Tell me, who does this statement remind you of?

Cagle, a Republican, also declared he wants to change the "partisan" tone of the Senate and even share power with the Democratic minority. He also hinted some Democrats might land committee chairmanships in the upcoming legislative session.

Does it in fact remind you of statements from the Executive Branch?

President Bush has not been the best President this country has had. He has been strong on defending it and has been strong on defense but that’s all he has done. He has governed by making everyone feel like they have input and just loves to spend spend spend while growing the government ever larger. Now he wants to extend his hand to the Democrats and let 25 million illegal aliens stay in the country while promising to work closely with the Dems. Sure makes a good puppy doesn’t he? I regress sorry. He has all but alienated the base of conservatives and drove the Democrats back into office.

Now we can not just say the Executive Branch has done this alone, nope. Couple the wasteful spending power hungry Republican leadership at the federal level and bingo Republicans out on their ear where they belong. But that’s not what we’re going to examine here. Cagle has drawn a card off the wrong deck that belongs to Bush.

If Cagle wants to play great unifier to set up his Governorship while Perdue test the waters on a national basis he better think twice. The base in Georgia is a bit more than Kool-Aid drinkers; at least I hope they are.

There are a lot of temptations to cut deals with the devil when you are on the power trip. To place Democrats in leadership of the Republican lead Georgia government is wrong. The majority of the state did not elect Democrats to leadership because the principles of that party did not align themselves with what the voters want in Georgia. If the mainstream voter wanted liberal government of the Democrats Casey would not be where he is today. The voters want leadership to be what they represent and that is smaller government, lower taxes, personal freedom and strong conservative leadership among other basic Republican Leadership.

Just as the voters denied the continued lie of Republican leadership at the federal level due to Bush’s grand coalition of appeasing Democrats to get along and the Republicans forgetting their roots the people of Georgia will do the same here in four years if Cagle and Perdue act like those in Washington.

Newt Gingrich said it correctly:

I hope The White House will remember that the great underlying movement, which from Ronald Reagan on, has enabled this country to move forward, to have economic growth and to be remarkably successful, is a center right majority. It is not a center left majority. And that center right majority in the end cannot be compatible with San Francisco values and cannot be compatible with the trial lawyers and teacher’s unions and the other public bureaucracies that would like to do nothing more than raise your taxes to pay off their members in order to keep themselves in power.

Cagle needs to think hard and long before he sets on the trail of Happy Government and placing Democrats as Chairmen of Senate committees. Georgia voters want conservative leadership from real Republicans that have and will stand up for our principles. We didn’t vote for a Democrat to lead the Senate. Perhaps the Republican Senators should remind him by not forking over the powers they took from Taylor and set Cagle up as a cripple until he learns to walk.