Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 25
Good morning! Today is Day 6 of the 2022 Legislative Session. Over in the Senate, things are getting a little bit wacky as a group of powerful Senators hopes to completely undermine public health in Georgia in what would be a big win for measles and polio by ridding our public schools of their current vaccine requirements. Here are several other stories you may want to watch as the session proceeds.
- Last week was Budget Week, which is when the General Assembly holds joint Appropriations Committee hearings. It’s an election year, and incumbent Governor Brian Kemp has an unprecedented budget surplus to work with. Here’s an analysis of how previous incumbents have handled their election year budgets.
- Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens was very well-received in the Capitol yesterday — which may not bode so well for recent Atlanta transplant Bill White.
- Georgia has a Freedom Caucus, and Senator Greg Dolezal is leading the effort. Other members are so proud to participate that they are keeping their identity a secret.
- One bill I’m paying close attention to is the Senate bill that would rebuild how high school athletics are overseen in Georgia.
- Non-citizens already can’t vote in Georgia so it makes sense that a Senate bill that would make noncitizen voting illegal failed yesterday.
- The Anthem/Northside feud continues to fester — but there’s new leadership at Anthem as discussions continue.
- Truly it is the end of an era.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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This article is from 2011, these crazy Republicans have been festering for quite a while.
Maybe we can develop a vaccine for Republicanism, it is becoming a pandemic.
“The Problem of Republican Idiots
The liars and lunatics serve as a smoke screen for the conservative war on the poor and the middle class.
One aspect of American politics that receives insufficient attention is that a significant percentage of self-identified Republicans—around half—are complete idiots. And the candidates who wish to be elected by them must pander to them, either by being idiots themselves—see “Bachmann, Michele”—or pretending to be. Nobody in the MSM is empowered to say this aloud. Indeed, the very act of pointing it out brands one a “liberal elitist” who is biased against proud, patriotic conservatives.
Well, so be it. A quarter of Republicans questioned profess to believe that ACORN is definitely planning to steal the 2012 election while another 32 percent think it might be. These numbers are admittedly lower than the 52 percent who, in 2009, went on record accusing ACORN of having stolen the election for Obama, but this should strike a person with normal mental faculties as a mite surprising, given that the organization no longer exists. Similarly, a recent poll of Republicans found that 48 percent of those questioned believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Again, this is almost double the 28 percent who believed it in February, but it is still rather low, given that Hawaii released the president’s long-form birth certificate to satisfy exactly this group of noisy idiots.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/problem-republican-idiots/
Well it is re-election year and my good Senator Mullis needs some stump speech material. Banning all vaccines? “lies he will say lies from the democrats. That legislation was to ban COVID passports. Can you believe they blocked my law to not allow non-citizens to vote, I made it so women can no longer kill babies by getting abortion pills in the mail, I am going to make high school sports fair again, and if a school system teaches outside the box you are going to get your tax money back.” Only thing he needs now is some gun good legislation like constitution carry to clinch the deal.