The irony, Graves replacing the Speaker that cast him out.

Has anyone in the history of Georgia had more laws overturned than Criminal Keen? Has anyone written more worse-than-worthless and counterproductive laws? It’s hard to imagine.

If you need to understand what kind of “person” Criminal Keen is, all you have to do is look at his actions when he was trying to pass his “Sex Offender” laws. Is was quite apparent that he is a person that is nearly unhinged, an anti-reality zealot.

He just came right out and said that a major goal of his laws was to drive people listed on Sex Offender Registries out of Georgia. It’s hard to fathom that any decent legislator/leader/person could possibly have that as a goal. He was saying that he thinks people listed on the Registries are a real scourge and danger to society, so much so that they must be monitored every second. So, his “solution” to that problem is to push those people off onto other people? Move the problem somewhere else?

Is that how Criminal Keen solves all of his problems? By pushing them off onto someone else? Wow, that is real leadership. He calls himself a Christian too. Yeah, I don’t think so. Real leaders solve problems, they don’t push them onto other people. You won’t find any informed people who will say his laws solved any problem. Keen didn’t solve any problems but he created plenty.

And as if his first round of “Sex Offender” law stupidity was not enough, he came back around during a subsequent legislative session to add more. That was when he added his “bus stop” Banishment against people on the Registries. Did anyone read the opinion piece that he wrote for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution in support of that bit of stupidity? In it, he hysterically and theatrically described how without his law a very young child (believe he said 6 years old) would be forced to walk to his/her bus stop in the early morning darkness RIGHT PAST A SEX OFFENDER’S HOME!!!!!! (have to say that with the appropriate level of hysteria)

The big question I had about that was – does Keen really believe that is a problem or does he really think that Georgia citizens are so thoroughly stupid that they would read that and think “oh yeah, we need bus stop Banishment”? The reality was that anyone in their right mind was thinking “Who the F would allow a young child to walk to their bus stop alone and remain there unsupervised?” The stupidity of that whole law is just too difficult to comprehend. Oh, BTW, that wasn’t the only gem that Keen offered up in his opinion piece. You really ought to read it to get an idea what he’s about.

If Keen had any sense, he would have passed a law that would have required that parents/guardians supervise their children in transit and at bus stops. Now that is a law that would actually do something. Even I, as one of the great Unwashed who is listed on a Registry, did that. I didn’t even consider thinking that the nanny state was somehow going to be “protecting” my children and certainly not by such an idiotic method as moving all the “bad guys” away from my children’s bus stop. It’s stupefying.

The fact is, Georgia doesn’t need the kind of “leadership” that Criminal Keen inflicts. He is a disgrace certainly to Christians and Republicans (He is the EXACT kind of person who so polarizes people against those groups.). He is no less of a disgrace to American principles and decent people in general.

But we wouldn’t want that to happen, would we? Sorry, couldn’t type that with a straight face.

http://www.constitutionaltender.com/

Good position doesn’t mean front runner, I don’t think we could pick a front runner in a caucus vote without knowing who all is actively trying to get the job. One would assume Ralston already has the people who supported him earlier in the year in place, that’s something no one else would have. That’s an advantage. A weak one, but an advantage none-the-less.

Richardson apparently learned about the interview just three to four hours before it aired Monday. Other legislative leaders — many of whom had publicly consoled the speaker after his suicide attempt last month — had no warning.

As little as three days ago, they were all vowing fealty to the emperor. They were blindsided and now look more clueless than usual.

And the perception that they have a “leadership problem” has been something that’s been there for the past 3 years and they did nothing to change anything about it. They’re only afraid of losing their next election and this won’t be enough to do it, so they can take their time and select the right person for the job… once Richardson gets around to actually resigning, which the petulant weasel seems to be taking his sweet time about.

that’s true for the us house–not sure about the state house…

I’m all for house cleaning, but not so naive that this would ever happen. I hear the rats scurrying now.

This is not a Republican or a Democrat issue, although it will be spun as such. It is a moral issue that strikes at the core of our society. We’ve tolerated the games and keep people ignorant of the process of government. So we reap the whirlwind.

In Middle Georgia, I have high respect for Allen Peake and Tony Sellier. Both are principled and would make excellent leaders as well.

I’m sick that this is happening, but it will happen again regardless of the party in power. There’s nothing new under the sun.