Utah's star 'you've never heard of'
UPDATE. . .
With his mouth and her shoes . . .
Gov. Jon Huntsman's caustic criticism of the GOP as "irrelevant" and congressional Republicans as "inconsequential" put him at the top of The Huffington Post.
In the last 24 hours, Huntsman has been making a splash on the national political scene as a maverick. In Washington for the National Governors Association, Huntsman told the editors of the Washington Times that Republican congressional leaders are so "inconsequential" he doesn't bother to talk to them:
In a lengthy interview with Politico, which calls Huntsman " the fastest-rising Republican star you have never heard of," the Guv said:
With his mouth and her shoes . . . Gov. Jon Huntsman's caustic criticism of the GOP as "irrelevant" and congressional Republicans as "inconsequential" put him at the top of The Huffington Post.
In the last 24 hours, Huntsman has been making a splash on the national political scene as a maverick. In Washington for the National Governors Association, Huntsman told the editors of the Washington Times that Republican congressional leaders are so "inconsequential" he doesn't bother to talk to them:
I don't even know the congressional leadership. I have not met them. I don't listen or read whatever it is they say because it is inconsequential - completely.It might be helpful, at this point, to note that Huntsman is a Republican from the nation's reddest state.
In a lengthy interview with Politico, which calls Huntsman " the fastest-rising Republican star you have never heard of," the Guv said:
You know, it may come as a shock and a surprise, but I don’t pay any attention to what’s coming out of Congress. I couldn’t even tell you what these guys are saying, because it matters so little in our home state and in the region that I represent.If his drift weren't clear enough already, Huntsman told MSNBC that the Republican Party needs to get beyond "gratuitous political griping."
These guys aren’t doing a thing for us. And so what do we do? We have to do it ourselves. . . .
We will be irrelevant as a party until we become the party of solutions and until we become the party of preeminence.
4 Comments:
Wow progressive thinking from our very own republican govenor - Hooray, hopefully this kind of commentary will drown out people like Sen. Buttars.
Its obvious Mr. Huntsman Jr is angling for the good graces of the President, and he's pretty-much out of here. He wants a seat on the grand stage somewhere in BHO's administration. How arrogant that he doesn't bother to listen to what congress is doing, or even communicate with our representatives charged with representing the interests of HIS State (Didn't he just say he would take money appropriated by the legislature?). Mark my words Utah. We are just a stepping stone for this man's personal ambition. As he considers our representatives inconsequential, we, his constituents are next...
That's not what he said. He doesn't consider our representatives inconsequential, but the Republican congressional leadership. Boehner, McConnell et al, the people that are grandstanding on fiscal ideology while Rome burns. Kudos to Huntsman. I wish the rest of the country would ignore those clowns.
Wondering why we have to read about our super governor in the Washington Times and on Huffington Post. Why can't the really great Salt Lake Tribune reporters provide this information? When will others, beside LaPlante and Walsh, ask the right questions and give us solid, readable and digestive stories?
Thank god for the national media. Without them we wouldn't have an idea of what's happening in Utah.
Damn, this valley could use a good newspaper!
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