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 »

There is Time to Take Out Saxby Chambliss

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 10th at 11:46 AM  | 

Georgia Republicans will be going to their state convention this weekend in Macon, Georgia. While I live just a few miles from where the convention will be, I won’t be going. The only surprise that could come from the convention is if Sue Everhart, the incumbent chair of the Georgia Republican Party, loses. She has won every major straw poll working up to the state | Read More »

14 Georgia Republicans Join The Democrats In A Coup

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 1st at 05:00 AM  | 

As you wake up today, if you are in Georgia, you need to know that fourteen Georgia Republican state senators have stabbed their caucus in the back in the quest for more power. Last year, after numerous screw ups, abuses, and incompetencies, Georgia Republican State Senators had enough and neutered Lt. Governor Casey Cagle. They stripped him of power other than to leave him as | Read More »

Saxby Chambliss Will Consider Tax Increases

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 15th at 09:31 AM  | 

Saxby Chambliss is the Republican point man on deficit reduction. He is working with his friend Mark Warner (D-VA) to come up with a “good government” plan to reduce the deficit. “Good government,” by the way, is code for big government, bi-partisan compromise. On Sunday’s Fox News Sunday, Chambliss used diplomatic speak to say he’d consider tax increases. Several of you have asked me for | Read More »

Jack Murphy Must Step Down

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 24th at 11:06 PM  | 

If you live in Georgia, you are experiencing a total meltdown of Republican leadership in the State Senate. You, as a voter, are going to need to take action. For the reasons set forth below, one of the best first steps is to go to http://action.redstate.com and follow the link to call your state senator about Senator Jack Murphy. It is clear the Georgia Senate | Read More »

Georgia Democrats Descend Into Parody and Race Baiting

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 30th at 05:00 AM  | 

If you are a Republican, you wear white sheets and attend midnight meetings. That is if you believe Robert Brown. Brown is now, after the decimation of Democrats in Georgia, the highest ranking Democrat in the whole state. He serves as leader of the Democrats in the State Senate. On a local television program in Middle Georgia, Senator Brown was asked about a series of | Read More »

Republicans and Short Term Memory Loss

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  December 8th at 01:30 PM  | 

Earlier today, Erick posted an item asking “Did You Vote Republican For Nothing?” It’s a good and timely question, as is “did Republicans learn anything from this election, the rise of the Tea Party, and the crushing defeat of a liberal tax-and-spend agenda in November?” Looking purely at recent national and local political news relevant to folks in just one state – Georgia – it | Read More »

Where Anecdote Is Not Data, But . . .

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 30th at 11:44 AM  | 

We should never confuse anecdotes for data, but I’ve got a funny one. I got called up to New York on the spur of the moment this past week for CNN so I ran out to early voting. I was somewhat stunned by the high number of black voters doing early voting. In any event, I stood in line in front of a black preacher | Read More »

Support Austin Scott in Georgia’s Eighth Congressional District

By: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Diary)  |  October 4th at 01:58 PM  | 

Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated the Democratic Congress added over $1.4 trillion to the public debt this past year. That’s more debt put on future generations to pay back. Our country can’t afford to continue all the spending and borrowing. That’s why we need new leaders in Congress like Austin Scott in Georgia’s Eighth Congressional District. This Young Gun and owner | Read More »

Jim Marshall is Worried in Georgia 8

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 29th at 11:59 AM  | 

Donate now to Austin Scott. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released an internal poll in Georgia’s 8th Congressional District showing Jim Marshall ahead by twelve points. It is exceedingly rare in this election cycle for the DCCC to release an internal poll. Doing so shows a level of panic about this race and a desire to change expectations. The poll is also disconnected from reality. | Read More »

Put Georgia 8 on your radar

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 26th at 11:11 AM  | 

Meet Austin Scott. He is running in a district that leans decidedly Republican, having been won by both George Bush and John McCain. But the district is held by Congressman Jim Marshall, a Democrat and my former law school professor. If the GOP is going to take back Congress, it is going to have to take back this district. Jim Marshall is a card check | Read More »

Three seats I’ll stop wondering about

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 20th at 12:30 PM  | 

Some Senate seats I’ll worry about all the way to November, but today when I looked at the list of new polls out, I got a flood of races I’m pretty comfortable calling for the Republican, barring any new news of course.

Deal in Georgia

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 11th at 11:19 AM  | 

While we can question the wisdom of putting Nathan Deal up against Roy Barnes, that’s what Republicans decided in Georgia last night and we’ll respect their decision. The Deal campaign ran a great runoff. The Handel camp ran a textbook runoff race, but came up about 2500 votes short. This morning I’m told Karen Handel will be conceding the race. Republicans will now unite to | Read More »

Handel leads ahead of tomorrow’s runoff

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 9th at 10:00 AM  | 

From Unlikely Voter: Mason Dixon polled the Georgia Republican primary for Governor for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership, to see who might face Roy Barnes in November. With the runoff tomorrow, it’s looking good for Karen Handel as she leads Nathan Deal, despite the problems we’ve seen with primary polling this year.

Handel vs. Deal

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 6th at 01:18 PM  | 

In my newspaper column today I make clear I am sticking with Karen Handel in the Georgia GOP gubernatorial primary. This is the silliest thing. It is virtually unheard of for a candidate going into a runoff with a greater than ten point lead to lose the runoff. Nathan Deal, in the midst of a federal grand jury investigation of his business conduct, is throwing | Read More »