My colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin of the AJC, who's a good reporter with a very strong tolerance for politically oriented bovine feces, sat through a Thursday morning presentation by Gov. Sonny Perdue to a gathering of department heads and state employees.
Zell Miller's favorite Democratic congressman, Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, has shown once again that he will always be a reliable go-to guy for Republicans in the House. Marshall told the Macon Telegraph this week that he basically hates all the Democratic versions of the health insurance reform bills, even the one drafted by Sen. Max Baucus that has no public option and is friendliest to the insurance industry. Marshall's position won't be a huge surprise to anyone who follows Georgia politics. He was also the only House Democrat who voted against every bill to expand the children's health insurance program two years ago.
We reported a couple of weeks ago the U.S. Senate's passage of a defense spending bill that included an amendment drafted by Minnesota Sen. Al Franken prohibiting government contracts from being given to companies that won't let their employees go to court if they have been raped or sexually assaulted in the workplace.
In the last presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama drew an estimated 78 percent of the Jewish vote, continuing a longstanding trend of Jewish support for Democratic presidential candidates. If you're wondering why so few Jewish voters choose Republicans, a recent op-ed column that appeared in the Orangeburg (S.C.) Times and Democrat may provide a few hints.
One of the most laughable aspects of the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's failed attempt to buy part of an NFL franchise is the outbreak of blog posts by right-wingers who whine that "it's just so unfair what's being done to Rush." They claim it's all a plot by the leftist, radical NFL to get Limbaugh because he's a conservative (as we all know, the NFL has been a hotbed of leftist organizing for a long time now).
There was some bad news Thursday for Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine -- some very bad news indeed. The State Ethics Commission, which for several months has been looking into questionable contributions that insurance companies funneled to the Ox via Alabama-based PACs, voted unanimously to expand their investigation by requesting additional information from the insurance companies and the PACs.
The reviews are in and as you would have expected, the conservate pundits and the Beltway wise men are all in agreement: winning the Nobel Peace Prize was bad for Barack Obama and will inflict fatal damage on his presidency.
Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota has demonstrated this week why he is so irritating to the pundits on talk radio and other conservative fronts. The newbie senator introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court."
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).
Paleoanthropologists who have conducted extensive examinations of Alan Grayson, a member of the U.S. House from Florida, have concluded that Grayson is one of the few Democratic members of Congress who actually displays a working pair of testicles.
I think it's official now: Movement Conservatives have shoved every other contender aside to take over the number one spot on the Top 10 list of America haters. For proof, you need do nothing more than listen to the cheers and taunts that erupted in right-wing quarters when it was announced that Chicago was not selected as the host city for the 2016 Olympics, despite a last-minute pitch by President Barack Obama.
