Health care has passed, Kay did nothing to stop it... now will she resign?

Kay's campaign got bogged down by a few things... one of them being when or if she would resign. In all honesty I am fairly over the whole thing... and I don't expect Kay to resign before the end of her term. In fact I expect her to try to run again for senate in 2012... and she will definitely face one or more primary opponents. In the meantime questions will continue from reporters about whether or when she will resign. So will she? (link) Excerpt follows...

She hasn't said, and so far today, aides aren't responding to email and phone messages seeking clarification.

Is she standing by her oft-stated stance that she will resign when the health care fight ends, or has she changed her mind? Does she contend that the fight isn't over and, if so, what would mark the end of the fight if not a presidential bill-signing ceremony?

Hutchison said more than a year ago that she intended to resign in the course of running for governor. In July she said that resignation would come by December 2009. In October, she told WBAP's Mark Davis Show that, with health care legislation still pending, she wasn't ready to set a date. "I want to stay and fight with every bone in my body against a government takeover of health care," she said.

In mid-November, she told GOP activists in Galveston, and at least one Republican candidate hoping to succeed her in the Senate, that she would resign after the March 2 primary, win or lose.

Four days before the primary, she was back on WBAP, backing away from the win or lose part, at least as a short term step, but reaffirming that "I am going to leave the Senate. It's the best thing for Texas for me to leave the Senate, sometime this year before the November elections....I'm going to stay and fight health care. I promised that, so that's my first commitment, and I will do that."

Kay you might remember voted the wrong way on HCR a week before Christmas (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link) (link). Her wrong vote on healthcare probably cost Kay any chance of being credible... her first advertisement was all about how she was fighting Obama... but she voted with Democrats... it was really a gift for Rick's peeps...

Not only did Kay vote the wrong way... her entire rationale for staying was that she and only she had the seniority and knew all the parliamentary tricks to help put an end to the Obama health care plan... a "n00b" would not know all the tricks of the senate rules...

What does Kay get us other than pork with her seniority? She voted against earmark reform yet again recently a week after the primary election (link)... did she learn nothing from her election drubbing? Cornyn voted the right way... but Kay again voted with Democrats... it is crazy how wedded to earmarks she is...

It is time for fresh blood... let someone else start building seniority if you are leaving anyway... the only real reason to stay at this point is a possible planned 2012 reelection run... or just to avoid an expensive and risky special election. Or maybe she just likes having that staff and travel paid for...