•The coming wave of conservative government is not going to be pretty.

Mark Morford of the San Francisco Gate:

As noted crusty and ruthless and largely unpleasant former Clinton adviser James Carville observed just after the election, "The American people just don't have a clue as to what's coming."

If you are female, gay, bisexual, atheist, black, immigrant, poor, progressive, intellectual, open minded, open hearted, if you hold alternative views, dress funny, dance, enjoy sex, read seditious literature, believe in peace and funky spirituality and don't particularly care for a sneering angry self-righteous well-armed anti-everything deity, you are about to find out. The hard way. And so is everyone else.

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•MWO reports a great bit from Crossfire.

Paul Begala lets lose with the truth after Bush's comments about Republicans running clean campaigns, and they can't handle the truth.

One of the more interesting aspects of the GOP gloat tour has been this, the White House straight faced asserts that Republicans who won, won because they waged positive campaigns. Oh? In Georgia they questioned the courage of Max Cleland, who had enough courage to volunteer for the Army, serve in Vietnam and lose both his legs and an arm in a grenade blast. His opponent never finished the Boy Scouts.

And in Texas, the Bushes ran an ad linking Tony Sanchez to the torture and murder of a DEA agent. Of course a Reagan Justice Department official came to Sanchez' defense, and the Austin (ph) American statesman said, "It gives sleaze a bad name."

Yes, sleaze has a bad name. It also has a new name: Bush. Shame on him.

Ouch, that is going to leave a mark. Actually it won't. Nothing like this will be reported by the conservative media, which is all media. Nobody will question Bush or the Republicans on this, lest they lose their white house press passes.

The initial stunned silence was followed by wild applause from the studio audience.

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•BLAH3 with a new Flash about the press.

The media has it own agenda now. There is no such thing as fair and balanced reporting.

Posted on Wednesday that I did not see, but really like:

Fair enough. They won, and now responsibility for stewardship of this great country rests with them. They now officially have enough rope to hang themselves.

War everywhere? They've got it now. Deficit spending? Done. Social Security? History. 9/11 investigation, Enron investigation, Energy Policy investigation? Only in Democrats' dreams. Birth control? Use it while you've got it. Better smoke what weed you've got and swear off, while you're at it.

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•Sax by Chambliss appears to help cover up of wildlife poisoning.

Sixteen exclusive hunting plantations were investigated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources beginning in 1999 for poisoning quail predators. Poisoned eggs were used to kill animals that feed on quail eggs. Poisoned eggs and poisoned animals were found on all 16 plantations, yet only four were ever prosecuted. The fines imposed were minimal.

DNR employees are now saying that the investigations into these plantations, some owned by some of Georgia's most wealthy and influential people, were stopped dead by political pressure.

State documents also indicate that plantation owners were complaining to DNR management and to [current Senator Elect and then] U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) about the investigation.

At one point, Chambliss' chief of staff, Rob Leebern, complained that some of the plantations were being harassed by the government investigators.

Federal officials and the EPA became involved, but the DNR pulled out of the investigations, and began reassigning people. Currently the EPA has some civil suits pending.

It seems Chambliss has the courage to cover up, and possibly to shoot little birds.

•State revenue is forecast to fall.

Tax collections are down $277 million from projections for the state. Barnes had ordered all state agencies to eliminate 3% from their budget. Governor elect Perdue will have some serious budget issues to deal with. Who else is thinking "tax cut for the wealthy!"

Georgia is not in as bad a shape as neighboring states. The Democratic government has tucked away $900 million for a rainy day, and luckily has not yet had to touch it. Who else is thinking tap into it and then "tax cut for the wealthy!"

•Bobby Brown thinks he should be charged with speeding and nothing else.

"I think I was speeding and I think that's what I should be charged with. As far as anything else, I don't think I should be charged with anything," Brown said.

So I guess we should not worry about having no drivers license, no proof of insurance, nor about that little bit about possessing marijuana. He did say he was sorry, and that makes it all better.

"I apologize to the people of Atlanta and I apologize to the judge whom I failed to appear in front of and I'm just sorry. I'm trying to get my life back together and keep it together."

What was that last part about the judge he failed to appear in front of? Oh those were charges from 1996 he had a bench warrant issued on, because he failed to appear in court. They include DUI, no proof of insurance, and changing lanes improperly. I guess it is taking longer than 6 years to get his life together.

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