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Even the big-government Democrats knew it was going to be an albatross.
“All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill… [...]
Sarah Palin can only name one Supreme Court case?:
The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to [...]
Survey USA says that Saxby is in trouble:
[I]ncumbent Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, leads Martin, a Democrat, by two points, 46 percent to 44 percent.Thirteen days ago, Chambliss led the challenger by 17 points, 53 percent to 36 percent. Chambliss lost seven points in the latest polling and Martin picked [...]
...to the Mainstream Media:
Be careful what you wish for.
Even more to the point, be careful what you risk your entire institutional reserve of credibility—such as it is—for.
I probably should have been sending you this warning long ago—like, starting… [...]
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss held a press conference in Atlanta today to talk about the state of the proposed financial bailout. Here is some video from that event:
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[...] From the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary:
Of the 205 members who wound up voting for the bill, only seven — four Democrats and three Republicans — can be said to come from districts where they face a tough race. By contrast, of the 31 members retiring this year, all but [...]
Here is the electoral vote picture as of today according to Real Clear Politics:
Mr. Instapundit noted yesterday:
A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into [...]
When sexual abuse in the Catholic church was uncovered, the national mainstream media was all over the story, as it should have been. But when it’s a public school system that is involved in the same thing — including sending known offenders back in to work with kids, and trying [...]
Kathleen Parker joins Peggy Noonan in criticizing Sarah Palin:
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family [...]
Stephen Gordon adds insult to injury in a press release about price gouging:
"As I live in Morgan County but work in Atlanta, I see the impact of government intervention into the retail gasoline market on a daily basis," said Libertarian Party of Alabama Chairman Stephen Gordon. "I bought gas [...]
As my wife and I talked about the bailout failure, she wondered if there would be the catastrophe that pundits were predicting would come about. I mean, some were giving the impression that the next day we’d be in The Great Depression 2.0. The Dow Jones drop yesterday was a [...]
No, It’s not the Republicans or the Bulldogs. Neither of those teams deserves to be undefeated after this week’s performance.
My Melted Wings Part II Fantasy Football team finished week 4 undefeated, as did the first place (by points) team of Obama The Savior coached byBuzz Brockway. Last week’s other undefeated team, [...]
Ahead of the Bell: Wells Fargo shares upgraded - Forbes.com
NEW YORK - Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst David George on Tuesday upgraded shares of Wells Fargo & Co. to “Neutral” from “Underperform,” citing the San Francisco-based bank’s strong balance sheet.
Shares jumped $1.85, or 5.6 percent, to $35.10 in [...]
Resident Hack
by George Dienhart
My congressman, Lynn Westmorland released the following statement in regards to the bailout.
?As the financial crisis has unfolded over the past year, we?ve slowly watched the dominos drop one after another and we?ve seen one bailout after another,? Westmoreland said. ?Each time we were told: ?This [...]
That’s how most people will read this.
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine on Monday said he is considering the addition of fees on car and other forms of insurance to support trauma care services for car accident victims and others.He said trauma cases often arise from incidents such as [...]
The U.S. Department of Transportation is taking action to help with the fuel crisis in Georgia by extending the hours-of-service requirements for fuel carriers in the Southern portion of the United States, a news release from Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Moultrie, said.“We know that Georgia is sharing [...]
One of the more dramatic moments of a stunning Monday in Washington occurred over the radio.Rep. Jim Marshall, a Macon Democrat, had just cast his vote in favor of the $700 billion Bush administration proposal to rescue Washington.
Marshall is in a Republican-leaning district, with well-funded [...]
Sam Olens, chairman of the Cobb Board of Commissioners, spent 45 minutes on Sunday waiting to fill up the tank in his wife’s car, which was near empty. On Monday morning, Olens said he believed the state was not doing enough to address the gas crisis.“The [...]
Like soft rain on parched ground, gasoline has continued to pour into metro Atlanta only to be quickly absorbed.Hundreds of service stations remained closed Monday, while drivers flocked to those still open —- and companies struggled to keep up.
QuikTrip, for instance, managed Monday to get gasoline to [...]
Condemned murderer Troy Anthony Davis was returned to his death-row cell Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court told lawyers not to expect anything before Wednesday.[...]Davis, 39, remains under a death sentence for the slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail on Aug. 19, 1989.
The film “Fireproof” is making its mark at the box office. Over its opening weekend, it grossed an estimated $6.8 million.Starring Kirk Cameron in the lead role, “Fireproof” is the third film produced by Sherwood Baptist Church. Written by brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick and [...]
Coca-Cola’s advertising has had a significant impact on your mom
Epic. Win.
[...]Evelyn has discovered the old Super Friends cartoon with Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Superman, along with Melvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog. This is the original seventies cartoon, not the updated version in the eighties with Hawk Man, the Wonder Twins, etc.
Anyway, we watched the Super Friends tonight before bed time. [...]
Jim Marshall voted for the Wall Street bailout. I wonder if that will hurt him in the 8th Congressional District. He’s already unpopular with a lot of movement liberals because of his SCHIP vote and support of the war.
The bailout is deeply unpopular regardless of ideological leanings. Goddard, I believe, [...]
