John Cornyn is an Idiot. But I Repeat Myself.
For a guy who likes to dress up like a cowboy and pretend he’s some champion of the common man, John Cornyn doesn’t know shit about agriculture.
Here the big lunkhead decries a $150 million line item for honeybee insurance for farmers, displaying the characteristic ignorance of the Texas Republican party (double warning: pdf, and incredibly stupid).
First of all, when a member of the party that brought you the $800 billion dollar war without end in Iraq (the one with no budget oversight) complains about spending a paltry $150 million for a domestic priority, you know that person’s full of shit.
Second, anyone who’s been paying attention knows that bees are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat, including not only almonds, blueberries, and many kinds of vegetables, but also alfafa, a major food source for beef, a major revenue source in Texas. Currently, the world is facing the massive disappearance and possible extinction of the honeybee, and our food supply is thus gravely threatened (even the propagandists at FOX news grasp this).
But not Senator Cornyn, pretend cowboy. He doesn’t seem to realize that the beef industry is a major source of revenue for Texas, or that bees pollinate alfalfa, a major source of feed for the beef industry.
you know that saying “All hat and no cattle”? That describes John Cornyn, Idiot on Horseback, to a tee.
