“I have known since 2006 that I wouldn’t seek another term,” she said in a telephone interview from her office in Dallas. “I wanted to announce it on my own terms and in my own way.” [...]
Hutchison said she didn’t know what she would do after leaving the Senate, but retirement isn’t likely. She said she looked forward to working in some capacity in the private sector.
A telephone interview. She did it her way.
So most won’t notice or care about this. Some Nate Silver robot will go tweak things, and some dude will update her Wikipedia page. But what’s important about this is that we may finally see the Texas brand of Teabagger on the national stage, running for Senate. That has to be good. “Go big,” etc. [Dallas Morning News]
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So many crazy Teabaggers, and only one Republican nomination. Who will it be?
Hopefully Pat Paulsen.
But to appeal to the teatard electorate, Pat would have to change his tagline to "Straight SHOOTIn' American Government."
Kinky Friedman could register as a Republican. He already has good name recognition in Texas.
Since Senate is a state-wide, not gerrymandered, position, any chance of a Democrat pick-up? Considering the black & Latino population in the Lone Star Republic, & that the Senate election will be in a Presidential year (with a Democratic incumbent), I say yes.
You really are a dreamer, horse1. One could only hope. But Texas is mighty whitey. And ginormously crazy.
True. & I forget, these are Democrats on whom I pin my hopes — more than likely, they'd run a Texan Manchini in hopes of drawing in enough of the talismanic swing voters/"sensible middle"/independents to pair with the leftists (basically: Travis County) to win at least six years. & that will never work. The "independents" will always go with the more sincerely crazy candidate, for being sincere.
In fucking Texas? No way.
Sure, if the Repug Candidate got videotaped raping, bar-b-cuing and eating an infant the day before the election. Otherwise, it is to larf.
I'm hoping Bill White runs but even he is a long-shot. Still, if the economy picks up and Obama voters turn out in force and the Republicans pick a real loon, he could have a chance.
I think you're mistaken. I don't believe that blacks and Latinos are allowed to vote in Texas.
I'm sure there's almost no chance she'll go 'hooring for some fat, lobbyist cash…
As they say in Texas, she's no hat & no cattle.
I could care less but do not see how without tequila.
Yay! Friday a.m. Patron — it does a body good.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!
Thank goodness she's finally keeping her "If elected, I'll only serve two terms" promise she made three terms ago. Wouldn't want to call her a lying Republican or anything.
Mayhaps the Tejas Refudicans will teabag themselves all the way to selecting someone like Peter Morrison, the leader of the Judenfrei wing of the party that tried to axe Rep. Joe Straus' run for Speaker of the Texican House. That would help a DRat sneak in.
You know, that shit is really shameful. I almost couldn't believe this when I first heard it. But, I guess if you're going to be crazy-racist then it's better to go all-out; at least then the rest of us have time to prepare for the onslaught. As they say, the devil you know.
Reading up on Straus, though, he actually sounds kind of moderate, which in the Republican Party makes him a socialist liberal, I guess.
Teabaggers were going to primary her. My bet is that they are going give Louie Gohmert the nod. He is their kind of stupid.
Don't be divisive — Gomer is everybody's kind of stupid.
I don't know, Gohmert has level upon levels of stupid that I cannot even comprehend. We're talking genius-level stupid that leaves one breathless.
That is if one is from a liberal coastal blue state.
How did Gohmert get so famous all of a sudden? Was he appointed to some important committee or something, because up until January, I'd literally never seen his name in print, and now bat-boy seems to be everywhere with his stupid, flaunting it, even.
Translation: She doesn't know precisely what she's going to do, but its going to involve making a shitload of money.
Translation: I don't know whose dick I'm going to be sucking now, but at least it won't be an elected official.
"She said she looked forward to working in some capacity in the private sector."
If you have to ask what it is she's going to do next, you can't afford her.
"She said she looked forward to working in some capacity in the private sector."
We all do.
Thank you Jeebus! I was getting tired of praying for this worn-out piece of ass to die. This is almost as good, maybe better; considering she is so fucked in the head she probably wears her clothes out from the inside-out.
That's not very civil.
BTW, you from Texas? What part?
Ray County Missouri (Coal Mines and Corn). That's why I'm not very civil, sorry. I just think she is a worthless cunt.
Texas takes a long look at Alaska, then checks and raises.
So will they elect a steer?
"Kay Bailey Hutchison To Leave Senate, Become Rick Perry of the Private Sector"
Only if she gets a bad toupee.
On her successor, I'm torn between supporting Louie Lou-eye Gohmert or Representative Pigford Smith (R) Texas. What do ya think, Wonkettes?
Could "The World's Most Deliberative Body"™ survive either one?
I thought Rick Perry was the Rick Perry of the private sector.
They say after age 50, everyone has the face they deserve.
Meg Ryan must have been baking cookies with the blood of virgins for most of her adult life, then.
change out "infants" for "virgins" and I'll agree.
BTW, FTW. Meg Ryan turned herself into Batman's Joker. At least Jone Rivers has an excuse (i.e. being ancient in Hollywood).
Or can afford.
"I'd frak her" – Valentine Michael Smith
I saw that too, and I believe it. Check out my pix on fb (ttommyunger, thomas unger).
Too much work.
Or a mobius-chain of stupidity, really.
Unlike W, John Q. Adams cared about (white) people.
He stopped the genocide of Native Americans (that Jackson then reinstituted) and was a fierce abolitionist, so he did care about non-white people too, rare for his time.
He was also an abolitionist before it was cool to be an abolitionist.
I've given up on Texas, Alaska, Arizona and pretty much everything else not on an east or west coast seceding. They're always threatening, but like most bullies and bad boyfriends, give nothing but bluster and empty promises. Now that I'm back here, I think it's high time California did the right thing and left the union. No more mocking of the secessionists for me, I'm joining them, but for the states that could actually stand on their own.
California may be broke, but after a few years of austerity, I'm pretty sure we'd be better off than the remaining states. We've got the porn, we've the the pot, we've got Scarlett Johansson, what more do we need? (please, nobody say water . . . )
rick perry slammed IL yesterday for raising taxes (as did govs of WI and IN) and predicted all the cool companies would move to texas.
i think rick perry just admitted texas is a third world country.
Takes a special brand of stupid for Wisconsin to complain about the Illinois income tax rate, since Wisconsin's is still higher.
Every teabagger governor seems to have had something to say about it. I'm just glad our truly moderate Republican governor up here in Michigan didn't say a word. He's classy like that.
BTW, Texas' budget is shot to hell. I'd not be saying anything if I was Tejas.
The odd thing is that if Rick Astley and Steve Perry had sex and somehow had a baby, it would be exactly Rick Perry.
The most ambitious, Teabaggy weasel in the Texas delegation right now is probably John Culberson. Given his extremely well-documented, Tancredo-like obsession with terrorist Meskins swarming across the border, he could conceivably lose to a Democratic candidate if he ran. But, then again, this is Texas we are talking about.
Kay Bailey Hutchison has always reminded me of one of the annoying Southern assholes in 'Designing Women'. She could have been Dixie Carter's ugly Senator sister.
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