Sen. John Cornyn To Oppose Auto Industry “No Strings Bailout” Sought By Democratic Leaders

U.S. Senator John Cornyn official website ^ | November 14, 2008 | Staff

[flattorney]

11.16.08 Senate Democrats intend to introduce legislation Monday attaching an auto bailout to a House-passed bill extending unemployment benefits; a vote was expected as early as Wednesday. A number of Republicans vowing to derail the $25-billion-dollar bailout bid. Majority Democrats will need at least a dozen GOP votes in the Senate to prevent opponents from blocking their measure — assuming all Senate Democrats support it. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky questioned whether there was sufficient Democratic support for an auto bailout in a statement released Sunday.

Senator Cornyn was instrumental, with others, in assisting Pete Olson to recently beat democrat Nick “SoroBoy” Lampson to regain Republican control over Tom DeLay’s previous HR TX-22 seat. See related FR threads

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[Tempest]

Screw that I want a stake in the company.

[silverleaf]

Republicans can now resist this crap

Havning suffered a sound thrashing by the American electorate, the GOP should feel rather free from playing suck up, reach-across-the-aisle games with the democrats and “moderates” right now

[biff]

Now, if ole John C. would just come around on the border blunder.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Good point! They might as well raise some hell.

[musicbymuzak]

Agreed. I’m very glad I hit the “straight republican” button....

[musicman]

"Sen. John Cornyn To Oppose Auto Industry “No Strings Bailout” Sought By Democratic Leaders"

[shield]

Good. First time I voted for Cornyn, I had to hold my nose. He proved himself these 6 years and I gladly voted for him this time.

Yes, the Senator did help Olson kick Nicky's azz out of the House. That conservative District 22 finally got someone to represent them, properly.

[theymakemesick]

Cornyn voted “yes” to approve the first bailout vote and also voted for illegal alien amnesty. He’s a RINO of the first order.

[Redbob]

John Cornyn is once again showing his mettle.

[Pantera]

I thought Cornyn voted against amnesty? Kay Bailey voted for it, or do I have it mixed up.

[okie01]

Cornyn voted “yes” to approve the first bailout vote and also voted for illegal alien amnesty. He’s a RINO of the first order.

If you review the record, I believe you will find that Cornyn has been a consistent opponent of amnesty -- even blowing the whistle when a stealth amnesty attempt was working its way through committee.

[B Knotts]

I want them to get rid of the CAFE rules which are harming these companies.

[April Lexington]

NO MORE MODERATES!!!

[CutePuppy]

It’s money down the UAW drain. US auto companies should declare bankruptcy, restructure without unions and onerous pension plans under Chapter 11 reorganization plan, and move most of their plants to South, where other (”foreign”) auto manufacturers strive. Without much debt (exchanged for equity under reorganization) and the union yoke, they can become just as successful in the future.

That would save US auto industry, will eventually employ more people in automobile supply chain industries, and would do a wonderful service to 2010 Census. Let the parasitic governments of Detroit and Michigan go bankrupt, after they can no longer bleed their industries and American consumers and taxpayers.

The focus on “greedy CEOs” in gnereal, while some of them may deserve it, is a red herring and is most often misplaced when the industries suffer from federal and state governments’ onerous mandates, taxes and regulations which make them financially uncompetitive.

And the unions, their willing accomplices and fundraisers, are a huge part of the problem - why feed them another $25B of taxpayers maoney? Who is going to point out the real mismanagement, by the government(s) and unions as the primary cause of troubled industries, such as was done last year here?
“Gingrich calls Detroit a disaster, draws ire” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874336/posts

[theymakemesick]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN01387:@@@L&summ2=m&

S.1387 Title: A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the establishment of guest worker programs, to provide for the adjustment of status of certain aliens unlawfully present in the United States to the status of a non-immigrant guest worker, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Cornyn, John [TX] (introduced 7/10/2003)

[HighlyOpinionated]

You can find Sen. Cornyn’s email form at http://www.usa.gov

[MeanFreePath]

I thought Cornyn was the one who famously had John McCain drop the F-bomb on him because he opposed McCain’s amnesty plan. Do I have my facts wrong?

[boxlunch]

I’m glad to see he voted against this one. I wrote a heated letter to him after his first bailout vote!

Here’s his immigration record
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TX&VIPID=1081

His immigration/amnesty record is a mixed bag. I would say he has voted against amnesty more often than for it (there have been a lot of different bills put out there, I didnt’ realize how many!), but he has definitely not been 100% strong on amnesty issues.