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Category: GAGOP

  • The most important infrastructure project in GA just put on hold. Thanks GAGOP.

    So today President Obama released his budget. Thousands of Georgians were waiting to see the if the President was going to include hundreds of millions of dollars for a project called SHEP (Savannah Harbor Expansion Project). This project was one of the only issues that Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal agreed on during the campaign. It has…

  • From the Tip Line: SB63 Medicaid “Smart Card” has “issues”

    A smart reader sent this. I am a political science student and like to keep up with whats happening under the Gold Dome during session. Earlier this week I saw a Senate Press Conference concerning SB 63. SB 63 would establish a new ID card for Medicaid and Peach care patients. This proposed “smart” card…

  • Defections

    ICYMI: Alan Powell switched parties and apparently, Bob Hanner did too. His Facebook page now lists him as a Republican. We had a good run in this state. 150 years of power isn’t too bad. Edit: So I decided to play journalist and put a call into Hanner’s office. His secretary couldn’t confirm so she…

  • Predictions (Open Thread)

    Roy heads to a runoff Thurmond loses in a landslide. Marshall goes bye-byes (probably epically too). Bishop wins. We win one Constitutional Office. It won’t be Moffett, Martin, or Powell. Legislature gets more Republican. Democrats retain both chambers. OPEN THREAD!!!!

  • Political Fall “sport”

    Dean Wormer: Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode. Juliana: And every Fall we political folks engage in the sport of kings, not polo, but yard sign hijinks!…

  • Tipping Point, or One of the Seven Signs?

    Last evening I was hanging out on Facebook with my “friends” and noticed that Grayson had shared a blog post from Peach Pundit about seven of their front page posters, including Erick Erickson, endorsing Carol Porter for Lt. Gov. I’ll admit, I’d had couple glasses of wine and while I generally can hold my lick’r,…