From Morris News Service:

ATLANTA — President Obama will be in Savannah to stump for his economic program March 2, the next stop on his White House to Main Street Tour, according to a White House official.

The daylong visit represents the president’s third stop on the tour that began in Allentown, Penn., on Dec. 4 and stopped last in Cleveland late last month. Both trips wound between small businesses and a town hall meeting.

The goal of the tour is to give ordinary people a chance to describe their economic challenges, according to the White House official, speaking on background. It also provides him an opportunity to deliver his message directly about the efforts he’s made to shore up the economy. No specific policy announcements are expected in Savannah, the official said.

Sorry for the lack of bloggification, but I’ve been busy not having my calls returned by state legislators.

It’s the calm before the storm … the eye of the hurricane … insert your weather cliché here. House Republicans will elect a speaker on Thursday, and it seems they’ve gone into hiding after last week’s maelstrom.

So, to fill the void, we bring you this oldie but goodie, a Dec. 11 press release from the master of the snappy one-liner, Rep. Paul Broun.

“Even Jack Bauer couldn’t do all of this in one day, but when it comes to big spending, the Democrat Leaders are the real pros,” Broun said in a news release.

President Barack Obama apparently thinks Georgia has 86 congressional districts.

Good thing for him it doesn’t – otherwise, Republicans might control the House. But as Rep. Paul Broun pointed out today, a list of stimulus grants in Georgia shows $6.3 million going to the nonexistent 00th, 86th, 25th, 21st, 19th, 14th and 27th districts. Georgia has 13 districts.

As an aside, who would represent the 00th District? Jean-Paul Sartre?

Anyway, Broun went on the attack, calling on the administration to fix the Web site.

The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Eric Holder will go easy on medical marijuana users in the 14 states where it’s legal (hat tip to Jim Galloway). You may recall that Broun’s very first vote in Congress was to bar the feds from prosecuting medical marijuana users.

Know where I can find some kind bud? Hook me up on Facebook, Twitter or by email.

“I’m very proud we have our first black president. … I can respect him. I can respect this historic moment. But that’s where the story ends in that regard, because his ideology is not what I believe.” – Michael McNeely, chairman of the Georgia Black Republican Council, speaking to the Clarke County GOP on Monday.

Doesn’t that sound refreshing after a year or so of this and this? It’s probably a more effective political strategy, too.

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The bad news: President Obama will soon declare himself Fuhrer Obama. The good news: Free government-funded jackboots for everyone!

The July 2, 2007 speech in Colorado Springs where Obama called for "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military is the quote that will not die on talk radio and the dark corners of the Internet.

The Rocky Mountain News published the full text of Obama’s speech. Interestingly enough, that particular quote is not included. It was an off-script ad lib the president apparently added on the fly.

First it was the banks, then the car companies, then health care and now the Internet. President Obama is socializing everything.

At least, that's what Mike Evans, the former GDOT board member who's now running for Nathan Deal's North Georgia congressional seat, said in a news release today. Here is a link to the bill he's talking about.

CUMMING, Ga. -- Mike Evans, Republican candidate for Georgia's Ninth Congressional District, on Saturday denounced legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia that gives the President the power to unplug Americans' private computers during a "cyber security emergency."

"This administration has hijacked the nation's auto industry, the banks, the insurance companies and is in the process of nationalizing health care," Evans said. "Now it wants to unplug Americans' private computers and deny citizens the right to free speech."

Barney Frank, the colorful Democratic congressman, went off on someone at a town hall meeting recently who compared President Obama’s health care proposal to the Nazis, a claim that may sound familiar to Northeast Georgia residents.

Frank’s response was priceless: “On what planet do you spend most of your time? … Arguing with you would be like arguing with the dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.”

The liberal Web site Talking Points Memo recently obtained a letter Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, wrote on behalf of the American Conservative Union about health care reform.

The key line is similar to one he used during his Clarkesville town hall meeting Tuesday: “When mama falls and breaks her hip, she’ll just lie in her bed in pain until she dies with pneumonia because her needed surgery is just not cost efficient.”

Here’s the full text:

My fellow American,

As a Congressman and as a concerned doctor, I am writing today to warn you:

Your health care is in serious danger.

Barack Obama managed to sneak a provision into his massive "stimulus" bill that is going to ration your health care and lead us down the path of socialized medicine.

State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond has been offered a job in the Obama administration, according to The AJC.

I have a call in to Thurmond’s office and he is supposed to call me back this afternoon.

In possibly related news, the Clarke County native is testifying Thursday in the U.S. Senate on workforce modernization.

He was a Clinton supporter in the Democratic primary, but apparently all is forgiven. He never said anything negative about Obama that I know of, but he supported Hillary out of loyalty to her and Bill. President Clinton tapped Thurmond to oversee welfare reform in the 1990s.