Oh, my! There's trouble in paradise. Patrick & Dewhurst have a lovers quarrel

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Patrick Lashes Out Against Dewhurst
Sen. Dan Patrick

Photo by Nolan Hicks, Houston Chronicle

The strained relationship between Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Sen. Dan Patrick, one of the most prominent conservatives in the Senate, was on full display Wednesday afternoon as Patrick questioned if Dewhurst was the kind of man conservatives would want to see in the US Senate.

Tensions between Dewhurst and Patrick, R-Houston, have been building for the last couple of days as the Senate struggled to take up bills that would ban airport pat downs and ‘sanctuary cities.’

Yesterday, Patrick accused Dewhurst of undermining his anti-pat down bill on the Senate floor. Today, he took his complaints a step further and accused the Lite Gov of kowtowing to the federal government and sinking sanctuary cities legislation.

“Apparently, for political reasons… he came up with this elaborate political play to kill the bill without his fingerprints,” Patrick said, speaking to the drama over the anti-airport pat downs bill that failed yesterday.

http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2011/05/patrick-lashes-out-against-dewhurst/

Oh, aren't they just too cute when they quibble like that? You'd almost think they were vying for the same position as US Senator. :D

[w8liftinglady]

1. I know the TP activists and Christian Conservatives were aghast at that awful Jew Straus

Tried to get a special election to have him voted out. They are their own worst enemies.

[PDittie]

2. Patrick doesn't want to be in the US Senate

He wants to be governor. And likewise Dewhurst. Patrick wants Dewhurst out of his way; he just doesn't get that the best path for him to the governor's mansion would be for The Dew to run for the Senate.

What Patrick said about the Lite Guv in that quote above was his ego speaking true in an unguarded moment.

The path to the White House is through a governorship, particularly for a Southerner (W, Clinton, Carter. There was also non-Southerner Reagan). That's why there's all these Republican governors running, were running, considering running -- Romney, Palin, Daniels, Barbour, Huckabee, Christie, Johnson of New Mexico, our beloved Goodhair ...

Abbott is running for LtG. Patrick would like to replace Dewhurst but he knows he probably can't beat Abbott in the primary. Patrick is no more going to run for the US Senate than Rick Perry is. Dewhurst might or might not; the main reason he won't is that he can't get back to the governorship, like so many Senators often do, if Patrick is already sitting there.

Only one thing is certain: Patrick and Dewhurst dislike each other. A lot. And each is going to look for a way to stick it in the others' eye.

[PDittie]

3. Nemmind. I appear to be

... gravely mistaken about Patrick's intentions:

"Patrick to announce for senator on Laura Ingraham show today"

http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=10578

This has been such a bizarre incident. Patrick and Dewhurst went at each other verbally, but in loud voices, in a Senate committee of the whole earlier today. One of the subjects was David Simpson’s anti-grouping bill, about which I wrote earlier. Patrick manipulated a situation in which he was able to accuse of Dewhurst of sinking his and Simpson’s anti-groping bill Tuesday night — and, further, of being “someone who will not stand up to the federal government.” I’m no admirer of Dewhurst’s leadership of the Senate this session, but Patrick, in one moment, reverted to the showboat side of himself that he has kept under wraps this session. This is theatre of the absurd. What is a responsible politician supposed to do when a U.S. Attorney says that a state legislative action is in violation of federal law and warns that the federal government will seek an emergency stay old (sic) the legislation? Perhaps Dewhurst could send Brandon Creighton to negotiate. I don’t think sending the federal government a copy of the Tenth Amendment is going to change the U.S. Attorney’s mind. This has to be one of the all-time clownish moments of the Texas Legislature.

[w8liftinglady]

4. Man- he would be a great junior partner for Cornyn.... sheesh!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. It's Dan Patrick. Who knows what's going in in that little pea brain of his?

I'd just heard gossip from his part of the state saying he was in the process of setting up a run for US Senate. Just this once it had a vein of truth. I'm still not convinced he's going to take it all the way and actually run. There's still to many variables in the race.


Texas state level politicians have set themselves up as too extreme to have a shot at the WH again anytime soon. Which may well be a contributing factor in Dewhurst's consideration of running for US Senate. He could go for, and very likely win, the Governor's seat. Where he may have to wait for a very long time before Texas state level politicians are viewed more favorably. Or he could move on now to a national level where he can distance himself some from the state level extremist. The way I see it he could still go either way.