Texas Sen. John Cornyn, right, with Sen. Ted Cruz
In his home state, nine people were just slaughtered in a bloodbath. Over
1,000 weapons were recovered. Families were endangered, and it was the biggest single incident of murder in Waco since the Branch Davidian compound burned down.
Texas' own U.S. senator, John Cornyn, though, hasn't mentioned anything about the Waco incident on his Twitter stream. He's tweeted about Hillary Clinton's fundraising, but he has been radio silent on the massacre in his own state.
What makes this doubly troubling is that he had the nerve, the unmitigated gall, on May 8, to tweet to the world that he blamed the unrest in Baltimore on absentee fathers.
He tweeted:
Liberals, admit it: Baltimore riots are part of a story of absent fathers.
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Excuse me?
Are you saying that the police officers who killed Freddie Gray had absentee fathers? Because no protests or uprisings were taking place until they severed a man's spine and crushed his voice box.
And tell us, Senator, why are you not tweeting about the state of fatherhood concerning the nine men gunned down in your state?
Why are you not blaming absentee fathers for the fact that more weapons were found on those perpetrators than have been confiscated from every American protest combined in the past year?
How do you know who the hell does or doesn't have a father in Baltimore, and what role that plays in anything?
You have some damn nerve thinking you can blame anything in Baltimore on absentee fathers while ignoring the horror in your own state.
Shame on you, man. Shame on you.