What! Only 9 minutes Bobby! - What! lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then you shall have no say. Mee-ow . . mee-ow. No, you shall have no say.

When I first read a few minutes ago in the AJC's Political Insider that Senate Reapportionment Chairman Mitch Seabaugh had given Senate Democrats a whole 9 minutes to offer up changes to the GOP redrawn redistricting map for the Georgia Senate, I thought, damn, that sounds so Draconian, I mean Drakhanian, as in Bobby Khan in 2001, when the shoe was on the other foot.

But my friend Aaron Sheinin beat me to the punch, noting a few minutes ago in the AJC that, in responding to a Senate Democrats' charge that the ruling Republican majority is refusing to allow the Democrats with a chance to present alternative plans for redrawing legislative maps, Seabaugh said he is not trying to "ram the plan through" as Democrats allege.

"Compared to what?" he said. "In 2001 [when Democrats controlled the process] we were in session for almost three weeks and the Democratic caucus walked into a committee meeting, unveiled a map and voted it out in 10 minutes."

(I still love you Bobby.)