Texas Democrats

On the Tenth Day of Christmas John Cornyn Gave to Me...

Ten (Million) Sick Children

All Texas children want for Christmas is their two front teeth.  But thanks to Senator John Cornyn, they can just cross that right off their Holiday Wish Lists. 

Right now, more than one out every five kids in Texas lacks any kind of health insurance that might net them a pair of front teeth, much less any kind of medical treatment.  Cornyn recently had the opportunity to support a bipartisan health insurance plan that would've covered millions more children.  Predictably, he voted against it three times. [Roll Call Vote #307, 8/2/07, #353, 9/27/07, #403, 11/1/07]

Worse, Cornyn returned to Texas after casting the votes and smiled for the cameras in staged photo ops like a dime store Santa while pledging his support for children's healthcare.  He's done everything from trying to change the subject to outright lying about the bipartisan State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) plan in order to convince voters he actually cares about Texas kids.  Even his own Republican colleagues have seen through his lies: "Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, termed the criticism by Cornyn...either totally wrong or intellectually dishonest." [Houston Chronicle 10/7/07]

In John Cornyn's world, Texas kids and their families should be happy without healthcare.  After all, Cornyn truly believes that everyone already has "access to the health care that right now is readily available for virtually all Americans." [Senate Record pg. S12696, 10/4/07]  Maybe if the Ghost of Christmas Future stripped Cornyn of his own government benefits, he might finally understand the value in kids having healthcare.

 

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