Yeah, yeah, I'm relieved Obama won, hopeful he'll manage to do what needs to be done in spite of the same old GOP obstructors sitting in Congress. I'm actually pretty excited about Elizabeth Warren joining the Senate as well.
But here in Georgia, there's nothhing I see to be cheery about.
We spent 8 years with a corrupt, thickheaded governor named Sonny Perdue, then replaced him with the seemingly smarter yet much sleazier Nathan Deal (you may recall that CREW ranked him among the 15 most corrupt members of Congress--then we made him Governor.
Between them (and our GOP-dominated Legislature) they gutted our state ethics commission. It's much easier to break the laws when there's no one to enforce them, right?
So nothing good happened in Georgia on election day, which had me a bit glum, but what really set me off was trying to deal with a bill for my son's recent hospital stay.
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