The next Republican in the Senate race? Probably not Tom Price
Now, that’s not to say Tom Price, who represents Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, won’t run in next year’s election to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss. But unless no one else gets in the race during the next three months, Price won’t be the next candidate to jump in. (Paul Broun was the first.)
In a statement emailed today, Price said he’d raised $300,000 in the two weeks since Chambliss announced he wouldn’t seek re-election. That’s on top of the nearly $1.6 million in cash on hand his campaign committee reported as of Dec. 31. But, Price dded:
In November of 2012, the citizens of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District re-elected me to represent them in the U. S. House of Representatives. This is a great honor and serious responsibility. As Vice Chairman of the Budget Committee, I’ve been entrusted with a leadership position by my colleagues. My current focus is on the formulation of a sound Budget Resolution, a plan to balance the budget within ten years and correct the many problems created by the Obama Administration. The complexity of our fiscal crisis requires daily strategy and discussions to diligently tackle key issues including sequestration spending reductions, how Washington is funded, and the debt limit.
The urgency of our country’s problems is not to be taken lightly. Public service is a sacred trust and I take my responsibilities seriously. Too often, elected officials look toward the next rung on the ladder instead of the task at hand. In the weeks to come, by demonstrating effective leadership, I will be focused on fulfilling the job I was elected to do.
The election of Georgia’s next senator is 21 months away and there is plenty of time for campaigning. To announce a decision prior to the completion of the work on the debt ceiling and critical fiscal policy in May 2013, would be distracting and unwise. At that time, Betty and I will then be prepared to come to a decision on my candidacy for the U.S. Senate as Georgia’s conservative voice.
So, we’ll have to wait until May to find out whether Price joins Broun in the race. In the meantime, we could get decisions from other members of Congress, such as Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston, and perhaps others. The state legislative session should be over by late March or early April, so we might see some action on the candidate front after that.
Is this a mistake by Price? Or will 18 months (that’s until the general election; the primary will probably be in July, only 14 months from this May) be enough time?
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Hillbilly D
February 11th, 2013
3:11 pm
Please don’t tell me that you like boiled peanuts……
Then things are nasty. Parched is the way to go.
Hillbilly D
February 11th, 2013
3:11 pm
*Them things”…..This thing needs an edit feature since the odds of me ever learning to type and spell are looking mighty slim.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 11th, 2013
3:11 pm
Meanwhile, as emperor obozo fiddles -
Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg. The added gold is also almost triple the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
The world moves to take us out.
sailfish
February 11th, 2013
3:14 pm
aesop
So, what’s your point anyway? As if the russian economy is to be feared, got your passport ready?
indigo
February 11th, 2013
3:17 pm
Aesop – 2:43 “a lib will never take responsibility for anything”
Obama took full responsibility for ordering a hit on Bin Laden.
Or, did you just somehow forget that.
indigo
February 11th, 2013
3:22 pm
Aesop – 3:11 “the world moves to take us out”
Unfortunately, this is all too true.
While libs and cons fight, deadlock and gridlock, other Countries are busy getting it done. Many of them are Countries we saved in WWII. This, of course, was many years ago and not only have they conviently forgotten our help, they will do everything possible to advance themselves at our expense. Makes you wonder why we help them out with foreign aid and job outsourcing.
Bruno
February 11th, 2013
3:41 pm
While libs and cons fight, deadlock and gridlock, other Countries are busy getting it done.
So what is your suggestion for breaking the gridlock, indigo?? During the first two years of Obama’s first term, the Repubs were basically shut out of the legislative process. The second two years they fought the Dems on ideological grounds, paying lip service to reducing our spending, which the Dems never accepted. Who needs to cave here??
John from Ormewood Park
February 11th, 2013
3:51 pm
I would like to see viable moderate candidates (man, woman, any race)from both parties. Or from a new party. The Democrats have gone far left and the Republicans have gone far right, and many of us are just sick to death of the logjam in Washington. You can’t be a moderate Republican, or the nutballs call you a “RINO.” You can’t be a moderate Democrat or their nutballs call you a Republican. WHat nonesense!
Michael H. Smith
February 11th, 2013
3:52 pm
News flash: I disagree with the socialist liberals on Kyle’s blog and they disagree with Kyle and me.
Tune in tomorrow, nothing will have changed.
Michael H. Smith
February 11th, 2013
3:55 pm
“I would like to see viable moderate”
They, “the viable moderates”, all went the way of the Neanderthals.
Hillbilly D
February 11th, 2013
3:57 pm
John from Ormewood
Good point. So far we’ve only had 3rd party attempts from either the left or right. That just guarantees the winner from the other end. The only way a 3rd party can make a viable push is to be from the center, where they pull votes from the disaffected in both parties. We haven’t had that so far and of course the system is set up to keep things just the way they are for the 2 major parties.
To Tell the Truth
February 11th, 2013
4:03 pm
The problem is that LOSER of a PRESIDENT that has done NOTHING but POINT FINGERS and attempt to take the focus off of his FAILED ADMINISTRATION!
yuzeyurbrane
February 11th, 2013
4:08 pm
smart move
Centrist
February 11th, 2013
4:23 pm
President Obama, the House, and the Senate agreed and passed sequester legislation that takes effect in 18 days.
Spending cuts are coming. There are no more tax increases scheduled, and 99% of the Bush tax rates have been made permanent. The deficit is going to shrink from where it is today, and the rate of debt increase will slow. I’m O.K. with that.
UNLESS the President, House, and Senate all agree to substitute fewer (or false) spending cuts. Not that anyone has asked me – but I’m NOT O.K. with that, and suspect the House will not go along. I don’t care if there is buyers’ remorse. Either accept sequestration, or make changes in the spending cuts without reducing the overall amounts. Tax reform in closing or limiting deductions, credits and simplification is laudable – but not likely in the short term – nor net revenue increases anywhere the size of needed spending cuts.
Attack Dog
February 11th, 2013
4:37 pm
With sequestration, the debt will continue to rise and the economy will tank. Why? Contrary to GOP logic, government spending does create jobs for the private sector.
Lynnie Gal
February 11th, 2013
5:06 pm
The current deficit mess we have is due to the tax cuts and unpaid wars generated by Bush. That’s why the economy initially collapsed. The reason we haven’t recovered is because immediately after Obama’s election, the cons started screaming and threatening about paying off the budget deficit they themselves created in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, which they caused by deregulating banks and letting Henry Paulson raid the treasury in the last months of Bush/Cheney. They have fought against any attempt to create jobs and get the economy jumpstarted again. Then, the cons scream about the poor economy which they created. The whole thing is so transparent, that’s why Republicans are now known around the world as the “stupid party.”
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
February 11th, 2013
5:12 pm
I see that lynnie gal hasn’t been able to be deprogrammed from the DNC propaganda that’s been fed to her.
She is the very definition of shallow intellect.
Mike
February 11th, 2013
5:15 pm
Wasn’t this column about Tom Price running for Senate?
I hope someone else comes along besides Broun. I think he should spend a good long time in a respected institution with Hank Johnson, and I don’t mean Congress. Maybe they can stand on opposite ends of Guam to keep it from tipping over.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
February 11th, 2013
5:19 pm
Jconservative, I agree about Congresses ultimate responsibility for spending, but the fact remains that the executive branch is still responsible for submitting budgets and providing leadership if Congress fails to.
They are BOTH responsible for this mess.
Jefferson
February 11th, 2013
5:28 pm
Tax increase are not over, boys,girls,men and women.
indigo
February 11th, 2013
5:29 pm
Bruno – 3:41
Just because I can see the problem, it does not follow I know the answer.
Statesmanship from all our politicians could be suggested but we both know this will never happen.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
February 11th, 2013
5:36 pm
They are as long as the House is in GOP hands, Jefferson.
A little thing called the Constitution makes it so.
snoqualmiefalls
February 11th, 2013
6:00 pm
I agree with some posters on this site as to…. what good does it do to blame Bush for this that or the other it happened so many years ago.. Like 9/11………. who could have ever predicted that on GW Bush watch? Or a number of US embassies that were attacked with the dead Americans totaling 54 while GW Bush was president.
Nope, it just doesn’t serve any good to examine recent history now does it?
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
February 11th, 2013
6:10 pm
Snoqualmifalls proves that liberals just can’t be reasoned with.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 11th, 2013
6:13 pm
According to AshleyMadison.com, a web site that bills itself as “the world’s leading married dating service for discreet encounters,” the nation’s capital was at the top of the list of America’s Least Faithful Cities with 34,157 sign-ups – more sign-ups per capita in 2012.
Pigs with our money, pigs with their lives.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right
February 11th, 2013
6:14 pm
I mean, why attempt a reasonable discussion with people who know everything and won’t listen to anything they disagree with?
Sailfish
February 11th, 2013
6:36 pm
tiberius
Are you talking to yourself?
rooster
February 11th, 2013
6:50 pm
Hey, Matz, the folks in Adel probably wouldn’t appreciate you hanging an “e” on the end of the town’s name.
CC
February 11th, 2013
6:58 pm
“All of you sudden deficit hawks surely need to acknowledge the overflowing debt left on the doorstep for obama. He is not the big spender your mythology requires you to believe. Tag him with the stimulus but that’s about it, everything else is the hangover from the previous administration – wars, medicare part d, tarp, interest on the debt, millions unemployed after the economic meltdown, all before obama walked through the door. We are still digging out.”
On which planet do you reside . . . because it certainly isn’t this one!
Bruno answered you well in his 1:54 post but there is more. The national debt now stands at $16.5 trillion and rising rapidly. Obama’s trillion dollar annual deficits are historic and we are borrowing $.40 of every $1.00 now spent by the federal government.
For you to say that this is a result of Obama’s “stimulus spending” is an outright lie.
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 11th, 2013
7:00 pm
As some one born and raised below the gnat line, I can say that anyone who doesn’t eat and enjoy immensely the delicacy of boiled peanuts, should not be left alone with your wife or daughter.
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 11th, 2013
7:03 pm
BTW
True boiled peanuts are only available below the gnat line. The N GA version, dry Virginia peanuts from 2 seasons ago, rescued from some dank warehouse, boiled in over salted water for 3 days are almost lethal.
CC
February 11th, 2013
7:04 pm
Lynnie Gal:
“that’s why Republicans are now known around the world as the “stupid party.””
If that were true, you’d be the Republican Party Chairman . . .
md
February 11th, 2013
7:05 pm
Wow, I checked in over at that other place and lo and behold the regular misfits over there are talking about making CHOICES. Says the shooter that got OBL made the choice to leave and now he needs to lie in the bed he made. Amazing how that all goes out the window when one asks them why we should pick up the slack for the 1/3 that CHOOSE to drop out of school and end up “poor”……I think the term is hypocrites…..
And you guys do know there is a difference between a “green” boiled peanut and those nasty mountain peanuts they sell to tourists…..don’t you? Cook anything that’s over a year old and musty and it’s going to taste like it’s over a year old and musty.
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 11th, 2013
7:08 pm
Back to the topic. The biggest drag on our economy now is Obamacare. If Barry was serious about growing the economy and getting folks off the dole, he would suspend Obamacare for five years and watch business begin hiring again. More jobs equal more money floating around and more revenue to the government. Government debt (second biggest problem) is almost as much drag as Obamacare, as business and consumers realize that we inevitably will be faced with huge tax increases, so they are keeping their powder dry.
CC
February 11th, 2013
7:09 pm
Rafe:
Stop it. Just stop it!
I now want a LOT of boiled green peanuts and I wasn’t even thinking about it until now!
md
February 11th, 2013
7:12 pm
“Contrary to GOP logic, government spending does create jobs for the private sector.”
You need to change the word “does” to the word “may” and then make your point.
In reality, the only guarantee about gov’t spending in an attempt to stimulate is that the debt increases. IF by chance it does stimulate the economy, one best hope it boosts it enough to pay for all the money the gov’t just added to the private sector bill…….
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 11th, 2013
7:12 pm
CC@7:04 Now that is funny!
md, we agree on quite a bit, but on boiled peanuts, you are definitely spot on. Good B Pnuts should be pulled up and picked off the same day you boil them. Most people have never had a good batch of boiled peanuts.
Hillbilly D
February 11th, 2013
7:15 pm
Well, even though I can’t be trusted with your wives and daughters, I still prefer my peanuts parched. And I grow my own; none of that 2-3 year old stuff for me, either. They’re also not bad, raw, straight outta the ground.
Rafe Hollister preparing for an Obamanist America
February 11th, 2013
7:20 pm
Hillbilly
Yep, parched peanuts on the wood stove were a delicious treat in the middle of winter. We boiled them when they were fresh and parched them in the winter.
Have you ever had syrup candy?
getalife
February 11th, 2013
7:23 pm
Wet soggy peanuts are nasty.
md
February 11th, 2013
7:25 pm
“Good B Pnuts should be pulled up and picked off the same day you boil them. Most people have never had a good batch of boiled peanuts.”
Which is why we only have them when they are “in season”, and why they taste so good after having to wait for the next years crop.
HD….I’ll eat half the bag raw before I ever get them into the pot……and just the right amount of salt gives them a sweet flavor, not salty.
CC
February 11th, 2013
7:26 pm
HD:
You can stop it, too! I also love parched peanuts!
saywhat?
February 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
“Most people have never had a good batch of boiled peanuts”
———————————————————
Most people have never ridden a unicorn, or been pooped on by a flying monkey either.
Bruno
February 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
I see that lynnie gal hasn’t been able to be deprogrammed from the DNC propaganda that’s been fed to her.
You know, Ti, intentionally misinformed people like Lynnie Gal might even be considered humorous if she didn’t have the ability to vote. Unfortunately, our country appears to be full of Lynnie Gals based upon the last election results.
For more humor, listen to what DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida had to say today in her “prebuttal” to Marc Rubio’s expected rebuttal to Obama’s SOU address tomorrow night:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/democrats-offer-prebuttal-marco-rubio-rebuttal-obama-state-202624575–election.html
From the article:
“For instance, Wasserman Schultz said Rubio wanted to “gut Medicaid” and would “devastate seniors” by supporting “an extreme view of government that would dismantle America’s social safety net in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.”
I keep wondering how a F’ing idiot like her keeps getting elected.
md
February 11th, 2013
7:28 pm
“Wet soggy peanuts are nasty.”
That’s why you don’t cook them very long…..fresh and firm vs musty and soggy. I never cook them longer than 30-45 mins and they are nice and firm and sweet. It’s takes years of doing it wrong to appreciate getting it right.
indigo
February 11th, 2013
7:32 pm
CC – 6:58
So little ole things like “wars, medicare part d, tarp, interest on debt, millions unemployed after the meltdown” just don’t count, punkie?
Bruno
February 11th, 2013
7:33 pm
Just got back from the gym after doing my first ever Crossfit workout. That sh!t ain’t easy. Especially for an old guy like me. I will say the scenery was quite dandy, however, with more than 50% of the class filled with buff women.
Sam
February 11th, 2013
7:37 pm
Broun for President. Hey, the Senate ought to be a good first step.
Bruno
February 11th, 2013
7:37 pm
So little ole things like “wars, medicare part d, tarp, interest on debt, millions unemployed after the meltdown” just don’t count, punkie?
indigo–I laid out the actual numbers in my 1:54. Now, do you have anything intelligent to comment upon using the actual numbers, or are you satisfied by simply repeating dishonest Lib talking points?? If I recall correctly, you are another Lib here who likes to claim that Cons just ain’t that bright. Quite frankly, you’re not making much of a case for your own abilities.
md
February 11th, 2013
7:38 pm
“For instance, Wasserman Schultz said Rubio wanted to “gut Medicaid” and would “devastate seniors” by supporting “an extreme view of government that would dismantle America’s social safety net in order to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.”
She still pedalling that bs?
Watch Anderson call her out on her lies, and amazingly she says “It doesn’t matter”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBl-VvAIfE
Amazing example of a political worm…….