Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, former cheerleader and teevee news personality who married money, is resigning from the United States Senate this year.

You folks from foreign states might not know that she took on Rick Perry in the Governor’s race last election and he whipped her so bad that she’s still limping.

Kay has never been a friend of women’s heath care and she even voted with her GOP overlords to defund Planned Parenthood.

But, like Paul on the road to Damascus, she’s had a vision:  she finally realized that she’s a woman.

So, on MSNBC this morning, she took on Governor Perry one more time and announced:

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low income women to have health care services. We cannot. We keep turning back federal funds that every state gets and then try to find money in our budget, which is already being cut in key areas like education. I do think that the governor needs to sit down with the federal government and work it out so we can have our share — our fair share not more — of money for Medicaid to help low-income women have their health care services.

So Kay-Come-Lately has finally arrived at the party.

I wonder what took her so long?  Could it be that Republican women are finally – God help us all – finally seeing the disdain that Republican men feel that hooter toters deserve?

It’s no help for her to come to our aid after she decides to leave office.  Personally, I think she just wanted to slap Rick one more time.

Thanks to a whole mess of people who gave me a heads-up about this.