You do have to admire her lack of self-consciousness.
Contending that Gov. Rick Perry has used the state as his personal playground, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison unveiled a government reform plan Monday that includes term limits for Texas governors and restrictions for lobbyists.
In announcing her proposal, Hutchison said Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, had been in office too long.
“If there’s anything Texans don’t like, it’s one person having too much power,” Hutchison said during a news conference at Dallas Love Field. She also made campaign stops in San Antonio, Amarillo and Lubbock. “These are steps in the right direction. I want to put standards in place to assure no future governor will abuse the standards of the office.”
Yes, this is the same KBH who said the following back in 1993:
“I’ve always said that I would serve no more than two full terms. This may be my last term or I could run for one more. But no more after that. I firmly believe in term limitations and I plan to adhere to that,” Hutchison said.
Just on her own schedule, you understand. I mean, let’s not do anything rash here.
KBH first brought this up back in April. Given that one of the other points of her government transparency plan has been making one of Rick Perry’s cronies squeal like a stuck pig, you have to wonder why she hadn’t been hitting this, or at least the non-ironic parts of it, more consistently. Then you remember this is KBH we’re talking about, and it all makes sense. Still, some of what she’s proposing does make sense, and as that Trib link notes, we may see some of it repurposed for the general election, where in the hands of a competent campaigner it may even make some headway.