The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Feb. 21, 2013

by David Muto
February 21, 2013
34 Comments

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• Sen. John Cornyn leads push for Obama to drop Chuck Hagel’s Defense nomination (The Dallas Morning News): "Sen. John Cornyn, an early critic of Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, stepped up the pressure today, sending President Obama an open letter urging him to withdraw the nomination 'in the interest of national security.' Fourteen other GOP senators joined the letter, including fellow Texan Ted Cruz and his fellow tea partiers Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina."

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Comments (34)

February 21 @ 5:52 p.m.

Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I'm sure the President had a good chuckle before he appropriately filed this away.
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February 21 @ 5:55 p.m.

Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Sorry to use farm animal words, but these two senators are pieces of shit, cowards, cronies and embarrassing to both the law professions and the State of Texas.
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February 21 @ 5:55 p.m.

Mark Coomes via Texas Tribune on Facebook

ding dong one and ding dong two
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February 21 @ 5:57 p.m.

Mark Hayward via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I'm embarrassed by my senators. I miss Kay.
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February 21 @ 5:58 p.m.

Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I think they have delusions of being Col. Travis drawing whiskey-empowered lines in some nowhere sand in an 1830s Mexico with muskets in hand. They're f*&^ing ridiculous compared to a decorated war veteran like Chuck Hagel.
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February 21 @ 5:59 p.m.

Victoria Hammond via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Sad that these two continue to make the great state of Texas look foolish
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February 21 @ 6:09 p.m.

Cynthia Casper Robertson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Morons both of them. Vote their asses out of office next go-round. Cruz is already off to a riproaring start. NBC Dallas poll yesterday has his approval rating down to 48% and continuing on a downward spiral.
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February 21 @ 6:12 p.m.

Tom Berg via Texas Tribune on Facebook

WTF does Cruz know about military service and national security? He just got there. I've looked in vain for their military records but it appears neither served - Cornyn touts his father's military service in WWII on his Senate website. So their claim to respect combat duty is a backhanded way of despising it and diminishing the honor of those fools who put their asses on the line in blighted conflicts in hard places. Not a thimble of courage between the two of these sorry excuses.
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February 21 @ 6:18 p.m.

Judy Burns via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Are they trying to "out Perry" Perry? So embarrassing.
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February 21 @ 6:22 p.m.

Sunny Conditt Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Nit and wit what a pair stupid is as stupid does
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February 21 @ 6:27 p.m.

Joseph Lippert via Texas Tribune on Facebook

They should be the ones who resign.
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February 21 @ 6:36 p.m.

Becky Barnes Hopson via Texas Tribune on Facebook

An embarrassment to Texas. sigh
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February 21 @ 6:38 p.m.

Steven Kite

Redefining STUPID for the post-Republicult era.
February 21 @ 7:14 p.m.

Linda Sprowl

While your personal anxst against Chuck Hagel is noted, it compels lesser esteem and is further noted you are voting against a member of your own party based on personal grudges rather than stately more nobel reasons which are nonexistent.
February 21 @ 7:17 p.m.

Diana Vandiver via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Cornyn and Cruz, the dynamic due - NOT!!!
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February 21 @ 7:19 p.m.

Nancy Bryant via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Well said, Tom Berg.
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February 21 @ 7:20 p.m.

Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook

WHY do you say these men are an embarrassment & should resign?
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February 21 @ 7:21 p.m.

Bill Colburn via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Chicken hawks both.
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February 21 @ 7:21 p.m.

Blair Kellner via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Ridiculous!
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February 21 @ 7:29 p.m.

Mozelle Osborne via Texas Tribune on Facebook

They can't even trust their own side, what a pathetic. Bunch!
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February 21 @ 7:33 p.m.

Kraege Polan via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Cornyn can relax now that a new brain in Cruz can tell him how to vote. Disgusting to say the least
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February 21 @ 7:41 p.m.

Justin Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Both of them can go to hell.
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February 21 @ 7:46 p.m.

David Theis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Shame.
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February 21 @ 8:04 p.m.

Abril Davila via Texas Tribune on Facebook

butthole of the senate
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February 21 @ 8:21 p.m.

Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Of course the ones from Texas signed it. They are a embarrassment to our state and nation.
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February 21 @ 8:36 p.m.

Marina Lewis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-ted-kaufman/the-cruz-missile-gift-to_b_2715667.html
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February 21 @ 8:37 p.m.

Marina Lewis via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Someone PLEASE explain to me HOW it is these type of people represent our state? WHO votes for them? Too bad impeachment doesn't apply to senators...
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February 21 @ 8:53 p.m.

Paul Delaney via Texas Tribune on Facebook

These representatives of Tx are almost identical to the fervor adopted by the religious zealots of the Spanish Inquisition.The Europeans have it right when they call TX the ''Gulag State'' more to do with the mindset that is pervasive among the Political Class
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February 21 @ 9:22 p.m.

William Ardis

Please note the following, from John Cornyn’s own website (from a news release dated Feb. 7, 2008)

“These nominees have offered themselves for public service and deserve a simple up-or-down vote in the Senate. It is encouraging to see the President renewing his fight for their confirmation, and I hope our Senate colleagues will join in this effort.

“Far too many judicial and executive nominees have been delayed by the majority party of the Senate. An up-or-down vote is a matter of fundamental fairness, and it is the Senate’s constitutional duty to act on each nomination. It is also critically important to our judicial system and the proper functioning of our federal government to fill these positions.

“Senators have a right to vote for or against any nominee—but blocking votes on nominations is unacceptable.”

Hypocrisy, thy name is John Cornyn. Mr. Cornyn, please resign, we are tired of this childish behavior by you and your party.
February 21 @ 9:25 p.m.

Andres Madrid via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I hope they respectfully leave office... When TEXAS gets them out of office!
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February 21 @ 10:16 p.m.

Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Turds. All of them.
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February 21 @ 10:34 p.m.

Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook

A bunch of frigging Chicken Hawks pretending to know what's going on.
Cornyn and now Cruz have taken over the reins of being the wingnutz from Texas. So embarrassed by these wannabes.
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February 22 @ 12:11 a.m.

Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook

How on earth did these two idiots get elected to Congress? They believed a satire website regarding Hagel and tried to claim it was fact? ROTFLMAO When is Texas going to turn BLUE?
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February 22 @ 3:07 p.m.

Carolyn Mata via Texas Tribune on Facebook

They have a lot of gall. They are not president and it is not their right to choose his cabinet. They are an embarrassment.
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