DeMarCaTionVille

For several weeks (those being all the weeks since the November election) I’ve been watching these Northeast Tennessee Republicans strutting around, prematurely crowing and using bad eggs for chicken counting.  One could almost predict their lack of humility and faith in foregone conclusions would come back to bite them.
It did.

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Yesterday sucked.
The Relative called first thing in the morning, bent out-of-shape because Obama selected that “little peckerhead” [Rahm Emanuel] for his Chief of Staff. Of course, I knew this phone call was coming. I dreaded it.
I also know there will be a thousand more over the next four [...]

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For the first time since the Reconstruction, the Republican Party has taken control of the Tennessee General Assembly – top to bottom, house to senate, the whole bicameral enchilada. (Go ahead. Take a moment. Laugh or Cry. Whatever suits you.) Personally, I think there’s a damn good reason why state political history is what it [...]

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…. they make you recite this line over and over: “failed economic policies of the last eight years.”

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In the Times-News letters to the editor:
Marie Hammonds offers up an opinion on why Republicans insist on having an early voting deputy in Sullivan County.

Sullivan County Democratic Party Chairman Larry Hall also addressed the issue at Democratic Women’s luncheon last Saturday. “As near as I can tell,” he said, “there’s nothing we can do about [...]

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I’m a bit baffled by this Kurita controversy. I understand that Barnes is in, Kurita is out. And “crossover” voting (oh, you can bet your sweet fanny there were Ron Ramsey-loving Republicans crossing over) served as some basis for the challenge. However, we’ve already discussed this and decided “bona fide” and “allegiance [...]

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The affair of Mike Faulk, candidate for 4th District State Senate, is official news now. Can’t say I’m suprised. I’d heard last week the AP was poking around the story, which locals have been sitting on for quite some time. Of course, they haven’t been sitting [...]

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Tennessee should have no state sales tax on its own distributed farm products, 2nd House District GOP challenger Tony Shipley said in a civic club speech Tuesday – as reported by Hank Hayes.
Rainbow Brite and all the Star Fairies were in attendance. They clapped.
Shipley then goes on to refer to Democrats as the opposition [...]

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Senator Michael Williams ate lunch at the Pig & Chick last Friday. I know because I was there. In fact, I harassed Williams for the duration, and I didn’t feel bad about it at all. As a constituent blogger, it’s my job to nag my elected officials while [...]

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Remember when the news had to be factual and unbiased? Yeah, okay. Me neither, but I do remember when readers or viewers had the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction.
This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
What many of us accept as news these days is a hodgepodge of fact, [...]

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