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Sen. John Cornyn on Fox News Sunday
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — The transcript is here, but this part sums it up nicely: WALLACE: Senator Cornyn, isn't there considerable risk to Republicans to be seen as voting almost unanimously against the president's economic stimulus plan when he is seen by the public as making such a big effort to be bipartisan? CORNYN: Well, the president has done a good job reaching out to Republicans, and he has said he wants to approach this crisis, like other problems the country has, on a bipartisan basis. That's good, and we're willing to work with him on that. But this bill is not ...

Have They No Shame? A Power Grab at the Census
Pajamas Media — ...   This is very simple, Chris, the Constitution says that every ten years there will be a count of all persons who live in the United States.  That means that we need to have an actual count.  And why this has to be moved from the Commerce Department over to the chief of staff’s office, I would think he’d have better things to do, than to coordinate the census, but apparently they have ideas about what they might want to do to politicize the counting of our population next year. Sen. John Cornyn echoed a similar sentiment during his exchange with Chris Wallace: WALLACE: Senator ...

Undermining His Own Mandate For the Sake of Bipartisanship
Firedoglake — ... The stimulus package is consistently being attacked for not being "bipartisan" because not enough Republicans support it.  The fact that the bill received no Republican votes in the House, and "only" three Republicans support the Senate version, is sufficient to conclude that it fails Obama's objective of being "bipartisan." ...

Jane Hamsher: Obama Undermines Jobs Mandate For the Sake of Bipartisanship
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The stimulus package is consistently being attacked because not enough Republicans support it.  The fact that the bill received no Republican votes in the House, and "only" three Republicans support the Senate version, is sufficient to conclude that it fails Obama's objective of being "bipartisan." ...