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Licensing bicycles requires a red-state reaction
The government can have my bicycle when it pries the handlebar from my cold, dead fingers. Because when bicycles are outlawed, only outlaws will have bicycles. The rest of us will have to make do with tricycles, or Segways, or roller skates. None of which are covered by House Bill ...
Your daily jolt: Blue Cross/Blue Shield chief ‘not anticipating’ a defunding of Obamacare
Over at WABE (90.1FM) on Thursday, Denis O’Hayer offered up an interview with Morgan Kendrick, president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Georgia, the only health insurance carrier offering policies in all 16 areas of the state under the new, federally mandated exchanges. “We understand the business is shifting, and we ...
Among first to sign up for Obamacare? A college student alters his claim
Here's what we posted on Thursday: Enroll America, the organization plugging Obamacare, is putting out the name of Chad Henderson of Georgia as one of the first to sign up for a health care policy under the Affordable Care Act. From the Washington Post’s Wonkblog: He's a student at Chattanooga ...
Your daily jolt: Channel 2 poll says Georgia women blame GOP for federal shutdown
The first statewide poll of Georgia in a post-shutdown era shows voters doling out blame for the mess, naturally, according to their political inclinations. According to the survey by the GOP-oriented team of Landmark Communications/Rosetta Stone, conducted for Channel 2 Action News on the first day of the shutdown, 46 ...
Obamacare may put a target on Ralph Hudgens' back
State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, who oversees the content of all health care policies sold in Georgia, has kept a close eye on the roll-out of Obamacare. We know this because his people tell us so. What you might not know is that our Republican insurance commissioner has maintained this ...
Your daily jolt: Phil Gingrey bows out of Obamacare – and, perhaps, into Medicare
One of the oddities of a federal shutdown is that official lines of congressional communication disappear, or are severely restricted. If a constituent should call to register an opinion, for or against, on the shutdown, there’s often no one to pick up the telephone. The same goes for email. Some ...
Dr. Rad on Obamacare in Georgia: Republicans should ‘step up or step aside’
In the South, indications are that the rollout of Obamacare has been a rough and uneven thing. Here’s where the Associated Press is headed: ATLANTA — On the day consumers start perusing newly launched federal online health exchanges, Republican governors who oppose President Barack Obama's insurance overhaul have been largely ...
Your (giant) daily jolt: Tom Graves named a post-shutdown negotiator
As the government shutdown arrived, House Speaker John Boehner appointed eight members of a conference committee to work out a short-term spending bill with the Senate. Among them is Rep. Tom Graves, the Republican from Ranger who has led the “defund Obamacare” fight. Boehner’s move is a sign that the ...
Shutdown a-comin', but troops will be paid
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate today cast aside a House-passed spending bill that included a one-year delay of the new health care law, and the House geared up for another broadside against the law tonight -- delaying its mandate that everyone buy health insurance. In short, we're all but guaranteed ...
CNN drops Hillary Clinton documentary
CNN will not pursue its documentary of Hillary Clinton, a company spokesman confirmed today, after director Charles Ferguson jumped ship. But in a piece published by the Huffington Post, Ferguson says it was the suspicion of Clinton operatives – not Republicans who threatened to kill CNN participation in the 2016 ...
Your daily jolt: Justice Department to sue over N.C. voter ID law
One wonders whether the White House decided this needed to be done before midnight. From the Associated Press: The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme ...
David Scott to GOP: 'The people elected President Obama -- and you hate that'
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives has sent a stopgap spending bill to the Senate, attaching a one-year delay of Obamacare and a repeal of the law's tax on medical devices. The House version of "Saturday Night Live" wrapped up just after midnight and included a unanimous vote to ...
Why the GOP rift over Common Core is deeper than it looks
When the fracas over Common Core standards first came up, my inclination was to write it off as one more example of tea party-driven suspicion of the federal government. I reasoned that these new and voluntary standards for k-12 education, regardless of their Republican roots, became poison once President Barack ...
Tom Graves rallying conservatives behind one-year Obamacare delay
Updated 5:30 p.m. WASHINGTON -- With the continuing resolution ball back in the House's court, where leaders lack any clear strategy, Rep. Tom Graves of Ranger is drumming up conservative backing for his own amendment that would delay Obamacare for one year. The amendment has yielded 61 co-sponsors so far, ...
State Sen. Don Balfour indicted on 18 counts
A Fulton County grand jury has indicted state Sen. Don Balfour, R-Snellville, on 18 counts associated with alleged misuse of his legislative expense account, the Attorney General's office said Friday. Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to name a three-member panel to recommend whether or not Balfour, once the all-powerful Senate ...
Your Daily Jolt: Tune in for the shutdown countdown
This week is turning CSPAN-2 into must-see TV. In honor of today's binge-watching culture, we had a 21-hour Ted Cruz marathon on the Senate floor the other day, with a side of Green Eggs and Ham. And Thursday afternoon, in honor of the proliferation of debate shows, Cruz battled Tennessee ...
Johnny Isakson: Shut down government, and the GOP will pay
Johnny Isakson may have just delivered the most important speech of his U.S. Senate career. In a four-minute address to Senate colleagues, Isakson – up for re-election in 2016 – declared that he preferred to cast his vote to defund Obamacare, even if he loses, rather delay that vote and ...
Your daily jolt: Shirley Franklin joins Hillary Clinton presidential push
Consider this another sign that Democrats believe Georgia may be close to turning: A group paving the way for a 2016 presidential bid by Hillary Clinton has named former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin as a senior advisor. From the website of Ready for Hillary: “I was honored to be an ...
How state lawmakers might avoid a guns-on-campus fight
A series of recent events may have created a climate that could allow the state Legislature to avoid a public meltdown next year over whether to allow students to tote concealed weaponry as they stroll the campuses of Georgia’s public universities. But don’t kid yourself. This has nothing to do ...
The floodgates opening on Savannah port dredging?
The push to deepen the Savannah harbor has been in limbo for years. Now it must feel like the floodgates have finally opened. Days after Vice President Joe Biden said the dredging would happen “come hell or high water,” the chair of the House committee handling a bill that would ...
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