he has for people.

I want this man out of the Senate, and I want the strongest possible challenger to replace him.

"The Bushite arctic freeze is thawing nationally but in Texas we're still iced in. Fight 'em on the ice." -- DVO

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by: PDiddie @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 06:17:19 AM CST

Statement from The Great Cornholio (4.00 / 3)

his website

"America's small businesses are the engine driving America's economy, and as we consider increasing the minimum wage, we must also consider the new burdens this will place on small business owners.  Most studies show that unless an increase in the minimum wage is coupled with protections for small businesses in the form of new tax incentives, it will have negative effects on employment.  So instead of simply raising the minimum wage as the Democrats would have us do, Republicans are standing with small business owners and are working to include protections that will offset higher labor costs. 

"Yet, in looking for ways to keep our economy moving forward, I am deeply disappointed that my Democrat colleagues turned their backs today on the opportunity to address wasteful federal spending by rejecting a line-item veto amendment to the minimum wage bill-an amendment that was nearly identical to one that the Democrats themselves introduced in 1995.  Today's vote is particularly difficult to reconcile considering the Democrats' repeated commitments to join Republicans on spending restraint.  The line-item veto would have been a critical tool in doing just that - so the Democrats' rejection of this important amendment is disappointing, to say the least."

Tax cuts are not the answer to every issue. The vote was about the minimum wage not about how awful the democratic party is. Party over people is Senator Cornyn's motto. Senator Cornyn doesn't care at all about the people of Texas, if the republicans want a parrot as Senator from Texas at least they can do better than this jerk.

There is an art to being a partisan hack and the Senator doesn't even know how to be a good one.

ABC - anybody but Cornyn. What a f*ckhead.

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by: citizenx @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 07:34:02 AM CST

"join Republicans on spending restraint" (4.00 / 3)

What spending restraint have your republicans shown Johnny boy?  How the hell do you think we got into this trillion dollar deficit and an Iraq war with no end that bleeds $2 billion a week from the U.S treasury.  The only thing that should be restrained is your mouth, deficit boy.

Read that again $2 billion a week.  Imagine what we could do with that money?

Cost of Iraq war nearly $2b a week
A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to fix or replace equipment damaged in combat.

The upsurge occurs as the total cost of military operations at home and abroad since 2001, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will top half a trillion dollars, according to an internal assessment by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service completed last week.

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by: sonias @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 11:39:10 AM CST

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seems that the only way (0.00 / 0)

to keep a republican fiscally conscience is to keep him in the minority.

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by: citizenx @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 12:33:36 PM CST

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I'm personally an advocate (4.00 / 4)

of tying minimum wage to inflation. If we did that, there would be none of this "wage increases hurt small businesses" crap. After all, increases of 2 - 3% every year has nowhere near the supposed impact of a 40% increase every 10 years.

-6.63, -6.87

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by: The Pretzel @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 07:47:01 AM CST

or have it tied to Congressional pay raises (4.00 / 3)

the percentage increase being the same.

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by: citizenx @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 08:25:36 AM CST

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Shit, if they did that (4.00 / 1)

I'd be making less than your average burger flipper.

-6.63, -6.87

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by: The Pretzel @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 10:47:32 AM CST

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exactly the comment i was going to make (0.00 / 0)

have a 4.

Fudd's First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.
-8.25, -5.95

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by: annatopia @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 10:27:07 AM CST

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mr. 40% approval (4.00 / 1)

has the gall to stand up AGAINST american workers?


Fudd's First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.
-8.25, -5.95

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by: annatopia @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 10:27:39 AM CST

WTF? (4.00 / 3)

This sumbitch has got to go. He hates America (supports Iraq Quagmire), but what is worse, he hates Texas! Most people living here live paycheck to paycheck...and have no health insurance. This bastrad has the cajones to go on record basically saying "Fu*k Y'all". We can do better...a lot better.

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by: Texas Doc @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 11:04:56 AM CST

Spelling: Bastard (0.00 / 0)

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by: Texas Doc @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 11:05:52 AM CST

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I'm tired of Cornyn's excuse making for not voting for the minimum wage (4.00 / 4)

He and his allies may want to talk about procedures and "small businesses," but he needs to explain that to folks throughout our state who work these minimum wage jobs. Seems like Cornyn has no clue about many of his constituents, and we need to replace him with someone who does.
Ditto for Pete Sessions (CD-32) who voted against raising the minimum wage when it came to a vote in the House.

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by: alaprst @ Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 12:43:05 PM CST

Jeez (4.00 / 2)

Cornyn actually voted to ABOLISH the federal minimum wage. Strangely enough, Kay Bailey Fussysnatch didn't.

See here for complete list of GOP douches who want to destroy the working poor:
http://bobgeiger.blo...

-6.63, -6.87

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by: The Pretzel @ Fri Jan 26, 2007 at 09:50:06 AM CST