Neal Boortz, a talk radio show host out of Atlanta, used to refer to Cynthia McKinney as an aisle bird. She would make sure that she always had a seat by the aisle during a presidential address so she could get face time with the cameras and the president.
To get a seat by the aisle, you have to assume your perch early in the day. During one of the State of the Union speeches, Boortz said that a Congressman would have to arrive five to six hours early and STAY in the seat. A Congressman cannot send an intern to waste time waiting for the cameras.
You can then feel good if you watched the President’s healthcare address to the joint sessions of Congress Wednesday night if you are from the 2nd District. It seems that Georgia has a new aisle bird. Congressman Sanford Bishop got a lot of face time with President Obama where he “showed him the love.” Too bad that Bishop couldn’t have spent that wait time working for his district instead of sitting in a seat.
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There’s a lot going on right now. Obama gets opposed on anything he tries, including what turns out to be a pretty benign speech to school kids about things we should pray our kids actually take to heart like personal responsibility. The brush those of us who oppose the President get painted with is that of the “angry white man“, despite the fact that many of us aren’t men, much less white, but that’s neither here nor there. What hurts us more than anything is things like this Letter to the Editor. In it, Mr. Kenneth Corn writes: Continue reading Oh yeah, this helps |
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Georgia Health Care Constitutional Amendment
Last week, State Senator Judson Hill (R-Marietta) announced that he had crafted a proposal for a Constitutional Amendment that would protect Georgians from any “public option” health care proposal at the Federal level and that he had the support of the Senate Republican Caucus in this effort.
As always, I try to read the bill before I comment on it. I figure that I can’t ask my Representatives to do something I’m not willing to do myself, and I also like to be informed so that I can then pass the knowledge on to y’all and whoever else asks me any questions.
This morning, Senator Hill sent me the text of the bill, which you can see for yourself here.
There are no calls for “states rights”, “10th Amendment”, “nullification”, or any other such thing in this bill – though the first two were mentioned at a press conference last week, by both Hill and Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock).
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