Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison embarrassed herself again yesterday in Temple, Texas, with yet another incredibly poor turnout at a grassroots event– an event publicized via media and social media.

The event drew a a few reporters, a few staffers, and a handful of supporters. See for yourself:

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As you may recall, Hutchison’s campaign had egg on its face a couple weeks ago, when her announcement tour kickoff was also sparsely attended:

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You mean being the #1 earmarker in Texas history, voting in favor of TARP and auto bailouts, consistently voting to expand government health care, siding with Obama on things like Lilly Ledbetter, missing a bunch of stimulus amendment roll call votes, and being pro-choice isn’t catching on among Republican grassroots?

Texas Is A Donor State, California Is A Welfare State-
Chuck DeVore out in California has a great graph that illustrates the problems of Obamanomics.

California has 12% of the U.S. population and 32% of the U.S. welfare cases. Texas has 8% of the U.S. population and only 3.1% of the U.S. welfare cases. In Texas, we consider these numbers a sign of our state’s success. Oddly enough, a lot of people in California just might consider their numbers a sign of success, as well. To a “progressive,” that graph right there is the goal.

Ideas matter. We need should-be Republicans to snap out of it and stop electing Democrats. We also need a lot of our elected Republicans to snap out of it and stop acting like Democrats, so Republican voters actually have a choice.

Originally posted at WILLisms.com, with full-color graph.