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Several years ago, Tennessee inked both Peyton Manning and Brandon Stewart in the same recruiting class. Then, it was Casey Clausen and A.J. Suggs. Most recently the Vols got both Erik Ainge and Brent Schaeffer. Tennessee football has a tendency to load both chambers of the double-barreled shotgun at once when it comes to recruiting the quarterback position...

Tom Humphrey reports on how the two bodies of the legislature pass different type of bills in each house but not in both chambers so the bills don't become law.

Republican operative Patrick Ruffini cites evidence that incumbent presidents don’t often lose reelection battles encouraging conservatives to get real, real scared at the prospect of eight years of Obama so they don’t forget to hold their nose for McCain in 2008:

Ben Voth has a good write-up over at American Thinker on the role Congress has played in the current energy crisis -- the energy crisis they want to blame on Big Oil.

I’m proposing my own form of cap and trade.  Cap the number of bills that can be sponsored in Nashville. Legislators can trade the allotted number of bills that they can sponsor if they like.

That would be one small step towards getting rid of legislation like this:

From the AP:

Lawmakers plan to divert land conservation money to help close a shortfall in the Tennessee state budget.

The $15 million hole in the spending plan was created after lawmakers rejected an administration plan to end a tax exemption on certain family-owned businesses.

Russ McBee says:

All notary republics must be United States citizens, so says the state legislature of Tennessee:

Not really, but a big step was taken in the quest to allow the Secretary of State to step in when the Governor is incapacitated (after the speakers of both chambers take a pass which they will every time).

I hope so: