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Tag: Nathan Deal

  • Quote of the Week

    Oh snap. Nathan Deal told voters Saturday that they deserve a governor with a college degree. Karen Handel said they deserve one with ethics. Well, meeee-ow. Unfortunately it appears they have decided to “play nicer”.

  • Deal gives Democrats a helping hand

    Nathan Deal did Democrats a big favor by deciding to resign early from his seat in the U.S. House to concentrate on running for governor (Deal did himself an even bigger favor, because his early resignation will squelch an embarrassing move by the House Ethics Committee to resolve an ethics complaint related to Deal’s lucrative…

  • Raw Deal

    Full credit goes to my friend and colleague Jim Galloway for being the first to post this video of U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal ranting about “ghetto grandmothers” during a political breakfast in Cherokee County (the video clip can be viewed here).

  • The real Deal – he’s a birther

    It turns out that CNN’s immigrant-bashing Lou Dobbs isn’t the only prominent “birther” from Georgia who promotes the right-wing’s loony contention that Barack Obama is not a native-born American citizen. Joining Dobbs on the front lines of this crazy fight is Rep. Nathan Deal, the GOP congressman from Gainesville.