Coming from the times it may mean nothing.
Posted on 06/11/2026 9:24:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Senator John Cornyn was not consoled when President Trump professed on social media that the senior Republican from Texas would “remain my friend for a long time to come” after the president had enthusiastically endorsed the man who defeated Mr. Cornyn, ending his Senate career.
“If that’s the way friends treat you, you wonder about his enemies,” Mr. Cornyn said this week in his first extensive interview since his loss two weeks ago to Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, an opponent Mr. Cornyn labeled corrupt and unfit for the Senate.
Mr. Cornyn said he had come to terms with his defeat, a stinging loss he attributed in part to public disillusionment with extreme partisan politics that led to low voter turnout. Now the Trump administration might find itself having to come to terms with Mr. Cornyn as he flexes new political freedom, joining a handful of other Senate Republicans not seeking re-election or defeated in primaries at Mr. Trump’s behest who now have added room to maneuver.
“I think it is going to be a pretty bumpy ride for the next seven months,” Mr. Cornyn said during a wide-ranging conversation in his Capitol office as he reflected on the tumultuous Texas election and his nearly quarter-century in Washington.
“It does give some of us a little more freedom, and certainly leverage,” he said, before invoking Mr. Trump’s notoriously heated Oval Office meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last year. “As the president told President Zelensky when he was in his office a year or so ago — he said, ‘You don’t have any cards.’ Well, we’ve got some cards to play.”
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I’d bet that a**holes 2 years are worse than Trumps.
Cornhole has always been a miserable human bean…
Hey Cornhole, all your buddies in the Senate had to was pass the SAVE America Act and Paxton would have dropped out. That says a lot about what they think of you.
After Republicans have won the midterms in November?
Trump will be just fine.
Can't say that about Cornyn though. He was always a miserable cuss.
Cornhole has long TDS.
His MO continues….
These scumbags think about themselves before 330 million citizens.
Cornyn was going to lose that primary no matter what, which is why Trump finally endorsed the other candidate before election day.
Term Limits !
Twelve years for both the House and the Senate.
Yes. Texans made up their minds. He’s been there too long
They spent 100 million trying to prop him up. Really dumb.
Of course Cornyn knows all about corrupt. I’ll never forget how he voted for a wall in 2007…and then within days he voted not to fund it. He’s particularly odious in my book.
At least that RINO is still looking out for Texans and not his own childish grudge.
[Term Limits !
Twelve years for both the House and the Senate.]
Besides, the real problem is the 2.6m strong Federal civil service, which sends 90% of its political cash to Democrats. Time to decertify Federal employee unions. Fortunately, Trump is working on that, one outpost at a time. But tenure limits on Federal employees might be a good thing. 12 year limits, after which they are forcibly returned to the private sector, because unlike Congress, we don’t get to vote for increasingly uncivil Federal employees.
He can have his little temper tantrum for the next 6 months. After that, he’s done.
Cornholio is finally revealing his true self and the mask is off. RINO is on full display like some of us have known for years and / or decades
Meanwhile Trump Sets New World Record By Winning War With Iran 203 Times In One Year.....
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cornhole is passing info to the dems behind our backs.
He called Scott Presler a grifter today on X.
He is such jerk. So glad he’s done.
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