Rachel L. Swarns | Washington, DC | March 26

New York Times - The telephone lines in the unassuming Houston offices of Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, have been sizzling in recent weeks as anxious Republican voters call to find out precisely where their tough-minded senator stands on illegal immigration.

Mr. Cornyn is a former state attorney general and a fiscal conservative, a Texan who wears cowboy boots with his pinstripes and prides himself on his 100 percent approval rating from the American Conservative Union.

Cornyn is also one of the most unpopular Senators in the Senate and one of Bush's chief lapdogs in the rubber stamp Congress, who has even resorted to threatening me for discussing his possible linkage, aka the Cornyn Corruption Watch, to Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff. Cornyn is weak and vulnerable and the lede grafs in this article are really a pretty nice suck up to him--some liberal media. Cornyn can be beat.

He's not a fiscal conservative. He voted for Bush's most recent tax cuts and he's threatened judges more links here. No wonder he has such a low approval ratings: third worst in the Senate.