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The Democratic Party of Georgia will elect a new State Chair on January 27 in Atlanta. Mike Berlon, Gwinnett County Chair, has been running for months. Two other candidates, Jane Kidd, and the Rev. Jim Nelson, have been joined by a recent third, Carol Jackson. All four candidates spoke at a large Democratic meeting held […]

I had a good laugh reading today’s METRO section of the AJC about Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin discussing how much money she needed for her new budget and how she was looking towards the state and federal government for help. My laugh started with THIS tidbit: “[Franklin] suggested state and federal support…” “State and federal […]

Rumors have it that Tom Mishou, Georgia’s only Boxing Commissioner for the past 25 years will be retiring as of December 31 of this year. You may not have ever heard of Tom, or even less well known, the “Boxing Commission.” The Boxing Commission comes under the purview of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office […]

Everything goes here…(even posts by Dawggies who think about nothing but football games their whole life)…

There will be a new front-page poster on PoliticalVine.com. His/Her name is “Deep Throat.” Deep Throat wishes to remain quite anonymous as his/her livelihood depends on certain Georgia state elected officials…and he/she has sworn me to the utmost secrecy as to his/her identity in exchange for tidbits of political juiciness that I am allowed to […]

Rumors have it that even with Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) endorsement of John Murtha (D-PA) for the new Majority Leader position in the House, Murtha went down by a vote of 149 to 86 in favor of electing Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) as Majority Leader. Apparently, Murtha’s mouth doesn’t carry-over as strongly among his colleagues as […]

Good questions to ask our leaders.

This is rather disturbing:A diesel-powered Chinese sub stalked the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier for who knows how long before being stumbled upon by a “routine surveillance flight.” Not a “nukuler” sub, but a DIESEL-POWERED sub. Great…just great.

Here is the list as I know it, and my probabilities of them winning the primaries: George Allen (0% to NFW*) Bill Frist (0% to NFW) Duncan Hunter (25%) Rudy Giulani (20%) John McCain (20%) Mitt Romney (20%) *NFW stands for No F***ing Way! Who is on your Presidential-Do List and why?

That sound that Republicans are hearing is the sound of what happens when a principled-based political party ABANDONS principles in favor of the issue-of-the-moment strategy for governing. We now have what may be the safest form of government in the world at the federal level: Gridlock. And, I see gridlock as being a good thing […]

Rumors have it that President Bush will be making a phone call to The Likely-Speaker-To-Be Nancy Pelosi this morning. What do you think will be the likely words they exchange AND what do you think wll be the thoughts they will actually be thinking? The format of this exercise is like this: Bush: “Good morning, […]

So many subjects to write about, I don’t know where to start. So, someone else can start it off while I go take the dog to the dog park. 🙂