Bob Barr's PAC, The Bob Barr Leadership Fund, is showing how Republicans and former Republicans really lead. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BBLF has actually donated less than 5% of the 4.3 million dollars it has received in donations since 2003.

$125,000 went to federal campaigns and $81,875 state and local campaigns. The other $4,093,125 went to fund raising efforts.

"It costs money to raise money," Barr said.

Cobb bar protested as racist for Obama T-shirts - from the AJC.

Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.

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Norman said those offended are "hunting for a reason to be mad" and insisted he is "not a racist."

Photo of shirt.

Got a phone call minutes ago from Gallup! They were asking about my quality of life and presidential questions. I got on their list a while back answering a poll about the local newspaper and have been waiting years for a presidential poll! Finally!

My company has a table at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner at the World Congress Center. They held them until the last moment and nobody can go. Who would like a ticket or two? I have a number of pairs. Clinton and Edwards will be speaking. Max Cleland and John Lewis will be honored. Can you dress nice and behave respectably? Email me at gttim where the mail is hot!

From the NYTimes:

In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.

At issue is a crudely lettered sign, scribbled on the back of a menu, that was held up at an awards dinner and read, "We did not vote for Bush."

By e-mail, angry bridge players have accused the women of "treason" and "sedition."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution printed an opinion piece by Jeff Emmanuel of Redstate.com. It was about how we should support Bush's surge because it is working. His evidence:

In April and May of this year, and again from the beginning of August through the present, I have been embedded in some of the most kinetic combat zones in Iraq, observing Gen. David Petraeus' strategy from the ground level in several different locations. I have seen clear evidence of the strategy's effects on the situation there

WASHINGTON - Sen. Joe Lieberman, who won re-election as an independent, has a message for his Senate colleagues in the next Congress: Call me a Democrat.

The three-term Connecticut lawmaker defied party leaders when he launched his independent bid after losing to Democrat Ned Lamont in the August primary. During the campaign, he vowed to be an "independent-minded Democrat" if he were re-elected. In Tuesday's election, Lieberman won strong GOP support and given the closely divided Senate, Republicans are expected to court him.

So will he count as a Democrat or an independent who caucuses with the majority Democrats? In an e-mail message late Thursday, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said the senator will begin his new term as a Democrat.

I get to this new fangled ATM that has suddenly appeared at my bank. IT is bright red. I look all over for envelopes, and they have none. I am getting pissed off thinking, "They have new freaking ATM machines, but they can't send a guy out to re-supply the envelopes? Then I see a big sing saying "No Envelope Needed!"

Wow!

"Would you let your child be a page?"

Of course I had to answer....

Jay Bookman of the AJC explains:

And yes, HB 244 allows dead people to vote. Under previous law, if someone voted via absentee ballot but died before Election Day, that vote wouldn't be counted. But no longer. HB 244 struck that language, so that today, the votes of dead Georgians still count.

First, I was rather shocked that Cathy Cox asked a Republican to lead her failed bid to be the Democratic nominee. Okay, maybe I was not that surprised. After all she is the Secretary of State that brought the Diebold voting machine into Georgia and remained adamantly opposed to any type of paper trail, until late in her campaign.

March 17, 2006 -- SUSAN Sarandon doesn't think Sen. Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. "I find Hillary to be a great disappointment," the lefty actress tells More magazine. "She's lost her progressive following because of her caution and centrist approach. It bothered me when she voted for the war. There were brave people who didn't. She's not worse than other politicians, but I hoped she would be better. What America is looking for is authentic people who want to go into public service because they strongly believe in something, not people who are [just] trying to get elected."

More....

"I am going to let you in on a secret. For years I have said I was injured in Vietnam. That is not true. I actually was duck hunting with Dick Cheney...."

His first standing ovation was when he rolled onto the speaker's platform. He is well loved.

More on the dinner...
(Cross posted at Better Inhale Deeply)

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For those not familiar: The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

Some highlights below.

The set-up: The AJC ran an editorial saying government should not continue with tax cuts due to the economic uncertainties surrounding New Orleans. It was titled and sub titled, "No time for tax cuts. Given the uncertainty over Katrina's ultimate cost, government restraint should be the order of the day."

Makes sense. Of course to show equal views, they run this crap from Isackson. The best line?

...The EPA's Kaufman, a designer of the Superfund legislation to clean up toxic waste, said New Orleans and the Gulf Coast face "an absolute catastrophic situation" that will take years to abate.

Louisiana, a center of the oil, gas and chemical industries, "was known for its very weak enforcement regulations," Kaufman said, and there are a number of landfills and storage areas containing "thousands of tons" of hazardous material to be leaked and spread.

"On top of that, you have dead bodies that are going to start to decompose, along with the material that was in industrial and household discharge, sewage, gasoline and waste oil from gas stations," he added. "You've got a witches' brew of contaminated water."

Given New Orleans's desperate straits, recovery teams will not be able to do anything with the toxic mess except pump it into the Gulf of Mexico, ensuring that the contamination will spread to a larger area, he said. "There's just no other place for it."(Emphasis mine)