…is that he’s still a better option than Cynthia McKinney*.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says, “corporations control the patterns of thinking” in the United States and that the Bill of Rights to the Constitution should be amended so that the government is given the power to restrict freedom of speech.
“We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” said Johnson.
Barely.
Moe Lane
*Even Google knows.
This Bain thing is getting weird. And by weird I mean “self-immolating for Democrats.”
Continue reading Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed hates Bain! …Except the parts* that are helping *him*.
Well, that’s what Jim Marshall (D, GA-08) wants, according to this August 5th town hall footage. I highlighted the relevant bit here:
See also Liberty Central.
Now, if you’re wondering whether it might be possible to indeed honorably split off moderate Taliban elements… well, probably, yes. If you’ve got the party that actually takes foreign policy seriously running things; in other words, not Jim Marshall’s. Harsh of me? No, not really. Jim Marshall’s a Blue Dog: which is to say, a hypocrite on spending who voted for the stimulus with nary a qualm. If he’s going to betray his supposed fiscal conservatism, what’s to stop him from betraying his supposed national security bona fides, too?
Moe Lane
PS: Austin Scott is the GOP challenger for that district.
What an absolutely brilliant notion; I can’t imagine how that could possibly go wrong.
…[Preston] Blackwelder said it would be preposterous to stop praying before meals at Port Wentworth’s Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah because of a federal guideline.
“She would say pray anyway,” Blackwelder said of his grandmother. “She’d say don’t listen.”
But Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.
(Via Hot Air Headlines) Call me a dirty no-good theocratic knuckle-dragging reactionary (we will now pause for a discreet chuckle from my personal friends), but I’m pretty sure that if you could somehow contact James Madison at this late date and asked him whether he intended the Bill of Rights to keep charity cases from being able to pray before federally-subsidized meals, he’d look at you as if you had two heads. Then he’d probably motion for George Mason to grab you from behind so that Madison could knee you in the groin.
Moe Lane
So much for the Democratic narrative.
Now this should be what worries proponents of health care rationing: citizens showing up in much larger-than-anticipated numbers to complain about an issue – to legislators who agree with them.
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., learned constituents were more engaged than he may have thought.
Hundreds turned out in Waycross for a town hall meeting Wednesday on House Resolution 3200, the House bill on reform – a discussion Kingston’s staff thought would draw only 50 or 60.
Kingston heard worries over the effect of the bill on businesses, lack of health care choice, and the degraded quality of coverage. Kingston himself said there was too much big government and too much cost in a universal plan.
Via The Campaign Spot. The aforementioned health care rationing supporters – which is to say, “Democrats” – should be worried for two reasons. First off, it helps put the lie to the Democrats’ sad allegations that the other side is also faking up grassroots support. Jack Kingston won his R+16 district by a comfortable margin last year; GA-01 is about the last place you’d choose for astroturfing GOP support for something. Secondly – and more importantly – stories like this indicate that the Republican rank-and-file has gotten a taste for showing up for events like these. Which is great… for the GOP, because we don’t have to spend many resources at the moment to get them there and keep them there. Not so great news for the Democratic party, which will have to have its union contingent spend even more resources to match what we’re doing now. Which means that anybody from a GOP district should go to their town hall meetings, too. Not that you should forget your cameras.
Just in case.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
So that becomes One dead, one injured in foiled robbery/rape/murder attempt in Georgia. Via Fausta:
College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader
…Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.
Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.
That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.
Continue reading Mass rape, murder in Georgi… no, wait, one of the ‘victims’ had a gun.
