Texas Senator a Liar

John Cornyn Lies and Evades Questions on PBS

by Max
Cornyn sat down with Judy Woodruff and once again a major media question reader allows talking points over the answering of questions. Woodruff asked a perfectly legitimate question about why the Medicare/Medicaid recipient is being asked to a haircut and "share in the sacrifice" but the rich folks are not expected to accept a tax increase. Cornyn immediately launched into a talking point.

SEN. JOHN CORNYN: Well I think -- what I think my constituents in Texas want is work. They want jobs. And they're not being created now across the country.

And we know that people who don't have a job, they can't pay their home mortgage and they're losing their home. So, what we need now more than anything else in this country is jobs.

Why didn't Woodruff stop him, and say are you going to answer my question or something like, "We can just move on if you do not want to answer the questions." What about asking as a quick follow up where were the jobs over the last 10 years after the huge Bush tax cut? Senator didn't we lose millions of jobs during that time? Isn't your economic theory here a failure that has never worked?

Other whoppers from Cornyn's spin show from tonight that went unchallenged:

• The message he got from November 2010 was that people want government cut instead of people are angry with government because elected officials sat back and did nothing while the economy went in the crapper.
  
• Less regulation of an oil industry that is right now poisoning a river in Montana and still taking houses away from men serving in the US military is Cornyn's plan.
  
• Big businesses have learned how to lay people off and automate so that they do not need workers.
• The reason that big business is sitting on piles of cash is because they are uncertain about regulations and healthcare. These titans of industry, masters of the universe, are afraid of Barack Obama?
  
• He is proposing that we need to reduce entitlements and get government out of the way so that the private sector can take over. How does reducing government not result in getting rid of government jobs? Reducing medicare reduces medicare workers and thus reduces the number of jobs.
• Cornyn believes that this is not the time to raise taxes, but he and his friends have taken the no tax increase pledge for the last 25 years. When is the proper time over the last 12 years to have raised taxes? When we invaded two countries? When we added prescription drugs for seniors? When we put the federal government in charge of education with No Child Left Behind? Nope, the correct answer is NEVER EVER EVER RAISE TAXES!!!
• Cornyn said that it is going to take 60 votes to raise the debt ceiling. Why? If the right wing party leadership told their members that there will be no filibuster threat on this vote it would only take 51 votes.
  

If it were true that the mainstream media was biased, Woodruff would have teed off on Cornyn. He was serving up crap, and she could have ripped him apart. She decided to treat him with respect when he treated her with contempt by not answering her questions. He is undermining the future of the country by threatening to default on our debts, and Judy Woodruff did not treat him like the treasonous leader he is. The media is too nice to these guys preferring balance over honesty and reason.

NPR: I was quiet when they came...

NPR Asks for Listener Lobbying Help
by Max Johnson

The attack on funding for NPR (formerly National Public Radio which now stands for nothing) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is heating up with the Private Enterprise Party known as the GOP zeroing out CPB funding for this budget year. They have hastily created a website to battle against these cuts. This is a little late. I never heard these guys pay feature commentators to speak out when the right wing savaged other interest groups.

• The Republicans came for the "welfare queens" and NPR stayed quiet because they did not want to associate with the poor.
• They came for Public Housing but again NPR stayed quiet because no one on radio lived in public housing.
• The Republicans attacked environmentalists and those opposed to war and our reporters remained quiet because it is not our place to "take sides."
• The Republicans with the support of centrist Democrats demonized government, and we stayed silent because we were not government and only received money from the government.
• They attacked home owners who they blamed for getting involved with subprime lenders and bringing down our economy, and NPR was silent.
• The Republicans came for public employees and members of unions but I did not say anything because I feared my own employees unionizing.
• Then they came for NPR's funding and there was no one left to speak out. All of our potential allies had been devastated or were facing financial distress.

There has never been a strong voices ever on NPR speaking on behalf the 170 million listeners. They never countered the attack on government services during the Clinton administration. NPR could have employed strong commentators to correct inaccuracies regarding the federal deficit and the reckless spending of the George W Bush administration. They could have had daily commentaries about the rush to war. They could have corrected the record on a weekly basis on global warming and not allowing the fringe equal time as the mainstream scientist. They have done a poor job in calling balls and strikes in public discourse for fear of angering the extremes in our society. NPR stands in the middle of the road, and now wonder why they are getting run over by the right. Now, they are on the chopping block and they are asking for our help.

Sorry, CPB and NPR there are bigger issues to worry about including the Corporation for National Service, Public Housing, Job training programs, and access to health care. We don't have time to fight for your budget.