David Ralston should become the new speaker. It is a real signal that times are changing and Republicans want to clean up their own house so they don't get swept out. Insiders were pained when the former Speaker, Glenn Richardson, showed up. He sat their quietly and listened, sobbing and red faced, as his former colleagues talked of his indescretions and what those daliances cost the Republican majority. http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/republicans-back-ralston-for-244539.html This was a loss for the Governor, who backed Larry O'Neal, but Larry was too much of the old way of doing things and this is a new day.

At about the same time, Vice President Biden and Governor Perdue were together for the announcement of a broadband initiative. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iK8SjjFiVfL5Fm-aDChr9gB9_Z9gD9CLA4BG7

I was hoping for a Biden gaffe, but he kept is strictly to the script. The Vice President believes in this project and as the "Stimulus Czar" he's trying to stay on track. A new broadband initiative brought the Vice President to Georgia to annouce a roll out to rural areas around the country. He was joined by Governor Sonny Perdue and everyone was all smiles.

Perdue is the first Republican Governor of Georgia since Reconstruction and in his almost 8 years, he's been presented with a wide array of challenges and had creative and conservative solutions. He sold excess state equipment on Ebay, tracked down all the state leases and found out where and what they were, realigned the executive branch, cut spending and didn't raise taxes. This week he had another challenge. Accepting stimulus money on behalf of Georgia, the most Republican of the Red States from Vice President Biden and a very liberal administration.

It may seem unusual in this highly partisan administration for the Veep to come to Georgia for this unveiling but it may have been great timing. Vice President Biden came on the day a new Republican candidate for Speaker of the Georgia House was chosen. The former Speaker left is position in disgrace in light of ethics questions, accusations of adultery with a lobbyist and a suicide attempt. You can't make this stuff up, this is politics.

The Obama/Biden Administration hasn't seen a spending project they did not want to add to, or a debt ceiling they didn't want to break through. On top of that, the list of taxes they are advocating on people making a great deal less than $250,000 a year in the super secret health care bill is mind boggling. It is the antithesis of what Georgians want in their politicians. But the Governor and the Veep came together in Dawsonville, Georgia to propose and accept the first $42 million dollars of state, local, federal and private money to provide broadband service in North Georgia.