The Ed Morrissey Show: Senator John Cornyn, Monica Showalter
posted at 1:30 pm on April 8, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we welcome two great guests. First, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) will discuss the report of General David Petraeus today to the Senate Armed Services Committee, and also earmark reform and the upcoming presidential election. In the second half, Monica Showalter of IBD explains the issues surrounding the Colombian free-trade pact and the general strategic situation in Colombia. Don’t miss this show!
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Ed,
John is a fairly good Senator from my state of TX. Could you ask him how the illegal thing is coming along? He is one of a precious few who seem to care about this important issue.
Thanks,
L
letget on April 8, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Sen. Cornyn is a great Senator from TX!
RushBaby on April 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM
the GREAT STATE of TEXAS!
;-)
Texas Gal on April 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Careful! Your nationalism is showing!
RushBaby on April 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Next governor?
Ropera on April 8, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully – and not our other senator…..
Think_b4_speaking on April 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM
John would be better as a TX governor than Kay. I would vote for him.
L
letget on April 8, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Are you calling me transparent? :)
No we need to keep John in the Senate for a while more, he’s got plenty of time to be Governor. Kay would make an excellent Governor. Actually there’s not a sliver of difference between the two of them.
Texas Gal on April 8, 2008 at 2:46 PM
I’d rather have Kay as Governor and leave John where he is. Remember that the governor of Texas doesn’t have a whole lot of power, just a loud bully pulpit. Kay would be fine there. John is doing good work for us in DC.
TX Mom on April 8, 2008 at 2:49 PM
That’s right. The Lt. Gov. actually has the power, and David Dewhurst is fantastic. Texas has been well managed, spared most of the mortgage crisis, and has passed huge tax cuts.
I hate that Hutchison voted against border security.
RushBaby on April 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM
PLEASE put Cornyn’s feet to the fire regarding his support importing skilled workers into America on visas in order to keep wages low and raise citizens’ unemployment, destabilizing American citizens’ families while padding the disproportionate income of large business owners. Also, not securing our border and allowing illegal aliens to work and buy homes and not be prosecuted for their criminal acts destabilizes our communities.
maverick muse on April 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Having been our Attorney General, what has Cornyn to say about the legal logistics concerning the current upheaval in Eldorado?
maverick muse on April 8, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Actually, he’s not so great on immigration at all. He talks a good game, but here’s the real story on Cornyn and illegal aliens. Don’t be fooled by this secure borders fraud.
Debbie Schlussel on April 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I don’t see no real story there but I do see a lot of gossip and false accusations.
I’ve been through this over and over here at HA so let me just say that I investigated the false accusation against Kay and once I got the facts, I agreed with her.
Texas Gal on April 8, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Um, the fact that your Senator has pressured ICE not to raid and arrest illegal aliens working for Texas-based Pilgrims Pride and traded his support for Julie Myers in exchange for her agreeing not to go ahead with a major raid on the company is, indeed, a real story. It’s not gossip nor “false accusations” no matter how much you wish to make people believe otherwise. Sorry. Facts are stubborn things.
Debbie Schlussel on April 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Cool. Sorry I have missed your posts on the subject. I would have liked to have followed them.
RushBaby on April 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM
RE: Eldorado
The 6 page McFadden affidavit dated April 6th, 2008, was filed in court, and was provided to The Smoking Gun (TSG) by the San Angelo Standard-Times. FINALLY we can read from the government rather than gather from the MSM the record prompting this awful situation. The horrors of polygamy and SPECIFICALLY the original spiritual wivery practice of the original Mormon church, thrives today because of the Mormon male chauvenist patriarchy in full splendor of abomination. Mormon Spiritual Wivery never enforced the bonds and obligations of marriage upon the man who seduced the female by his priesthood authority over them. And once the US Government cracked down on 19th Century Mormon polygamists, after so many years of “persecution” they threw up their hands and came up with the Manifesto that originally proclaimed that the Divine Revelation and Practice of Polygamy would be REINSTATED upon the second coming of Christ, when God’s law would completely rule the earth according to Joseph Smith who would be in charge at the right hand of Jesus, his “elder brother”. Polygamy continued for two more generations as the church membership and authorities turned a blind eye until someone’s plural marriage became public, then excommunication! But so long as no records were kept, there were those devoted to the Mormon law of Celestial Marriage who resided in Southern Utah’s standard/modern LDS Church, the grandparents of “modern” 50-year-old Mormons around St. George, Cedar City, Orderville, Springville, Spanish Fork, etc. By neglecting to record temple ceremonies performed for plural marriage after the Manifesto, the temple authorities covered their own ass as well as dilluting historical records of the practice that was in fact continued, but denied vehemently by the obtuse young LDS.
No one in Texas has openly complained about the FLDS economic drain on taxes for welfare fraud, as the FLDS practice fraud in their Northern AZ homesteads. It would be interesting to know whether the FLDS in Eldorado were really self sufficient as their motto proclaimed, in order to be prepared for the Second Coming, for their Zion to be taken into the bosom of Jesus and made into a Celestial Kingdom as of molten glass. Eventually the men need to be arrested following genetic screening to provide grounds for prosecution. Meanwhile, if the women are not to be placed totally in the welfare or judicial system, with the men removed, at least allow the women to return home to take care of their business.
The local news announced the organization of charitable donations to facilitate the well being of these 416 children. I noted in the affidavit the possibility that some will be sent to facilities out of state. God be with them, the young to know that they are loved, the youth to learn truth and honorable responsibility. What a shame, so many babies made specifically for the purpose of exercizing power over more people. The babies are innocent and have full potential of becoming wonderful people, needing help to understand no fault for existing is on their heads.
Concerning the FLDS, Texas has accomplished a far safer invasion than those previously attempted in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Although generally a child at least knows who his mother is, in that society, mothers are stripped of their children as punishment. There are going to be mothers, also, who completely resent their situation and take it out on the babies. So sometimes a kinder mother will give another’s child the love needed. Of course, they teach their children to never trust the outside world and to never change. That it is proving so difficult to get their geneology is no surprise. But genetic testing will provide reliable court evidence.
maverick muse on April 9, 2008 at 8:57 AM
He’s another fence sitter on the Ramos Compean issue as well, and it took a slap down by his constituents to get him to even look into it, and shift his position on immigration. I voted for his opponent in the Primary.
RINO_Hunter on April 9, 2008 at 10:16 AM
I deal with facts in my job everyday and they are supported by something called evidence which I don’t see in your stories.
LOL.. a shift from what position? Cornyn always held the position of border security and no ‘amnesty’. He even authored a proposed immigration reform program. He and Kay both publicly stated they did not support Bush’s proposal nor the Kennedy/McCain Bill.
Texas Gal on April 9, 2008 at 10:41 AM
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