John Cornyn, Texas Senator, Says Iran Deal Is Obamacare Distraction

[Major Nikon]

Source: Huffpo

It was predictable that GOP hawks like Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) wouldn't love the historic deal the Obama administration reached with Iran on Saturday night.

But Texas Senator John Cornyn had a unique, if completely bizarre, take on the agreement:

JohnCornyn ✔ @JohnCornyn
Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/john-cornyn-iran-_n_4331856.html

[durablend]

1. What a moran

It's BEN GAZZI....BEN...GAZZI.

Can't this idiot get it straight?!?!?

[spartan61]

2. I am convinced that Cornyn's

shoe size is larger than his I.Q. What a dip $hit!!

[marble falls]

9. He's going to be facing a strong Teabilly challenge, he doesn't want to be Ted Cruz'd. So he's ....

practicing his Teapublican bombast street cred. I've heard all sorts of "Cornyn's a liberal" talk here in the Teacentral Hill Country of Texas.

[QuestForSense]

3. Oh puh-leeze, the desperation!

[RBInMaine]

4. They will overplay their anti-ObamaCare hand, and so will the corporate media. People are going to

get SICK of it, and more and more people are going to see the R's and the corporate media for what they are REALLY trying to do on this issue.

Dems and PROGRESSIVE need to stand up, call this out, and FIGHT FOR THE ACA AND ALL THE GOOD IT IS DOING !!!

[BenzoDia]

5. I'd be laughing at this guy if it wasn't so scary that so many people actually support him.

[jsr]

6. Thus proving that the other idiot from Texas can talk

[Major Nikon]

7. Many Texas wingnuts consider ignorance and stupidity virtuous

Can't have Ted Cruz and Ron Paul stealing all the thunder.

[Botany]

12. Tex ASS has plenty of wing nuts

Gohmert, Stockman, w, Perry, Randy Weber, & Fart-then hold it

BTW Texas has or had
Wendy Davis, Ann Richards, Molly Ivans, & Lady Bird Johnson

[pangaia]

26. Texas also has the Dallas and Houston Symphonies.

[Botany]

29. Texas also has:

Bluebonnets


and Big Bend

[pangaia]

39. Beeatifuuul !

[BlueMTexpat]

33. Texas has tons of decent ordinary citizens

such as the wonderful Helen, of Margaret and Helen. http://margaretandhelen.com/

My maternal grandmother was born in TX towards the end of the 19th century.

Just because it's eedjits who get M$M attention and GOP wingnuts have gerrymandered districts to put eejdits in office doesn't mean that we should tar ALL our TX brothers and sisters with the same brush. The same comment holds true for all of our so-called "red" states.

Either we are one nation or we are not. It's as simple as that. At least one very bloody war was fought to maintain the dream of that nation. Let us not allow those who seek actively to divide that nation succeed.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

66. I have noticed that ignorance and stupidity seem to be prized by many conservatives

How else can one explain the popularity of Sarah Palin.

I remember the Yale-educated George H. W. Bush attempting to sneer at Bill Clinton for having been a Rhodes Scholar.

[Major Nikon]

67. I was raised in rural Texas

I'm not kidding when I say that. Intellectuals are viewed with suspicion and condemnation while idiocy is celebrated. As someone (I forget who) remarked once in the media about Palin, someone has to represent the morons and who better?

Has a lot to do with the The Dunning–Kruger effect. Their stupidity robs them of the critical thinking skills required to realize how stupid they are.

[titanicdave]

8. Your comment is perfect

these two idiots could be bookends on the same shelf

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Don't forget the dumbshits that make up that shelf

Like Goober Gohmert!

[NastyRiffraff]

54. They can talk but

they can't make sense. We're talking word salad territory.

[Botany]

10. 3-decade gridlock broken: The nuclear deal with Iran in Geneva

.... and this has what to do with the A.C.A.?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/world/meast/iran-nuclear-deal/

Geneva, Switzerland (CNN) -- The diplomatic gridlock between Iran and the West seemed immovable for decades. But on Sunday, diplomats made history when Iran and six world powers came together on an agreement over Iran's nuclear program.
The deal dials back Iran's ability to work toward a nuclear weapon and at the same time loosens the choke hold of international sanctions on Iran's economy.
The two sides now have six months to find out how historic the breakthrough really is. That's the duration of the preliminary agreement hammered out in Geneva, Switzerland, by Iran and the P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany.
The foreign policy chiefs from the nations making up the group traveled to Geneva from the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany on Saturday to pound out the last key points of the deal

[hobbit709]

11. Sen. Cornhole is a stump turtle

"When you drive along a long Texas road and come upon a turtle on a fence post, you stop because it's such a strange thing. You realize the poor thing did not get up there by himself, he does not know how he got there, you just know he does not understand what he's doing there, and you know he doesn't know what he's going to do next. Then you realize you have to do what you have to, to help the dumb bastard down."

[NickB79]

60. Eh, I'm inclined to let this stump turtle fry in the sun

Let him down, and he's bound to shit out a few more of his ilk in some backwater pond.....

[marble falls]

14. C'mon, easeup. He's just trying to wrap a cloud around a silver lining.

[Festivito]

15. Well, at least he does seem to appreciate the deal.

Too bad for him. There goes another chance of letting even more people to die needlessly.

[BREMPRO]

16. this is cynical politics from an R at it's most insidious form..

an adsurdity that would require no response in a civil society except that the ignorant base of this moron will believe it...

[warrior1]

17. I tweeted him back earlier:

@JohnCornyn @joshtpm Amazing how you will never admit progress and peace is possible. Shame on you.

[allan01]

18. John Cornyn, Texas Senator, Says Iran Deal Is Obamacare DistractionJohn Cornyn, Texas Senator, Says

[SHRED]

19. John Cornyn is a distracion

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. ... and Lindsay Graham would say it's a Benghazi Distraction

Netanyahu would just call it an anti-just-war Distraction ...

... or maybe it's an Everything Distraction.

[Politicub]

21. Let's hope we have more of these distractions

Our planet is better off for the deal w/ Iran, and there's a lot more to do.

So, distract away, Mr. President!

[magical thyme]

22. how DARE that White House Sochulist Imposter from Kenya do his job and

distract Amurkins from our planned series of attacks on him! what an arsehole that one is!

[7962]

23. Cornyn says cure for cancer just to distract us from Obamacare disaster.....

Just fill in your favorite "good" thing, its still just as stupid!

[reflection]

24. so let me get this straight

The fubar aca rollout was to distract from benghazi, and the Iran deal is to distract from the aca. Is that right, Mr. Cornyn? Idiot.

[Major Nikon]

34. All roads lead to Clinton's penis

[SoapBox]

42. LOL

OK, so I admit I laughed.

[BuddhaGirl]

52. ROFL!!

Good one

[Swede Atlanta]

25. What stupidity.......

I'm sure Obama encouraged and supported an agreement on the Iranian nuclear weapons program just to divert attention from the challenges of implementing Obamacare, the biggest change and improvement in our health insurance program (would still prefer single-payer) perhaps forever.

After all the years that W couldn't get an agreement, the U.S., along with other major international players, have secured an initial agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. This wasn't a bilateral US - Iran agreement although without the U.S. it is doubtful the agreement would have materialized.

Once again the Rs forget what has long been tradition in our country - politics stops at the shores. It hasn't been universal - the Vietnam and Iraq wars good examples. But in general there has been consensus that our national security interests are best served when our foreign policy isn't the subject of internal political dissent.

[penultimate]

27. Yes, because the world stopped turning when the ACA came into effect...

[sakabatou]

28. *facepalm*

[lostincalifornia]

30. The repukes are in full self-destruct mode

[gtar100]

31. A clear indication of his priorities.

I'm sure he'll be terribly disappointed when war with Iran is no longer a possibility.

What a stupid jerk.

[winstars]

32. This scene from "Seven Days in May" often comes to mind when I hear this bullshit!!!

[StarrGazerr]

36. Perfect

That sums it up perfectly. If the people of this country select a President that you don't like (twice), then just abandon the Constitution, make up your own laws, and constantly include in your lunatic rants the phrase "the will of the American people" even though you don't have a clue as to what the American people are actually saying.

[StarrGazerr]

35. Republicans never change their spots

[awoke_in_2003]

37. K&R for exposure...

This, and Cruz, are my senators. I really need to get out of this hell hole.

[Rozlee]

46. If my entire family didn't live here, I'd have hightailed it long ago.

I see some light at the end of the tunnel. Someday within the next three presidential voting cycles, we'll probably go Blue in the national elections, but I doubt that our Texas state legislatures and school boards will follow suit anytime soon. They'll probably still be packed with those teabagger Troglodytes for the next few generations.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. My grand kids are here...

and my stepdaughters don't always have their heads on straight. I have live here since 1992, and haven't seen autumn in all that time. I am a native Buckeye. I know Ohio can be messed up, too, but Texas takes it to a whole other level.

[Rozlee]

50. My grand kids live here too; gawd help them.

[Loki]

38. Instead of Smart Water

Texas Republican's drink Stupid Water. It's just plain embarrassin'.

[Jack Rabbit]

68. Isn't stupid water called kool aid?

Just wondering.

[SoapBox]

40. Fuck off Cornhole

Jackass jag off.

[TwilightGardener]

41. GOP: We demand that Obama do nothing except absorb ACA "failure" while we jeer at him

until the end of his term! Jeezus, what assclowns.

[thesquanderer]

43. The more they focus on ACA the better

because, by the time November 2014 rolls around, ACA will be working fine, and it will be a non-issue for the general population. Any energy they put into things that won't be a factor next November is just wasted effort on their part, which is fine by me.

[Orsino]

44. Cornyn is trying to be an Iran distraction. n/t

[rock]

45. Didn't see that coming

Sarcasm. My wife said that would be the GOP's reaction even as they interrupted the SNL repeat last night.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. Poor Chronehead

He wanted so badly to send your sons and daughters to another war zone.

[AlbertCat]

49. Iran Deal Is Obamacare Distraction... damn straight!

Who the hell knows what this disastrous administration will do next just to distract us from a few web glitches???!!!

Raise the minimum wage?!!!
Get equal pay for women??!!!
Outlaw persecution of homosexuals????!!!!
Rebuild crumbling infrastructure????

OMG....confirm federal judge nominees?????????!!!!!

There's just no limit to their distractions!

[DallasNE]

51. Cornyn Missed An Opportunity To Lead

I'm surprised Cornyn didn't go all of the way and accuse Obama of appeasement. Maybe he couldn't get it to fit in 140 characters. But we can be sure that someone will pick up that ball and run with it. Perhaps it has to start with Limbaugh and then spread from there. Stay tuned.

[Yodaquoter]

53. So, Cornyn,..... Kerry convinced the other world leaders

to distract from Obamacare? Wow.... he is masterful.

[mountain grammy]

55. He should rot in hell the racist pig! I'm sick to death of this crap!

[underpants]

56. You know what he is doing here -- Declaring victory (as the game has just started)

As we know they have a playbook and part of it (part of talk radio M.O.) is to declare victory and end the discussion.

[Hoyt]

57. Listening to right wingers today is cracking my up. Some are saying they are going to hold O's feet

to the fire to make sure he follows up. Now, if that is not the biggest pile of crud. Thee President helps broker a historic deal that embarrasses war mongering Republicans, and now they are going pressure him to follow up.

I swear, I'm gonna have to listen to Limbaugh and Hannity tomorrow just to laugh my rear off -- been eating a lot of pie recently.

[dem in texas]

58. John Cornyn is a fool

Every time he speaks, he says something stupid. Texas has the most embarrassing congressmen in the US. But oh how the media would miss them, no more headlines about Cornyn, Cruz and Crazy Louie.

[alp227]

59. Riiiiight...and back in 1999 or so intervening in Kosovo was a distraction from Lewinsky.

Typical right wing nuttery.

[Dopers_Greed]

61. I knew that the wingnuts...

Would find a way to somehow connect the Iran deal to the ACA

[Turbineguy]

62. Yeah, there are fewer things that piss you clowns off

than a working foreign policy.

[hollowdweller]

63. Republicans will try to destroy this too.

[Coyotl]

64. Iran deal is: Republicans distracting Obama from his job = not working at all.

Perhaps they don't realize Obama in not inside their bubble working on plans for the fiftieth vote to stop Obamacare.

[Skittles]

65. LOL

these fuckers cannot help themselves, can they?

[Blue_Tires]

69. Cornyn would fit right in on this board...

[pampango]

70. John, John, John .. It's really a distraction from Benghazi, TPP, NSA, filibustering, etc.

Why would anyone negotiate a peaceful resolution of issues with Iran unless they had a sinister ulterior motive?