Sen. Cornyn Uses Empty Rhetoric To Criticize The Administration For Using Empty Rhetoric

Sen. Cornyn Offers Empty Rhetoric And No Solutions, Criticizes The Administration For Using "Figures"

In a blog post at The Hill, Sen. Cornyn asks for hard evidence from the Obama administration that the health care plan still being worked out through Congress will solve the health care crisis, criticizes the detailed 56-page report offered by the administration on the consequences of the crisis as "figures and promises," and then claims that "common sense" tells us that the still unfinished plan simply won't work:

Rhetoric: Sen. Cornyn: "In reality, however, common-sense and the economic evidence tell us that increasing government spending will not solve our fiscal challenges. The Administration's spending would instead lead to new taxes or more debt-or both."

Although the administration is still negotiating the details of health care reform, Sen. Cornyn employs an empty rhetorical question to imply that paying for the plan will push the United States further into debt - despite the fact that the administration is looking for ways to make health care reform pay for itself.

Rhetoric: Sen. Cornyn: "At a time when our country is already saddled with debt and entitlement obligations, why is the Administration pushing to spend even more hard-earned taxpayer dollars?"

As a conclusion to several paragraphs of empty rhetoric, Sen. Cornyn uses more empty rhetoric. Insisting, "We need real solutions," Sen. Cornyn finally sums up his solutions for health care with, "I believe the best approach to health care reform is bottom-up, not top down."

Rhetoric: Sen. Cornyn: "We need real solutions, and I believe the best way to approach health care reform is bottom-up, not top-down. Reports loaded with rhetoric, figures and promises on an issue that will impact more than 300 million Americans are not a good start."