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Cornyn: Uses the children he turned his back on for a photo op!
You know you have become jaded when despicable political acts are no longer cause for surprise. I may not be surprised, but I feel compelled, even though a week has passed, to hold Texas Senator John Cornyn accountable for his despicable act.
Yes, he has once again used a photo opportunity at Ripley House that serves the very children he turned his back on when he voted against expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) intended to reach thousands more uninsured children like them.
He hopes we will believe his rhetoric that he is not opposed to providing Children's Health Insurance to poor children and that the reason so many remain uninsured is the fault of their uninformed parents who don't know they qualify for benefits.
What he doesn't tell us is that if all 700,000 who are eligible in the State of Texas did sign up, the funds will not be there to help them because he voted against the expanded funding that was intended to reach them.
He would have us believe that his objection was only because the proposed legislation would also cover some adults and some moderate income households. It was convenient to point to a household with an income of $80,000 in New York as an example. Even if you could morally justify health insurance for one child and not the next whose family income is not of his doing, Senator Cornyn might be reminded that the cost of living in New York is not the same as in his home state of Texas!
But Cornyn seems more interested in being an instrument that the President uses like he does his veto pen. Afterall, Bush and Cheney are still the two best Republican fundraisers in Texas and he's already cashing in.
Like a dutiful follower of the neocon mentality, Senator Cornyn objects to most any public assistance programs because his ideology is not based upon the principles of democracy, but rather principles of capitalism in which the free market regulates the economy and good neighbors take care of each other, not the government.
Pssst, Senator Cornyn.....that's the system we now have that created all the uninsured children! You are embarrassing yourself again! Maybe you should just hang up your hat and come on back to Texas where you could offer to be that good neighbor to each and every one of the 700,000 children who apparently need one to look after them.
