| With her recent announcement that a resignation will not come before the March primary, Kay Bailey Hutchison hopes to balance - successfully fending off healthcare reform by herself,
- following that up by destroying the idea of a Cap and Trade Bill, and
- topping it off with a win over Rick Perry in the the party that Rick Perry seems to control.
She has a lot on her plate, doesn't she? Well, she might, but that's obviously not challenging enough for someone like Kay Bailey Hutchison. So. Time to make the task harder for the apparent star politician. How to challenge this GOP and Texas champion? I know! Work the weekends in the Senate! Senator Harkin, give this ambitious student of politics her extra work: The Iowa senator laid out an ambitious schedule for the final weeks before the end of the year. He said Democrats expect to hold the first big test vote by Friday on a motion to proceed to the bill. But no amendments will come up until Nov. 30, at the earliest. He said Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is committed to working through every weekend in December if that’s what it takes to pass the bill before lawmakers break for the Christmas holiday.
"We're going to be going long days — I've already talked to Leader Reid about this — long nights, weekends — constantly, from then until right before Christmas, when I think we'll have the votes, hopefully, to pass the bill," he said. Weekends and long nights in the Senate, too? I'm sure you can pull it all off, Kay Bailey! You're great at time management, so I'm sure you'll still find your time to campaign for governor. You could probably beat Rick Perry and the Democrats' agenda with a hand tied behind your back and your eyes closed! But that meanie Harkin guy really wants to test you now. So, Missy Hutchison, show us what you're made of! |
