Monday, June 23, 2008
News Someone finally gets the water story right
Posted by John F. Sugg on Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM
The Alternet news service has a great column by Rick Perlstein of Blog for Our Future on Georgia's water calamity. "The colossal mismanagement of water in Georgia has produced an urban crisis with no clear solution other than a return to smart government," the column states. Smart government? Georgia? Hahahaha.
Perlstein gets it right — assigning the blame to Sonny Perdue, the low-performing goofball in the gubna's mansion: "Roy Barnes, the guy who actually stuck his neck out to solve the problem, was a Democrat, and the man who replaced him was the Confederate Flag-baiting Republican."
Perlstein's column was motivated by this month's Atlanta magazine. He gives Atlanta pretty high marks — although repeatedly chiding the magazine for what it is, a city lifestyle magazine whose content, especially advertising, is targeted to the upper crust. A more perceptive comment might have been that Atlanta had some guts in challenging the Republican establishment in its reporting.
Although misplacing the Gold Dome in Augusta, Perlstein nonetheless nails down Georgia politics: "the cry of the 'enlightened' business-boosterism class against the bubbas at the State Capitol."
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