It looks like Senate Democrats are going to have the 60 votes needed to move towards final passage for ObamaCare after Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) struck a deal on abortion and took a bribe for pork:
Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, was prepared [...]
While most families will be out drinking egg nog, celebrating with friends and family or tucking their kids into bed for Christmas, Senate Majority Leader The Grinch Harry Reid may be putting a big lump of coal in taxpayers’ stockings.
[...]“The Senate has stepped up its communications into modern-day technology and we are now on Twitter. Our Twitter name is @GASenatePress and I welcome you to follow us. Each time the press office posts a release, audio or video to the Senate web site, we automatically Tweet. If you have [...]
Even though it looks like Democrats are about to shove ObamaCare down the throats of Americans, the public remains skeptical of proposed health care "reforms":
As the Senate struggles to meet a self-imposed year-end deadline to complete work on health-care legislation, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll [...]
Update: 3:53 p.m.: O’Neal argues in his letter to fellow House Republicans that he had nothing to do with the Senate amending the tax legislation to make it retroactive to 2004, and thereby making Perdue a beneficiary.
But in 2006 the AJC reported that Senate Finance Committee minutes show that O’Neal [...]
Howard Dean says kill the Senate bill and start over. Amen.
This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only [...]Someone forwarded this video to me yesterday of some of Tax Hike Mike Huckabee's comments from the 2007 Global Warming and Energy Solutions Conference where he laid out his support for CAFE standards and cap-and-trade, which he not only supports but expresses disappointment that the Senate failed to pass it.
[...]The editorial board over at the Washington Post is concerned about the latest ObamaCare compromise (emphasis mine):
The only thing more unsettling than watching legislative sausage being made is watching it being made on the fly. The 11th-hour "compromise" on health-care reform and the public option supposedly includes [...]
Former state Sen. Regina' [...]
Everyone is paying attention to the problems in the House, but the Senate GOP is not off the hook.
Allegedly, the alleged eye-witness to the alleged and long rumored incident with the Lt. Governor is going to speak publicly an deny having seen what everyone says she originally said she saw. [...]
Jason Carter is following in his grandfather, President Jimmy Carter’s famous footsteps and entering politics with a state Senate run.
The Atlanta lawyer and Democrat says he will run for a seat representing part of DeKalb County. The District 42 post is currently held by David [...]
How do you know Democrats are losing the health care debate? Because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid compared opponents of ObamaCare to supporters of slavery:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung [...]
In 2002, Republicans took over the Georgia State Senate and Governor’s Mansion for the first time since the Civil War.
In 2004, the GOP took over the State House of Representatives.
In 2006, [...]
Tomorrow (Wednesday), Jason Carter will formally announce his intention to seek the Georgia State Senate seat, District 42. The seat was formerly held by Sen. David Adelman, who was recently appointed Ambassador to Singapore and is expected to be confirmed.
Come celebrate and help kickoff [...]
Donzella James captured the Senate District 35 seat yesterday. Over in House District 58, Simone Bell, who you recall as part of her campaign touted her membership in the “human community,” is also now headed for the Gold Dome.
Further south, in House District 141, Rusty Kidd (who has a [...]
It remains a sleeper campaign.
In October, the Newnan newspaper dutifully reported Eric Johnson’s talk to the local Rotary Club.
That’s about as much notice the Savannah candidate for governor has received since he resigned from the state Senate on Sept. 15.
Johnson, the former Senate president pro tem, is running a [...]
In a diary appearing on the liberal-leaning blog 
