Texas House members see opposition to bailout bill weakening

WASHINGTON – Midland Rep. Mike Conaway has every reason to vote against the $700 billion bailout Congress is considering. His district is booming thanks to high oil prices. Its banks made safe loans and boast strong balance sheets.

But at events throughout West Texas, the Republican is testing how his conservative constituents would react if he voted for the bill. At the heart of his consideration: an understanding that the credit crisis could spread to small towns such as Kermit, where a high-school senior asked him Wednesday whether he would be able to get a loan for college.

“I said, ‘Here’s the plan – we want credit-worthy kids and businesses to get the loans they deserve,’ ” Mr. Conaway said.

“At the start of a meeting, they are 99 percent against this deal. But as I walked them through my rationale and how conflicted I was, you could see a change: more somber and less convinced they were correct,” he said.

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Texas House members see opposition to bailout bill weakening

I had already decided a while back that I would no longer be supporting Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison because of her support for this: Immigrant Dream Act Fails Key Senate Vote. Today I became even more anti-Hutchison, and now I have been forced to add Sen. John Cornyn to this growing list of politicians that I can’t and won’t support.

The Senate legislation, which passed 74-25, with Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison voting for it, includes tax breaks for renewable energy and clean-coal projects.

Senate leaders said Wednesday that they believed the chance for passage in the House was good.

And if my Congresscritter votes for it, I’ll be dead set against him when his term is up, pay attention there Sam Johnson!

Below is a copy of the email I sent to the John Cornyn site just now, I have withdrawn ALL support for Cornyn and refuse to reinstate it!

Once upon a time I thought Kay Bailey Hutchison hung the moon, then she tried to *back door* the AMNESTY plan with her Immigrant Dream Act thing, but Sen. Cornyn stood up for Texas, and I had great respect for that.

Today I have lost ALL respect for John Cornyn and will withdraw ALL of my support for him and remove the ads I have linking back to your site from my 3 blogs.

I won’t be supporting Noriega either by the way, unlike Sen. Cornyn, I have some self respect, morals and CONSERVATIVE values!

Sincerely,
Fred *******
D/FW, Texas
aka: TexasFred @ http://TexasFred.net/

Folks, the USA is running out of legislators that we can trust, there appears to be approximately 25 CONSERVATIVE Senators sitting at this time. Now we need to watch the House, let’s see who gets to stay and who gets shown the door!