Gov. Sonny Perdue says

"We don't want a busybody government — a boss — that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live, and so on and so on,"

This is some of the most cliche bullshit I have ever heard. It is as if he looked at a parody of what a republican would be like and then said it. Honestly since when has the government told me how to work or where to live. Fuck this guy.

Gov. Sonny Perdue hammered home his call for less government and more personal responsibility Wednesday, even as he laid out a $17.4 billion spending plan that pumps more money into state functions from schools to public safety.

So, we want LESS government, which will be provided by the largest budget in state history. Possibly the stupidest man ever elected governor in any state. Also, a guy who replaced one of the BEST governors ever elected in any state, just by pandering to racist tendencies.

Pagoda , have you seen the bills that they have prefiled? A 24 "reflection period" for women seeking abortions, and of course, something expressly advocating the display of the 10 Commandments. You know, because "liberals" are against God, and Jebus, and the Bible.

I'm all for the Ten Commandments in public buildings, but they have to be in Portugese or German.

Oh and Loog don't forget about the extension of the waiting period for divorces. What they fucking should have is a waiting period for all the rednecks getting married.

By less government he means less government that benefits poor people ie PeachCare, Medicare, etc.

Shit that benefits richie rich he is all for.

Exactly, and the fast track of road building and tort reform are a two pronged attack on Taylor. Perdon't wants to shore up support from roadbuilders, who remember what Barnes, and by extension, Taylor were going to do for them, and wants to cut off the "rich ambulance chasing" lawyer money from Taylor as well.

With Republican control of the House and Senate in state, its only gonna get worse before it gets better.

I think they should be written in 'GAR.

Sounds to me he's just following the national example. Isn't this exactly the double-talk and budgetary sleight-of-hand that earned Dubya a second term?

Exactly. Thing is that this is a man who had no political experience to speak of and was essentially a semi-successful farmer from middle Georgia. One of the biggest lightning rod issues he ran on was to have the people vote on the state flag. The then current Governor had just changed the flag from the stars and bars version. Perdue ran proposing a vote to either change it back or to keep the new one knowing it would have been changed back in a landslide. This of course got the rural areas to come out in droves to vote which I don't think I have to tell you are 80% Republican.

He then of course hedged on this vote.

Close, but not exactly. Yr. boy Sonny was a Democratic state Senator for several terms (2 or 3) who clashed with my boy Charles Walker, when he was Majority Leader, and the leadership over the way Barnes muscled his way to the nomination. He then went resigned his seat, became a Republican and ran a LONG shot campaign to be Gov. He did win by inflaming "flaggers," but what he did effectively was got people who havd been voting Dem in state and Republican for federal offices to vot Republican in state. He may have been too cute by half with his hedging on the flag, but i don't see how either side makes hay out of this in '06.

The real key is progress vs. backwards thinking. Sonny is a buffoon, but that's not enough to get him out of office. What they need to show is that he a hypocrite (flip-flopper?) who really only cares about issues that can benefit him. Anyway, hopefully Taylor and Cox won't kill each other, but I think we are in for a lively 2006 throughout the nation, and especially GA and AL.

Oregon isn't perfect by any means, but when I read shit like this, I am so glad I don't live in Georgia anymore. Love my friends, family, visiting and memories, but I couldn't live there again. Wha' happened???

Bush/Rove happened!

Don't forget your idol, Ralph Reed. It's been inevitable for some time now...just shocked to see it go so far right, so fast.

Georgia was at one point the MOST Democratic state in the union (through Kennedy's election) sad to see it like this.

Fuck that little bitch Ralph Reed. You know he lives in Sugarloaf (home of PGA event the Bellsouth Classic). My buddy worked there. He said Reed was one of the worst tippers in the whole Country Club. Plus his wife was a megabitch!!