Former Congressman Charles Djou says he disagrees with Hawaii’s Democratic congressional delegates on how to raise the federal government’s debt limit. But the Republican also says he would like to see the tenor of debt discussions on Capitol Hill shift toward civility.

“The rhetoric has gotten too heated,” Djou told Civil Beat in a phone interview on Tueday. “I think we need more bipartisan cooperation.”

In almost the same breath, though, Djou blamed Hawaii’s single-party representation for making the state “exceptionally vulnerable and very isolated” in Congress.

“Hawaii’s congressional delegation has been ineffective, and proven utterly incapable of talking to the Republican majority (in the House), which only hurts Hawaii,” Djou said. 

Sounds like congressional campaign material to us, but Djou says he isn’t making any “formal announcement” yet.