Rep. Larry O’Neal wasn’t the only candidate for speaker of the House to send a letter to his Republican colleagues late Tuesday.
Rep. David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge), another leading candidate for the job when the caucus meets on Thursday to make its choice, reminded his GOP brethren that he is [...]
The AJC did a profile of me in their Sunday paper. I think they did a pretty fair job.
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Great job all around by everyone who had anything to do with this project.Stephen J. Arnold: Big Christmas for local soldiers || OnlineAthens.com [...] As I write, the House GOP is going into conference. The Governor will address them. David Ralston, Bill Hembree, Larry O’Neal, Jerry Keen, and others are all fighting now for the top job.
The danger is that several of the guys negate each other and help get someone unacceptable elected Speaker.
I [...]
[...] Just after a budget deficit of $1.4 billion and starting off the new fiscal year $292 billion in the red, President Barack Obama is planning to spend more money with the false hope of pulling us out of the recession:President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals [...]
I hope we continue to create well paying jobs in Watkinsville, Bishop, North High Shoals and Bogart......See, good things can happen to people who attend Peach Pundit Happy Hour gatherings.
Good Luck Caesar. We’re still pulling for you. It will be quite a thankless job with budget/revenue issues a major issue for a while.
It won’t always be easy, but keep on smiling. The city will need [...]
[...] According to Gallup, President Barack Obama's approval numbers have slipped below 50 percent. Up to this point Rasmussen is the only polling firm to reflect that (different methodology).
Being out of town, we’ve fallen down on the job and failed to metion this big news.
David Adelman has been nominated Ambassador to Singapore. Congrats to him. The Senate GOP is probably breathing a sigh of relief. Adelman’s a sharp one.
[...]So here come the Dems again, sending up a trial balloon for a new Jobs Bill.
They sit in Washington and dangle the carrot of jobs creation before the American people and claim that if only they had more of your money, they could “create or save” jobs. They claim [...]
Remember all those jobs supposedly saved or created by the so-called "stimulus" bill? The guy responsible for federal oversight of "stimulus" spending can't verify the Obama Administration's claims:Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney was responding to a request for information by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the' [...]
Tonight, 5:30pm, Five Seasons at the Prado/Sandy Springs, is the Peach Pundit Road Show/Happy Hour. I’ll be there, and based on how the day is going at the “real job”, I’ll be surly and bitter. Beer should help.
Scheduled to attend from the front page are Jason Pye and Buzz [...]
We all know the jobs "created or saved" by this Keynesian spending are bogus, but jobs/story?id=9095621" target="external">stimulus</a> success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/scrutiny-obama-stimulus-jobs-mounting/story?id=9075257" target="external">jobs</a> have been <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/obama-administration-stimulus-directly-saved-or-created-roughly-650000-jobs.html" target="external">saved or created</a> with just $761,420 in <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/160000-per-stimulus-job-white-house-calls-that-calculator-abuse.html" target="external">federal stimulus spending</a>. At least" [...]
It looks like President Obama is backing away from job-killing environmental policies that would have come out of Copenhagen:President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed today that next month's much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search [...]
Just read another tedious exploration of the election and race relations and noted this:
Since Jackson’s first mayoral victory in 1973, the first time a black candidate won the job, most African-American residents have looked at the city’s black leadership as a vital cog that has opened the doors to [...]
Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez, the favorite pinata of frustrated Bulldawg Nation, may already be a goner after this season. If not, he hangs by a thread.
That thread could snap Saturday. Or it could become strengthened. Martinez (left) confronts a ginormous challenge Saturday against Auburn's potent no-huddle offense.
