{"id":4189,"date":"2013-12-11T03:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2013-12-11T03:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T03:35:01","slug":"cornyn-vs-um-stockman-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4189","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn vs. um, Stockman? Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Politico reports that several key Republican U.S. senators will face tea party challengers this coming year, and that John Cornyn of Texas is the latest to draw a challenge from the far right wing of his party.<\/p>\n

I heard about this possibility on Monday and almost cannot believe what has transpired.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman of Friendswood (near Houston) has announced he won’t run for a second term in the House of Representatives and instead will run for Cornyn’s Senate seat.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/tea-party-gop-senators-100988.html?hp=t1_3<\/p>\n

Utterly … amazing.<\/p>\n

Stockman has joined the roster of ridiculousness among Texas members of Congress since his return to the House after the 2012 election. He’s done almost everything possible to make himself a non-serious legislator. He’s yapped about impeaching the president over unspecified “high crimes and misdemeanors.” His campaign staff has gotten itself into a jam over allegedly misspending campaign money. <\/p>\n

I should note that Stockman served a single term in the House from 1995 to 1997 before he was defeated for re-election. He had knocked off the late House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks, the crusty Democrat from Beaumont — who, by the way, used to be my<\/em> congressman when I lived and worked in the Ninth Congressional District. <\/p>\n

I won’t say Stockman is an idiot. He just made idiotic statements.<\/p>\n

Senior Republicans are finding themselves engaged in this intraparty struggle against insurgent who believe the louder they complain the more points they score. <\/p>\n

Stockman says Cornyn didn’t fight hard enough to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Stockman’s conservatism is taking on a ferociousness that makes Cornyn look reasonable and measured … even though Cornyn’s job as the No. 2 man in the Senate is to knock off Democrats whenever he can.<\/p>\n

Cornyn describes Stockman’s campaign as comprising “pretty thin gruel.” Boy, howdy.<\/p>\n

At least it’ll be entertaining.<\/p>\n\n

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Politico reports that several key Republican U.S. senators will face tea party challengers this coming year, and that John Cornyn of Texas is the latest to draw a challenge from the far right wing of his party. I heard about this possibility on Monday and almost cannot believe what has transpired. U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman … Continue reading Cornyn vs. um, Stockman? Seriously?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2526,4426],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-cornyn","tag-steve-stockman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}