KFOX El Paso: Hutchison Not to Resign Senate Seat

So Frickin' Called This (3.00 / 1)

Since last years Netroots Nation I was saying (and telling to then Senate candidate Bill White's staff) that Hutchison was not going to resign her seat. We got closer to that statement when she said she wouldn't resign before the primary, and then Bill White moved to the Governor's race.

And now it's come full circle and she's not going to resign even if she becomes the nominee (which she won't be).

People that are probably really pleased with themselves.
-John Cornyn
-Bill White

People that are probably not thrilled.
-John Sharp
-All the GOP tards that thought they could be Senator.

Oh, and David Dewhurst is irritated that he's going to have to be Lt. Governor for at least two years without getting a leg up with a sweet appointment by Perry. Here's my advice to Kay. Resign in 2011 sometime and have Governor Bill White appoint your replacement.

Looks like 58% of BOR readers polled are pretty damned smart. Heck, next thing we know, KBH will backpedal even more and withdraw from the primary. Any takers on how long that rumor gets refloated?

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 05:11:28 AM UTC

You and I have thought alike (0.00 / 0)

I remember when those initial plans (to include Cap & Trade as well as health care) came out, too.  Ha!  Cap and Trade?  Obama and half the Democratic leadership A) cares too much about the midterms and B) has no idea to make Cap and Trade a win for Democrats.

I'm sure the rumor that she will drop out will get floated up, but I'm not so sure if she will.  Unless she gets to the point where she is convinced she will be embarrassed otherwise.

But it's too late to withdraw her name from the ticket.  So she'd still get votes (and perhaps still embarrassed).  I wonder, then, how much Debra Medina would pick up.

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by: Michael Hurta @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 07:45:07 AM UTC

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don't count on it (0.00 / 0)

When the health care and cap and trade debates are over? I'm not counting on a cap and trade debate to be over this year. Besides, she'll just come up with some other excuse. I think KT might be onto something with her pulling out of the race entirely.  

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by: blake @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 05:23:30 AM UTC

Remember when (0.00 / 0)

she tried to send the healthcare bill back to committee to delay its passing?  I'm starting to think that was just an attempt to stay in the Senate longer and not have to resign.  

It's like when a little kid asks for a bedtime story then a glass of water before bedtime to avoid having to go to sleep.

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by: Joe @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 05:34:25 AM UTC

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What timing... (0.00 / 0)

This will come up at the R debate Thursday and you know the press and Rick will try to get her to sputter through this as a "politician of her most recent word."

I'm ready for White vs. Perry and a Democratic inauguration in 2011.

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by: getreal @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 05:42:36 AM UTC

So, KBH said she had to stay in Washington (0.00 / 0)

to fight health care.  Big deal.  What has she done?  Zip. Nada.  Rien. Nothing.  She has been powerless.  Aside from serving as a rubber stamp in the W. Administration, what precisely has KBH done for the people of Texas?  She sure as hell hasn't brought home much if any bacon.

Health care reform is going to happen whether the party of teabaggers and right wing extremists like it or not.  I wonder what KBH will think when, after it passes, that many folks in Texas, including the misled and misinformed, are happy with HCR?  I mean, more Texans will be able to afford health care insurance, insurance companies can't turn people away or deny care b/c of pre-existing conditions and Medicaid will be expanded to cover more of the economically disadvantaged.  More people will have access to doctors, medicine and healthier life styles than ever before.  What is so horrible about that?  Most of the planet has affordable health care coverage for all.

So why do KBH and her Republican party of teabaggers hate it so much?  Maybe it's because the insurance companies will realize lower profits since they will no longer be able to practice death by the spreadsheet anymore.  

Texans need to wake up and smell the coffee.  Texas Republicans do not work for the people of Texas.  

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by: Libby Shaw @ Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 19:33:34 PM UTC