Wonkette
These days you can tell which Republicans would like to keep their jobs as elected officials and which ones just want to make a living bleating on the talk radio by how they have reacted to the Sotomayor nomination. With no irritating constituents to answer to,Tom Tancredo, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh have all gone Full Crazy, while people like Texas Senator John Cornyn have demonstrated a troubling lack of zeal by not shouting RACIST LA RAZA ABORTIONIST LESBIAN for the past 72 hours.
Here’s what Cornyn had to say the other day about Limbaugh and company:
“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered” Thursday. “This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”
Why, it’s as if he represents a state with a large Hispanic population! Sellout.
Top Republican calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments ‘terrible’ [Political Ticker]
When a Texan who advertises himself as “Big John” is the most reasonable person in your party, it’s really past time to reconsider some of your institutional positions.
Memo to base: when you’ve embarrassed Senator Guy Whitey Corngood, you’ve gone too far.
RUSH DEMANDS AN APOLOGY FOR THE LACK OF NAME-CALLING!
Cornyn is the senator from the state of Mexico?
I bet he doesn’t even pronounce her name “SOH-tah-my-yer.”
I heard him speak on NPR yesterday, and he almost seemed to be a reasonable human being. Easy to hide nutterness on the radio though.
NOBBAMA WHAT DO WE REALLY NO ABOUT HIM CRONYN CAN GO LINE UP FOR LIGHT CONTRACTING WORK WHEN RUSH IS DONE WITH HIM CRONYN THE BARBARIAN MUST STOP HOLYWOOD HOBNOBBING WITH SELMA HAYEK LESBIAN LA RAZA (IT MEANS THE RAT) PROSTITUTES AND STEP UP LIKE A WHITE MAN HE IS UNWORTHY OF CHRIST FATSOMAYOR IS FILTHY AND UNCLEAN AND IS AN INTOLERANT RACIALLY INSENSITIVE BEANER BITCH WE DONT NEED HER BRINGING THE MARIACHI MUSIC INTO GODS TEMPLE OF THE SCOTUS THER IS A REASON FOR THOSE GIANT PILLARS ON THAT BUILDING AND IT DOESNT HAVE TO DO WITH A WOMANS TIME OF THE MONTH.
Shorter John Cornyn of Texas, home to one of the country’s fastest growing Latino populations:
“Fuck! Shutupshutupshutupshutuptheycanhearyoushutup! Fuck.”
Chad San Marino: “Big John” = “Little Peter” is how I read it.
He sounds almost human right now because his messican constituency scares the guacamole out of him.
“GODS TEMPLE OF THE SCOTUS”?
Is that “God’s temple” or “Gods’ temple”? Either way, the deity or deities in question really needs a decorating update.
Poor Senator Cornhole. Having to say reasonable things on the NPR for fear of the Missican voters. If it’s any consolation Bubba probs will not hear him saying those reasonable things unless the vicodine & viagra addled (yet porcine)Rush Limpy replays the NPR interview on his show.
John Cornwyn plans to advise and consent?!?
He is clearly a French surrender monkey. He should abstain from bathing for a month while using the bidet fastidiously.
Congrats to the Senator for successfully feigning rationality but I have a question about all this Sotomayor coverage. Why are we talking about this and not North Korea? Why are Fox and the Republicans not beating the drum for a war with North Korea? Is it because with our ally South Korea poised to handle the ground assault there simply isn’t enough potential military contract money on the table for the Cheneyites and KBR to be interested? What is the deal?
Looks like Rush will be having him a Big John burger for lunch today. But yeah, lots of brown-skinned folks here–I’m sure a majority of them take care of his lawn, pool & wife, so he doesn’t want to piss them off!
We all knew Big John wasn’t a true nutter, I mean, GOPer. He put harsh reality before irrational hatred of the Messican Brown Folks.
Why can’t this country get back to its roots, and just hate on her and the other five mick, hunky, wop and wannabe papists for being Catholic? Our forefathers didn’t riot and throw stones from the Washington Monument into the Potomac just so the beadstringers could take this country over. READ THE CONSTITUTION, SHEEPLE!!1!
15 more years and Texas will be Mexican enough to vote Democrat in Presidential elections, y’all!
Crab1:
Ole!
Wait a minute…NPR is FM, right? Would a REAL repubican EVER listen to FM? Do they even know they can tune into FM while driving (breathing)?
According to Michael Steele, people need to stop “slammin’ and rammin’” Sotomayor. Yes, he said that.
Madame Noonington has awoken from her Percocet/martini daze to educate all of us plebs about this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124354585930464037.html
The nicest thing I can say about Big Corngood is that we both attended a judge’s birthday party some years ago when he was still TX AG and he does actually merit the sophmoric nickname. He is about 6′6″ tall and has a huge melon. Unfotunately he is also a dumb & a coward.
Paterlanger: Even the wingnuts know that we can’t go to war with North Korea, because:
1. They have a half-million troops dug in along the DMZ with thousands of pieces of artillery zeroed on Seoul. Our air power would have a lot less effect on all those fortifications than it has in open, sandy places. Fighting them would kill tens of thousands of potential South Korean customers, er, people, and gain nothing, because…
2. They don’t have any oil, or any other resources to speak of, and the only people with any interest in their territory is the South Koreans (because their cousins live there).
3. It’s China’s problem more than ours; let them deal with it.
4. Nobody with any pull has listened to Cheney since about 2005. As David Brooks pointed out the other day, Cheney’s beef is not so much with Obama’s Iraq policy (which is basically a continuation of the post-surge Bush policy) as it is with the people IN the Bush administration who won the argument against Cheney 3-4 years ago. If Cheney had had his way, we’d be occupying Iran and Syria by now.
Those are the reasonable arguments. The main reason the wingnuts aren’t going on and on about it is because no one has given them the talking points yet. Stand by for Obama’s Korea policy to be described as “feckless” and “delusional,” as soon as he gets around to stating one.
On the other hand, Orrin Hatch was suspiciously gracious and even-handed about ol’ Maria on NPR this morning, before dropping “well, SENATOR Obama said Alito and Roberts were qualified but voted against them anyway, so I CAN’T BLAME Republicans if they try to torpedo her… even though that’s not what I WOULD DO. *wink wink*” And yes, you could hear the winks through the radio.
Chad San Marino:
Sei davvero da San Marino? Anche.
Who will win? Fox news vs. Sonia Sotomayor:
http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/05/fox-news-vs-sonia-sotomayor.html
Paterlanger: Seoul is within artillery range of the North Korea. The North Korean Army has plenty of poison gas shells for their cannons. A war might cause 1,000,000+ S. Korean civilian dead. I doubt the S. Koreans are very interested in fighting.
Lazy Media: You got there first and in more detail. I must hate you now.
Lazy Media:
5. The U.S. military is up to its kiester in the middle east and couldn’t fight another ground war without conscription.
And “Big” John Bolton is way ahead of you http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/is-john-bolton-right-abou_b_208805.html
Lazy Media: Who in hell would Cheney occupy Iran & Syria with? I thought we were almost out of soldiers, necessitating the evil stop-loss and ungodly numbers of tours of Iraq and obscenely short breaks between tours. That fucking chickenhawk deserves to have his balls removed by the rather imprecise method called stomping. And I’d personally like to wipe that permanent smirk off his stroked-out face with a blunt instrument, only I’m kind of a pussy & blood makes me queasy.
No one has mentioned famine. The only edible food in all of Texas is Mexican — even Billy Gibbons has admitted that, and he is so above reproach that he is beyond personal hygiene and can play boogie music on a furry guitar. Sen. Cornpone had to chose his vitriol carefully, or the Mexican restaurants could boycott and millions of Texans could waste away and die; Dallas would become Darfur and San Antonio would have to change its name to Sri Lanka, Y’all.
Cornyn was on NPR?
French Fag.
Also.
Even better moment on NPR was when Melissa Block parried Cornyn’s “trouble” with Sotameyer’s playing the “identity politics” card by noting that Scalia did the exact. same. thing. during his confirmation hearings. Cornyn was audibly flustered and stammered, “I did not know that. I’ll have to go back and review it,” allowing Mlle. Block to win the afternoon.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Sotomayor, you idiot.
Cornyn held a press conference wearing a large decorative sombereo, with a Mariachi band playing La Cucuracha in the background, while holding a Chimichanga, and a plate full of tamales, rice & beans. Vendors selling Chicalets gum & velvet Elvis paintings lined the border, where he spoke.
Gawd bless Amerikkka!
queeraselvis v 2.0: Alito, but same diffrence. Scalito. (you idiot)
hobospacejunkie: Well, according to Cheney, we didn’t need occupation troops, just enough to defeat the Iranian and Syrian army (which would be pretty easy, considering our air power advantage). The flower-flinging locals would take care of the occupation.
You could tell the Cheney faction was trying to drum up support for fighting Iran in 2006, when I was in Baghdad. The only thing they could come up with was the claim (undercut by discovery of factories in Iraq) that Iran was supplying the Mahdi Army with all their higher-tech IEDs, and the more laughable notion that Iran was allying with al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Fortunately, nobody went for it, least of all the joint chiefs.
OK, I read it. Lady Nooninghattan is actually not so batty today - that might get my vote for most lucid and rational column of the year from her. Just sayin’
Man, I so want to join the Mexican KKK. I got brown sheets and everything! Who’s bringing the tamales to next week’s meeting? And you just know that there will be mariachis. Viva El Rey! Aaaaaaahahahahaha!
queeraselvis v 2.0: NPR cannot win, because they are playing a different (better) game than everyone else.
Texan Bulldoggette: Peggington’s not as crazy as usual. I can excuse that she somehow thinks republicans are grown-ups, what with the drugs clouding her perception and all. But why does nobody know what empathy is? It’s not that complicated fer crissakes.
SKS Photo win. Cornyn will soon be destroyed. Also.
ManchuCandidate: Has anybody here considered that Big John actually likes Messicans? Most people I know from Tejas actually do. They all have Messican in-laws, 2nd cousins, co-workers, or servants of which they are quite fond.
And the music, and especially the food … what’s not to like? It’s not like they’re Nigras or something.
See, this is what I mean by the Big Tent. As RNC Chairpizzle, I am broadening the base, politician by politician. You’ll observe that all of the sudden, I got Hume Cronyn to talk nice about our little brown brothers. Heck, a year ago he was in one of those festive border hunting parties, shooting pendejos in the back as they fled border guards and Texas Patriots.
But my new offensive, designed to win a Messican majority in the next election, is working. I am committed to stopping the erosion of Hispanic support, known in the Party as the “Bean Dip”.
Now that I have fixed this, stay tuned. I will be posting about efforts to win back the negro vote soon.
Lazy Media: Don’t forget the sweets. Wolfowitz promised the Iraqis would be winging Fannie Farmer boxes at our forces when they triumphantly marched down Saddam Hussein Boulevard.
What do you suppose went wrong? Oh, that’s right: Rumsfeld wouldn’t allow any occupation planning. Oh well….
Freepers regularly denounce Perry and Cornyn as RINOs.
Yes, this name calling has got to stop. The Republican Party in no way endorses the branding of Ms. SodaMajor by Fox News as a M.E.L.F. (Mexican Empathetic Lesbian Fistfucker). This shizzle has got to stop.
On your knees, Cornyn, and kiss Limbaughs ass-cysts!
Texan Bulldoggette: Hmmmm. Aside from a couple of real twatwaffle comments about Robert Bork and playing dress up in her childhood, it seems like Dame Peggy was typing sober this week.
I’m so bo-o-o-red with the Mexican K-K-K
He knows that when Rick Perry secedes Texas, Obama will give Mexico enough F-22s and to reconquer its lost half. He’s scared. And Puerto Rico will then become the new 50th state when SS rules that statehood can be granted to Carribean territories by executive order.
queeraselvis v 2.0: I was glad to hear that yesterday too. The ‘pub blowhards really can’t deal with conflicting facts when they are presented immediately after they’ve spouted a fallacious talking-point. If more journos did this then the tea-bagging types wouldn’t be safe giving interviews anywhere but Faux.
Lazy Media: Thanks for the rational response. But rationality has rarely curbed our national taste for war-making in the past. So why is this situation not appetizing? Is it possible that the Hawks and Chickenhawks alike in the Republican party do asses such things rationally, at least to the extent that they can determine if a military conflict is politically useful? I’m just wondering what it tells us about the obviously more bellicose of the two parties that they seem to be so choosy about their casus belli.
Mike Steele: “Bean dip”- Hi-fucking-larious!
HandsomePete: Why wasn’t Steele such a laughfest when he was our awful lt. gov here in MD?
hockeymom: I’m looking forward to reading his interview with Pravda.
norbizness: Win. It still to this day cracks me up to think of Jay Johnston getting out of that limo.
Paterlanger: You could make the argument that Kim Jong Il is just ronery and the test blasts are a desperate attempt to have somebody pay attention to him. Building nuclear weapons and threatening people are a surefire way to get people to stop sanctions against your country and have people throw money at you. Therefore, maybe one of the best options on how to handle Kim Jong Il is to just ignore him. We should have done the same with Sadam but, well, we all know how that went
Are we sure Senora Noonington wrote her own column today? She sounded so…reasonable. Nay, near adult-like, not a condition one sees amongst Republicans very often these days.
Christ, what’s next? Rivers flowing backwards? Dogs and cats making sweet sweet love in shimmering fields of daisies? The Rapture?
At least Michael Steele never lets me down, as evidenced by his call for everyone to stop “slammin’ and rammin’” the new SCOTUS nominee. Thanks, Mike! Now if I can just get Snowbilly’s opinion my day will be worth staying awake for.
Senator Cornyn had other jobs before becoming a Republican Senator. Namely, he was attorney general and a state supreme court justice in Texas. Ergo, (that’s fancy lawyer talk) he would be more squeamish about seeing a respected member of the bench called these kinds of names, even if it is a woman.
I think that he wanted desperately to be on the short-list for the Court himself back when the Shrub was in power. That, and he’s more of a “kill you quietly, behind the scenes” kind of guy.
hispanic is not the prefered nomenclature, dude.
- pc police
Texan Bulldoggette: I do notice that Dame Peggy does touch on the whole pig ears and beans thing:
… she’s like a beautiful doll containing a canister of poison gas.
x111e7thst: Pussies. I’m not saying we (I mean, they) wouldn’t get their hair mussed, also.
Mahousu: Pegs is trying to appear reasonable, but it’s a Trojan horse. Grown-ups, indeed.
sanantonerose: I’ll bring a plethora of gifts!