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We're not ones to get involved in the internal political battles of the other states, but when it comes to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), we've got her back.
Word is out that Hutchison is looking to challenge incumbent Gov. Rick Perry for Texas' top job, a move that if successful would see her decamp for Austin in 2010. We've got nothing against Perry, but given the chance to send Hutchison back down south, consider us her biggest supporters.
Hutchison hasn't been much of a friend to the District. Beyond her repeated attempts to dump the District's gun laws by legislative fiat, the Texas senator also voted against the D.C. Voting Rights Act. She even ditched her spacious and well-located Capitol Hill rowhouse for a home across the Potomac. The nerve!
It's not just her, though -- it's most of Texas. Whether Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) trying to claim that he represents our best interests or Rep. Henry Bonilla's (R-Tex.) ill-fated attempt to rename 16th Street "Ronald Reagan Boulevard," members of the Texas delegation seem to have it out for us. Heck, President George W. Bush, one of the state's most famous political exports, hasn't been much of an amigo to the city in his eight years here, either.
Of course, the risk of Hutchison leaving is that we'd get someone even more hostile to the District to take her place. But we can hope not. Hutchison for governor!
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As governor, wouldn't she pick her successor?
Before we go all hatin' on Texas..... all four major cities in Texas voted Obama.
And Austin is a very progressive area. Wishing this bitch on the citizens of Austin isn't very nice, no matter how much we'd like her to leave us alone.
dear jesus--first they take our perfectly well-named Washington National Airport and name it after that bastard, but they wanted to take one of our most important (if convoluted for all of its lane changes and parking lanes) streets and rename it after him too?
wtf. unacceptable. speaking as a resident of said street, i would have refused to ever call it as such. Balderdash, I say.
Your new Senator from Texas...Ron Paul. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
"first they take our perfectly well-named Washington National Airport and name it after that bastard, but they wanted to take one of our most important ... streets and rename it after him too?"
I continue to exclusively refer to it as "National Airport."
"Reagan Airport" should refer, if anything, to a collection of cropduster runways outside of Fresno.
And even if they renamed the S buses the "Ronald Reagan 16th Street Transit System for Welfare Mothers and Liberal Yuppies," it would still be the S line to me.
You don't have to be a leftie to be puzzled by the cult of Reagan.
Ron Paul is a better representation of Texas than fucking Kay Bailey.
I apologize to DC as a representative of the Great State of Texas for Hutchison.
Just think... a few years ago, it could've been this guy she'd be running against:
http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/uploaded_images/Friedman,%20Kinky%20facing%20left-702884.jpg
Being also originally from Texas... I heard rumors that she was running for gub'ner in 2002, and in 2006 the state Republican Party had to talk her out of it. I'll believe it when I see it. Now living in the DC area, though, I'd be perfectly happy to get her out of here.
BTW majapa - Kinky is apparently considering running again in 2010.
Does anyone know when the United States' lease on The Republic of Texas expires? I cannot WAIT till that Godforsaken land is given back to Mexico.
She's kinkier than Kinky actually. I know from experience dude.
what would be awesome would be if she left the senate, ran for governor, and lost to a dem down there.
how'd you like them apples?
"I cannot WAIT till that Godforsaken land is given back to Mexico."
Come on - you have to admit at least that Austin is a pretty cool town (but perhaps is the exception that proves the rule...?)
Of course not all of Texas is bad, but it's a tiny minority of the entire state.
Actually, there are large parts of Houston and Dallas that are pretty decent also.
Saying all of Texas sucks is a bit like the simplistic statement that all of NW DC is a wonderland while all of the rest of DC sucks.
Other part of Texas that don't suck: Guadalupe National Park. It's not even a city. And boy oh boy, it sure is purdy!
My guess is Big Bend is nice, too.
I grew up in Austin and I apologize to you all on behalf of my state.
Please let us get a governor who's not a total idiot sometime soon. Not so conservative would be awesome too.
Uh, I mean "Other part of Texas that doesn't suck". Forgot to make my tenses agree. :(
And blaming all Texans for individual douchebag politicians is like blaming all DC residents for a certain ex-mayor with the initials MB.
@no_more_caffeine: Don't you mean GILF?
amelias: You "grew up in Austin?"
Nobody in Austin grows up. That's why people live there!
But if Obama doesn't name Jim Hightower Ag Secretary, Texans need to run him for Governor.