Perspicacity on the issues:
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right ... [N]ow you must raise your
children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the
same legal footing as man and wife."
He voted
against expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines.
Voted
no on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education and contraceptives.
In other words: a retrograde illiterate with ethics.
Weirdly, he seems to have issues with Dick Cheney, among others in the Bush Administration:
Statement Of Senator John Cornyn:
Open Government: Reinvigorating The Freedom Of Information Act
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
It is long; so for the full text, use this:
http://tinyurl.com/6umca8It contains the usual malarkey from his ilk:
"As the country observes national Sunshine Week this month, we are
moving to shore up procedures to ensure that citizens and their
representatives have quick and effective access to the inner workings
of the federal government. The public deserves to know more about how
their elected officials are working on their behalf..."
<snip>
"Unsurprisingly, the government often is slow - hopelessly slow, in some cases - to fulfill some information requests. "
<snip>
"Our ultimate goal is to change attitudes. Legislation can be helpful,
but the administration's top-to-bottom commitment is essential. Open
government is an ethic. The citizen on the telephone asking about her
three-year-old FOIA request isn't a nuisance to be placed on hold and
left waiting. She is - or should be - the boss.
"I believe the default position of our government must be one of
openness. If records can be open, they should be open. If good reason
exists to keep something closed, it is the government that should bear
the burden to prove that--not the other way around."
<snip>
"Open government is a prerequisite for a free society. "
We all know, of course, how interested in Open Government BIg Oil is:
Exxon Mobil $52,750
Bass Brothers Enterprises $49,700
Oil & Gas $930,850
The Clinton Foundation does a kind of NGO work for the good of the species; and Johnnycake Cornpone (while filling his campaign tank at the Big Oil pump) has issues with work done for the good of our species; which is not surprising given his attitudes toward long, disease-free life coupled with appropriate family size and inception.
