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Imagine this, you’ve been out of work for two years. The job market, while recovering slowly, is far from healthy, and just when everything seems to be working against you, your unemployment benefits are cut because you’ve been out of work too long. Nice, huh? Back in April a report noted that over 3...
The CA’s Bart Sullivan is all over this one: Republican congressional candidate Stephen Fincher’s receipt of $3.2 million in federal crop subsidies since 1999 is likely to be a major issue in a year of Tea Party political ascendancy within the GOP. Some see Fincher’s receipt of subsidies as a potential conflict of interest...
White’s Creek writes at Roane Views today about a bit of timing that seems a bit too much of a coincidence. TN’s Real Estate Transfer Fee pays for parks and important lands to be purchased by the state, saving them forever. Republicans must hate the idea of government actually doing good things for its...
The Tennessean reports this morning on a rift in TEA Party groups across Tennessee. From the article: Some seek close ties to Republicans, others want to foster independence. Some are skeptical of moneymaking ventures tied to the movement, while others endorse the capitalism. Competing groups in the Memphis area, the Mid-South Tea Party and...
Betsy highlights a problem, a very huge problem, in regards to Mark Wells, the GOP Campbell County treasurer and school board member. I’ll let her explain. The treasurer of the Campbell County GOP is Mark Wells. He’s also on the Campbell County Board of Education, where, in his spare time, he spends years harassing...
The hard thing about being the minority party in either house of Congress is that if you compromise, you alienate your base, if you hold firm you may get some of what you want but still may alienate your base, and if you obstruct, not only do you lose, but you lose the ability...
Well, not everyone is. I am, and lots of my friends are, but the GOP? Not so much. Check out this little missive from the Shelby County GOP. Cute guys…errr, your creativity has expired. Word on the street is that President Obama will sign the bill passed by the House on Sunday some time...
Apparently it starts with a G-O-P. Mary @ Liberadio hitting back at GOP elected officials that voted against the stimulus while taking credit for the money that benefits their state or district. I gotta say, this warms my heart. I’ve always wanted to set up some kind of thing that followed elected officials around...
Gary Odom, Ron Ramsey And The Political Fantasy League
Rep. Gary Odom reasonably and accurately points out the fantasy world that Rep. Ron Ramsey is currently living in.Maybe I should restate the fantasy world he is trying to create. Sometimes it is too easy to do this quite frankly. Glad to see more democrats in Nashville stepping us calling foul. The issue comes...
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