Senator Hutchinson wants to come home. It's hard work up there in Washington concerned with so many weighty matters and much better to lay around Austin in a new mansion doing little other than talkin' tough. Which is what we Texans want not only in our governors but in our representatives - who meet only a few months every other year - as well. Hey, things we decided 100 years ago are just fine for us down here in Dumbutt.
The Republican Party is split between two factions since their back to back shellacking in the elections of 2006 and 2008. Though both groups are unified against health care reform, advocates of deregulation of banks and Wall Street, reducing taxes on the wealthy, denying women a choice, more war, more lethal injections, more prisons, longer sentences and of course one hellova lot more guns in churches, stadiums and bars! Believe it or not!
The split in the GOP is more about the intensity of the hatred directed at Liberals, Progressives, Democrats, Mexicans, African Americans, Barack Obama and above all, the American Government.
Though more than a year away the race for governor is heating up with word arriving that Dick Cheney will be in Houston on November 17 to endorse Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Carl Rove is also expected to be on hand at the venue.
"I am so pleased. I respect the former vice president so much. We've worked together. He knows my record as a conservative in the Senate." Beamed Senator Hutchinson.
So there you have the moderate wing of the GOP led by the Dick Cheney faction. A snarling draft dodging chickenhawk who not only advocates more and bigger wars in more places, but torture as well. How could anyone from Texas not like that I ask you? Hard to beat.
But the other side of the GOP is no slouch! There we have friend of Glenn Beck Governor Rick Perry who supports the Tea Parties, calls for Texas succession from the Union, and who Sarah Palin has already endorsed and is on her short list as a running mate in 2012. The evangelical, armed wingnut airhead faction of the GOP.
It's a hard decision for us here down in Texas. More killing home and abroad or just sit back and be stupid? Tough call.
One thing is absolutely sure though. No matter Perry or Hutchinson, if there is an OPT OUT option for states in this health care bill, Texas will opt out before its even signed! If we can't actually shoot THEM, we sure as hell are not going to let them tell us we can't just let THEM cease living in line outside a hospital. This is Texas after all.
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