Author: Ataru Atlanta
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Who needs consitutional officers anyway?
Political Insider is reporting that Commissioner Thurmond will announce his candidacy to challenge Johnny Isakson on Tuesday. Apparently whoever’s doing this courting feels like sending our last remaining statewide incumbent on a suicide mission is a good way to maintain our relevance. I’m forecasting a 60% chance of bupkis on November 3. Upchuck bags can…
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What would you not wish on your worst enemy?
This is not a hypothetical question, since one of our actual worst enemies, former Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer, was reportedly killed by her husband in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Sen. Schaefer was hateful, bigoted, and at times downright nuts, but even she deserved a better end than this. That’s about as charitable…
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Live blog from DPG 2010 JJ dinner
6:22 P.M. Hello again, ye of the blogoverse. I’m hoping there’s a “y’all” out there to say hi to – it would certainly be sad if I were the only person who really didn’t feel like paying $100 to see Tim Kaine. It’s still very sparse here, no doubt the VIP reception is where the…
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#hcr Open Thread
Setting aside the package of fixes (bed time here), HR 3590 just completed a Tolkein-esque journey to a 219-212 victory in the House. Are you happy? Sad? Just glad that the political discourse will FINALLY shift to something else?
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Ken Hodges lawsuit dismissed
AG candidate Ken Hodges has been granted immunity in the ongoing litigation stemming from the aftermath of “the” hospital case we probably all know about by now (Googling is left as an exercise for the reader). The opinion issued by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is worth a look – to be clear, the…
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John Murtha open thread
John Murtha’s dead, victim of what sounds like surgical error while he was having his gallbladder removed. Do we miss him? Are we merely glad he left before he got himself indicted? (This blogger thinks he spent as much time being part of the problem as he did being part of the solution, for what…