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March 6, 2009
March 5, 2009
- A volatile debate over taxes in the Senate
- Phil Gingrey on the topic of Rush Limbaugh, again
- Florida study: Sarah Palin hurt by a focus on her looks
- Your morning jolt
March 4, 2009
- Kemp jumps into secretary of state race, shows backing
- Trouble here: Paychecks for son-in-law went to Sanford Bishop's wife
- Sunday sales bill yanked in face of committee defeat
- White House: Rush Limbaugh fight ‘counterproductive'
- Operation Rush job: How Democrats painted Limbaugh as face of the GOP
- Your morning jolt
- Senate minority leader one of 19 lawmakers who haven't paid taxes
March 3, 2009
- A nail that could spoil Sonny Perdue's road trip
- Drunk-dialing over Sunday sales
- GBI looks at a congressman's stepdaughter and her two jobs
- Sonny Perdue endorses President Obama's choice of Kathleen Sebelius for HHS secretary
- Gingrich to convert to Catholicism
- Rural Georgia explores governor's transportation reorg
- Group urges defeat of bill to require proof of citizenship for voter registration
- Your morning jolt
March 2, 2009
- On Glenn Richardson and remaking the DOT
- Moving day for Political Insider
- David Frum on Rush Limbaugh's rise as voice of the GOP
- Gingrich the Phrasemaker on European socialism
- Your morning jolt
March 1, 2009
February 27, 2009
February 26, 2009
- Reed lays claim to Obama campaign advisors
- Governor vows to crush a transportation rebellion
- On Sunday sales and the Senate's playful sense of irony
- The topic of the day for conservatives: The "2% illusion''
- January unemployment rate hits record high
- Your morning jolt
- Bobby Jindal as the next 'secret Muslim'
February 25, 2009
- The speedy but rocky first vote on Gov. Sonny Perdue's transportation bill
- Reading material for your drive home
- Did Obama just call the F-22 a Cold War relic?
- Taking the fight over sexual academics to Facebook
- Your morning jolt
February 24, 2009
- Proof that Obama is sending Republicans to the couch
- Perdue talks transportation with the man who controls the flow of dollars
- Kathy Cox's turn to see what the stimulus offers
- In Texas, Hutchinson leads Perry with 'landslide' numbers, says poll
- Perdue on the stimulus: He didn't lobby House Republicans to oppose it
- The transportation push-back begins
- Your morning jolt
February 23, 2009
- What's Sonny Perdue thinking? Write your own caption here
- Radio ads target two Republican senators for school voucher vote
- Your morning jolt
- Get your bookmarks ready
February 22, 2009
February 21, 2009
- The Roland Burris controversy could spill into Johnny Isakson's lap
- Your first look at the legislation behind Sonny Perdue's transportation reorg
- In preparation for the fight over the F-22
February 20, 2009
- Clyburn, the stimulus and Southern governors
- Bringing Jesus into the stimulus debate
- Illinois governor demands Roland Burris' resignation
- Clinton tells Obama to keep his chin up. And Carter says this ain't no Depression
- White House time for Franklin, Perdue
- Your morning jolt
February 19, 2009
- Perdue on new transportation authority: No more reliance on '13 gerrymandered districts'
- Sanford on the stimulus: 'Being against it doesn't preclude taking the money'
- Now for the conservative argument against the Georgia Power bill
- Your morning jolt
February 18, 2009
- Of condoms, the Catholic League, and the University of Georgia
- An effort to draft Borders back into the Atlanta mayoral race
- The Tribune's devastating summary paragraph on Roland Burris
- Georgia benefits of stimulus package greatest in Republican north metro Atlanta
- Pat Robertson says Rush Limbaugh 'not exactly thinking rationally'
- Your morning jolt
- Octuplets give birth to legislation that would put controls on fertility clinics
February 17, 2009
- Call it a focus group on the governor's plan to reorganize transportation in Georgia
- Lobbyist alert: The governor's revenue reduction letter
- Isakson, stimulus cash, and property tax relief
- When political correctness makes sense: Renters of kilts told to wear undies
- Isakson on stimulus: 'It was a rush to judgment'
- Your morning jolt
February 16, 2009
- Perdue's transportation reorg goes public
- A surprisingly disciplined message on lobbyists, tax hikes from Roy Barnes
- Your morning jolt
February 15, 2009
February 14, 2009
February 13, 2009
- Isakson to announce 2010 re-election bid
- Utah's Republican, Mormon governor backs civil unions for gay couples
- The other three GOP candidates for governor on the Georgia Power bill
- The cost of economic stimulus is down to $791 million a page
February 12, 2009
- Cobb County GOP chairman 'violated' election law by listing false home address in 2006
- The power of stimulus: Senate Democrats hold hearing, and officialdom takes it seriously
- Thurmond: 'We're witnessing the emergence of a Darwinian job market'
February 11, 2009
- Bob Barr's next life: Let him get his feet wet, then send him to the Middle East
- A first look at the flow chart for Sonny Perdue's new State Transportation Authority
- Isakson's homebuyer tax credit already gone?
- For states, stimulus is a debate over $40 billion
- Georgia Power bill headed for Senate vote
February 10, 2009
- Isakson and Chambliss explain their votes against the Obama stimulus package
- Hard times ahead for Marietta's F-22?
- Southern Voice in receivership
- Senate decides against a veto fight with Gov. Sonny Perdue
- Oxendine: He'd be 'hard-pressed' to describe benefits of GOP rule
- Talk of reviving the Northern Arc is premature, says activist
February 9, 2009
- NYT's Krugman: Isakson proposal would be a bonus to rich house-flippers
- Georgia Power bill delayed to allow Senate Republicans to become 'more comfortable'
February 8, 2009
- Mark Sanford: We're closing in on a ‘savior-based economy'
- Politics and a maglev train: Where they connect, and where they don't
February 7, 2009
February 6, 2009
- The Legislature reverts to slo-mo, waiting for stimulus package -- and any more bad news
- One bill would raise taxes, the other one would lower them
February 5, 2009
- Clark Howard, Georgia Power, and the 'C' word
- Oxendine chides Cagle on Sunday sales, but there's this Gwinnett County stadium bill...
- Isakson on stimulus: 'I didn't trade my vote'
- Learning from the Taliban
- Scott on the governor's race: Too much GOP coziness with the people who write the checks
February 4, 2009
- Senate folds Isakson's tax break for homebuyers into stimulus package
- Georgia Power bill cruises past Senate committee
- Mag-lev must be served straight, no chaser
- Hard times in the newspaper biz just touched the '12 presidential race
- Twittering the session away
- On Gov. Sonny Perdue and hometown curiosity
- Sadie Fields on stimulus plan: No how, no way
- A bill 'relating to the distribution of unclaimed cadavers'
February 3, 2009
- Because real life isn't like talk radio
- A letter before the Daschle fall: 'Is tax dodging only acceptable for Congress and Cabinet?'
- Gingrich on Limbaugh, Palin and the other woman in a 2012 race for president
- Bite by bite, state DOT is looking a mite skeletal
- Plains welcome center will remain open, state officials say
February 2, 2009
- Obama's economic stimulus package and the Atlanta Rotary Club
- More rumor-killing, this time in the 2010 governor's race
- Papers, please: Handel wants new voters to prove citizenship
- Michael Steele's strongest endorsement yet, in a backhanded fashion
- Yes, it'll pass the Senate, but afterwards TSPLOST could be headed for backburner
February 1, 2009
January 31, 2009
January 30, 2009
- Republicans elect first African-American as national chairman
- Blue jean war escalates to include formal wear
- John Sherman has issues with property tax freeze, and the House GOP pulls back
- Incumbent RNC chairman Mike Duncan withdraws re-election bid
- Much of stimulus might take detour around state government
- You can't write a bill to force lawyers to be lawyers and not make Leno
January 29, 2009
- How peanut butter might gum up a Perdue bill
- Georgia GOP leader backs African-American as national chair
- Isakson gives Coleman $10k for his legal fight
- Gingrich confidant picks Steele in RNC chairmanship race
- Saxby Chambliss as a sign of things to come
January 28, 2009
- In the House transportation bill, watch which agency is picked to handle the cash
- Phil Gingrey to Rush Limbaugh: 'I regret those stupid comments'
- The untimely meeting of an e-mail and a Democratic push for ethics reform
- A transportation theme party: If you're not on the bus, you're under it
January 27, 2009
- Gingrey -- not that other M.D. -- defends House GOP leadership. Against Rush. And Newt.
- Gingrey on Obama: Impressive, and no teleprompter
- House GOP tries to box Democrats on property tax hike
- Austin Scott confirms he'll join 2010 race for governor
- From elsewhere: The DOT puts the skids on Atlanta's Beltline, and Franklin is -- well, upset
- An update from House and Senate budget writers
January 26, 2009
- Rush Limbaugh to Barack Obama: 'Back at you'
- Rumor-killing in the 2010 U.S. Senate race
- The end of an NYT marriage made in purgatory
- Listening in on the DOT board: Just 'cause you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you
January 25, 2009
- Johnny Isakson and 'CSI: Wall Street'
- Reminder: Checks above $10,062,010.98 will require two forms of photo ID
January 23, 2009
- House Democrats declare themselves protectors of school nurses
- Barr: GOP wrong, closing Guantanamo doesn't pose a danger to U.S.
- African-Americans cast 30 percent of Georgia's Nov. 4 ballots
- Isakson leaning against Geithner for Treasury
- Perdue to demand that DeKalb, Clayton school boards shrink by two
January 22, 2009
- Cagle: Price of property tax break could be state job furloughs
- Isakson: We need a '9/11' commission to investigate financial collapse
- The GOP considers its own Obama moment
January 21, 2009
- The three-way deal on transportation that's cooking: It's a 50 percent thing
- Gingrich: Senate Republicans should draw line at Geithner
- Speaking of ex-presidents: Welcome center in Plains falls to budget cuts
January 20, 2009
- House Republicans may be laying groundwork for state takeover of MARTA
- A non-encounter of the ex-presidential kind
- Watching the inauguration in an empty state Capitol
- Updated: Home of Obama celebrant reduced to ashes
January 19, 2009
- BBC video of MLK: Perhaps a 'Negro president' by 1988 or so
- Republican rumors: 'Polishing Bush's legacy' and other disinformation
- Rick Warren at Ebenezer: 'Can we not all just get along?'
- Is Kia plant about to become a GOP icon in the stimulus debate?
- SNL's Coulter: 'I think torture is good and Christiany''
January 18, 2009
January 17, 2009
- Jim Wooten retires
- Watch CNN video of Flight 1549 splashing into the Hudson River
- Now, if Obama ordered up a Camouflage Ball, Westmoreland would think about it
January 16, 2009
- Hillary Clinton in Atlanta on Saturday
- Georgia Power lets big businesses off the hook
- A word on 'Don't ask, don't tell'
- No standing 'O' for the Big 'O,' says the Post
- Michael Thurmond and the recession
- The fourth GOP candidate for governor: Ray McBerry
January 15, 2009
- Chambliss, Isakson vote (unsuccessfully) to block more bailout money
- For Rick Warren, mum's the word
- The price for challenging a House speaker
- The plan to expand federal control over banking, etc.
- Perdue to propose sweeping re-org of state transportation agencies
January 14, 2009
- The House makes its transportation pitch
- The Democratic response: Perdue is an absentee governor
- Sonny Perdue: The Reader's Digest version
- State senator wants ACORN's tax-exempt status yanked
January 13, 2009
- Isakson to Clinton: What about preconditions for talking with bad eggs?
- WXIA political reporter Denis O'Hayer leaves for WABE
- A bill to require voters to prove citizenship
- A Gingrich-Schwarzenegger alliance
- Updated: The transportation teeter-totter
- Updated: Keeping double books in the race for governor
January 12, 2009
- Because Sarah Palin would look so darn cute in an Atlanta Braves cap
- The changing faces of the presidency, from Washington to Obama
- Lines in the Georgia Power battle
- In '09 race for Atlanta mayor, Norwood tops Reed in overall fund-raising -- but not in ready cash
- Did Sunday sales of beer and wine just get a green light?
January 11, 2009
January 10, 2009
- Reed reports $431k raised for Atlanta mayoral campaign
- Barr: Blagojevich impeachment 'premature' and 'irresponsible'
- On whether a college degree is necessary for a governor
- The late Griffin Bell speaks, one more time
January 9, 2009
- U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Voting Rights racial protections still needed
- Westmoreland gets a second crack at whip job
- Cagle, the governor's race, and Sunday sales of beer and wine
- CNN's Sanjay Gupta vs. Michael Moore
- Cagle leads (barely) in 2010 cash race for governor
January 8, 2009
- Paul Broun & Co. add a little oil to smooth Barack Obama's way
- Conyers leads opposition to CNN's Gupta as surgeon general
- The new Obama poster
- Sarah Palin on the media: 'Compare my treatment to Caroline Kennedy's'
- Poll: 74 percent of Georgians want to vote on a penny sales tax for traffic fixes
- Obama: 'Government the solution, not the problem'
- Of Senate chairmanships, power bills, and guns
