Dr. Johnson once opined that the imminence of one's hanging has a way of concentrating one's mind wonderfully.  So do imminent election losses.  Such is the case in Georgia's 8th Congressional District, where incumbent Democrat Jim Marshall, staring at the political gallows, has decided that Speaker Nancy Pelosi might well be the noose around the Congressman's endangered neck.  Congressman Marshall has declared that if re-elected to Congress ("Pretty please?") he intends to cast his opening day ballot for speaker for someone other than the ultra-liberal Ms. Pelosi.  Mr. Marshall claims that he'll seek out a "centrist" to support, someone like Missouri's Ike Skelton, who's having election troubles of his own against Republican challenger Vicky Hartzler.And Congressman Marshall, tearing a page out of P.T. Barnum's playbook ("There's a sucker born every minute."), claims that his October declaration against Speaker Pelosi is the result of...(Read Full Post)