I largely agree with Erick’s post. Voters will not long abide a group of politicians who violate their stated principles.
There are two things that could keep the GOP in power. The first has to do with the makeup of the House and Senate districts. There simply are not many swing districts left in Georgia. Consequently it will be tough for Democrats to take over the House or Senate without an outrageous act for Democrats to run on.
The other anti-dote to the GOP’s problems are the stimulative bills which will hopefully be considered by the House today.
House Republicans will push this week to pass a series of tax breaks they say will give businesses incentive to hire the unemployed and give companies another reason to move to Georgia.
The package, which is expected to go to the House floor for a vote this week, provides a $2,400 income tax credit for each unemployed person that businesses hire before July 1, 2010, and keep on the job for at least 24 months. Employers get a $500 credit toward their unemployment insurance taxes for each unemployed person they hired.
And the state would reduce and eventually eliminate the state’s 6 percent corporate income tax, beginning in 2012.
Combined, the tax breaks could save businesses more than $1 billion, and House Republicans hope they will persuade companies to start hiring again.
Erick talked about Tom Graves as a GOP secret weapon. I couldn’t agree more. Let me also add that the stimulative bills mentioned above were largely the work of Rep. Graves. Thankfully other members joined with him and hopefully the bills will pass both houses and be signed by the Governor post haste.
The GOP needs to be crafting more legislation like this and do away with legislation like the $1 per pack tax on tobacco and the tax on strip clubs.
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So…while I am one of those that does not believe the GOP will have a bad year in GA in 2010, they are not helping themselves.
See, Georgia is not a “swing” state for several reasons. 1.) The People, for the most part, are not free thinking types. 2.) The GOP has the corner on the religious right. 3.) The suburbanites that are burying themselves in debt think that they have got to be republicans if they will ever become rich (and they will not…which is why they are bitter people).
The districts have some say in who gets elected. They have been drawn by republicans for republicans.
Eventually The People will look at what the GOP has done and realize that they were better off during the democratic administration…but this is GA. Pointless issues like gay marriage and abortion tend to cloud people’s judgement.
The GOP can do all they want to keep running this state into the ground. while I do not think that is their sole aim (I do think they want what is best) I just do not think they are willing to look at what actually works…because alot of the solutions are “liberal.”
It is one thing to be “conservative,” it is another thing to be “liberal,” it “moderates” are somewhat different too. All of these labels that have been made up to court voters (while the ideologies are important historically, they are not adhered to often) the one thing that doesn’t work is too much of any one ideology. Being anti-liberal does not make a conservative.
There are plenty of good conservative ideas, there are plenty of good liberal ideas. The sooner the morons in this state figure that out, the better off everybody will be.
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