- Honestly, does Grover Norquist breathe and it warrants media attention? We've got 100 people - out of a state of millions - and it necessitates an Associated Press article and feature from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution? And this comes a day after some state legislators now fear the budget shortfall might be $2 billion, not $1 billion? Taxes are going to have to be raised because identifying $2 billion in spending cuts will absolutely destroy the state from an economic and societal standpoint.

- It would be helpful if C. Wayne Jordan had a better grasp of the actual debate going on here. Listen, you can't order the University of Georgia to cut $60 million from its budget - on top of $100 million in cuts the previous two years - and not expect dramatic scalebacks in service provision. This ain't Michael Adams's fault at all, but rather the political cowardice of the Georgia General Assembly to actually address the state's massive revenue shortfall.

- Related to the budget crisis, James Bowden's ideas aren't crazy.

- Jim Galloway cites Ed Kilgore, who thinks Democrats have a legitimate shot at winning the governor races in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. I disagree. If it's Roy Barnes, Democrats have a good shot here, but there's no way they win the other two.

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