'Bama leads the way? Ronna's gonna & Repubs never let a disaster go to waste

An Alabama statehouse race saw a Democrat run, well, like a Democrat and - what do you know - she won! Sure turnout was low, but that might be the case in an election cycle where no one's excited about the choices atop the tickets. It was also, after all, just a day ago, Georgia WIN List's Melita Easters said we still have plenty of "reckoning" coming, post-Dobbs.

NBC News pulled the plug on the 'Ronna McDaniel' experiment, but I find it noteworthy the same conservative cabal that found no issues with her being given her walking papers by Trump and the RNC suddenly had advice and dismay over her treatment by the news bureau. Ya can't fire someone then be outraged when someone else finds fault with her, too. Also: yeah, for once in American history, enabling insurrectionists carries a burden.

The Maryland bridge disaster became a political football within hours of a cargo ship veering into said bridge. Somehow it became about vaccines, Hunter Biden's laptop and - get this - DEI! Also, Georgia's Rep. Mike Collins chose to whip out the "race card" and openly wonder what Baltimorians will want a replacement bridge named since they'll surely choose not to affix slave owner/white suremacist (and 'Star Spangled Banner' writer) Francis Scot Key's name to its replacement.

More discussion (thanks to a Darin Given's tweet of an Atlanta Business Chronicle paywalled story) about the much-debated Beltline rail expansion, today, too, in the aftermath of Mayor Andre Dickens' 'state of the city' speech where he touted MARTA in-fill stations but said not one word about streetcar expansion. Ho hum; another "Beltline businesses fear their business will suffer" story. Sorry; not buying it.

Also we've a term in real estate: "buyer beware." If you're unaware of forthcoming projects that can impact your quality of life, it's on you that you aren' aware. If you are, and you go "all in" anyway, again, that's on you.

Also, it rains in Atlanta - on average - 113 days per year. Someone explain to me like I'm smooth-brained how that streetcar wouldn't actually BOOST business the nearly one-third of the calendar year rain keeps people off said Beltline?