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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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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Hank Hayes offers up Q&A with Mike Harrison and Richard Gabriel, candidates for the House District 9 seat.  Harrison gives the standard Republican answers, stopping just short of telling the locals to read his lips… meanwhile Richard Gabriel thinks, in order for the state to balance the budget: “The constant follow or movement of money [...]

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Aunt B. at Tiny Cat Pants may want to ready her fainting couch because it seems one of our state reps, whom is less-than-beloved over at TCP, has passed legislation in a round-about-way.
Okay, not technically.
Technically, Stacey Campfield’s legislation, which was introduced in February of 2007 and would have amended TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, [...]

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Heh.  I finally learned out how to swipe things from the video archives, but I guess you’ve figured that out already.

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Tennessee doctors didn’t get everything they wanted in the way of medical liability reform this year, but some say they got a step in the right direction.
The General Assembly passed a bill in early May that will change the term medical malpractice in Tennessee code to “health care liability action,” direct plaintiffs to give doctors [...]

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