Why? Because either:

1. He or his aides are just idiots; or
2. He thought tying together going to war with India and job losses was a good dog whistle.

Someone told him India was stealing our jobs and he wanted to go to war to go get them and bring them back here.

The greatest threats to the lives of Americans are heart disease and car accidents. Even legitimate terrorism is way way down on the list, let alone hypothetical threats from a current US ally.

That's the beauty of Repulican Free Trade...

Build up our "allies" military and economic power so we can destroy them when they become too much of a threat.

And yet he leaves out China, which is rising much faster than India, does not have a democratic government, and has a much larger (and growing) military complex.

Oh, and they have designs on their neighbors, many of which are our allies (India, Taiwan, and uninhabited islands claimed by Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.) [http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2009/06/displaced-tensions.html]

Doesn't he know they already took the vote and the project funding was rejected? It's a little late to be whining about it now, isn't it?

Big (little) John forgets that the F-22's have a severe mechanical problems....one main issue is they can't fly when it's raining!!! (as reported by the Pentagon, Sec. Gates). Taxpayers have bought over 180 of these flying mistakes and Big(Lil') John wants us to by more. On Real Time with Bill Maher this evening, Susan Eisenhower (President Ike's daughter) reported in addition to leaving the GOParty of No, her father's original 'Military Industrial Complex' statement was previously worded as the 'military industrial congressional complex' because Ike believed that members of Congress were as corrupted by military contractors as the lobbyist and the contractors themselves were. I'd say Big (Lil') John is a prime example of Eisenhower's very fear come true.

I thought these louts cared about financial responsiblity!

Lockheed claims without the F-22 they'll lose 25,000 jobs themselves and 95,000 total when sub contractors are totaled in, across 44 states. A UMass study says defense contractor jobs are about the least efficient form of stimulus. I guess they're worse than other manufacturers like cars because once they're pushed off the assembly line nobody earns a living selling the finished product. That and they cost big tax dollars paid to airmen to keep them maintained and flying. According to UMass if we spent that $1.75 billion on tax cuts, a lousy stimulus, it'd produce 4,000 more jobs, and mass transit would create 20,000 more than the F-22. Plus we'd get mass transit instead of a fighter plane that can whup the nonexistent Al Qaeda air force but add very little else to society.

As it is the current USAF contract for new F-22s doesn't run out til 2011. That's right, thanks to wankers like Cornyn, who pushed thru a three year extention on these planes last year, we're still buying them, and if the Japanese or some other country (Cornyn will probably be trying to sell them to India soon) signs a contract the airframe will live on for the foreseeable future. And even if it doesn't the F-35 will probably pick up the slack.

It's amazes me how conservatives fret over losing defense jobs and manufacturing infrastructure. Ya know, we have to keep building nuclear attack submarines and advanced fighter aircraft, even though nobody else comes close to what we have and there's no targets for them, because we can't afford to lose that manufacturing capability. Yet they think nothing of trying to wipe out car manufacturing in the US.

Set aside for the moment the imbecilic notion of India being a military threat to the United States and focus on the utter political stupidity of Cornyn's statement. Keep in mind that Cornyn is not just another stupid Republican US Senator but a key Member of the Republican Senate leadership as head of their campaign committee.

The Indian-American community in the US is the most affluent and highly educated ethnic/religious group by a good margin. For the most part they are Hindu. They are almost all connected to the Internet and most have not only become US citizens but virtually all of those are registered to vote. I am certain that Cornyn's statement has been Emailed to well over 75% of the Indian-Americans at the time I am writing this and virtually 100% will know about it by Monday morning. If you do not believe me, just ask the former Republican Senator George Allen.

This group has tended to lean Democratic and has been heavily courted by the Party for years. I distinctly recall attending a DNC Indian-American outreach dinner in DC during the Carter Administration. President Bill Clinton established a close relationship with this community years before he ran for President and Hillary tapped into this fundraising network. Before George Allen made his statement, this community was about 60-65% Democratic but George Allen moved them more into the Democratic column. The Macaca video was all over the Indian-American community within 48 hours and was also being reported in the Indian media. Although it is not known for certain, it appears that there are at least 50,000 registered Indian-American voters in the Northern Virginia suburbs--75,000 may be closer to the mark. There is a race for Governor this year and Cornyn has probably just energized this group to go out and vote for Deeds.

This may turnout to be a major hidden disaster (the MSM will miss it) for the Republicans.