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By Rufus

April 5, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Glenn Richardson embarrassed himself with that tirade against Cagle with deplorable descriptions surely apt for a tasmanian devil not a lt. governor.

So this is decorum in the house? I knew it. I knew everything you know you learned in kindergarden.

This is our leader? This clown act deserves a political career? He couldn’t work out a compromise with a clone of himself. He’s a divisive person. Richardson, resign, you R the problem, sir.

Just get lost. I wouldn’t vote for free gasoline if you were attached to it. I wouldn’t vote for beer-hat fridays if you wanted it. You only complain about cant, or wont, or impossible, or boo hoo.

Be a man! Stop crying! Work with others even if you’re so sure you’re right.

By TW

April 5, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

As a Georgian, I am embarrased to have the rest of this nation think that the juvenile performance of Glenn Richardson represents this state.

Mr. Richardson, the biggest waste of my taxes is the portion that pays your salary. I will do all I can to see that someone takes your job at the next opportunity.

Just when I thought the biggest black eye on the Republican party was GWB, Richardson has outdone him.

Those with triple digit IQ’s see Casey Cagle’s ‘obstruction’ as the true resprestation of the people’s best interests. Mr. Richardson’s just angry he won’t be getting new furniture on his yacht next year. Shame on him trying to take advantage of our patriotism like this. Shame.

By GodHatesTrash

April 5, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

It’s always painful to listen to the Georgia Legislature in action.

Is there a bigger collection of moronic criminals in the nation?

Georgia, a state full of trash, run by trash.

By Rufus

April 5, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Y-y-yeah! Georgia’s a s-s-state full of t-t-trash run by t-t-trash!!!

By brad

April 5, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Sen. Cagle doesnt have to worry about the $300 that has to be paid each year on your birthday but for some of us its tough. You folks should remember that this is not your money to begin with. Thanks Sen. Cagle.

By jane

April 5, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

I hope someone runs against Richardson. He is a Tom Murphy wannabee without the sophistication.

By taxpayer

April 5, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

thank goodness someone at the capital has the courage to tell it like it is. Go Glenn Richardson!

By catlady

April 5, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

I would have liked to end the tag tax, I admit. With income taxes (income used to buy the car) and an initial tax (on the car sale)—not to mention gas taxes and maybe even a tax on car insurers?—we are about taxed to death on the rapidly decreasing valuation of our transportation. Don’t say MARTA or bus service. It isn’t available out here in the hinterlands, for any price. Don’t even have taxi service. We are lucky to have school buses for the kids.

I would also like to get rid of the Sunday ban. I don’t drink a bit, but I hate favoring one religious group over another.

Along with more “packing heat”, this should go down as one of the biggest wastes of money Georgia has ever seen.

By John

April 5, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Glenn Richardson needs to be removed as Speaker by the House as soon as the 2009 session begins. Casey Cagle has the courage and integrity of Zell Miller, Roy Barnes, Tom Murphy, Joe Frank Harris and other past state government leaders. He and the Senate had the foresight to stop a political gimmick that would have been an economic disaster for the State and that would have forced counties and cities into huge tax increases. I will be the first to support Cagle for Governor in 2010.

By Redneck woman

April 5, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

This is why I hate my vagina it only attracts inbred rednecks like our representatives. If I could do it again I wouldn’t, God please quit producing the wast we call our so-called political leaders.

By Rupaul

April 5, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

GR is Georgia’s answer to the born again draft dodging strategery brilliance of GWB

By Road Scholar

April 5, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Mr. Richardson grow up! Stop acting like a spoiled child that didn’t get his way.

How any legislature member can say that not passing the right for voters to vote on Sunday beer and wine sales along with a regional transportation tax is ok is only looking at the short term. They are denying a person right to vote and determine the goals of his area where he lives. The legilators are control freaks, as eveidenced by how they wanted to control revenues if the ad valorem tax was repealed; they would then determine what county/city received what that they thought was fair. The transportation regional vote is not a tax. it is a jobs bill, that also addresses congestion. It’s a user fee. You drive, you pay. How do they expect Atlanta to keep its economic engine going?

By White Trash

April 5, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Finally someone who represents his constituency

By Darrell

April 5, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Kiss my Bumper Cagle!

3 times your senators agreed with the house in the conference committee, on the bill and you would not allow it on the floor for a vote! You violated your oath of office by not voting on the veto overrides as well. Georgia does need another Lt Governor. One who will do his current job.

By Mike

April 5, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Both the Speaker and the Governor played chicken, no one blinked. The Speaker is up for re-election, as are his Lt.’s. The Governor is not. My guess is the best way to remove this logger head is to remove Richardson, Wendal, and Lindsey. Unfortunately, the Voters of Georgia will suffer and the work of the GOP will be much harder in November.

By leobrackett

April 5, 2008 9:11 PM | Link to this

What a pathetic loser our esteemed Speaker is. We voted the Republicans into office to better manage this state, not to be a continuation of the failings of the Democrat regime. A tyrant is a tyrant; I don’t like a tyrant any better because he is a Republican. The Georgia Republican party seems to be devoid of any ideas. I guess they will trot out the legal system as the bogeyman again this year to try to rile up the public and to shift attention away from their own moral, intellectual and philosophical poverty. I never thought I would long for the even-handed, gentle leadership of Tom Murphy.

By American worker

April 6, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Jason Pye…”inestimable”? ( I assumed that was another word for “a self-important snooze”. It’s not - but he is:inestimable Merriam Webster One entry found.

inestimable

Main Entry: in·es·ti·ma·ble Pronunciation: (ˌ)i-ˈnes-tə-mə-bəl\ Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin inaestimabilis, from in- + aestimabilis estimable Date: 14th century 1 : incapable of being estimated or computed 2 : too valuable or excellent to be measured or appreciated — in·es·ti·ma·bly -blē\ adverb What a hoot!

By Political Foreskin

April 6, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Amer.worker, are U saying that U dont think inestimable means what Jim G. thinks it means?

By Ga christ.coal.net

April 6, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Cagle should retort, “Mr. Speaker, be a husband.”

By American worker

April 6, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

NO sir, that JPye is a self important snooze of inestimable proportions.

By Cagle Birthday Tax

April 6, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

The Senate had the chance to allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted to nix the car tag tax, and cut the income tax. Cagle refused. Guess Sonny couldn’t be reached on his way back from the Monk killing Communists.

The disgrace here is that the people would have had the chance to decide, and Cagle and his sissies did not think that the people had enough intelligence to decide.

The Speaker might be very outspoken, and a little rash in calling out the Lt. Gov, but he is dead on.

By Impeach Cagle

April 7, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

The real issue is that Cagle is a terrible person and a liar. He should be forced to leave office and should be kicked out of the state. The last 2 years, he has had his head deep into Sonny’s lap and it has got to end. Cagle is nothing more than a Republican in name only and it is a disgrace how he thinks it is ok to not allow the citizens of Georgia to receive one tax cut. He is a sorry excuse for a human if you ask me.