Our new Speaker of the House in new, redder Tennessee is now Republican;

[predfan]

He says we can now work on abortion and gun rights, then we'll get to our $600 M budget deficit.

Thank God we now have our priorities in order.........there for a while I was afraid the newly empowered Republican majority might actually operate like a business.

If you want to know how the Republican Party has painted itself into a regional corner it cannot back out of, cast your gaze upon the Volunteer State.

On a brighter note, Go Titans!

[indepat]

1. That 66% of the white folk in this, my native state, voted to stay the course on perpetual wars

of aggression and torture, massive budget deficits, and imploding stock markets, capital markets, and economy in the wake of greed, massive fraud, deregulation, and a lazy fair approach to governance wherein the mantra is let the boys be boys unfettered by governmental regulation or interference so their profits can be privatized and their massive losses socialized (borne by the taxpayers), all this speaks volumes as to who we the people of Tennessee are. :P