I was corrected by a legislator today when I ribbed him today about the day off he and his colleagues had been given today. I said that they were a bunch of bums. He corrected me and said that they were, in fact, slackers.
They aren’t all taking the day off. Republican leaders are stuck up there in what Latin American soccer players would call a concentración. They are trying to hammer out a budget that they can send to the full legislative membership, hopefully by Monday.
I know, we whiny Democrats are saying, “But why aren’t any Democratic members involved, are they excluding us?” This time, the problem is not that they are looking to exclude Democrats, it’s that they don’t yet have a consensus in their own caucus. In other words: it’s not that they are trying to cut anyone out, it’s that they don’t yet have their act together.
Here’s the situation: there are two factions among the Republicans on the budget. One is led by ...
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Post Date: 2008-03-28 07:40:21
I’d like to inform the folks who keep pushing for this “Super Delegate Caucus” that we actually already have one. It will be held in Denver this August and the votes will be binding. Maybe y’all have heard of it?
I was going to avoid writing about this thing, but the idea seems to keep getting resurrected, mostly by the same journalists who only a couple of months ago were so excited that this thing could go to the convention. Aside from Phil Bredesen, I haven’t det...
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Post Date: 2008-03-27 14:07:43
For some reason, one particular post in from June of 2006 became a favorite target of spambots advertising pornography. The “comments” that were posted would not have been a problem since the post was so old, except that they all showed up in the “recent comments” section on the side bar. Some of these were up for several hours before I was able to delete them, so if any of you were offended by them, I am sorry.
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Post Date: 2008-03-27 07:32:52
The other day, I wrote a post where I said that despite John McCain’s personal popularity, local Republicans still seem to be in trouble. At least one poster questioned my sanity when I said that Bob Lord seems to have a chance against John Shadegg, despite the overwhelming Republican registration in the district. He even accused me of eating bad jelly beans. Hey, as long as I don’t mix the greens with the reds, and I stay away from the orange ones, I can handle them.
Well…pol...
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