The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn recently released a press release hailing the SAFER Act (he referred to it as the "Cornyn Bill") for its pursuance of eliminating nationwide rape kit backlogs. This was integrated into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) renewal, which Cornyn himself said would, "provide funding for state and local governments to conduct audits of untested DNA evidence and create a national reporting system to help track and prioritize untested rape kits." So, what's the catch? John Cornyn was one of 22 male Republican Senators to vote against the VAWA renewal. That's always the ideal strategy - to give oneself credit for something he or she opposed, and then to praise that which he or she opposed, but for which he or she took credit. This could make earning the women's vote a little tricky for Mr. Cornyn in his next election. I could see an ad of his saying the following: "If you're looking for a guy to speak in favo...

It seems that with each and every passing election, the Republicans being elected to Congress are becoming more and more conservative. One is about as likely to get drunk from drinking water as they are to find a moderate Republican either in or running for Congress. Georgia Representative Paul Broun decided to further prove that hypothesis by saying the following in a speech he gave at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman's Banquet last month: "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible s...