Friday, September 29, 2006
Kay: "Three Terms, Really. I Mean It This Time."
The main point of the Statesman article I linked to about the Hutchison-Radnofsky debate - in fact, the headline itself - is that Kay says this term, if she wins, will be her last term.
Despite the "political analysts" who weren't "surprised" by this, I don't see why anybody should believe it for a second. I'm sure she sounded just as sincere when she lied this same lie twelve years ago.
Aside from this sour-grapes-sounding quote from her opponent:
the paper lets Hutchison completely off the hook.
Please, read the whole Kay Bailey term limits story. Her "two terms only" pledge was not an idle, throwaway comment. She repeated it again and again. It was part of her platform. She cosponsored legislation to amend the U.S. Constitution with term limits. But then, when her time was up, guess what? Here she is, running again anyway.
This time, they say, it was because she couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't run against Gov. Goodhair. Well, what happens if there's some barrier to whatever her next political ambition is? (Not the Vice Presidential ticket in 2008, she assures us. No, certainly not that.)
Then we'd be hearing the same damn thing in six more years: "This one is really, really going to be my last term. Really."
Hutchison says this will be her last term
In an interview with the American-Statesman, Hutchison said she decided to run for one more term because of her seniority on the Appropriations Committee and within the Republican Party ranks.
"I've been able to do many things for Texas that would be hard to accomplish as a junior member," Hutchison said. "But this is certainly going to be my last term."
Despite the "political analysts" who weren't "surprised" by this, I don't see why anybody should believe it for a second. I'm sure she sounded just as sincere when she lied this same lie twelve years ago.
Aside from this sour-grapes-sounding quote from her opponent:
But Radnofsky said Hutchison's decision goes against a promise she made to voters when campaigning, and that she repeated in 2004, that she would serve as U.S. senator for only two terms,
the paper lets Hutchison completely off the hook.
Please, read the whole Kay Bailey term limits story. Her "two terms only" pledge was not an idle, throwaway comment. She repeated it again and again. It was part of her platform. She cosponsored legislation to amend the U.S. Constitution with term limits. But then, when her time was up, guess what? Here she is, running again anyway.
This time, they say, it was because she couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't run against Gov. Goodhair. Well, what happens if there's some barrier to whatever her next political ambition is? (Not the Vice Presidential ticket in 2008, she assures us. No, certainly not that.)
Then we'd be hearing the same damn thing in six more years: "This one is really, really going to be my last term. Really."
