I wouldn’t say Cornyn “balked”
Sen Steny Hoyer fer sure didn't like it.
Perry fires back at Hoyer over Tea Party remark
[snip] .....“Rick Perry? I have heard that name, yes. Oh, he is the one that has three -- yes, I can't remember what they are.”
Hoyer then dismissed Perry’s government-reduction idea.
“This is a serious proposal he is making for a country that has very high unemployment, whose budget deficit is larger than it's ever been in history, would have two wars that we're confronting and trying to bring to conclusion,” Hoyer said.
“If this is what he thinks is pandering to the Tea Party, it is not, in my opinion, speaking to the issues that the American public feels are very, very critical to them, jobs being the number one issue. So I don't think it's a very serious effort on his part.” [end]