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  • So long, Sen. Lincoln

    Senator Blanche Lincoln (D - AR), who is up for reelection next year, has now said she will vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill this evening when it comes to a vote.

    In her words, "The vote tonight will mark the beginning of consideration of this bill by the" [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:24pm EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Government consolidation

    Jere, you've got a deal.  Let's consolidate all the governments of the metro Jackson area.

    Problem is, it's your guys on the Democrat side of the aisle, not my guys on the Republican side, who are going to oppose your idea of consolidating governments and government services.

    Republicans,' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:11pm EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Consolidation

    While we are on the topic of consolidation, thanks to Gov. Barbour, why not save a bunch of money and increase the effectiveness of services by consolidating some of these rural counties?  And right here in the metro area, imagine what could happen if we consolidated the three county governments [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:53am EST
    by jerenash

  • Haley and Sarah

    In today's Washington Post, Chris Cillizza, who writes the paper's political blog, had this to say:


    Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's (R) repeated refusal to say that Sarah Palin is "qualified" to be president of the United States during an interview Thursday night with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews is [...]

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by jerenash

  • The Bad News and the Good News

    Yesterday, it was my privilege to attend the Cochran Forum on American Enterprise, put on by the Mississippi Council on Economic Education.  The luncheon meeting packed out the ballroom in the Downtown Marriott.

    The bad news flowed easily.  State Treasurer Tate Reeves noted that the state budget is enduring the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Barbour Budget (Part II)

    While there is much to criticize in Gov. Barbour's budget proposals, and much to applaud, the challenge for Democrats is to come up with an alternative.  There is no question but that the state is facing huge financial shortfalls, and doing nothing but complaining about the governor's budget will not [...]

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:01pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Nunnelee/Barbour vs. Childers/Pelosi?

    Really, Jere, are you sure that's where you want to take this conversation?

    I'll tell you what let's do:  You concede to Alan Nunnelee all the people in the First Congressional District who support Haley Barbour as Governor, and I'll concede to Cong. Childers all the people in the First [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:18pm EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Nunnelee & Barbour

    One of Sen. Alan Nunnelee's favorite tactics in his campaign against Cong. Travis Childers is to link Childers with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  Regardless of how Childers votes on cap & trade or health care, it doesn't matter, acccording to Nunnelee, because Childers is a Democrat and Pelosi' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:31am EST
    by jerenash

  • New fed rule on mammograms -- rationing already

    The federal government has just announced that women should wait until they are 50 to have annual mammograms, ten years later than has been the recommendation for many years.  The government says that commencing mammograms at age 40 leads to too many unneeded biopsies. 

    The announcement has already set [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:12am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Haley's Budget

    Well, my goodness.  The governor has given us a bunch to talk about.  Gov. Barbour issued his executive budget recommendations today, and he means business.  Just to hit the highpoints: reducing the number of school districts by a third; merging Alcorn and Valley with Jackson State and merging MUW with State; combining a [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:56pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Jere's death spiral on Simpson County Republicans

    Really, Jere, you should just stop on this one.

    Your latest post is one of your most remarkable in months.  For the entirety of the last generation, your side was saying, "Yeah, the Republicans can win some big elections, but they'll never crack the courthouses."

    Now that the' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:21am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Politics hijacks science

    Unbelievably, the American Cancer Society has now joined the AARP as just another mouthpiece of the Democratic National Committee.

    Last year, against my nature, I kept my powder dry when the American Cancer Society endorsed Democrat Ronnie Musgrove against Senator Roger Wicker.

    But now, an organization that is supposed [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Is Eight a Big Deal?

    The answer is no.  For a whole lot of reasons, the answer is no.  Here's one of them -- the reason we have the state GOP focusing on Simpson County politicians is that they have run out of legislators who will switch.  Unable to get any other Democratic legislators to [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:50pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Consolidation Politics

    The word on the street is that Gov. Barbour's budget will contain sweeping changes to state government in order to -- ostensibly -- save money, including school consolidation and university consolidation.  If that comes to pass, we Democrats will have been handed a gift.  Notwithstanding the completely bogus claims made [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:39pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Is eight a big deal?

    Yesterday, the eighth Simpson County official in as many days announced her decision to join the Republican Party. 


    Circuit Clerk Cindy Jenson switched from the Democrat Party, joining her Sheriff, District Attorney, a Supervisor, the Coroner and three other officials last week.

    County elected officials are at the [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:45am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Veterans Day

    Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of our armed forces, for your courageous and devoted service in the cause of freedom.

    Last night, I had the privilege of meeting and conversing over dinner with a young man who has more than 18 years of service, first with the Air Force, and now with [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:02am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Health Care in Mississippi

    Since we are in the middle of a national health care debate, and since many of our state officials and legislative leaders have argued (rather strongly) against a “government controlled” health care system, and since these same leaders have offered nothing for people in this country and in this state who have [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:44am EST
    by jerenash

  • Jere and Simpson County Republicans

    "No big deal," Jere writes about the announcement by seven incumbent elected officials in Simpson County that they are switching to the Republican party.

    He probably didn't think much of the early Apollo missions, either, when we were sending ships up to practice docking, then circling but not yet landing on the' [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:11am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Andy & Pelosi & Medicare

    So, Andy liked to talk in his most recent post about the lopsided 1965 vote in Congress to pass Lyndon Johnson's Medicare legislation.  Well, that made me drop everything I was doing and drive over to the Welty Library to check a hunch.  Sure enough, in spite of Congress passing [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:22pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Party Switchers

    The Clarion-Ledger ran a headline on today's front page about last week's decision by seven Simpson County local officials to switch to the Republican Party.  The headline: "Party Swaps Problem for Dems."  Now really.  All of these politicians are from the home county of Brad White, the state party chairman.  [...]

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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:30am EST
    by jerenash

  • Not exactly, Madame Speaker

    It has been reported that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has likened the House vote in favor of the government healthcare package on Saturday to the adoption of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare in 1965.

    Not exactly.

    In both of those earlier cases, there was widespread [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Haley Barbour & Sarah Palin

    The Clarion-Ledger posted a You Tube video of part of Gov. Barbour's appearance yesterday on NBC's Meet the Press.  To Gov. Barbour's enduring credit, he was cagey when asked about Sarah Palin and whether she could be president.  What was clear was that he didn't want to answer the question. ' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:18am EST
    by jerenash

  • Oh Well

    Oh well.  So much for using the issue of health care against Sen. Nunnelee.  Congressman Travis Childers has now come out against the health care reform legislation proposed by the House Democratic leadership.  Down the toilet go my ideas of using health care to upend the Nunnelee campaign (see previous posts).  [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40am EST
    by jerenash

  • Mr. Potato Head politics

    When I was a boy, Mr. Potato Head was not an oblong piece of brown plastic with pre-fixed holes for eyes, nose, mouth and ears.  Instead, we was, well, a potato.

    When you got a Mr. Potato Head kit as a gift, all you got was a little bag [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:52am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • The Nunnelee Campaign (Part II)

    Like I wrote earlier, it would be a lot of fun to manage the congressional campaign against Alan Nunnelee.  We have another case in point.  Yesterday, he released a statement on health care.  While great 30-second ads could be crafted in response to almost every sentence in the statement, my two [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:52am EST
    by jerenash

  • Haley -- The Legend Continues

    In his Washington Post column this morning, Chris Cillizza listed the WINNERS and LOSERS from yesterday's elections.  What follows is what he wrote about the #1 Winner:


    Haley Barbour/RGA: The Mississippi governor and chairman of the Republican Governors Association was already seen as one of the leading strategists [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:24pm EST
    by jerenash

  • Andy & Yesterday's Elections

    There is no question but that Andy is correct when he writes in his most recent blog that 2008 was more about Barack Obama's personal appeal (and dislike of Bush/McCain/Palin) than it was a signal that the country had moved significantly to the left.  But in Obama's election, our side [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:04am EST
    by jerenash

  • Yesterday's elections

    The White House can whistle past the graveyard just as loudly as it likes, but yesterday's Republican sweep in Virginia and stunner in New Jersey are the clearest indications yet that Barack Obama's election last year was a reflection of his personal appeal -- plus the fact that he was not [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:28am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • 1 for 3

    Well, the big loser last night was the pollsters.  They had NJ too close to call.  They had the conservative (only later adopted by the GOP) candidate winning in NY-23.   And they had the pro-gay marriage side of the referendum in Maine slightly ahead.  NJ was a blowout for the [...]

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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:07am EST
    by jerenash

  • Tuesday Night & Back to the Future

    Not having any inside information, I fear 0-3 tonight in Virginia, New Jersey and NY-23.  One can argue that Virginia has a history of switching party affiliations for its governor, but that's an excuse more than an explanation.  And one can argue that Corzine's potential defeat in NJ is due [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:41am EST
    by jerenash

  • Andy & Back to the Future

    Speaking of Haley Barbour and Texas and "Back to the Future", when 1980 rolled around and Republican activists started choosing candidates to support in the nomination fight that year, Haley's first choice was former Texas Governor John Connally.  He joined the Reagan bandwagon when Connally dropped out.  [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:37am EST
    by jerenash

  • 2009 - 1976: Back to the Future

    In 1976, the Republican Party was in the throes of self-examination and philosophical course setting in the aftermath of Watergate.  Mississippi's role in the efforts of conservatives and Ronald Reagan to unseat incumbent but unelected President Gerald Ford at the 1976 Republican National Convention is the stuff of history and [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:01am EST
    by AndyTaggart

  • Young Gun

    I recognize the job is already taken, but it sure would be a lot of fun to manage the campaign against Alan Nunnelee.  The latest opportunity to have some fun is the designation by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that Nunnelee has joined the "Young Guns" club.  I mean, really.  First these [...]

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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Hob Nob Addendum

    For my money, the most interesting public policy morsel to come out of the speeches at Hob Nob was the governor's remark that his executive budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, due later in November, would not be business as usual.  He intimated that dramatic steps would have to be [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:03am EDT
    by jerenash

  • Hob Nob Addendum

    For my money, the most interesting public policy morsel to come out of the speeches at Hob Nob was the governor's remark that his executive budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, due later in November, would not be business as usual.  He intimated that dramatic steps would have to be [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:03am EDT
    by jerenash

  • JPS & Residency Requirements

    The Jackson School Board is considering a policy that would require all of its employees to live in Hinds County.  While they would grandfather all existing employees, any new hires would be required to live in the county.  This proposal is one of many variations on the theme I have [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Hobnob Wrap-up

    MEC's annual political throw-down, Hobnob Mississippi, was the biggest ever last week.  Under the big tent at the Ag Museum, all eight statewide officials, plus Rep. George Flaggs on behalf of Speaker Billy McCoy, spoke to a seated crowd of about 1,200, plus another couple hundred of folks hanging out [...]

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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:41am EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Good News for Our Side

    There’s a special congressional election on November 3 that’s special in a different and very important way.  It is up in New York’s 23 congressional district, which is now vacant because the incumbent, Democrat John McHugh, accepted President Obama’s appointment as Secretary of the Army.  There’s a Democratic candidate – [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Nunnelee website is up

    Alan Nunnelee's congressional campaign just circulated word that his website is up and running at: [www.nunneleeforcongress.com].
    [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Defying Authority

    Sid Salter featured on his talk radio show yesterday the controversy in Copiah County over the female student who wants to have her yearbook picture taken in a tuxedo (instead of the usual drape outfits reserved for females).  In many ways this issue has garnered a lot of attention because [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:43pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Hudson Holiday

    Once again, Clay Chandler with the Mississippi Business Journal gets a good story about the governor's race.  This time he talks with Hudson Holliday, a first time Pearl River County supervisor who has said he's running for governor in the Republican Primary.  In the course of his interview, Clay got some [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:09pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Where the rubber meets the road

    Here's the real test of how serious legislators are about all the rhetoric to the effect that education is the state's top priority.

    I don't agree with that premise, by the way, as I believe the fundamental role of government at every level is the security and safety of' [...]

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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Huckabee is coming to town

    Hot off yesterday's Rasmussen poll results showing him leading among Republicans responding to questions about their current top pick for the presidential nomination in 2012, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will be in Jackson this coming Wednesday evening.

    Huckabee is headlining the annual fundraising banquet for the Salvation Army [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:05pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Campaign Money

    October 15 is the date quarterly campaign reports are due for federal offices.  All four incumbent congressmen filed their reports timely as did Alan Nunnelee, the Republican who wants to gain his party's nomination for the right to take on Travis Childers.


    As was the case last quarter, [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:06pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • OMG

    I didn't think I'd live to see Andy say anything good about Jim Hood, though if it was any issue that would drive him to set aside his natural dislike of our attorney general it would be guns.  [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
    by jerenash

  • Attorney General Jim Hood hits a lick for the Second Amendment

    Attorney General Jim Hood recently signed onto a very important document.

    About two thirds of the states' attorneys general, including Jim Hood, joined in a friend-of-the-court brief addressed to the United States Supreme Court in the case of NRA v. City of Chicago.  The brief argues that the right to keep and' [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Come on, Jere, you can do better

    And really, Jere, calling people "crazies" because you disagree with them is a bit beneath you. [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Europe's Systemic Anti-Americanism

    Regrettably, after Jere's and David Hampton's nearly simultaneous posts about how the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama was supposedly good for the nation, this blog site blocked me from logging-in to respond.  I am quite sure that that technological glitch had nothing to do with the timing [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:28pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Politics and the National Football League

    I love pro football, truly I do.

    But I don't watch football to get my politics, or anyone else's politics, either.  Consequently, I do not watch the pre-game show of NBC Sunday Night Football, because I do not intend to watch uber-liberal Keith Olberman pontificate about football after he' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
    by AndyTaggart

  • Liz Cheney & Foreign Policy

     Liz Cheney, lawyer, former state department employee, and oldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has turned into one of the Republican Party’s most loyal defenders.  She appeared on Fox News Sunday, attacking President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.  “Well,” she said, “I think what the committee believes is they'd' [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 7:06am EDT
    by jerenash
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