Kay Bailey Hutchison Chooses to Do Nothing in Washington Instead of Nothing in Texas

As usual, Kay Bailey Hutchison put herself (0.00 / 0)

first.  She will do nothing in Washington except try to obstruct what the majority of Americans want, health care reform that includes a public option.  She won't even be able to successfully do that b/c Democrats will have the votes to push it through after it is all said and done.  It seems me me KBH wants to live on our taxpayer dimes while doing absolutely nothing for us.

Concerning the gubernatorial race recent polls show Perry is more popular than KBH which means she has run an awful campaign.  What campaign, really?  In 2006 KBH was very popular here.  Oh, and by the way, The Houston Chronicle revealed this morning that the teabaggers are going to run their candidate for governor b/c Perry is not conservative enough (!!!????) and Hutchison is too Washington. I have no idea what this could mean except perhaps a run-off election. The best case scenario for all Texans would be the same outcome as NY-23 where the conservative candidate polarized Republicans and the Dem won.  

While it's too early to determine if the Tea Party movement will prove to be a durable political force, its candidates could prove a costly and unwanted distraction for establishment Republicans who would rather be aiming their fire at Democrats. Case in point: the GOP race for governor, where Tea Party ally Debra Medina of Wharton has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination against incumbent Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom she dismisses derisively as "get-along-style politicians."

If the teabaggers want to throw all of the bums out, most, if not all are Republicans.  And good luck with teabaggers winning much b/c moderates in the big urban areas think this group is just nuts.

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Phil Gramm is an evil coward.  He repealed the Glass Steagall act in 1999 late on Christmas Eve when most lawmakers had left Washington.  Phil Gramm owns the sub-prime debacle, thank you.  Nothing he says has any credibility as far as I am concerned.  His wife sold off her Enron shares b/f the company imploded, too.  Like most Republicans, they sure are good at looking out after themselves while letting everyone else go straight to hell.  

The teabaggers have a point when they want to throw all of the bums out.  But it would be just awful for the future of Texas and for our overall economic well-being to replace the bums with right wing extremists who would be even worse than what we're presently stuck with.  It would almost be like having a bunch of Phil Gramms take over.

 

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 15:56:01 PM CST

And who signed it? (0.00 / 0)

Phil Gramm is an evil coward.  He repealed the Glass Steagall act in 1999 late on Christmas Eve when most lawmakers had left Washington.  Phil Gramm owns the sub-prime debacle, thank you.  Nothing he says has any credibility as far as I am concerned.  His wife sold off her Enron shares b/f the company imploded, too.  
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Don't forget who signed that little repeal. Bill Clinton "owns" the mess just as much as Phil Gramm does.

As for Little Miss Stewardess and her Enron shares don't forget who set up all the partnerships that were used to rip off everyone. Everyone's favorite law firm. And don't think the partners at V&E weren't selling off as well.

The Republicans and the Democrats have stuck us all with an estimated $23 trillion in debt in order to bail out Wall Street and so far has offered some crumbs to Main Street and the Republicans forgot that many Republicans live on Main Street. Something the Democrats have forgotten as well.

But then most of them are really Republicrats.  The only Democrats and Republicans in this country are the fools who beleive there are Democrats and Republicans on the ballot.

Time for a tea party.  Time to dump the bordello. Starting with its madam and her bail-out of Health Care Street.  

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by: Baby Snooks @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 19:06:06 PM CST

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Whatever, Fact is (0.00 / 0)

Republicans held the House and Senate when Clinton was in power.  Shame on Clinton for signing Gramm's evil bill.   Shame on Republicans for repealing an act that drove our financial security to hell. Once again, Gramm shoved it through late on Christmas Eve of 1999 when most lawmakers were gone.  Only an evil coward would commit such an un-American act. Gramm knew damned well he could have never repealed the GS Act in the light of day with all members present.

Republicans held the WH, House and Senate for 8 long and very dark years under W.  Who the hell do you think got us into a debacle called Iraq in which our resources, that could have ahem, gone to Afghanistan, were squandered?  I wonder how the families of the thousands upon thousands of killed and maimed U.S. military feel about this?  Of course no Republican would ever in a day ask them.

Republicans are obviously incapable of taking responsibility for their appalling and abysmal failures.  Just blame it on someone else.  Fabricate a scape goat.  Maybe this is why the teabaggers and Republicans frequently invoke Hitler.

Republicans are irresponsible cowards who love war and yet few of our warhawking lawmakers enlist in the military. Republicans say they want terrorists brought to justice and yet most are yelping and shrieking in naked fear about holding the evil doers accountable in a U.S. Court of law down the street where the evil carnage occurred.

And the Teabaggers.  Please dear God.  Talk about a group of misinformed jokers who are being led around by the nose by a self-serving demagogue called Glenn Beck.  The more he can whip teabaggers into a frenzy, the higher his ratings climb.  Beck gets richer in the process.  And so does FOX.    

The teabagger types all bought into the W. toxic poison in 2000.  And now TBs are in an uproar over W. spending and Wall St. bailouts?  Now? Who would have thought?

Indeed, w/o the teabaggers types, W., the worst President in recent U.S. history would not have had a prayer.  

Like easily led sheep, the tea party folks are really easy to fool, too.  Most cheered their own deportation back to their own white European roots.

Let's be brutally blunt.  Most of us know why southern Republicans and teabaggers are in an uproar today.  This includes Republican/teabagger leaders Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.  R's and TB's are unwilling to state the obvious so I will.  

All are complete wrecks b/c an African American was elected by a rather drop dead huge majority.  Neither of the above can deal.

Get over it folks.  Get a grip on the realities of the 21st century.

There are few jobs in America right now b/c of lovely folks like Phil Gramm and the his soul mates in the Republican Party.  

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by: Libby Shaw @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 20:15:30 PM CST

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Couldn't agree more... (0.00 / 0)

Indeed, w/o the teabaggers types, W., the worst President in recent U.S. history would not have had a prayer.  
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He was the worst. Period. I would say I am waiting for Barack Obama to send him off to the Hague but I know that will never happen. Because of course his father would be sent off along with his adopted brother. Bill Clinton. And the other Madame Secretary. Madeline "The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children are worth it" Albright.  Sooner or later people will start connecting the dots. Until then, well, just keep raging at the other party. Which is what your party wants you to do. Although it's really not your party. It's their party. The Republicrats.  

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by: Baby Snooks @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 22:21:47 PM CST

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George W. Bush would have never had a prayer in hell.  He needed the Supreme Court to shut down a recount in order to barely squeak by a win.  W. is and always has been a fraud.  The Republican Party rubber stamped a fraud for 8 long years.

You can't pin the W. years on the Democrats.  You can try until you are blue in the face and it won't work.  Why?  Because my party is comprised of a much bigger tent of young and well educated people.  There are even quite a few old middle aged ladies like me and my husband who would never in our dreams pull the lever for any Republican.   We cannot be easily fooled by demagogues like Rush and Glenn and other myth makers on the Fox RNC propaganda channel, or silver tongued politicians.  Republicans let their leaders get away with bloody hell.  It's obvious since every Republican blindly obeyed the party line while Bush Co. took us straight to hell. When those of us on the left screamed about Iraq we were told we were anti-patriotic.  Anyone who dared to disagree with Bush policies was demonized as un-American.  We were one inch away from another McCarthy era under Bush Co.

No wonder the youth, the best and the brightest fled the GOP. Now Republicans and its teabagging faction is stuck with a bunch of grumpy and fearful old white folks.  And racists, of course.  And let's not forget about the xenophobes.  

 

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by: Libby Shaw @ Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 09:49:50 AM CST

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Wow, no need to pile on... (0.00 / 0)

You know, I don't see what Democrats gain from attacking KBH at this point. To the extent it has an impact on her race, it can only hurt her chances. I doubt many Republicans read BOR, but you might have some Democratic and independent readers who are thinking about voting for Kay in the primary. If you turn them off on her, you're just making Rick Perry's life easier.

I get the argument that Perry's a weaker general election candidate than Hutchison, but let's face it, the chance of any Democrat winning statewide in Texas is pretty small (in 2010, anyway), especially given how weak our candidates are this year. So I'd argue that if you make it easier for Rick Perry to get the Republican nomination, you make it more likely that we'll be stuck with another four years of him. And as bad as you make KBH sound, you know as well as I do she'd do a better job than Perry has.

Attack Perry all you want, but if it were my blog, I'd only start attacking Kay Bay when (and if) she's the nominee.  

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by: AlexFerraro1 @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 16:56:43 PM CST

Few things (0.00 / 0)

1. Alex, Dems for Gov field may not be done yet.  Sen. Shapleigh may run.  Also, another entry; checkout Farouk Shami.  He's got an aggressive pitch on real issues and has a boatload of money and he means business.  I'm not endorsing anyone and I agree that the Dems could have a stronger field, but the Gov's race could begin to get interesting.  

2. Alex, Perry will win the Primary.  I've been saying it for 8 months and I still feel the same way.  But much better chance for a Dem to beat Perry than KB in the General.  So I would suspect most Dems want Perry to win the primary so that they have a chance to beat him in the general.

3. Hats off to Phillip on a catchy title to this blog...with KBH blocking health care for Texans, including many children and veterans, she deserves this title. It's a shame and a tragedy to have our two US Senators not supporting Health Care for Texans.   Texas needs HC Reform.  25% of Texans have no health care.  And HC bills are the #1 reason why citizens are going bankrupt.  What is Cornyn doing about this?  What is KBH doing about this?  These are our neighbors, our co-workers, our families, our workforce that is directly being hurt by KBH and Cornyn blocking HC for Texas.   Very sad.

Best,
David

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by: David Kobierowski @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 17:45:13 PM CST

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As We've Said, though, KBH is Little Different from Perry (0.00 / 0)

Alex, I think one of our many goals is, indeed, to stop Democrats from voting in the Republican primary for Hutchison -- and perhaps independents, too.  Because Hutchison won't be any better for Texas, except she might not make a huge fool of herself.

But her policies will be very similar.  As I've pointed out before, even some neutral Republicans think she would be a pretty similar governor.

And as a calmer conservative, an KBH Governorship would make it harder for Democrats to gain ground.  There's good reason Perry is seen as easier to beat...

Joe Straus has made it harder for Democrats to gain ground, too.  But at least his election over Craddick significantly increased our chances to pass our policy goals.  Getting rid of Perry for a Hutchison won't help us with that, though.

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."  -  John Adams

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by: Michael Hurta @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 23:33:33 PM CST

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There would be no difference in the lives of Texans with either Perry or Hutchison as governor.  Both will put themselves and needs of their cash cow donors over the interests and needs of the people of Texas.

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by: Libby Shaw @ Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 09:52:04 AM CST

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Two-Faced Two-Hats Hutchison (0.00 / 0)

More and more people are wondering what's really behind all this and of course the answer is the law firm that owns her and wants to own a governor but isn't willing to lose a senator in the process.  

More and more people are wondering what it was about Ray Hutchison that V&E found so attractive and of course the answer is they found her attractive.

Sounds like V&E also pulled a fast one on a certain mayor who still maintains he will still run for her seat. When she resigns of course.  Which she won't unless she becomes governor. She won't even resign in March if she wins the primary which even her own polls indicate she won't.

If she had any integrity at all she would resign her seat and withdraw from the race for governor and just register as a lobbyist for her husband's law firm which is really about all she's been all these years.

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by: Baby Snooks @ Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 18:58:53 PM CST