Let’s start today with a heart-to-heart talk…I want to say something about the government shutdown, not from an emotional or partisan position, but as someone who was elected to state wide office longer than any Republican in my state’s history. Having run for office, served in office, and been a talk show host talking about those who serve in office, I can tell you that the easiest of those is being a talk show host. I get to take a stand, and have no responsibility should my ideas be adopted. I can be absolute about how right I am because no one gets to hold me accountable. But governing is hard. Very hard. Last week, most of the Republican callers to my radio show supported the showdown and the shutdown. One said it best, “We sent those guys to Washington to take a stand.” That’s when I realized “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Because, no, we didn’t “send those guys to Washington to take a stand. We sent them to govern. And right now, neither side is doing the hard job of governing.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:30:01 +0000
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