Kay bombs on Meet The Press...

Kay went on Meet the Press this morning, and she just really did not excel...

Trailblazers blogs on the show (link). Excerpt follows...

The Brady/Geithner confrontation has been replayed repeatedly on cable news shows.

"I think what Kevin Brady did in challenging him in talking about this economy was the right thing to do... A jobless recovery is not a recovery," Hutchison said when Meet the Press host David Gregory showed the clip this morning and asked if she agreed.

When Gregory pressed for a direct answer -- should Geithner resign, as Brady suggested - Hutchison basically said he should not.

With three other senators at Gregory's table (Lieberman, Durbin and Feinstein), Hutchison argued that if everyone who shares some blame for the country's economic problems should be sacked, "then we shouldn't keep our jobs either.... The president, Mr. Geithner and the Congress are all responsible."

Rick's spokesman responded (link)...

"Senator Hutchison finally admitted that she is part of the problem with the out-of-control spending in Washington," said Perry spokesman Mark Miner. "After supporting record deficits, bailouts and earmarks during her more than 16 years in Washington, most Texans would agree with the Senator's statement, 'We shouldn't keep our jobs either.'"

Hmmm. Doesn't that contradict Perry's old standby that Texas is better off if Hutchison stays in Washington? Admittedly, Perry has said she has fallen down on the job in many ways. And Miner is playing directly off the senator's own words. But while Hutchison's entire premise is that Perry should lose office, this may be a turning point, with Perry arguing that she should lose her job.

I think Rick and his peeps will pounce all over this with more than their piddly press release... she basically lobs a softball to him when she failed to strongly condemn Secretary Geithner. That issue had to be uncomfortable for her in total because bailouts are so problematic to her run for office in Texas. There was no good answer for Kay on that...

More than that she just did not come off as in command of the situation... her tone of voice at times sounded like a child complaining about curfew more than someone who is the sole spokesman for Republicans on this issue on this once very influential show...

There is no way Kay won any Texas votes on this show, nor did she advance the Republican agenda effectively at the national level. It was yet another misstep in recent weeks that has shown her to be undisciplined at staying on message and ineffective at looking like a fighter... in these clips Kay just looks like a Washington insider...