Hutchison Doesn't Understand Why Anyone Would Care What She and Fellow Republicans Did Back in 2008
Kay Bailey Hutchison just can't understand why anyone would care that she's a big flaming hypocrite with her concern for troop levels in Afghanistan now that a Democrat is the President. When David Shuster asks her why she and other Republicans didn't have anything to say back in 2008 when George Bush refused a troop increase in Afghanistan, Hutchison punts and never answers the question and instead says she doesn’t know why “we’re talking about 2008”. Hutchison gets some help from Tamryn Hall at the end of the segment. She jumped in there instead of allowing David Shuster to follow up and remind her why talking out of both sides of your mouth matters if you expect anyone to believe your concerns are legitimate now.
Shuster: Senator the complaint from Democrats though is that you're essentially shopping for the right generals and Democrats are pointing out that in September of 2008 when President Bush was in office the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan at the time Gen. David McKiernan said this about his request for an additional 22,000 troops. "The danger is that we'll be here longer and we'll expend more resources and experience more human suffering than if we had more resources placed against this campaign sooner. The additional military capabilities that have been asked for are needed as quickly as possible"
That request from Gen. McKiernan was not granted until February of this year--was granted by President Obama. So will you acknowledge that Republicans who were speaking out today should have spoken out back at the end of the Bush administration?
Hutchison: Well I'm not sure exactly what your time frame is. I think certainly President Obama took several months to address the issue that Gen. McChrystal had asked for more troops and I think at this point we need to be talking about winning. We need to be talking about what is success. We need to establish that we are going to stop al Qaeda from exporting terrorism. That should be the mission and we should do whatever it takes to win this war on terrorism...(crosstalk)
Shuster: But Senator Republicans weren't saying that when Gen. McKiernan was making the request in the fall of 2008 when President Bush never mind taking three months--he didn't act on the request at all and the Republicans didn't--we've checked your record--can you refresh our recollection as to whether you were complaining about your colleagues and about the Bush administration ignoring Gen. McKiernan back in the fall of 2008?
Huchison: Well actually I ahhh... Sec. Gates was the Secretary then and I know certainly that he is doing everything that he can with the requests that are made for Afghanistan and we've had a ramp up of troop’s strength. We've been trying to allocate recourses away from Iraq and into Afghanistan. I really don't know why we are talking about what has happened in 2008 so much as we ought to be talking about what's happening for the next two years to win this war on terror.
Thanks Texas! You didn't do enough to fuck this country over by sending us two Bushes, you had to send this mindless repig zombie.
Can anyone down there convince Texass to get the fuck out of our country and go back where they belong, as part of Mexico?
David and Tamryn show other talking heads how to ask uncomfortable questions and not let hypocrites like Hutchinson filibuster or change subject. Are you paying attention Wolf Blitzer?
We need a constitutional amendment banning Texans from seeking higher office.
In spite of the appearance - there are many good people who could be decent politicians in Texas.
Think Molly Ivins (and many many others)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
but LBJ, George W Bush and Tom Delay keep popping up. Texans have done far more damage to this country than all gay marriages combined past, present and future. We need that constitutional amendment now! (snarky)
"more damage to this country than all gay marriages combined"
Silly moi, I never thought any gay marriage did any damage.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
semantics.
Sure it does, they have to hire straight wedding caterers, with plenty of cocktail weiners, ranch style beans and Lone Star beer, and decorations courtesy of Easyriders Magazine and High Times designers.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Keep in mind that the Bushes are Connecticut yankies living in Texas. We don't want them here.
I'm hoping Kay Bailey and Rick Perry shred each other in the upcoming gubernatorial race and take each other out. Solve two headaches at once.
Obama did surprisingly well in Texas but in next year's general election, I bet one of those two cretins will win. There's alot of work to be done in Texas but I think the Democrats can get back to winning that state in the near future.
Don't forget Dick Armey, Phil Gramm, Pete Sessions, John Cornhole, Lloyd Bentsen, Charlie Wilson, and Ron Paul.
I knew that dead people have been know to vote from time to time, but never to hold public office---then again, looking at the makeup of the US Senate maybe that's not such a novel concept after all.
yanking the voting priveleges of non-Texans who elected them to
the Presidency?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
You sound worse than any Republican litmus test waver demanding a purge.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
... Texas does not have a monopoly, by a long shot, in the production of these type of vermin.
if they are young or old male or female the one thing that all republicans have in common is they are fucking out of their minds.
republicanism/conservatism really is a mental illness that is killing America!
It is time to show the world that the Democrats can be every bit the war criminals that the Republicans were.
More war, less democracy!
Kay Bailey Hutchison and Diane Feinstein are the mother hens of the military industrial congressional complex.
Chalmers Johnson
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Kay Bailey Hutchison is the original Palin.
On so many levels it isn't funny.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
That's for sure! She uses the old avoidance tricks of looking demure, smiling vulnerably, fumbling for words, and then artfully changing the subject. As far as Tamrin (and all of them) go, moving to a commercial break is more important than pursuing an important issue. I love Shuster, however, because he gets right after them, and he's well researched. He needs his own show!
ljmel
He does need his own show....
Maybe KBH will send her kids or grandkids to help Obama meet those numbers?
The GOP and RNC will be sending 2001-2008 Amnesia kits via mail to all party members FREE!. Don't worry. The pills included are designed to specifically preserve any horrific 9/11 memories.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
If the war-porn induced erection last more than four hours . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"Hutchison punts and never answers the question and instead says she doesn’t know why “we’re talking about 2008”
I never understood why when we had a twice elected Democratic president who was doing a good job presiding over record prosperity and peace, Republicans wanted to talk about stains on a blue dress and impeachment.
.
Google "Great Recession" "2 failed wars" "worst president ever" , something may come up to jog your memory.
The Nurse Ratchet of the Senate.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Kay is just carrying that old dirty party line. That thing must be getting heavy these days but they would fall rather than just lay it down or bury it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..sen. hutchison that:
..w stood on the rubble that is the WTC and told the country he would bring obl to justice.
..that w turned aside assets in Afghanistan and allowed obl to escape.
..turned away from the Afghanstan war to invade Iraq that had nothing to do with the attack on our nation.
..that you can't rewrite history no matter who you are or how much of a war criminal you are.
Keep preaching that party line senator and you'll be out of a job before too much longer. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Well actually I ahhh... Sec. Gates was the Secretary then and I know certainly that he is doing everything ...
Translation - "Ohh noo...facts...he's got facts! What do I do. I'm only a Senator. I'm not supposed to be taking this heat!"
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Maybe the spawns of some of these prominent cackling chickenhawks will volunteer to help Obama meet those numbers, but something tells me the apples don't fall too far from the trees.
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
Live?
She looks like death eating crackers.
Term limits?
Age limits?
'Talk to the hand'
The Case Against Kay
[...]
Beginning in June 1993, 33 witnesses testified under oath before the grand jury. Most of them were Republicans, and were her own hand-picked aides and associates; 26 worked at the Treasury.
Collectively, the files describe an obsessive, de-manding and paranoid woman who was at times brutal to her staff, berating and pinching aides, and even, in one now-legendary incident, whacking a subordinate on the shoulder with a notebook.
More important, the Hutchison files reveal how one of Texas' top elected officials carried on extensive political operations out of the Treasury -- ignoring, several staffers testified, repeated complaints that the practice was improper. They also show that, after her office's political activities were partially revealed, she personally directed a laborious effort to cover up evidence of wrongdoing.
While contemptuous in public of the charges against her, the senator adopted a different tone behind the closed doors of the Travis County grand jury.
"Very respectfully," she told the panel on September 9, 1993, in response to Assistant D.A. Claire Dawson-Brown's first question, "I must take the advice of my counsel to assert my right to remain silent under the Constitution of Texas and the United States to each question that you would ask, and I am very sorry to have to do that."
"Is it your intent," the prosecutor asked, "to assert your right to the Fifth Amendment to any further questions this grand jury would ask?"
"Yes, it is," the senator replied.
After a brief pause, Dawson-Brown excused the witness.
"Thank you," the senator said before her exit. "I'm very sorry."
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
that the DA screwed up in bringing charges against her that didn't stick, as if it was the DA's fault he couldn't prosecute this woman.
What a joke.
It is pretty spotty when it comes to nailing politicians. Or anyone else for that matter.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I'm sure you could nail her.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
And she was more than mere "type." She was a real one at the university of Texas.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Hmmm...so if the DA had been a black ex jock....
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and still done time.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
You could post a story like this every day. Several actually. The right has become nothing more than a screaming blob of hypocrisy. If people can no longer take them seriously or find them without core principals it is no wonder.
Hutchison, with Hatch, are the smoothest hypocrites the GOP has to offer. The rest of 'em are equally hypocritical, but their hypocrisies, like farts in an elevator, are easy to detect.
Typical Republican. They always talk a good game.
I am increasingly of the opinion that Republicans are just plain stupid. Not a particularly intelligent breed of people.
at winning elections.
They don't think about the fact they have to actually govern and do the job once they're elected.
That's why they FUBAR everything they touch when they're in charge.
GOP objective, once in office, is to give away the store.
Never forget that they are the party of "gov't is the problem."
...that nobody cares what they (repubs) did back in 08 is because...
She witnessed a bunch of democrats who were against the war, elect Barak H. Obama to the office of president.
...(and she figures) ...that if a bunch of democrats can ignore the fact that Obama voted to give Chimpy all the war money he ever asked for...(and elect a warmonger senator to the presidency)
...then they would forget about what she did/didn't do too!
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
K.B.(R)Hutchison is Obama's fault?
nasty woman.
moment.
Exactly. She doesn't even need to 'say' "how dare you"...it's all over her!
She's the Yellow Rosebud of Texas
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
so the Repubs are lying manipulative jingoistic political hacks. That's a shocker.
And Obama has now out-imperialized Bush.
Awesome.
Hutchinson knows what they did back in 2008. She doesn't give a damn. more politics as usual. That's how they roll... conflicts are purposely prolonged and occupation occurs. The cost is put on the backs of the low-middleclass.
"And when the end of the Yuga comes, the right hand will deceive the left and the left the right. And men with false reputation of learning will contract Truth and the old will betray the senselessness of the young, and the young will betray the dotage of the old. And cowards will have the reputation of bravery and the brave will be cheerless like cowards. And towards the end of the Yuga men will cease to trust one another. And full of avarice and folly the whole world will have but one kind of food. And sin will increase and prosper, while virtue will fade and cease to flourish."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Man cannot live by yugart alone. But if you own a Yuga you pretty much have to drive alone.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Twinkies? High fructose corn syrup?
I think David should have inserted the name Cheney in any question involving Bush.
I thought she was supposed to be a Christian:
14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 KJV
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
i get a kick out of the texan lawmakers and the (r)/libertarians demograpic(s) that are anti-government,
taxation and spending. i would like to see how they feel if the military was pulled out of texas.
Seems like she'd fit right in....
Corruption favors the wealthy.
"Waaaaah! You're pointing out my hypocrisy, and that's not fair! Waaaaah!" The fact that she stammered at the beginning of that last response suggests that Shuster had her cornered and that she knew it -- but she lacks the ethics, the integrity, the courage, and the courtesy to admit that picking Obama apart over something for which she and other members of her party gave Bush a pass is due almost exclusively to partisan politics.
Why is it that Republicans continue to pontificate on the importance of "taking personal responsibility" when it's all too clear that they never take any themselves????????
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
"I think certainly President Obama took several months to address the issue that Gen. McChrystal had asked for more troops and I think at this point we need to be talking about winning. We need to be talking about what is success."
Where has that discussion been for the last 7 or 8 years?
Kay Bailey just admitted that neither the Commander-Guy nor his chosen General ever discussed what success was, so that they would recognize it when it hit them in the face.
"I ahhh..." "...what's happening for the next two years to win this war on terror."
What the fuck does this even mean to Hutchinson?
Like most repugs, Sen Hutchison doesn't care about the facts or recent history especially when it exposes their own hypocrisy. She represents her idiotic voters well. She'll do well when she runs for governor of Texas next year.
Anyone with enough intelligence to connect the dots can see right through these "real patriot turds". It's time to bitch about actions in Afghanistan, the economy, the deficit, the "bank take-over"...now that we have a Democratic President.
They all had their heads up their asses for the past eight years when darth and the manikan were in charge. Sickening, disgusting, political ass kissing whiners.
I'm so sick of these loathsome politicians that come out of their cave when the Democrats take over and are trying to right all the f*cked up neglect and actions they screwed up. It goes all the way back to ronnie alzheimer, clinton, bush 1 and his spawn.
Assholes...all of them. This bitty needs to go back to texas and manage that crumbling state.
... never having to take responsibility for your actions or care about facts.
The Undead! As to her comments, "those who forget history..........." Well, you know the rest....it's the Rethuglican mantra---"It happened last year....it's not relevant."
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
She is pandering to the teabagger base in Texas, hoping to be more competitive against Rick "goodhair" Perry in the upcoming governor's race by challenging the president. Rickieboy has already tried this and failed when he opposed the unemployment benefits in the stimulus and had to turn around and borrow money from the federal government to cover budget shortfalls.
Rep. Grayson's comment about *hores definitely applies to her in this interview. She'd sell her soul for political gain while proclaiming her "christian values." Liar.
With only a few of exceptions they are all Republican / right wing , Repug and Repug lite .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
she doesn’t want to be reminded that the repugs used reconciliation to pass the Bushy tax cuts either..
What's wrong with you? Don't you understand the importance of bipartisanship?!
I remember this Whore I am in her district and during confirmation hearings and that IDIOT gonzales both her and conyers of Texas said I Quote, thanks we appreciate your in put but e VOTE as TOLD and WE VOTE only PARTY LINE.
So ask this Whore to do what she does best Flat back her way through the Election or try and find someone QUALIFIED.
This WHORE does NOT care about the constituents.
This Whore after that NEVER for over 3 years answered her phone and yes stupid I am talking about her staff as well,DUH!
Hutchison is stalling until the rewritten history of the Bush years is published by Regnery.
Republicans are Assholes.
NOBODY 2012
A slut! An ex UofTexas cheerleader. Married to a powerful Austin lawyer. Arranged mistrial for herself on misuse of government funds (was guilty) as Texas Railroad Commisioner in late 80's to make it possible to run for the US Senate.
Typical Texas bitch.
She looks like Lou Holtz!
But without the lisp.
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