On Chip Rogers’ departure from the Gold Dome
Just a few years ago, Chip Rogers was a rising star in Georgia politics. He was a possible contestant for the lieutenant governor’s office if Casey Cagle sought higher office, and a sure-fire future gubernatorial candidate himself. Today, he said he’s leaving the Legislature altogether for a position at Georgia Public Broadcasting — a sharp, sudden end (for now, anyway) to a once-promising political career.
On the positive side, Rogers was strongly associated with the causes of school choice and property-tax reform. He pushed the first measure involving vouchers (for students with special needs) and tried unsuccessfully the last couple of years to expand that program to children of military and foster families. He helped reinstate the state’s Charter Schools Commission, after the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional, by maneuvering this year’s constitutional amendment through the Senate. He was a likeable guy, and he went after big ideas.
He also attracted his share of critics, and controversy found him time and again. Some of these controversies — for instance, a business deal (with U.S. Rep. Tom Graves) gone bad — were more serious than others — such as a much-ridiculed bill requiring consent for the implantation of microchips.
But the most politically damaging controversy, by far, was his role in the leadership putsch in the Senate two years ago. Rogers helped lead the group of senators who stripped Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle of some of his powers so that they could run the chamber themselves. As the Senate’s majority leader and a telegenic, Atlanta-area legislator (he represented Cherokee County), he was a leading spokesman for a chamber that was criticized many times over the past two years for appearing rudderless. Neither Gov. Nathan Deal nor, more publicly, Speaker David Ralston, relished seeing their legislative priorities subjected to a Senate run by consensus within the GOP caucus.
Most bills, whether large or small in importance, ran the risk of becoming ensnared in the chamber’s running leadership fight. In the end, most of the more prominent bills during the last two legislative sessions managed to get through the Senate run by Rogers and President Pro Tem Tommie Williams. But the arrangement required their constant vigilance and, from my dealings with them, seemed to wear them down — both in terms of their energy and patience, and in terms of their standing with their own caucus.
First Williams announced he would not be running again for pro tem, then his chosen successor was defeated soundly in a post-election caucus meeting. Rogers dropped out of his own re-election bid, and rumors started circulating almost immediately that he’d be out of office before year’s end.
Rogers’ departure almost closes the book on the first era of the Georgia GOP’s rule under the Gold Dome; he took the majority leader position when Glenn Richardson was speaker and ran the House with Mark Burkhalter and Jerry Keen; Cagle was lieutenant governor and Eric Johnson was Senate president pro tem; and Sonny Perdue was governor. Only Cagle remains in elected office (at this point, you’d have to say he was the winner of the Senate’s two-year “experiment”).
At age 44, Rogers is too young to write off as a potential comeback candidate one day. But for now, like that first GOP-led era, Rogers’ legacy will be a mixed bag: Some big early successes, followed by less accomplishment even as the GOP’s majorities grew larger, and more questions and infighting than answers toward the end.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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GiveItASportingTry
December 4th, 2012
5:04 pm
Must be “another woman” somewhere in this story. Usually is.
BTW Kyle are you still considering a move to the sports section of AJC? A better fit for you perhaps.
Aquagirl
December 4th, 2012
5:12 pm
I can’t wait to hear what sent Chip scurrying toward his little rodent hole.
Damn, life is good.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
Won’t miss Rogers at all.
But then, I wouldn’t miss Casey Cagle if he were to disappear, either.
He’s the epitome of an empty suit.
Aynie Sue
December 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
Another contributor to the most corrupt state government in the nation! Why would GPB hire such a jerk?
JAWJA
December 4th, 2012
5:29 pm
I wonder if its an indictment on the Graves/Rogers motel thingy, or a woman thingy. Why the heck did he run? Third from the bottom of states in high school graduates, bottom on SAT’s, infrastructure, services gone to pot. ‘PUBS really know how to run a state.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
5:30 pm
Now, now, AquaGirl, I am sponsoring a “BE NICE” evening and you are are not being a poster girl.
Rats? They run on both sides so don’t be catty and try to catch one side only.
It’s ONLY POLITICS you know…or doncha?
Hillbilly D
December 4th, 2012
5:30 pm
Every once in a while something good happens. This is good. Have to give him credit, though, he’s one of only a couple of people (the other isn’t in the public eye) who was able to tell a bank “you knew I couldn’t pay you when you lent me the money’ (parapharase) and be able to pull it off.
nathan's political arsonist
December 4th, 2012
5:30 pm
repulsive, egotistical, pompous, condecending, manipulative, overbearing hack with questionable background and character who did far more harm than good for this state. best thing he did was resign today. balfour should be next
nathan's political arsonist
December 4th, 2012
5:31 pm
then his partner in crime graves
LeftIsRight
December 4th, 2012
5:32 pm
One more quitter in the mold of Palin and Eric Erickson(Macon City Council)! If you can’t get your way or can find more $$ elsewhere then bye, bye.
nathan's political arsonist
December 4th, 2012
5:33 pm
word is he will be working on a documentary about sustainability at GPB
LeftIsRight
December 4th, 2012
5:34 pm
GPB you’ve lost my annual contribution if you hire this guy!
JAWJA
December 4th, 2012
5:34 pm
Maybe Graves will be eaten in US congress. After all, they did send Nathan scurrying back to Georgia.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
5:35 pm
Annie Sue and Jawja
Are you insulting the state in which you live, huh? Why? You can move elsewhere, you know.
Now be nice. I (for one) am tired of this huff- and- puff- mean- stuff people want to shovel on here. Behave!
JAWJA
December 4th, 2012
5:37 pm
Dusty, you misunderstand; not insultin my state, just the fools who voted for these corrupt people.
Aquagirl
December 4th, 2012
5:38 pm
Now, now, AquaGirl, I am sponsoring a “BE NICE” evening and you are are not being a poster girl
Am I ever?
M
December 4th, 2012
5:40 pm
I guess each and everyone of you that commented have never done anything wrong, said anything wrong. Have wives/children/mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters, I guess each of you know him personally and have sat down with him and listened to his heart on each and every decision he made. I guess none of you suffered during the recession or ever made a bad deal and had to pay the consequences that no one else would know unless you have access to his personal credit or bank issues.. Wow, we continue to live in a world where we do nothing but tear people apart even when you don’t personally know them or do your homework!!
Skip
December 4th, 2012
5:45 pm
M, whatever you have in the glass, pour it out.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
5:45 pm
JAWJA
Don’t fool yourself. If you have facts, pass ‘em on. But this”everybody is crooked’ just doesn’t make the truth. It also makes Georgia look like we are running Devil’s Island or something. So stop it.
If you don’t mind me asking, R U married to Aquagirl?
Aquagirl
December 4th, 2012
5:45 pm
I guess each and everyone of you that commented have never done anything wrong, said anything wrong.
Hey Chip, at least have the huevos to post under your real name.
Cherokee
December 4th, 2012
5:47 pm
Sorry, Kyle, but he was NOT a ‘likeable’ guy. I live in his district – if you had the audacity to disagree with his attacks on gay people or Mexicans, he reacted with fury – how dare someone have a different opinion?
Good riddance – and like Aquagirl, I expect there’s more to this story.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
5:49 pm
M has a heart. Don’t knock it!
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 4th, 2012
5:52 pm
In October 2012, Rogers held an educational meeting at the Capitol for Senators and staffers regarding Agenda 21,
The guy was a total nutjob.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 4th, 2012
5:53 pm
In October 2012, Rogers held an educational meeting at the Capitol for Senators and staffers regarding Agenda 21, a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regards to sustainable development. The session was held at the request of constituents, and consisted of a video presentation with a former member of the Georgia Tea Party Field Searcy, who stated that the United Nations is using a mind control technique developed during the Cold War to support Agenda 21. The video also included a clip of political consultant Dick Morris claiming that Barack Obama “wants to force everyone into the cities”.[17] Two days after video of the meeting surfaced, Rogers announced that he would step down as Senate Majority Leader at the conclusion of his current term.
Total and complete nutjob.
nathan's political arsonist
December 4th, 2012
5:56 pm
kyle voted for noot, but he is step above Will the Sports Bookie and Hotel Owner, and a hell of a lot funnier
Ray
December 4th, 2012
5:58 pm
He’ll be a paid lobbyist before you know it. Given, what he has done thus far to so obviously push for infrastructure to support the gaming and casino lobby in this state, is there much doubt, that is where his bread and butter will soon come from?
Instead of starting with cheesy video gaming through the GA Lottery, Georgia should embrace first class gaming and horse racing.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
5:58 pm
Aquagirl @ 5:45
Try to behave, poster child..
I’m going to oven fry some chicken for dinner. Not just to chicken out, but feed the poor ‘n’ hungry (that live in ;my house including me).
When’s the last time you were on PBS? Yay yay yay!!! Seems not everybody hates this guy…
nathan's political arsonist
December 4th, 2012
6:00 pm
Big THANKS to Better Georgia for filming Will’s wacky mind control symposium and exposing the idiot !!! Way to go Bryan Long and staff!!!!
JAWJA
December 4th, 2012
6:04 pm
DUSTY: This is you being nice? Oh, and, I’m not going anywhere. I’m not a quitter like the Chipster.
Dunwoody Granny
December 4th, 2012
6:23 pm
M, I’d guess everyone reading this blog, or the AJC in general, or, well, anything at all, has done something wrong. But very few of us have ever defaulted on a $2.1 million loan. The scale of what he did wrong was a little different from the scale of the mistakes and sins the rest of us have committed.
And I’m with Aquagirl and others: The only reason people ever resign in order to spend more time with their family is when they’re pretty sure something is going to get them thrown out.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2012
6:26 pm
1 crook down, about 150 more to go.
There is more to the story than is being told.
I suspect it is because they are about to tell ole Chip he really has to pay the money back and his legislator’s salary just isn’t gonna cut it.
MarkV
December 4th, 2012
6:42 pm
I wish I had something good to say about Mr. Chip Rogers.
But I do not have that.
On the other hand, I do not have anything bad to say about him either; at least not something I could use to make a definite judgment.
If he is leaving, why not let him face the consequences of his sins, if he has any, and let it be.
Mr. Dithers
December 4th, 2012
6:48 pm
Well, at least one less reason to be embarrassed to live in N. Fulton. If we could only get Coke or Delta to hire Tom Price.
I have already written to GPB letting them know they should not be asking me for money in the future. I hope enough people do the same that they have to reconsider their decision. Surely there’s a gambling organization that needs a shill. Chip has already proven he can do that job. Let’s hope he doesn’t personally guarantee any donations to GPB. And that GPB doesn’t start airing “Agenda 21″ Friday night programs.
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
6:56 pm
Dusty
You cry and complain then suggest others leave the state when they say something about the politicians.
When will you finally be a leader in life and leave the country? After all you do complain a lot about those you do not agree with on a national level.
Don’t let irony and hypocrisy continue to hinder you.
Take initiative and set the example.
Real Athens
December 4th, 2012
6:59 pm
Chip Rogers? Property Tax Reform? Last I checked his idea of “reform” was the freezing of the $428 million Homeowner Tax Relief Grant program to help cover the state budget shortfall in 2008.
Through a homestead exemption, the program saved taxpayers about $250 a year and provided local governments with a check to help cover lost revenue. Presumably to pay for Perdue’s Go FISH! initiative; the Oaky Woods purchase and other governmental mismanagement during Perdue’s reign (and drain) on the state budget.
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
6:59 pm
As for Chip, another goon will come along to take his place.
GA politics was a tight circle when Democrats ran the show and it is basically the same since power switched hands. Of course, many are the same players who just switched parties to stay in power as the voting trends were changing on a state level.
Tiberiius - Banned from Common Sense
December 4th, 2012
7:00 pm
And I’m lobbying Emory to hire Paul Broun for their Science department.
How in heck does this move make any sense by GPB?
I’m thinking maybe old Chip had a thing for Elmo or something.
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
7:02 pm
Real Athens
That was a tax increase without having to say there was a tax increase.
JDW
December 4th, 2012
7:03 pm
Good Riddance! I only wish I could pick about 75 more of those clowns to go with him.
Real Athens
December 4th, 2012
7:04 pm
You think Chip’s got “dead girl or live boy” tat we’re going to hear about i the next few days?
I thought the GOP hated PBS. I guess Chip was waiting for Obama to be elected before taking the job, seeing that Mitt was going to do away with all funding on day one of his presidency.
You can’t make this stuff up.
JDW
December 4th, 2012
7:06 pm
For once I agree with Tiberius…this makes no sense for GPB.
One Who Knows....
December 4th, 2012
7:11 pm
So what happens to all of his campaign cash? Does Chip get to keep it for himself?
Hillbilly D
December 4th, 2012
7:24 pm
So what happens to all of his campaign cash? Does Chip get to keep it for himself?
If I’m not mistaken and/or Georgia law hasn’t changed, any leftover campaign funds are the candidate’s, free and clear, once he’s done running for office. Somebody can correct me if that’s no longer the case.
mike
December 4th, 2012
7:33 pm
The Georgia legislature makes the Republican presidential primaries look staid by comparison. What an absolutely, positively, idiotic clown show! But then again, what else would you expect?
Mr. Dithers
December 4th, 2012
7:38 pm
Did Chip ask his family if they wanted to spend more time with him?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
7:40 pm
“repulsive, egotistical, pompous, condecending, manipulative, overbearing hack with questionable background and character who did far more harm than good for this state.”
Now, now, nathan. We’re talking about Chip Rogers, not John Lewis.
A teacher
December 4th, 2012
7:41 pm
Great day in Georgia politics. By far one of the most corrupt politician in the state of Georgia.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
7:43 pm
“By far one of the most corrupt politician in the state of Georgia.”
And you know this to be true – how, A teacher? Or is it just the loan he defaulted on (done by hundreds of thousands of average Americans in the past few years) that you object to?
retiredds
December 4th, 2012
8:03 pm
12 years of Republican rule in GA and from the comments above it does not appear that the people are thrilled. Guess the R’s forgot that they were going to change the way business is done in GA.
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
8:06 pm
John Lewis is 10 times the man Chip Rogers will ever be on is worst day… Not above mistakes as any human, but it isn’t even close.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
8:09 pm
John Lewis USED to be 10 times the man Chip Rogers is, Glenn Beck.
But if we all gauged success by past performances only, there would never have been a President Obama, would there?
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2012
8:13 pm
@Tiberius
It’s not the loan per se, it was the entirely slimy way he and Graves tried to weasel out of it.
“Selling” the property to an uneducated, unskilled patsy for $10K (and money never changed hands) then arguing he should not be held accountable because the bank should have KNOWN he had no way to pay the obligation back when it loaned him the money in the first place.
Maybe the above does not make him corrupt, but it does make him a d–che bag.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
8:18 pm
Agreed, Look before I leap, but I was just highlighting the hyperbole in A teacher’s comment.
Again, won’t miss the guy at all.
But then, having interacted with many under the Gold Dome over the years, I have a particularly low opinion of the caliber of people we elect to public office across the state.
From BOTH parties.
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
8:22 pm
So chip as done what that you adore him so much
Is he your man crush
Glenn Beck
December 4th, 2012
8:26 pm
Tiberius
On that we agree. I know several who “reside” at the Dome. Both D and R. Most are less than stellar
St Simons
December 4th, 2012
8:57 pm
lord i was borrrn a gamblin maaaan….
can’t pay back his ‘loan’, the money ‘went away’…
looks like Chip ‘rolled the dice’ heheh and came up snake eyes.
now, the skool-fer profit snake oil salesman is taking a ‘job’ at
educational teevee.
Taking ‘bets’ heheh you find his crooked *ss at the trough of
the first for-profit-jesus-rode-the-dinosaur-charter-scam.
aaa
December 4th, 2012
8:59 pm
Sounds like a scandal is coming soon. I’m guessing an affair.
mike
December 4th, 2012
9:05 pm
st simons: great post! Charter school = scam = corporate profiteering = public discontent = accountability = i resign! can ya dig it?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 4th, 2012
9:09 pm
And some people on this blog falsely claim conservatives can’t move on from elections . . . .
Nice to see liberals actually can’t.
Bye Bye
December 4th, 2012
9:10 pm
Bye bye MicroChip. Don’t let the door hit your in the ass.
Old Hippie
December 4th, 2012
9:13 pm
Chip Rogers, like most of the Georgia GOP elected officials, is an embarassment to the citizens of the state. I’m surprised GPB would have anything to do with his crazy ass.
Hopeful
December 4th, 2012
9:13 pm
The guy sounds like a lot of people loved Chip Rogers
He was ok I don’t have a bad word toward him he tryed
Caused I really didn’t know him well give me 9 words that
Tell me why I should are shouldn’t like him ok
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
9:16 pm
Well, the bashing of Chip Rogers seems to be rolling along. I hope he is successful at PBS as they seem to think he will be. Not many people getting good job offers these days.
I congratulate MarkV as being the most pragmatic blogger here. Nice to see his mellow mood.
Now Glenn Beck and JAWJA seem to think they have received engraved invitations to leave Georgia. Only people who ought to leave Georgia feel that way. I only suggest leaving Georgia out of the kindness of my heart. Why stay if you hate it? And poor old Glenn and JAWJA object everytime even under all the different ids. they use. Settle down,felllows, whomever you are at the moment.
And now, a moment of truth!! Oven fried chicken and oven fried eggplant can be baked together!!!! It gets a bit mushy (the eggplant, not the chicken) but is very tasty There! You learned something you did not know. That is the whole purpose of blogs, is it not?
independent thinker
December 4th, 2012
9:16 pm
Does this mean it is safe for Big Bird to come out of hiding now?
St Simons
December 4th, 2012
9:21 pm
For profit jaysus rode the dinosaur charter skool scam
or
I gambled away the money, Guido’s lookin fer me
or
rules for managing taxpayer monay don’t apply to me
wishing
December 4th, 2012
9:30 pm
Wingfield didn’t even mention ethics controversy and Agenda 21. Nor did he mention that little chestnut of a story about being accused by teenagers hired by his campaign to steal opponents signs. I guess that would be too much to expect.
mike
December 4th, 2012
9:32 pm
Our Republican side-show legislature is mute testimony to the ignorance and hate-filled public in this state. Can you really imagine anything else? Especially with the “poster boys” Tiberius, Linda, md, Lil’ Barry, I Report, cc, etc. on this blog? You got the government you “deserve.” Enjoy it!
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
9:44 pm
I bet Kyle got a smile out of some local news today. Emory University’s president has announced that they will be closing their programs in JOURNALISM, plysical education and visual arts.
Seems Emory wants to enhance core strength and expand academic strengths.
Well, you can always go to UGA to be a sterling journalist, play football and enjoy beautiful visual arts.
So there Emory, picky picky!! I do hope you did not close Basket Weaving Bionics. Liberal students there gotta specialize in something! I think they were;protesting today.
Jim S
December 4th, 2012
9:48 pm
Earlier tonight, it was sad to see The Leader duck out of the capitol in a trot while some of his staff (state employees?) appeared to hinder Lori Geary of Channel 2 from seeking an interview,
Its amazing how bold the contempt or disregard is for the citizens of this state for The Leader to be just given a high level state job to rescue him. Ethics in state government are nowhere to be seen in this entire matter. One irony is that regular state employees are warned to avoid “even the appearance of impropriety”.
Too bad for the staff at GPTV who will have to endure the “employment” of The Leader. The hypocrisy underlying this whole thing stinks.
@@
December 4th, 2012
9:49 pm
Don’t know that much about Rogers.
About that bill regarding microchips?
Our own Vice President is a believer.
Biden – And we’ll be faced with equally consequential decisions in the 21st century. Can a microscopic tag be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement? There’s actual discussion about that.
You will rule on that — mark my words — before your tenure is over.
Can brain scans be used to determine whether a person’s inclined toward criminality or violent behaviour?
You will rule on that.–Roberts Confirmation Hearing September 12 2005
What does that say about Joe Biden?
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
9:55 pm
Well, it seems that mike the tike is not contrite.
Also, he has not noticed this blog is designated as CONSERVATIVE and there are strong conservatives posting here.
You, mike, volunteered to come here as no invitations were sent out. So remember the words of Truman: “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”
My boo
December 4th, 2012
10:06 pm
He’s the poster boy for regressive malfeasance.
Dusty
December 4th, 2012
10:12 pm
Jim $
For a moment I thought you were talking about President Obama ducking out the door. When’s this ;three week vacation starting? I think I hear that big ol’ Air Force One warming up. Will it be fresh pineapple or Boston baked beans this time??
Yep, it is a little hard to keep up with our “leaders’ these days. They don’t seem to feel “at home” in the White House when they get there. All the fun seems to be just in getting there. After that, it’s all those bothersome decisions to make. Cjeez!!
mike
December 4th, 2012
10:24 pm
I distinctly remember back when Saint Ronnie of the Trickle Down was elected, they used the term “lonely Left.” I think “lonely Right” is in order now. How does it feel?
getalife
December 4th, 2012
11:13 pm
Dusty,
ODS much?
chip caught the gay.
Anyhoo, economy is looking better for 13.
Chin up Americans.
BillVol
December 4th, 2012
11:39 pm
Chip Rogers’ legacy will be his tearing down campaign signs of his opponents. Starting with his first campaign, when he ran against Dawn Marr for state house. Rogers is as dirty as they come. Karma has finally come around to get him.
clix
December 4th, 2012
11:55 pm
” It wasn’t our fault. They never should have loaned us the money. They knew we couldn’t pay it back”
GOOD RIDDANCE!!! Our leaders should be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Corruptness from top to bottom. And it’s both sides at all levels. And Deal, when you co-sign a loan with someone you are stating that you will stand good for it in the event they default on it. What a mess. You’re all a disgrace and embarrassment to the people who elected you.
getalife
December 5th, 2012
12:21 am
“a birther activist said that President Barack Obama and the United Nations are using “mind-control” to implement a sustainability agenda is resigning from the state Senate.”
Kooky.
hsn
December 5th, 2012
12:24 am
Hahaaa… So the Chip is going to work for Public Broadcasting. . How ironic !
Weren’t you cons fighting to kill all government support for PBS?
Come on, Chip, practice what you and your con brethren have been preaching and get out of “anything” supported by the “evil” government.
DeborahinAthens
December 5th, 2012
6:23 am
Didn’t Deal appoint him to GPB? I can’t believe they would hire such a mindless jerk without pressure.
catlady
December 5th, 2012
6:50 am
So Chip fleas, I mean, flees. We will soon find out why. Less than a month ago he stood for re-election, and now he is going to give his district the “joy” of paying for another election? It should come out of his hide! Just as Deal’s run from his lapses cost several hundred thousand for the election to fill his seat.
GPB, you have lost my yearly donation, and I will encourage others to pull theirs as well. Remember Susan Komen? Are you listening?
catlady
December 5th, 2012
6:59 am
He will seriously embarrass GPB within 6 months.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
7:02 am
And sure enough, all the mind controlled dembots arrive here to sustain their agenda of greed and envy.
Rightwing troll
December 5th, 2012
7:09 am
Quitting after ten years of running the state into the ground to go be govt moocher …how typical
Cherokee
December 5th, 2012
7:38 am
“You’re all a disgrace and embarrassment to the people who elected you.”
I dunno. The people of this state mindlessly vote Republican no matter how corrupt and self serving the politicians are. I’m not sure they have sense enough to be ‘embarrassed.’
And no, Dusty, this is home – sorry, but I’m not leaving.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
8:04 am
Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris.
Two conservative idiots down, millions more to go….
JamVet
December 5th, 2012
8:05 am
ask@gpb.org
Email them if you have something to say about this bizarre decision…
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
8:06 am
The people of this state mindlessly vote Republican no matter how corrupt and self serving the politicians are.
Except when it comes to Governor (err, the TOP job in the state)… that’s where the Cons show there “country first” mettle…..
mwuahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
8:16 am
Don’t ever vote for anyone named “Chip”
curious
December 5th, 2012
8:31 am
Rogers is going to use his leftover campaign money to pay on his $2.1 million loan.
After all he is a man of integrity.
JF McNamara
December 5th, 2012
8:32 am
Big Bird had better watch out. The Republicans now have an inside guy. That Bird is as good as dead.
jd
December 5th, 2012
8:44 am
Kyle — that two year experiment was employed when the R’s first took control of the Senate to gag Lt. Gov. Taylor. When Cagle was elected, Johnson and company changed the rules back. Then, when Rogers came to power, Cagle was castrated…
yuzeyurbrane
December 5th, 2012
8:47 am
Kyle, do I sense a certain admiration for this con artist? Chip is the classic con artist and could just as easily sell stocks, used cars, aluminum siding or sub-prime mortgages to the less sophisticated. After all, to be a successful con artist you have to be more likeable than your average person. And, don’t you even have a little journalistic curiosity as to the real reason he has abandoned, at least temporarily, politics just a few months after enduring a hard fought reelection campaign?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
8:54 am
What is the government but one giant con artist?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
8:55 am
Has anyone seen the last round of stimulus money lately?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
8:57 am
One good thing about obama’s reelection, at least he won’t have to use billions of our tax dollars to fund another campaign.
Whirled Peas
December 5th, 2012
8:57 am
It is time we stopped picking the pockets for the citizens to fund a government broadcasting system. Take the funds designated for PBS and use them to fund the US Post Office for a while. Or better yet, privatize mail delivery and use the PBS funds to pay down the debt.
JamVet
December 5th, 2012
9:10 am
What is the government but one giant con artist?
Air Iran is ready when you are.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
9:11 am
What is the government but one giant con artist?
And yet you still live here? Perhaps Brazil is more to your liking? Nairobi? Lots of others to choose from.
JamVet
December 5th, 2012
9:12 am
Hating America – the new GOP platform.
(And secret to their recent stunning election day success…)
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
9:17 am
PBS is going anywhere. The election decided “for” the big yellow bird.
Deal, losers.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
9:31 am
My, such anger and despondency from the left this morning, did someone pee in y’all’s Cheerios?
You should learn to breathe, slow, steady breaths when this rage over takes you, bursting blood vessels in one’s forehead is not good and our health care system needs all the help it can get right now.
obama asks for a 50 Billion Dollar infrastructure “fund,” and I’m thinking that this money will pass through so many hands before it gets to the ready shovel, there won’t be enough left to get a parking lot swept.
JamVet
December 5th, 2012
9:37 am
Despondency?
Huge LOL!
Is that the new Republican code word for joyous celebration, vis a vis the recent election results?
I’m having a hard time not bursting out in chuckles these days!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
9:43 am
Yes, scoring some other people’s money without putting forth any efforts probably does make some people giggle to themselves.
I wouldn’t know.
CC
December 5th, 2012
9:51 am
“Hating America – the new GOP platform.”
Wrong . . . yet again!
“Hating America” is a democrat/progressive thing. It resulted in the election and reelection of Obammy.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
9:52 am
Imagine owning a bar and having some lib show up to drink, no visible means of support, giggling to themselves and always promising to pay their tab “next week, honest.”
How long before you’d cut them off?
Politico
December 5th, 2012
10:09 am
You mean like the two wars and drug bill Bush financed?
Like that Aesop?
The newest FABLE was written way too early (before the election), it had Romney winning.
Hahahahahaha
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
10:10 am
All that the U.N. treaty that was voted down on Tuesday aims to do is to internationalize the ADA – to set it as the global standard for how the disabled should be treated by society.
And the baby Jesus wept…..
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
10:11 am
always promising to pay their tab “next week, honest.”
We taking a page out of the Con play book?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
10:22 am
That’s a nice canard, Politico, but those were all bi partisan legislative acts.
See where we are going here? You work with the libs and they blame you for the results. You don’t work with the libs and they blame you for the results. Yes, I know, it’s childish, isn’t it?
What’s the projected date that you democrats blame us for obamacare?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
10:24 am
I cannot answer a mouthful of foam, Finn, could you be more specific?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
10:24 am
Cons just miss the good ole days of starting two wars WHILE giving out tax breaks at the same time.
“Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end…..”
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
10:27 am
those were all bi partisan legislative acts.
Yes, don’t blame the leadership. Don’t blame the guy who sold someone the Brooklyn bridge, blame the guy who bought it.
The party of responsibility? LOL
Tap Out
December 5th, 2012
10:28 am
A comeback?! You can’t possibly be serious.
curious
December 5th, 2012
10:58 am
Imagine owning a bank and some guy comes in, borrows $2.1 million, never makes a payment, but promises to pay next week.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
11:03 am
Swimmer kennedy wrote the Part D drug bill, Afghanistan was a nearly unanimous vote and h clinton, j kerry and even d durbin voted for Iraq, does anybody know what Finn is babbling about?
(Notice how the libs are scurrying away from the Afghanistan vote now, and essentially our nation’s response to 9/11?
What cowards these people really are.)
You dont say
December 5th, 2012
11:06 am
Aesop
And you served when tough guy?
CC
December 5th, 2012
11:21 am
Aesop:
Finn never even knows what he is babbling about! How in the world could anyone else?
deegee
December 5th, 2012
11:22 am
HAHAHAHAHA! It’s a radio show. Who’s going to be listening to that?!?!?!
Good riddance to bad rubbish. What sweet irony that he is going to be sucking at the government teat. Chip Rogers, the guy that built his political career on the backs of undocumented immigrant workers is now irrelevant. Maybe he got sick of getting phone calls from legitimate business people who are being delayed in renewing their business licenses due to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011.
CC
December 5th, 2012
11:22 am
Aesop:
Speaking of babbling, another who does that just checked in . . .
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
11:27 am
A radio show? I figured Chip would be wrestling with Bert over who got to sleep closest to Ernie. I suppose they will put Ernie in the middle.
Politico
December 5th, 2012
11:29 am
CC
You mus have served with Aesop in the Cib Scouts.
You two brave and heroic little tikes…
NO Artificial Flavors
December 5th, 2012
11:31 am
Good riddance Rogers. He is the best example of a conservative with no common sense. It was starve the beast (local governments especially) at all costs. This fool sponsored the most asinine and ill-planned legislation year after year, unintended consequences be damned. He catered to the fringe base of the party that wants public services but does not want to pay for any or them. I hope Casey Cagle is standing at his car to take his Senate license plate back and to tell him never come back again. Adios ass-hat.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 5th, 2012
11:35 am
“Hating America – the new GOP platform.”
Hating everything he doesn’t agree with – the same old AmVet platform.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
11:39 am
You dont say
December 5th, 2012
11:06 am
Aesop
And you served when tough guy?
What does this have to do with anything? When did obama, magic drone man, serve? Does it make a difference? Is this the sum defense of your wormy little political beliefs? Is this all that your weak mind can conjure up?
Oh yeah, back to the original question, of course I served my country.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
11:40 am
hahaha, obama, strapping killer of osama bin biden…
Marsh
December 5th, 2012
11:40 am
Let me get this straight – this Dusty person is tired of all the meanness, yet is spewing the most hateful stuff herself to people that don’t agree with her?
You, madam, are what’s wrong with this country.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 5th, 2012
11:46 am
And yet, you didn’t get it straight, Marsh.
Considering Dusty is one of the tamer posters on the conservative side on this blog. But that would require a certain level of reading comprehension you do not posses.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
11:48 am
Notice how when a lib is asked to articulate their beliefs, all they can do is shriek and deflect?
Big lib daddy raped me, have to kill the baby. This is the third time!
You want us to work hard and earn a living?!?! Neanderthal!!!
I have to pay for my birth control pills?!?! What, are you weird?
If anybody would have said those things in front of their great grandmother, she would have fetched a switch from an Elm tree and wore their ass out with it.
Nowadays, those things are careers.
Politico
December 5th, 2012
11:58 am
Aesop is a Fable
You called others cowards. I figured you had bravely served in defense of something…
You reply is all the answer that is needed and what was already apparent.
Thanks for playing, not so tough guy
Politico
December 5th, 2012
12:00 pm
Aesop is a Fable
You called others cowards. I figured you had bravely served in defense of something…
Your reply is all the answer that is needed and what was already apparent.
Thanks for playing, not so tough guy
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 5th, 2012
12:02 pm
I think Kyle needs a new rule on here demanding that anyone who asks another poster if they served in the military has to provide proof of same beforehand.
Otherwise, they should just leave the stupid question in their infertile minds and stick with the topic at hand.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 5th, 2012
12:04 pm
Oh, now Politico wants to fight.
yawn.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 5th, 2012
12:11 pm
It should also be pointed out to posters such as Politico that it doesn’t take serving in the military to recognize cowardice and to call it out, nor does being in the military automatically keep someone from being a coward themselves.
CC
December 5th, 2012
12:12 pm
Politico@12:29:
“You mus have served with Aesop in the Cib Scouts.”
As a matter of fact, I was a Girl Scout! What red-blooded American male would be scouting for boys?
“And you served when tough guy?”
. . . and this line means nothing except to a blowhard like you.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
12:14 pm
The 2012 Purge of the Tea Party Idiots is under way. Boehner is cleaning house of those whack jobs.
mwuahahahahahahahaaa
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
December 5th, 2012
12:21 pm
You can only throw that service issue at people who were of age during a draft and avoided it – Cheney, Romney, Limbaugh, W, Saxby, Alito, Newt, Guliani, Ted Nugent, Bill OReilly.
Looks to be alot more Cons in this list than Dems.
http://www.nndb.com/event/806/000140386/
Politico
December 5th, 2012
12:25 pm
Tiberius
Thank you if
If you served, than
Politico
December 5th, 2012
12:29 pm
Thank you if you served. Myself, 86 to 94, Army mechanized infantry.
Thanks for asking
If you want to cry (as usual) about the rules, cry on.
Anyone calling others cowards should expect to be challenged about their bravery. Whether they expect it or not, it will be coming.
Get used to it or ignore my reply.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
December 5th, 2012
12:37 pm
Politico, I didn’t ask, nor do I care when it comes to tough-guy bloviating on a blog, especially when one doesn’t use their real name when posting (and no, I’m not asking you for your real name, and yes, I obviously don’t use my own but I don’t go all commando on posters, either).
If someone wishes to disparage the service of others or the military in general, I will call them out and ask them for their service, but I will never call out someone for exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech, which is protected no matter if one serves or not.
Politico
December 5th, 2012
12:44 pm
Enter your comments here
CC
December 5th, 2012
12:52 pm
Politico:
“Thank you if you served. Myself, 86 to 94, Army mechanized infantry.”
I’m sure that there are many posters who have served honorably in the U. S. military, even though they don’t make it the focal point of their very existence and probably never mention it. Most served, came home and went on with their lives. Others see their military service as their greatest life achievement. If you are career military, it would be a major factor in your life. For those of us who were not “lifers”, we’ve moved on to the more pressing business of living today and planning for tomorrow.
I’m sorry you can’t seem to get past it.
Jack ®
December 5th, 2012
1:04 pm
Other than feeding an outsized ego, I am at a loss to know why anyone would want to be in politics.
Politico
December 5th, 2012
1:16 pm
Cc
Cry all you like. I don’t make it a priority to call others cowards as Aesop did and you seemed to be good with, but I will challenge those who do it for their own bravery…
And as for Aesop and yourself, I was on the money
Politico
December 5th, 2012
1:22 pm
Tiberius
Whose service did I demean? The one calling others cowards?
Let me know when you are the owner of this blog and we will play by your rules.
Until that time, cry and whine all you like
It is funny to me
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