Former TX U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Ted Cruz - video link

[Tx4obama]

Kay Bailey Hutchison was interviewed on MSNBC by Craig Melvin today...

VIDEO here: http://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/what-is-cruzs-role-in-the-gop-civil-war-55086659586

I could have sworn that she said something about "... podium thumping belligerents ... " but that is NOT in the video - I guess it was someone else that said that today or they edited the video UPDATE: that comment was from Olympia Snowe (see Comment #1), they must have played a clip before Hutchison spoke or somethin'.

p.s. I really wish that Kay Bailey Hutchison had not retired which left us stuck with Cruz! And at least she crossed the aisle and voted with the Dems sometimes, and she was not a nut like Cruz.

Also, while she was still in office:
"Hutchison broke ranks with her Republican colleagues and opposed an attempt to stall the Democrats' health-care bill in the Senate"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison

[Tx4obama]

1. The 'podium-thumping belligerents' comment came from Former U.S. Senator Olympia Snow (R-ME)

Olympia Snowe to Congress: 'Do your job'

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Snowe offered a dour assessment of the legislature's recent track record. "We have deferred every major issue for the last two years," she said. "This will be regarded as the lost year."

In order to give Congress a greater incentive to act, Snowe has advocated that lawmakers not get paychecks unless they pass a budget. "Right now, we're in the fourth year in which the United States of America is operating without a budget," she said. Instead of working through the country's challenges, many key issues are simply never discussed, let alone solved.

It was that frustration over Congress's inability to make even simple decisions that drove her to quit, Snowe said Wednesday. It wasn't an easy call. She said she woke up worried in the middle of the night shortly before she had to turn in her signatures to secure a place on the ballot. She was all set for her reelection bid, but she couldn't reconcile the type of work she wanted to do with the type of workplace the Senate had become. Snowe said she ultimately resigned partially to "reaffirm people's frustration, but more than that, to tell America how you can change it." Voters should not "settle for the lowest common denominator in terms of leadership," she said.

The solution? More political engagement. The alternative is little to no accountability, particularly for the more volatile factions within the House and Senate. "We get the government we demand," Snowe said. "If we value bipartisanship and collaboration, we'll get it. But if we don't, we won't."

The choice for voters is stark, she said: "If we allow our political system to be subjugated to the fringe factions or to ideological interests or the podium-thumping belligerents that we're witnessing today, then that's the government we're going to get."

Here: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/tag/olympia-snowe/

Published on Oct 16, 2013

The former Republican senator lambasted the House and Senate for failures of leadership.