If my GOP reps could figure out a way to allow for work permits and perhaps a long, taxpaying road to citizenship for illegal aliens, we would have more workers.

Instead of building fences along the border we should be registering to vote and taxing the illegals. If a progressive GOP lead this effort, it would grow new GOP voters to support them.

Try digging into the data behind the pretty graphs. You’ll see that — other than health care reform (estimates are $100B per year over 10 years) — Obama hasn’t proposed ANY serious spending packages. The Stimulus is half-gone already. TARP is costing less than HALF the expected amount.

So how does the debt number grow so large you might wonder if you actually thought about it?

In a nutshell, lack of revenue. Persistently high unemployment means fewer people will pay taxes. And cutting all the discretionary spending to $0 still leaves a deficit to be financed. You can’t cut taxes and spending to get out of this hole, that’s just digging it deeper (because when you cut spending, you increase the unemployed pool, which already has 6 people for every 1 job opening).

Most of you already know I think Saxby is what I have to scrape off the bottom of my shoe after walking in the yard and that I think Isakson is probably least worst of what Georgia Republicans have to offer, but I won’t blame them entirely for where we are. They’re just symptoms of the problem.

I blame the noisy stupid people who keep claiming incorrectly that further tax and spending cuts are needed to balance the budget. Saxby and Isakson are just responding to them like good little puppies.

Unfortunately, I have no name recognition and no money.

chambliss ran with no opposition…so many could have beaten him. is the gop really going to miss yet another opportunity to replace a go along to get along bureaucrat?

As to your question “does anyone care”? They do! Those at the Jackson GOP meeting this morning hammered Isakson fairly hard on his lack of historical conservative principles. It was spoken very plainly and clearly to Senator Isakson that we expect less “gangbanging” (i.e. because of his propensity for joining numerous “gangs of…”) and more conservative action from him. His hypocrisy in all of the sudden becoming “conservative” was brought up as well… and how his prior record of helping to author No Child Left Behind, Amnesty, and the ill-fated Energy bill did not afford his constituents much faith in him to not change positions again when politically expedient.

Of course no one believes that he’s truly changed, so the question becomes will someone run against him? If there was ever a time to beat an incumbent Senator in a primary, this is it! Another time like this will not come soon… so if there is anyone out there considering a run at him, I sincerely hope that they throw their hat in the ring… they would have a lot of support!