KBH head-fake: I'm staying!

It’s crucial to America that I remain in the Senate (ap photo)

Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced in 2009 that she would give up her Senate seat sometime later that same year to devote herself full-time to running for governor. But oops — she lost a tough primary battle to Gov. Rick Perry, and rather than give him the pleasure of naming an interim successor, Hutchison has decided to serve out the last two years of her term, instead.