Your morning jolt: Herman Cain courts Georgia congressmen
With several glowing polls at his back, GOP presidential candidate and Georgia entrepreneur Herman Cain apparently thinks its time for his home state’s Republican leadership to take him more seriously. From Politico.com:
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) [said] that Cain – the former Godfather’s Pizza executive who’s been near the top of recent national polls – is coming to meet with fellow Georgia Republicans next Wednesday in his Cannon office.
“I’m looking forward to that opportunity,” said Gingrey, who is already endorsing Newt Gingrich. To date, Cain has not earned any endorsements in Congress.
While he scores well with local tea partyers, Cain has yet to obtain any endorsements from ranking leaders of the Georgia GOP. In addition to Gingrey, Gov. Nathan Deal and U.S. Reps. Jack Kingston of Savannah, Tom Price of Roswell, and Austin Scott of Tifton are still with Gingrich, the former U.S. House speaker. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has declared himself a fan of Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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The New York Times has had some chats with ex- staffers about chaos within the skyrocketing campaign of Herman Cain. Its report includes this line:
And then there was that e-mail to the staff about traveling in a car with Mr. Cain: “Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to,” the memo said.
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Former state lawmaker Bob Irvin of Atlanta this week served as moderator of a forum for District 6 candidates for the state Senate, hosted by the Mt. Paran/Northside Citizens Association in Buckhead.
You’ll recall that District 6 was a Democratically dominated area of Cobb County – until the August redistrict session, when GOP lawmakers redrew its lines to include much of Buckhead. Its voter rolls are now Republican-heavy.
Irvin said Democratic incumbent Doug Stoner of Smyrna was invited, but didn’t show. All three announced GOP candidates — Josh Belinfante, Beth Beskin, and Hunter Hill.
The news from Irvin:
”All three said that they are opposed to the creation of Milton County unless Buckhead gets the chance to decide if it is in or not. While this may not be terribly surprising, given where the forum was, it was gratifying to us, because two of the candidates, Belinfante and Hill, are from Sandy Springs and Cobb respectively, and might have been expected to be less definite.”
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Channel 2 Action News has raised the ire of Occupy Atlanta with this backgrounder on one of the movement’s chief voices:
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Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz has handed you a reading assignment: A fresh Congressional Budget Office report that measures the widening gap between haves and have-nots in the United States.
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Georgia Democrats on Wednesday shot this statistic at their compadres:
Latest figures show Georgia is one of only seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and ranks 49th out of 50 states in job creation since [Gov. Nathan] Deal took office.
That said, Deal appears to be in pretty good shape, according to a poll released Wednesday by InsiderAdvantage and Channel 2 Action News:
A statewide survey conducted last week, while he was traveling throughout China, shows Governor Nathan Deal within the margin of error of having a 50% approval rating in Georgia. The survey showed that 48% of registered voters in Georgia approve of “the job performance” of Governor Deal, while only 28% (the majority of which were Democrats) disapproved of Deal’s handling of his job.
The poll did indicate that 25% of Georgians said they either had “no opinion” or were “undecided” as to the governor’s job performance. But InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery says that’s not a problem for Deal. Towery: “These days we generally see very popular governors around the level that Governor Deal is at…The old measure of being ‘vulnerable’ if less than 50% is long gone. Both Sonny Perdue and Jeb Bush were around 45% approval when they launched their reelection bids. And Deal is just in his first year…”
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A former Democratic candidate for governor was in Washington on Wednesday. From Legal Newsline:
Former Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said Wednesday that integrity of America’s courts is in danger because of companies that specialize in funding litigation.
Baker made the comment at the 12th annual Legal Reform Summit, which is put on by the Institute for Legal Reform. The ILR is an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and owns Legal Newsline.
Baker said that companies only seeking the maximum profit might not have the best interests of claimants in mind.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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GaBlue
October 27th, 2011
11:13 am
So, half of all Georgians are fine & dandy with living at the bottom. Good to know! I will adjust my advertising strategies accordingly.
td
October 27th, 2011
11:14 am
I like that guys’s hair! I am sure he shreds the guitar like there’s no tomorrow!
TeaRocker
October 27th, 2011
11:15 am
Congressional leaders would be wise to steer very clear of Mr Cain. As time passes and more information surfaces, it’s very clear that he is in fact only a social conservative right winger who doesn’t have the experience necessary to win the nominee or run our country. He’s all about bigger Federal Government control and his associations are as questionable as Obama’s. His latest smoking ad is the beginning of the Cain Train going up in smoke.
morris wise
October 27th, 2011
11:22 am
The nation needs a leader with “Horse Sense” and Cain is that guy. He never needs a speech written by others, because he speaks from the wisdom of his earthly intuition. Cain might say two things that are wrong, but the one thing that is right makes him get my vote.
td
October 27th, 2011
11:22 am
“It’s the ocean flowing through our veins.
It’s the salt that’s in our tears,
because we could have come so very far
in at least as many years!
Take the highway to the great divide!!!” – Phish
td
October 27th, 2011
11:22 am
It is time for our daily public educational announcement:
If you are a voter in Georgia and you think you are coming out next November to vote for President Obama then you need to know that your vote is not going to be counted. All of Georgia’s 16 votes for President will go to the Republican nominee for President and Obama will receive 0 votes from the state of Georgia. Obama already knows this and will only give a token campaign effort in the state. This is just to play all of you Dems to get your money.
GaBlue
October 27th, 2011
11:22 am
My Congressman will switch his endorsement the moment the directive comes down from his corporate sponsors at Koch Industries. Until then, his only comments will be vague, overused jabs at the current administration under the guise of caring about some stupid social wedge issue, falsely inserting the term “job-killing” somewhere into the pointless, inflammatory rhetoric.
td
October 27th, 2011
11:24 am
td
October 27th, 2011
11:22 am
“It’s the ocean flowing through our veins.
It’s the salt that’s in our tears,
because we could have come so very far
in at least as many years!
Take the highway to the great divide!!!” – Phish
I see the imposter coward is out again this morning.
BIg Hat
October 27th, 2011
11:30 am
The nation needs a leader who speaks English as a second language and Cain is that guy. Fortunately, that nation is Africa and not the US of A.
Mark
October 27th, 2011
11:33 am
While he scores well with local tea partyers, Cain has yet to obtain any endorsements from ranking leaders of the Georgia GOP. In addition to Gingrey, Gov. Nathan Deal and U.S. Reps. Jack Kingston of Savannah, Tom Price of Roswell, and Austin Scott of Tifton are still with Gingrich, the former U.S. House speaker. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has declared himself a fan of Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
And should we be surprised that none of the Georgia GOP have endorsed Cain? I mean did anyone really think they would? LOL
Danny O
October 27th, 2011
11:35 am
@BIg Hat:
Africa is not a nation. It is a continent of many nations.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
11:35 am
Deal is doing a heck of a job!
He has spent most of his term in China kissing up to the communists.
He begged Obama for strings attached federal education dollars.
He is begging Obama for deficit inflating Port Pork.
He wants the voters to ok the Republicans massive tax hike.
He is a supporter of the Friends and Family government handout program.
He is ignoring the lake levels.
Crops are rotting in the fields.
Banks are still failing.
Unemployment continues to worsen.
Is it too early to say….FOUR MORE YEARS?
Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
11:41 am
Newt said yesterday the republican party is bickering to much.
Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
11:43 am
Danny X so true and dont forget about the Troy Davis murder in GA.
Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
11:50 am
Why Nathan Deal stop doing business in China let our country build our own plants.
We should build up america with our own people.
Nathan how much it cost to have china bring jobs here in Ga.
Mark
October 27th, 2011
11:51 am
@ DannyX
October 27th, 2011
11:35 am
Deal is doing a heck of a job!
He has spent most of his term in China kissing up to the communists.
He begged Obama for strings attached federal education dollars.
He is begging Obama for deficit inflating Port Pork.
He wants the voters to ok the Republicans massive tax hike.
He is a supporter of the Friends and Family government handout program.
He is ignoring the lake levels.
Crops are rotting in the fields.
Banks are still failing.
Unemployment continues to worsen.
Is it too early to say….FOUR MORE YEARS?
So true! This is the guy the Republicans wanted to assure Barnes was not elected. Well they got just what they asked for. They literally cut of their noses to spite their faces and look where we are. Oh and don’t forget 10.3% unemployment.
Becky
October 27th, 2011
11:56 am
There is no mystery why one can’t speak to Hermie unless spoken to. He is having trouble reading the directions to the next house that ordered pizza.
GaBlue
October 27th, 2011
11:58 am
Independent voter,
Maybe Deal is in China negotiating for peanut butter crackers, as it’s likely the Chinese have better staffed their regulatory agencies to ensure that rat poop and deadly bacteria do not infest food plants, sickening dozens and killing people, causing the plant to close and throwing a whole town out of work. And perhaps their sugar processing plants don’t EXPLODE, scorching the skin off their employees because managers can’t be bothered with stupid, job-killing OSHA rules.
Or… not.
Frederick Douglass
October 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
Danny X
Africa is a country to Fox news viewers. Sarah Palin thinks it is, and Michele Bachmann doesn’t know that Libya’s a part of Africa. If two of the best and brightest that the Republicans have to offer are geographically challenged, I think Big Hat should get a pass.
Jon Lester
October 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
Whether they take Cain seriously or not, is kind of beside the point, if they’re also on record for staying in Gingrich’s camp, although it shouldn’t surprise most observers that this is the extent of our delegation’s judgment.
yuzeyurbrane
October 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
Nice political hit job by Reed on 1 of leaders of Occupy people. Not even any fingerprints. He plays rough but has nothing to do with merits of free speech or the economic issues. Reed will be welcomed back at massah’s big house for doing his bidding so well. His political future is, however, over.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:09 pm
Mark,
So what you are trying to say is that our governor is incompetent?! (Gasp)
td
October 27th, 2011
12:10 pm
Deal has a 50% approval rating and 25% undecided with the other 25% of the loony left that do not like him is on here bashing him. Is it not true that you libs kept saying Barnes would win? You libs kept coming on these blogs day after day saying Deal was a crook and would be arrested and brought to trail for one reason or the other. I have not seen anyone taking any action yet. He won by 60% of the vote and even moderate Democrats have come on these blogs saying he has done a good job in the first legislative session.
Now you libs are trying the same tactics with every Republican candidate for President and keep saying Obama is going to win. How can we believe you know what you are talking about now when you sure as h3ll did not know what you were talking about two years ago.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:13 pm
October 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
Danny X
Africa is a country to Fox news viewers. Sarah Palin thinks it is, and Michele Bachmann doesn’t know that Libya’s a part of Africa. If two of the best and brightest that the Republicans have to offer are geographically challenged, I think Big Hat should get a pass.
Just like Obama thinks we have 58 states in this country?
The Ghost of Lester Maddox
October 27th, 2011
12:13 pm
“Former Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said Wednesday that integrity of America’s courts is in danger because of companies that specialize in funding litigation”
…..Ulm..is Thurbert including labor unions in his broad statement..and their scorched earth take no prisoners policy against anyone who dares question their control over the soul of the Democratic Party?
Just wondering.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
12:17 pm
“How can we believe you know what you are talking about now when you sure as h3ll did not know what you were talking about two years ago.”
td, do you really want to compare the records of Deal and Obama? Obama has real verifiable results. Every single economic indicator is up. Our foreign policy is once again competent.
Meanwhile Georgia has become stagnant. What are Deals accomplishments?
td
October 27th, 2011
12:18 pm
td
October 27th, 2011
12:09 pm
Mark,
So what you are trying to say is that our governor is incompetent?! (Gasp)
The above is the coward imposter but it is a good question.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:21 pm
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
12:17 pm
So are you trying to tell me a Governor has more control over the economy then the President? I Obama is doing such a good job then why to 70% of the nation believe the country is on the wrong track?
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:26 pm
Blue, no half of Georgian’s approve of any republican
gsueagle
October 27th, 2011
12:29 pm
love herman ! he is no RINO like so many of our republicans.
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:29 pm
td, I thought we covered this yesterday
unless you are one of the 16 republican delegates to the electoral college from Georgia your vote isn’t counted any more than the thousand’s who will vote for the president
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2011
12:30 pm
Somehow, I think the irony of Deal’s sojurn to China has been completely lost on the media as well as the people of Georgia. What does it say about American businesses when a leader of what’s supposed to be the best democracy and greatest economy on the planet has to go brown nose to leaders in a Communist nation in an effort to create jobs in his state?
What does it say about our country as a whole when we have to get communists to create jobs for us? We have citizens and business owners here who are actively advocating for not creating jobs here until their perceived “war on business” is ended. Have we have drifted so far to the edge of the cliff that we’re willing to not only risk our future, but leave our future in the hands of communists?
RGB
October 27th, 2011
12:32 pm
Our president thinks there are 57 states in America and still believes a Navy corpsman is a Navy “corpse-man”. He terms the inhalers that asthmatics use as “breathalyzers”. And he “reformed” our healthcare system.
More importantly, Obama caused 20% real unemployment and is said to no longer to speak but to one or two of his top advisers. He relies on himself for his own advice….about how to spur business creation. But he never created a single job and has no private sector experience.
But we’re still supposed to support Obama because if we don’t, Palin or the Koch brothers (none is an elected official) will “get” us. [Are the Democrat candidates to whom the brothers give campaign donations evil too?]
It’s easy being a lib. Just point at selected groups, call them “evil”, and say “there ought to be an executive order against that.”
No peace no justice.
GallowayIsAHack
October 27th, 2011
12:34 pm
Galloway’s latest attack on Cain. Where are the attacks on the incompetent, bumbling, Obama, Galloway? You are a truly a joke and completely predictable. America should start outsourcing our journalist jobs to people that aren’t as useless.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:34 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:29 pm
td, I thought we covered this yesterday
unless you are one of the 16 republican delegates to the electoral college from Georgia your vote isn’t counted any more than the thousand’s who will vote for the president
That is not correct. I will have 16 delegates going to the electoral college to vote my will (BTW: I am not confirming or denying that I am one of the 16). Anyone voting for Obama in Georgia will have no one going to the electoral college to vote their will. So in reality my vote for President will be counted and anyone voting for Obama will not be counted.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
12:35 pm
” Obama is doing such a good job then why to 70% of the nation believe the country is on the wrong track?”
Is that all you have td? Seriously.
Reagan had a 35% approval rating at one point during his first term.
We were hemorrhaging job losses to the tune of 700,000 per month when Obama was sworn in. The Dow was down to 8,300. GNP was in negative territory. Our foreign policy was a disaster. The real estate market collapsed. Lax regulation caused a banking meltdown. We were in a “Great” recession.
Now we are gaining jobs again, (except Georgia.) The unemployment rate is about to go well under 9%. The stock market is up. GNP is up. Our foreign policy is competent, and your talking points are outdated.
RGB
October 27th, 2011
12:36 pm
“What does it say about American businesses when a leader of what’s supposed to be the best democracy and greatest economy on the planet has to go brown nose to leaders in a Communist nation in an effort to create jobs in his state?”
Umm, it says that commerce is global, has been that way for a loooooong time, and that Deal understands this. China buys stuff from the USA too. Can you say “Buick”? Coca-Cola?
Danny O
October 27th, 2011
12:38 pm
@Frederick Douglass
It was I who pointed out the geographic blunder by BIg Hat, not Danny X. We are two different people.
RGB
October 27th, 2011
12:39 pm
“So in reality my vote for President will be counted and anyone voting for Obama will not be counted.”
That’s a good reason for Democrats to stay home on election day, which by the way libs, is November 7, 2010.
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:41 pm
td, when W won in 04 he based his mandate on getting five million more total votes than Kerry
voting for the president here in Georgia helps his mandate, just like all the people on the west coast that voted for Reagan in 1980 after he had already won the election
any attempt to suppress voting is wrong, that is why the GOP recently passed a law to allow all the republicans to vote on Wednesday, November 7 so they don’t have to stand in line with democrats
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:42 pm
Danny, the GDP can’t actually go negative, GDP growth however can
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
12:43 pm
“Danny, the GDP can’t actually go negative, GDP growth however can”
Indeed.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:44 pm
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
12:35 pm
“Is that all you have td? Seriously”
How about the fact that gas prices were $1.81 per gallon the day Obama was sworn into office and they are now $3.29. How much disposable income has that taken out of mine and your pocket and how has that hurt the economy. How is that for Foreign policy? What about the fact that even after Obama bailed out the banks they will still not make any loans unless you have a 750 credit score? Is that leadership? How is that for growing an economy?
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2011
12:44 pm
China buys stuff from the USA too. Can you say “Buick”? Coca-Cola?
If they buy a 6-pack of coke while we’re buying millions of iPads, that does nothing for American workers. Businesses are taking full advantage of trade, but the American workers and taxpayers are the one’s footing the bill. Research the increase in taxpayer money that’s used to fund anti-counterfeiting activity now versus before we took all our manufacturing to China. Almost all perceived “savings” that businesses gain in outsourcing is paid for by taxpayers funding government enforcement of IPR rights.
Any country that does not and can not manufacture for itself simply becomes a crackhead nation looking for their dealer. America is slowly becoming crackheads of the world by relying on everyone else to make stuff for us. We’re on our decline as the economic engine of the world, and it has little to do with who’s in the White House and/or Governor’s House. Our business community has been steadily eroding our economic foundation for decades, and nobody’s gonna notice it until it’s too late. There’s nothing wrong with playing in the global economy. Things begin to fall apart when you don’t balance your consumption with your production. We’ve been way out of balance for a long time now.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2011
12:49 pm
How about the fact that gas prices were $1.81 per gallon the day Obama was sworn into office and they are now $3.29
td
You’re making the same critical thinking mistake that those on the left made when they tried to blame Bush for the price of oil going crazy. Our president has little to no effect on the price of commodities on the world market. The only way the president could influence costs in that manner would be if the commodity was produced by the US only and was controlled by the government. We don’t have any nationalized institutions like that, so blaming the president for the price of global commodities is an exercise in futility.
td
October 27th, 2011
12:50 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:41 pm
“any attempt to suppress voting is wrong, that is why the GOP recently passed a law to allow all the republicans to vote on Wednesday, November 7 so they don’t have to stand in line with democrats”
If I would have said that then I would have been called a racist and accused of suppressing the vote and even accused of being un American. You say that to me and I laugh because I am an informed voter just like the vast majority of GOP voters. On the other hand it may have been suppression since the typical Democratic voter is clueless and brainwashed and does what the field bosses tell them too.
You are stretching talking about a mandate when you know your vote will not actually count.
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:51 pm
td,
Obama did not bail out the banks, W did
Mark
October 27th, 2011
12:54 pm
@ Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2011
12:49 pm
How about the fact that gas prices were $1.81 per gallon the day Obama was sworn into office and they are now $3.29
td
You’re making the same critical thinking mistake that those on the left made when they tried to blame Bush for the price of oil going crazy. Our president has little to no effect on the price of commodities on the world market. The only way the president could influence costs in that manner would be if the commodity was produced by the US only and was controlled by the government. We don’t have any nationalized institutions like that, so blaming the president for the price of global commodities is an exercise in futility.
Thank you for attempting to inform “td” who wants to believe he knows everything, but you might as well save it, because he’s full of hot donkey air.
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:55 pm
td, you are stretching in trying to keep democrats from the polls by acting like there is only one race on the November 2012 ballot
td
October 27th, 2011
12:57 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:51 pm
td,
Obama did not bail out the banks, W did
Obama voted for a supported 100% TARP (listen to his speech on the Senate floor). The policies for the bailouts were not put in place until Obama took office. He had a great deal more to do with the bank bailouts then Bush did.
Jackson Baer
October 27th, 2011
12:58 pm
Cain seems like a smart guy. I’m curious to see how he does in Iowa.
http://www.whatthehellbook.com/the-book/
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:00 pm
US oil production
W
2001 -0.35%
2002 -0.96%
2003 -1.13%
2004 -4.61%
2005 -4.44%
2006 -1.47%
2007 -0.74%
2008 -2.25%
Obama
2009 +8.29%
2010 +2.82%
findog
October 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
td, those policies were done by Paulson, W’s treasury sec
td
October 27th, 2011
1:03 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
12:55 pm
td, you are stretching in trying to keep democrats from the polls by acting like there is only one race on the November 2012 ballot
Read my words carefully. Did I tell people not to go vote? No, I educated people that if they were planning on voting Democratic in the Presidential race in Georgia then there vote would not be counted. Is it voter suppression if there are people that only go to the polls to vote for President and do not because they know there vote will not be counted? That is the Dems fault for not educating there own voters about the importance of becoming knowledgeable about politics and the importance of voting for down ballot candidates.
You can not blame the messager when they are telling the truth.
td
October 27th, 2011
1:07 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
td, those policies were done by Paulson, W’s treasury sec
So you are trying to tell all of us that Obama came into office with his team and accepted and implemented all the polices put into place by Bush?
I do not even think most libs would believe that one.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:08 pm
Of course Georgia is not going to vote for Obama. Georgia elected career politician, no-bid government contract loving, BANKRUPT, Nathan Deal as governor. Deal has not done anything positive.
Obama doesn’t stand a chance.
Blame the messenger? What is your message?
findog
October 27th, 2011
1:09 pm
td, the money was already gone when Obama came in
td
October 27th, 2011
1:11 pm
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:08 pm
Only 25% of Georgians feel the same way you do. Maybe that is because you are way out of the mainstream? What does that tell you about your message?
GaBlue
October 27th, 2011
1:13 pm
Nobody is “blaming” the messenger, td. We are simply calling you out on your very UN-American attempts to convince people who don’t believe as you do to stay home on election day. You claim that’s not what you’re doing, but that is exactly what you’re doing. Every time you post your fascist drivel while claiming to tell the “truth,” you provide yet another piece of evidence to your true motive. Furthermore, with each passing day that you continue to “educate” us, you’re showing that you’re less and less convinced that the solid Republican domination of this state is impenetrable.
td
October 27th, 2011
1:13 pm
findog
October 27th, 2011
1:09 pm
td, the money was already gone when Obama came in
You are going to have to prove that one my friend. I think it would be almost impossible for the government to hand out $700 billion in 6 weeks. BTW: Didn’t Obama use TARP money to bail out GM? Ooops that might throw a monkey wrench in your story line.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:16 pm
“Only 25% of Georgians feel the same way you do. Maybe that is because you are way out of the mainstream?”
You have had all morning to tell us all of the positive things Deal has done and refused.
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:19 pm
“Ooops that might throw a monkey wrench in your story line.”
The GM bailout was a success story. Small businesses were saved. Thousands of jobs were saved. GM will sell 2 million cars in China this next year. GM has been on a hiring binge, and their stock is creeping back up. What exactly were the negatives?
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:21 pm
In fact Detroit and Michigan were the brunt of jokes a couple years ago, fact is Detroit and Michigan are adding a lot more jobs than Georgia.
Georgia is the new joke.
Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
1:25 pm
Td I dont understand you why bashing the president he did more for this country then Bush. The american people are made with the republicans because they keep saying Obama is hurting the country. Td tell me what the republican did to help the economy. Tell me why the republican party is turning against each other and leaving the republican party.
td
October 27th, 2011
1:32 pm
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:19 pm
But was it bailed out with TARP money?
GM may be a success story but to whom (BTW: how can you say it would not be as successful today if it would have been able to declare chapter 13)? Was it a success story for the stockholders, Teacher retirement systems, public employee retirement systems that had there stock totally held worthless? Maybe it was a success to the United Autoworkers union who was given controlling stock over the company?
td
October 27th, 2011
1:35 pm
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:19 pm
How much less would cars cost today if the unions would have had to make concessions with a bankrupt company? Is putting tires on a car worth $50 per hour?
td
October 27th, 2011
1:42 pm
finddog
October 27th, 2011
12:55 pm
std,
you are stretching in trying to keep democrats from the polls by acting like there is only one race on the November 2012 ballot
You are stretching out your butt cheeks and showing it to the world! If it was not for me educating you idiots on these boards, then all of you would be suffering at the hands of a wacko. You all should be very grateful that I am giving you my ass to kiss, for the world rests on my hands.
honested
October 27th, 2011
1:43 pm
td,
To quote a sad, old, failed president, ‘There you go again’.
Union concessions WERE made to keep the companies alive. All the cofc ‘whine lines’ about union costs and regulations starving companies are so much crap.
Of course the mark-up on health care costs provided by the for-profit insurance companies involved with auto workers (and every other worker both union and non-union) add substantial costs to almost all products and services without providing any real improvement in value.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to harangue against the for-profit health insurance carriers and DO SOMETHING to pry their tentacles away from OUR dollars?
DannyX
October 27th, 2011
1:44 pm
“But was it bailed out with TARP money?”
GM was bailed out with TARP money and Republicans had a fit about, it was Obama who decided to use TARP funds on the GM bailout and it proved to be a wise decision.
honested
October 27th, 2011
1:47 pm
Back to the ‘headline’.
Is it dangerous to have that many limited intellect ‘leaders’ in the same room at the same time?
The Cannon building is old, I’d hate to see it disappear into a ’stupid-vortex’.
Charles
October 27th, 2011
1:50 pm
What does it say about our country as a whole when we have to get communists to create jobs for us? We have citizens and business owners here who are actively advocating for not creating jobs here until their perceived “war on business” is ended. Have we have drifted so far to the edge of the cliff that we’re willing to not only risk our future, but leave our future in the hands of communists?
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Didn’t our former Republican governor go to Cuba looking for a trade relationship? It seems to me that basically they just want to use the taxpayer dime to travel abroad. If Deal is like Perdue by the end of his term he will have lined his pockets well and not have to worry about money problems for the rest of his life.
clem
October 27th, 2011
1:54 pm
td, got to hand it to you…you sure post a lot…..how do you find the time and have time for work, family etc….maybe you could work for the hermanator while you are at it too
Ga Values...Just call me heartless
October 27th, 2011
2:07 pm
Deal has done an increditable job… from Bankrupt to multimillionGeorgia.
td
October 27th, 2011
2:12 pm
clem
October 27th, 2011
1:54 pm
If you worked in my business then it is not to hard to monitor a blog and monitor other systems at the same time. When you own your own business then you work 24, 7, spending 30 minutes to an hour per day typing is no big deal.
Southern Comfort
October 27th, 2011
2:28 pm
Charles
The travel on taxpayer’s dime is small potatoes when you look at the complete sell-out of the American worker. If you want to see why other countries are doing much better than us (Germany, Brazil, China, India), look no further than their domestic manufacturing capability and compare it to ours. Manufacturing is what built our middle class after WWII, and the destruction of our manufacturing is what is killing off the middle class.
People want to complain about unions, but unions only represent 12% or so of the entire work force. We allowed our politicians to get to intertwined in our educational system, and now it’s shot to hell. It’s only a matter of time before our faux economy completely collapses and puts this country into irrepairable ruin.
Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
2:41 pm
I think Td a old retire republican campaign worker who goes around Georgia and tell democrat voters they vote does not count.
Mark
October 27th, 2011
2:55 pm
@ Independent voter
October 27th, 2011
2:41 pm
I think Td a old retire republican campaign worker who goes around Georgia and tell democrat voters they vote does not count.
I think td is an arrogant, know-it-all, homosexual. What real man brag’s about his degree’s and his business without someone asking. Typical gay Repub
ITS ALL DEALS FAULT
October 27th, 2011
3:06 pm
Latest figures show Georgia is one of only seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and ranks 49th out of 50 states in job creation since [Gov. Nathan] Deal took office.
Please
October 27th, 2011
3:18 pm
Herman Cain is in this to sell his book and make money. He has NO desire to become President. He has not established any sort of network in key primary states and he has no intention of doing so. He has made a name for himself in order to line his pockets with even more cash. Case closed.
td
October 27th, 2011
3:26 pm
GaBlue
October 27th, 2011
1:13 pm
Nobody is “blaming” the messenger, td. We are simply calling you out on your very UN-American attempts to convince people who don’t believe as you do to stay home on election day. You claim that’s not what you’re doing, but that is exactly what you’re doing. Every time you post your fascist drivel while claiming to tell the “truth,” you provide yet another piece of evidence to your true motive. Furthermore, with each passing day that you continue to “educate” us, you’re showing that you’re less and less convinced that the solid Republican domination of this state is impenetrable.
Calling me out for telling the truth? If there are Democratic voters in Georgia that stay home when they learn they do not vote directly for the President and there votes will not be counted is suppression then I fell sorry for the party. All the voters should already know this information and if Democrats are telling them they are voting for Obama directly then that is at the best misleading and at the worst voter fraud. I believe that voters should be informed of what they are doing. I think all these, so called advocates on either side, going out to Senior centers and “helping” people ill out absentee ballots or picking up people on buses, taking them to the polls and on the way “educating” them is nothing but fraud.
ab
October 27th, 2011
4:00 pm
TD
Thank you for all of you usefull information on this blog. You have educated me beyond belief. Not only am I not going to vote, I am changing my political party and not vote for a republican. You have changed my life……
td
October 27th, 2011
4:16 pm
ab
October 27th, 2011
4:00 pm
As long as you understand the presidential election process then my job has been accomplished and I feel like you are a better person now.
ab
October 27th, 2011
4:17 pm
TD
I was joking fool
td
October 27th, 2011
4:27 pm
ab
October 27th, 2011
4:17 pm
TD
I was joking fool
How is the fool. The one that calls out someone or the one that does not know how to read sarcasm?
td
October 27th, 2011
8:15 pm
ab,
It is not my fault your name is gay. At least if you would have pluralized ab, then I might not have made fun of your screen name in front of all my cronies. You are obviously a leftist wacko. Ab?! Psshhh…you crack me up. What could you possibly prove with that name? It just goes to show much you know!
Question Man
October 27th, 2011
10:27 pm
Won’t Herman Cain be able to count on support from Zell Miller?