You guys are embarrassing
The latest from the TN house:
On Thursday morning, Democrats are expected to introduce a resolution creating a new position called Speaker Emeritus.
The plan is to put former Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, a Democrat, in that newly created job.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
What the fuck is wrong with your state?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Here is what I think will happen:
1. Speaker Emeritus position created with that position being 3rd in command
2. Naifeh elected as Speaker Emeritus (unless it automatically goes to the previous speaker)
3. Kent Williams resigns as Speaker
4. Lois DeBerry resigns as Speaker Pro Tem
5. Jimmy Naifeh becomes Speaker again by Feb 1.
6. Kent Williams officially becomes a Democrat.
7. Speaker Naifeh reassigns all committees, making Williams chair of 2 or 3 of them
January 15th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I wouldn’t put it past them.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Why would Kent Williams resign as speaker? Whats in it for him?
January 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Yeah you’re right. What we really need is another building named after Ronald Reagan.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
We’d like to welcome Southern Beale to The American Non-Sequitur Society – We don’t make sense, but we do like pizza.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Manish:
Naifeh’s stuff is still in the Speaker’s office, and there are no moving boxes anywhere nearby. What’s in it for Williams is that he’ll do as he’s told.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
It takes only one lying coward to support a tyrant. Naifeh is what is wrong with Tennessee.
Locally the hypocrisy is telling. The people who yelled the most about Black Wednesday in Knox County cheered the loudest over Black Tuesday in Nashville.
Can you trust progressives? The answer is no. If you are not of their tribe you are nothing. Gutless Tennessee Republicans could go after Naifeh for many things. But they lack the courage.
January 15th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Uhm, isn’t that whole State Constitution thingie the sole arbiter of what the make-up of the government is?
Sorry, just droppin’ by from Texas.