Cornyn Booed, Called Traitor And "The Problem" At Tea Party Protest (VIDEO)

This Independence Day weekend marked the second incarnation of the fabled Tea Party movement, protesting the government's growing involvement in economic matters. And, just like the first go-around, the July 4 protests saw an elected Republican official, undoubtedly hoping to harness some of that the popular unrest, taking the stage to a chorus of boos.

This time the recipient of the unforgiving welcome was Sen. John Cornyn. The crowd yelled at Cornyn, called him a traitor and shouted that he was "the problem" when he took the stage in Austin.

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Cornyn was not the first to face such a reception. South Carolina Rep. Gresham Barrett also was booed mercilessly for his support of the bank bailout during the initial Tea Party protests in April.

For Cornyn, the offense seemed to be more than his support for the initial Wall Street bailout, but also his failure to cast a vote on the economic stimulus package. Though, to be fair, it appears as if the crowd pretty much despised any figure from elected office. Here is how the AP described the scene:

Republican Gov. Rick Perry told the Austin crowd that Washington needed to hear them "loud and clear" on a message of cutting spending and taxation and shrinking the government.

Perry also drew some boos on his support of toll roads to alleviate traffic congestion.

Many in the crowd of hundreds in Austin wore stickers that read, "I resist Socialism."

In Lufkin, organizers urged the crowd to call President Barack Obama and tell him "we are not happy, and we are working to make Texas free from his legislation."

Members of the crowd booed as the names of Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were read.

"I believe that President Obama was elected because we failed to lead," Ted Cruz, former solicitor general of Texas, told the Lufkin crowd. "But I also believe that his greatest legacy as president will be that he inspired a new generation of conservatives to rise up and defend our liberty."

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[libatheist]

the next tea bagging is 9/12 if that sound familiar its the glen beck group .....very odd

[BlueMominaRedState]

Glenn Beck makes Ron Paul look lucid.

[Jeff1958]

Glenn Beck makes Jerry Garcia look lucid and he's been de@d for almost 14 years.

[Budokan]

And thus the cannibalism begins in the GOOP, lol.

http://kennethmarkhoover.com

[rich misty]

Yup, looks like... These guys here are clamoring to bring all the troops home. Republicans are the party of endless war. There is a conflict of interest there.

[mjeffn]

I hate cowboy hats.

[rabiddog6708]

And what's underneath them.

[rich misty]

Belts...

[NoCalDrummer]

Yeah, but I love the city boys who wear 'em.

[MsLiz]

Drug store cowboys.

[Lilith33]

Where were these cretins when our country was sold to china and we were lied into war?All of a sudden we have the first black president and they suddenly wake up?
Please.

[babyboomerorig]

That doesn't count...their adopted "son of Texas" was President.

[Lilith33]

You mean the dry drunk trust fund loser?

[militarymomforobama]

+ New confidance government I'm a Fan of confidance government I'm a fan of this user permalink
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I guess it depends on who you have met serving in the military.

Which political candidate supports the concept of secession and received the most financial support from the military members in the last presidential campaign? I think this is telling of where the mindset of the military is these days. Especially as they are being asked to fight on in Afghanistan.
__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­_

I have met a wide variety of people in the military. Military members do not always disclose their political views, or who they contribute to--especially officers.

My point is that if there is some kind of uprising that requires activation of the national guard or even the regular military--they will be glad to go in and take care of it. Now a few guys may decide to abstain--they will be out on their ears--no they will be in federal prison.

[confidance government]

I discuss, often politcs with my family member and my old college buddies, many who have become this echelon of officers, it may be peculiar to where I am living, but I harbor reservations that the military would have the will necessary to quell a major secessionist movement.

It may or may not, but I cannot dismiss the possibility to glibly as you are inclined to do.

[militarymomforobama]

Glib? Hardly.

Maybe you should quit hanging out at tatoo parlors and skin-head meetings.

I know that was not nice.

They'll do what they're told.

[Pagoas]

you know you're unpopular when you can't even get teabagged.

[Lilith33]

LOL!

[1440minutes]

The Republican neocon establishment tried but failed to coopt these tea parties.

What do we want? Speaking for myself, I want small government and freedom. Bring the troops home from around the world. Downsize the military to defend the USA within our borders, not rich countries like Germany, South Korea, or Saudi Arabia and 140+ other countries around the world. Cut domestic programs. Pay off the debt. Cut taxes. Repeal the Patriot Act. Give us our freedom back.

Do it or we will perish under a mountain of debt, war, and tyranny, just as surely as the Roman Empire did.

[katooom]

Sounds like Ron Paul is the man for you!

[1440minutes]

Campaigned hard for him. Next up is his son, Rand Paul.

[confidance government]

That's it, everything is essentially a side show, we want ALL the troops home, not just a pittance in Iraq. We want the complete and full restoration of civil liberties, no executive privileges or discretion remaining.

We will settle for nothing less.

[weatherwaxx]

er.. the word is spelled 'confidence.'

[PaiaGirl]

Can you add: No corporations - personal responsibility (of an actual human being) for all businesses? Then I could be on board with you.

But as long as we have the multinational corporations controlling our government, economy, media etc. we have NO FREEDOM.

[confidance government]

Responsibility should be legally partioned among the shareholders of any enterprise. In addition, while we seek not to limit free enterprise via pre-emptive regulation, liability and property rights are key in protecting our environment from pollution and degradation.

[wdw505]

i'm good with that

[fiorastar]

Go ahead, Texas....secede. I'm sure Mexico would love to have you back!

[DuaneBidoux]

I certainly won't defend Cornyn except to say that every one of those people, without that bailout, would have gone to their banks only to be told that their money was no longer their as their had been a collapse in banking.

Believe me, a depression would have led to a LOT MORE government intervention than what has been done up to now.

If you don't believe that in Sept-Nov 08 we were a hair's width away from a major financial collapse then you were not paying attention.

[rich misty]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/

[PaiaGirl]

A.) FDIC

B) So what. Those of us who had savings have seen their value HALVE due to the Fed printing money. (Price out rice, chocolate anything like that -- it has doubled since 2007)

C) Due to the Bank and insurance company bailouts and doubling of our money supply, your wages just got CUT IN HALF in terms of real buying power.

[TigerHunter9002]

Oh yeah, I forgot they were holding another round of tea parties on the 4th. I guess the second wave was even more of a failure than the first.

[rabiddog6708]

You forgot and so did everyone else. I heard one protest had 14 people show up.

[rich misty]

Dramatically so. That is why they are claiming the movement will sweep the country before the 2010 elections.... ... .. .

[NoCalDrummer]

Fox must have forgotten to advertise this one

[babyboomerorig]

Interesting that these people are against programs that would help them.

We'll just take everything away from Texans...no more SS benefits, no more medicaid, no more teachers..­firemen..p­olice, no more flood relief or hurricane relief. They will not be eligible for SCHIP, food share, after school programs....nothing that would benefit them from any of our tax dollars. They already get more back from us than most any other state.

[confidance government]

You would be obligated to deduct the monies that Texans have paid into the system, and I think they would be satisfied with that arrangement.

I think a better model to look at would be the partition of India and Pakistan to obtain an idea of how this would transpire.

[BlueMominaRedState]

Red states send les and receive more. That's a plain fact, jack :) I would love to move all our military bases out of Texas!

[babyboomerorig]

Works for me.

[rich misty]

Red States get more federal tax dollars given to them than they pay out.

[1440minutes]

What governor or state legislature wouldn't accept that offer: all citizens in your state get a full refund of all taxes paid into corrupt federal systems in exchange for your state opting out of same federal programs. Heck, I'm thinking maybe even blue states would go for it. It's not like there will much left to U.S. treasury after the Chinese and Saudis start diversifying away from the dollar, anyway.

[Lilith33]

no more tax subsidies for big oil.........

[babyboomerorig]

Thanks, I forgot that little number.

[texasteph12570]

are you so stupid that you cannot see that all of your programs only lead to more government control.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
1. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
2. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
1. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
2. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
3. There does not exist an engine so corruptive of the government and so demoralizing of the nation as a public debt. It will bring on us more ruin at home than all the enemies from abroad ...”Jefferson
“A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have”. Thomas Jefferson

[TXfemmom]

Booing Cornyn was the only thing which could be considered taste displayed by this group. There are dumb people and then there are Texan Republicans, which puts them in a league all by themselves.

[Lilith33]

How many teabaggers collect social security..­......they­re an old lookin crowd.I guess teabaggin is more fun when you can remove your teeth?

[1440minutes]

If the Feds offered us a refund of every penny we ever paid into Social Security with interest to everyone who agreed to opt out of the system, how many fools would stay in the system? Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that makes Bernie Madoff look tame by comparison.

[texasrodeoqueen]

see, we have some awesome Americans and citizens in our State that are fed up with the BS.
Plus, DO NOT trust any politician that wears a cowboy hat anymore EVER.

[Lilith33]

Too bad you let bush ruin texas and the rest of the country....thanks.

[brynnrose thorn]

Lilith, I like you but you sound like Texas did that all by itself.

[texasteph12570]

as an texan we dont like cornyn because of his support for more government in washington, more spending, and voting for tax cheat geithner. down with statism as it only leads to tyranny.

[militarymomforobama]

As a texan, get ready to go blue.

You are yesterday's Texas.

[confidance government]

For opposing ludicrous Geithner and Bernanke policies which are simply a continuation of Greenspan's policies that got us into this mess.

Bad policy is bad policy whether you vote red or blue.

[brynnrose thorn]

YES! Texas is going BLUE much faster than people think. Those electoral votes the Republicans have been taking for granted will soon be ours. That will leave the ReThugs with about 3 or 4 (hyperbole I know, but not THAT far off). :)

[Lilith33]

LOL!!
Mccain and Palin are tax cheats too ......Phil ENRON Gramm would have made a great sec. of treasury.LOL!!

[BlueMominaRedState]

As a Texan you should know that if it weren't for Federal tax dollars being spent in your state there wouldn't even be an economy there.

Heck, if it weren't for Federal tax dollars in the form of government assistance there would be no tea baggers. They would be too busy picking veggies and fruit on truck farms hoping to make enough to buy a box of velveeta and a 6 pack of beer.

[texasteph12570]

as texas is the 3rd largest contributor to the ferel government behind california and new york, and since we are returned only 14cents to the dollar your ignorance is typical of the progressive left.
hard on fetuses and responsibility
soft on terrorists truth and reason

[BlackWidowPilot]

Cornyn is simply a self-serving hypocrite of the first order, citizen, as is the demonstrable majority of the GOP:

http://www.armchairsubversive.org

Texas is saddled with GOP hacks like Cornyn because too many Texans have bought into the Big Lie of the corporate aristocracy, that government is always bad, especially government "Of The People, By The People, and For The People."

Texas has become a corporatist paradise where the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations represented by creatures such as Rick Perry and Cornyn have sleazed their way into office by reciting the same old pathetic catch-phrases of "Down with statism!" and "The Federal government wants to take away your raaahts!"

Enough Texans voted for Cornyn for that reason only; he told them what they wanted to hear, he appealed to fear rooted in sheer ignorance, what Texans had been indoctrinated into believing was true by watching too much Fake News and worrying about the next TAKS test, rather than critical thinking, logic and reasoning, and an honest evaluation of empirical evidence.

Sorry, citizen, but your dog won't fight.

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

"I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could!"

[rich misty]

Faved

[brynnrose thorn]

Dallas in particular and many of the other large cities literally paid corporations to move here. They were given free land a long tax holiday and other incentives. That's the only reason. Even with all those incentives, many still opted for other parts of the country because their employees were appalled at the lack of "culture." For instance, Dallas is d.e.a.d after 6:00 PM. It has improved slightly in the past few years, but very few people live there. There are no grocery stores, delis, few theaters, etc.

[Artos]

I agree with you. Todays States Righter and less Federal Government type is just a modern day version of a Secessionist during the Civil War. the average Southerner was lied to by their Corporationists, the Plantation owners, who convinced the poor Southerner it was all about their Rights. The real Fact was that Plantation owners needed cheap or free labor and couldn't get rich without it so they propagandized poor white southerners into fighting a war for them. Did the Poor White Southerner stand to profit from the war? No. It was only the Plantation owner. In our more modern time it isn't the average joe who stands to do better if there is less government or regualtion, it is the Corporations. The same Corporations that don't like Unions and have convinced Poor White Southerners to want Right to Work states. You may have the right to Work there but do you have the right to a decent wage and a safe workplace? Not really, not there. Because you are expendable and easily replaceable. That is what being a Right Winger who supports Smaller Government will get you.

[texasteph12570]

yea well take your yankee liberal politics back to the failed state you came from and leave us to the success we are enjoying based upon our limited government and lower tax policies. why is it new york, michigan, and california are bankrupt , above average unemployment, and a broken infrastructure? to much taxing and spending, which drives industry (except those beholden to the labor union) out of the state. if tax and spend worked all of the blue states would be prospering, alas they are sinking like the titanic. i have a challenge for anyone out there. name me one government program or agency that works efficiently. Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ...
The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8- 04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. AND NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
you people are idiots and i cant believe you can even find your way out of bed in the morning.