Dec 29 2009
2009 Jackass of the Year: #3
Kay Hagan
Kay Hagan, like a lot of politicians, seems destined to go down as one of those accidents of history. She shows no great intelligence or political skill. There is no over-riding theme or rationale to her time in office. She has very few accomplishments to her name. And yet, through luck or destiny, she and many others like her somehow find themselves at the right place at the right time.
Pity the rest of us.
Because when Kay Hagan took her oath, North Carolina didn’t get a senator; Harry Reid got a marionette. Hagan campaigned as a moderate, but after a year in office it’s obvious that she isn’t. Conservatives accuse her of being a liberal, but I don’t think that’s accurate either. No, Hagan is really more of a political jello mold: she has no spine. She has no brain. Shake her with a hard question and watch her wiggle and jiggle around like an overweight hula dancer. Sure, she stays in roughly the same shape throughout, but it’s the shape her Democrat enablers made for her. I’d be very surprised if in the past year this woman has come up with a single original thought.
Hagan showed off her “moderate” credentials by criticizing a budget with an almost $2 trillion hole in it… right before she joined the rest of her party and voted for it. Spineless.
Then she said the budget reins in fiscal irresponsibility. Brainless.
She feigned uncertainty about how she’d vote on the “We’ll Throw You in Jail if you Don’t Buy Health Insurance” Bill. Then joined every other Democrat in voting to bill your family $40,000. Spineless.
But when asked if it was unconstitutional, she wouldn’t give an answer. When asked if she would vote for the health care bill even if the majority of North Carolinians opposed it, she wouldn’t give an answer. When asked if she’d vote to raise income taxes or tax people’s health care plans in order to fund a public plan, she wouldn’t give an answer. I don’t think she can. I don’t think she’s capable of the thought processes that would go into answering those questions. Brainless.
Oh, to be fair, she was the only Democrat to vote against placing tobacco under the scrutiny of the Food & Drug Administration, marking the first time in perhaps her entire political career that she’s proven herself capable of independent thought. Somehow, I don’t foresee this becoming a trend.
And so for voting for several bills that not only harm her constituents, but her entire country; for being an empty shell with no clear convictions; and for being utterly incapable of independent or even rational thought, Kay Hagan (D-Harry Reid) is the 3rd Biggest Jackass of 2009.
Tomorrow, the 2nd Bigggest Jackass of 2009.
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