John Cornyn continues the Right Wing Rhetoric with AG Holder.

From the "Houston Chronicle"

The National Rifle Association (click here) has close ties to Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (below left) and John Cornyn (below right)–and it is doing whatever it can to prevent the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Cornyn is trying to exonerate the Bush White House from the failed program of "Wide Receiver" (gun walking) by stating the Mexican government was aware of the program.  If I follow the assessment of the ATF in regard to "Fast and Furious," the 'idea' of an autonomous program without Mexican government knowledge may have been appropriate.

Perhaps what Cornyn should be asking is for the assessment of "Wide Receiver" that lead to the decisions regarding "Fast and Furious" by the ATF. 

Cornyn is obviously doing the business of the RNC in trying to 'pin' the outcomes of "Fast and Furious" on upper levels of government in an attempt to reach the AG and the President.  This entire line of questioning is inappropriate and political in its ambitions.

Cornyn, himself, doesn't understand the facts as he attempted to confuse memos, phone calls and meeting with the two programs.  If that was deliberate on Cornyn's part than his "Oath of Office" is in jeopardy for abuse of power and creating political rhetoric from facts.

November 01, 2011 3:02 pm ET — Matt Gertz

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) (click title to entry - thank you) is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was previously the Attorney General of Texas. And he's apparently unaware that when law enforcement finishes investigating one group of criminals, they don't just stop; they move on to a new investigation....

In the video at this article Cornyn, on FOX News with Bill Hemmer, lies about the knowledge of the Mexican government about "Fast and Furious."  On this blog it was noted that in a speech within Mexico AG Holder spoke about the gun programs.  So, Cornyn is simply lying for the sake of lying and trying to exonerate the Bush program as a superior program regardless of its failue.

The BLAMING that is the POSTURE of the Republicans is to distract from the profound problem in the USA and its Gun Cartel.  The fact there is no ban on Assault Weapons is the problem NOT the failed attempts to prove the migration of guns to Mexico or the inability of the USA to stop this disaster of a legislative nightmare when Bush allowed The Assault Weapons Ban to expire.

The Gun Programs of the Clinton Administration PROVED to work, among them The Assault Weapons Ban. 

Common sense gun safety laws bring down gun crime by 40 percent.President Clinton fought the gun lobby and won common sense gun safety laws including the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban. Under the Clinton-Gore Administration, overall gun crime has declined 40 percent, and firearms related homicides committed by juveniles have dropped by nearly 50 percent. There were 227,000 fewer gun crimes in 1999 than 1992, and 1,246 fewer children were killed by guns than in 1992.

• Background checks performed under the Brady Law have prevented more than 611,000 felons, fugitives and domestic abusers from buying a gun.
• The Assault Weapons Ban, passed as part of the 1994 Crime Bill, banned the manufacture, sale and importation of 19 of the deadliest assault weapons.
• The Clinton-Gore Administration has worked with state and local governments to increase prosecution of gun crime. Since 1992, the number of federal firearms cases has increased 16 percent, and as a result of this Administration’s unprecedented partnership with states and localities, overall gun prosecutions - federal, state, and local combined — are up 22 percent. In addition, federal gun offenders are serving sentences that are about two years longer than in 1992 and the number of serious gun offenders sent to federal prison for more than five years is up more than 41 percent.
• Clinton-Gore Administration U.S. Attorneys in Richmond (Project Exile) and Boston (Operation Ceasefire) were instrumental in innovative efforts to crack down on armed drug traffickers, violent criminals, gang members and violent youth which has helped to reduce crime in these cities. The Clinton-Gore Administration has also implemented a comprehensive crime gun tracing initiative — the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative — in 38 cities to trace crime guns and identify and arrest illegal gun traffickers.
• Finally, to combat violence in schools, the Clinton-Gore Administration enacted the Gun Free Schools Act, which requires schools to adopt zero-tolerance policies toward guns in schools and expel students bringing firearms to school. Over the 1996-98 school years, nearly 10,000 students were expelled from public schools for bringing a firearm to school.

The fact of the matter is, the less guns on the street in the USA, the less the gun crimes. 

...As shown in exhibit 6, (click here) law enforcement agency requests for BATF assault weapons traces in the 1993–95 period declined 20 percent in the first calendar year after the ban took effect, dropping from 4,077 in 1994 to 3,268 in 1995. Some of this decrease may reflect an overall decrease in gun crimes; total trace requests dropped 11 percent from 1994 to 1995, and gun murders declined 10 percent over the same period. Nevertheless, these trends suggest a 9- to 10-percent additional decrease (labeled with a triangle in exhibit 6) due to substitution of other guns for the banned assault weapons in 1995 gun crimes15...

The line of questioning of AG Holder proves the RNC is sitting at the committee meetings and not the people these Republicans are suppose to represent.  They use every opportunity, from inflammatory rhetoric in statements during legislative sessions to oversight of their perspective committees to obstructing necessary legislation to promote their politics and not the business of the nation!  Instead of taking care of the majority of Americans they ONLY want to care about 1% of the wealthy in America.