Over at Salon War Room, it's rightly suggested that Tennessee Democrats just made the political play of the decade. Watch it on the video below! I can still see the shocked and stunned GOP faces. Hilarious! Kudos to the Tennessee Democrats!!
After almost 140 years, Tennessee Republicans finally got a chance to hold power in their state's General Assembly. Thanks to some crafty manuevering by their Democratic colleagues, however, the GOP's moment in the sun was all but over in a matter of hours.
Wonkette explains the crafty Dems power play perfectly:
Ha ha, so it took the Republicans until now, somehow, to take control of the Tennessee General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction, and their agenda includes such long-awaited items as making all Muslims die, making Intelligent Design the actual state religion, and then making all, uh, Hindus die or something, if there’s time!
The assembly was prepared to elect some insane wingnut as House Speaker today to carry out this righteous agenda, until the Democrats, at the very last minute, all voted for a moderate Republican, and this moderate Republican voted for himself, and now he is House Speaker! Republicans loudly booed him in the chamber! Free abortions for all!
Republicans are so mad they want to kick the new moderate speaker out of the Republican Party. If they do that, they'll be the minority party!
There's lots more at Nashville Post.
Marc Ambinder: In Tennessee, moderate Republican Kent Williams snuck in to the Speaker's position, garnering the votes of every Democrat -- conservative Republicans are outraged, claiming that Williams conspired against them.
And see Atrios
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