Today, House Conservatives Will Prove They Are the Problem

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 6th at 04:30 AM  | 

Yesterday, the White House announced it would stop White House tours in response to sequestration. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas responded by offering an amendment to the pending continuing resolution that would prohibit federal dollars spent to cover the costs of President Obama’s golf games. Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Leaders ruled that Congressman Gohmert’s amendment was not relevant to the continuing resolution and | Read More »

Douglas County’s GOP Blocks GA Black Republican Chair from being a County Delegate

By: Jake (Diary)  |  February 11th at 08:30 AM  | 

It’s not often I get to write about happenings in my old neck of the woods, but that’s a fact of life when you were born and raised in a relatively sleepy suburban county of metro Atlanta. Still, don’t let the “sleepy” bit fool you; once you peel back that layer, you find the same kinds of political gamesmanship and good ol’ boy network shenanigans | Read More »

Regarding Saxby Chambliss

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 27th at 09:51 AM  | 

Saxby Chambliss is waffling around like a dog off its leash for the first time. He says he does not care about a “twenty year old pledge” he signed. He’s talking about the Americans for Tax Reform pledge that says he pledges not to raise taxes. He has clarified his remarks to mean he wants tax reform that increases revenue through job growth. Everyone knows | Read More »

On the RSC Chairman’s Race

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 14th at 04:30 AM  | 

The most important vote that will happen very soon is the vote for Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the conservative group within the House Republican Conference that often finds itself trying to pull the Republicans to the right. These past two years, it was the RSC leadership that pressed the GOP to avoid selling out to Barack Obama repeatedly, insisted the GOP keep its | Read More »

Tom Price for Conference Chairman

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 8th at 11:24 AM  | 

Tom Price is the former Republican Study Committee Chairman who is now running for conference chairman within the House Republican Conference. His opponent is Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State. She has a HAFA score of 56%, 10 points lower than the House Republican average. Rep. Price, however, a 78% score, twelve points higher than the House Republican average. Speaker Boehner is pushing McMorris | Read More »

Martha Zoller: Let’s Get Her To Congress

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 14th at 04:47 AM  | 

Georgia’s 9th Congressional District runoff presents the two faces of the Republican Party and asks voters to choose. On one hand is Doug Collins. Collins would fit right in with the Congressional Republicans who raised the debt ceiling on the promise of spending cuts and then weaseled out of the cuts. He’d fit right in with a GOP that gives lip to repealing Obamacare, but | Read More »

Arrogance

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 1st at 10:37 AM  | 

Voters in Georgia do not trust the political establishment in Georgia right now. What compounds this is that I get the sense much of the political establishment in Georgia holds the citizens in contempt. They just won’t do as they are told. The T-SPLOST fell victim to this conundrum. The Georgia Legislature, in the past four years, has decided that instead of voting to cut | Read More »

Air Force Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 27th at 04:46 AM  | 

Air Force One turned to Air Force Waaaaahhhh yesterday in Atlanta. Barack Obama tied up lunch time traffic in the Peach State once again while he milked it for money. During a public speech, President Obama formally abdicated his role as Commander in Chief to become Chief Victim. Those dirty Republicans are outspending him, he cried to a sympathetic audience. In fact, this may be | Read More »

Wright McLeod: Poseur in GA-12

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 5th at 11:16 AM  | 

I don’t have a dog in the fight in Georgia’s 12th Congressional District, but the district has a history of fostering crappy Republicans to take on the imminently beatable John Barrow. The latest seems to be Wright McLeod and I am troubled. He seems to want to run as a tea party candidate, but his record is anything but tea party. Here is his voting | Read More »

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed hates Bain! …Except the parts* that are helping *him*.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 4th at 04:00 PM  | 

This Bain thing is getting weird. And by weird I mean “self-immolating for Democrats.” Point: [Atlanta Mayor Kasim] Reed said on NBC’s Sunday political broadcast he was alarmed by the internal Democratic skirmish over whether or not President Barack Obama should attack his GOP rival’s business career, likening the prospect of campaigning without the volley to fighting “with one hand behind his back.” “[F]or Democrats | Read More »

The GPPF T-SPLOST Analysis

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 23rd at 05:56 PM  | 

Here is the T-SPLOST analysis from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. The GPPF is less than thrilled with the T-SPLOST (Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) and the Atlanta area T-SPLOST’s emphasis on rail. There is one graphic that stands out in my mind. From page 19 of the report: Atlanta and Barcelona have the same number of people and Atlanta uses 30 times | Read More »

Mitt Romney short but in reach of the majority

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 7th at 11:30 AM  | 

When three candidates hang into the Presidential nomination race after Super Tuesday, it becomes time to check whether anyone can get a majority. Mitt Romney is close. So far he’s not there, but if current trends hold he will be the Republican nominee for President of the United States, and become so on the first ballot.

Mittmentum moves to Ohio, Gingrich leads Georgia on a true Super Tuesday

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 5th at 11:30 AM  | 

The Republican party has held five primaries this cycle to date: New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Michigan, and Arizona. Mitt Romney won the statewide vote in four of them, including the last three. Super Tuesday tomorrow will shake all that up, of course. But Ohio looks to be one state Romney may come back to win from Rick Santorum.

There Is No Travesty of Justice in Georgia. Execute Troy Davis

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 21st at 10:40 PM  | 

Tonight the United States Supreme Court declined to stay Troy Davis’s execution. He will, by the time many of you are reading this, be dead. There were no expressions of dissent or objection from any of the 9 members of the Supreme Court. ———————- I like Guy Benson a lot, but his column on Troy Davis got my blood pressure up. I’m hearing a lot | Read More »

The Immigration Policy of Absurdistan: Legal is Illegal; Illegal is Legal

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 28th at 03:00 PM  | 

Imagine for a moment that a pack of strangers – ranging from hooligans to plain homeless – illegally entered your home and started raiding the pantry, stealing your possessions, stuffing up the toilets, and sleeping on your bed.  When you call the police to come down and remove them, you are told they cannot assist you because they lack the power to profile the unwanted | Read More »