John Cornyn pledges to use Senate leadership post to showcase Texas as ‘model for the

[George Gervin's Afro]

“It gives me a seat at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made in Washington for Texas and the nation,” he said, adding that he’ll use the post both to help Texas and to showcase the state’s economic vibrancy. “Texas is to me the model for the rest of the country.”

Cornyn predicts that he and the new Texas senator, Ted Cruz, will work side by side both to limit overall spending and to get Texas as much as possible from whatever is spent.

“We’re going to fight for Texas to get its fair share,” he said.



http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/john-cornyn-pledges-to-use-senate-leadership-post-to-showcase-texas-as-model-for-the-rest-of-the-country.html/


Good luck with that Jon..

[DarrinS]

And?

[boutons_deux]

"the state’s economic vibrancy"

TX ain't nothing but a commodity (carbon extractor) producer, same as Louisiana. Both would be poor as shit like AL and MS without oil and gas.

[TeyshaBlue]

Cotton and Cattle say hi!

[coyotes_geek]

"the state’s economic vibrancy"

TX ain't nothing but a commodity (carbon extractor) producer, same as Louisiana. Both would be poor as shit like AL and MS without oil and gas.




And California would be poor as shit without agriculture, tourism or tech...........and New York would be poor as shit without the financial sector.............and so on and so forth.......

[TeyshaBlue]

:lol

[coyotes_geek]

In an equally fascinating phenomenon, most good sports teams would suck without their best players..............

[boutons_deux]

And California would be poor as shit without agriculture, tourism or tech...........and New York would be poor as shit without the financial sector.............and so on and so forth.......

CA agriculture would not sell if the farmers had to pay municipal water rates for water taken from the rivers.

[coyotes_geek]

Ok. Your point?

[DarrinS]

CA agriculture would not sell if the farmers had to pay municipal water rates for water taken from the rivers.


Delta smelt

[ChumpDumper]

So our senators are going to promote unnecessary corporate welfare in the federal government.

They could have an F1 track in the mall.

[boutons_deux]

cut school funds by $5B, kill planned parenthood, cause +20K+ more abortions/year, $Bs in tax expenditures for impoversished oil, gas, wealth corps. yeah, Repug misgovernance at its best.