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DEL.ICIO.USChambliss and the Wall Street Journal: Two mugs and a slice of watermelon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The newspaper may have a reputation as a Republican sounding board, but U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss continues to have a hard time pleasing the Wall Street Journal.
Twice in the last four days, Chambliss’ pen-and-ink mug has graced the paper — at least the on-line version.
Today, it comes with a slice of watermelon.
On Saturday, the WSJ kept up its criticism of the “Gang of Ten,” bipartisan approach to energy legislation. Georgia’s senior senator has been the Republican leader.
The newspaper dubbed it “The Chambliss shimmy.”
Today, the WSJ has a story lamenting a do-nothing Congress that has developed an expertise in meaningless resolutions. Chambliss again figures prominently:
Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson of Ohio, a fourth-generation undertaker, sponsored a National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, whose home state of Georgia has 24,000 acres planted in watermelon, pushed a resolution establishing July as National Watermelon Month.
“As Mark Twain once said, ‘When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.’ I encourage my colleagues to join me in acknowledging the wisdom of Mark Twain by supporting this resolution,” Sen. Chambliss said on the Senate floor. The only problem: July is about 14 days late for a Watermelon Month. The crops come in in mid June.
Psssh. Someone’s being a little picky. You want Watermelon Month when you sell them. Not when you harvest them. Watermelon Month in June is a eulogy. In July, it’s a retail tool.
Comments
By Poste Haste
August 19, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
Recently, there was a report about watermelon having the same effect on men as viagra. But I want to report my own experience with this. And warn others about it. I used watermelon to prepare myself for a fun night in Vegas. But it was no fun. The hooker kept spitting the seeds out.
Yes, that’s an original joke I wrote five minutes after I read the report, and yes, I’m THAT good.
By Tom Ga Hunter
August 19, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
So the WSJ criticized Saxby for working in a bi-partisan manner to address our energy crisis, then tries to follow that up with a story criticizing him for not doing anything about anything.
They can’t have it both ways. They are rapidly losing any credibility they might once have had.
Saxby Chambliss is a true Statesmen and I stand by him.
By Tom Ga Hunter
August 19, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
Churchill & GT Republican have stole my name again… The real question is when are the Georgia Media going to start printing Saxby’s record. Who gave him the money & what they got. How can Churchill who clames to a CONSERVATIVE support a big spending, big government liberal like Saxby?????
By Tom Ga Hunter
August 19, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this
Thought I hate Saxby, thousands upon thousands of Georgians have contributed and volunteered for his campaign. His level of support is truly amazing.
I have nothing to do other than troll the blogs looking for ways to vent my frustration with the fact that Saxby is going to win in November, so is McCain, and me and my liberal unemployed blogger buddies will still be losers.
Please be understanding, living my life is not easy and I often cry alone on my cot in my mother’s basement.
By Georgia Voter
August 19, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
Thousands sepport Saxby, because we love him! Hes our hero! Preacher told us so, and boss man told us so, and Gov Sonny told us so. My father in law told us so, and he went all the way through high school, so he knows more than most of us. Plus, I saw Saxby on TV. That carries waight with me. I don’t need no education to know who to trust. I don’t need no librale news people to tell me his record neether. I have people to tell me who is my hero.
By GaMinutemen
August 19, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this
Georgians, Don’t forget that Saxby was a Chairman for one of the congressional Judicial subcommittes. Judicial Chairmanship is the most sought after position in Congress because that one position controls all the legislation that goes b4 congress. Saxby was the Chairman for the Jusicial subcommittee for Immigration, Citizenship and Border Protection. Saxby was the root cause for the mess we are in with regard to criminal aliens in not only Georgia but the entire US of A. He has to go!!
By Tom Ga Hunter
August 20, 2008 6:16 AM | Link to this
Churchill& GT REPUBLICAN have stole my name again, just like the coward they love. Why do people who call themselves Conservatives support RINOs?? Here’s the WSJ editorial,
The Chambliss Shimmy August 16, 2008; Page A10 Congratulations to the Gang of 10. No, not that “bipartisan” group of U.S. Senators who recently garnered headlines with their misguided energy “compromise.” We refer instead to 10 GOP Senators who are proving good policy is good politics by pushing for more drilling in the Arctic.
Those 10 Republicans recently sent a letter asking President Bush to issue an executive order to conduct an immediate, state-of-the-art seismic survey of oil-and-gas resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The signers include Senators Pete Domenici (N.M.), Jim Inhofe (Okla.), Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn (Tex.), John Warner (Va.), David Vitter (La.), Mel Martinez (Fla.), Thad Cochran (Miss.) and Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowksi (Alaska).
That corner of Alaska hasn’t been surveyed since 1983, and in the intervening 25 years the industry has developed far more advanced technology to scope oil-and-gas reserves. A new survey could show that the area boasts far more oil than today’s estimate of 10.4 billion barrels, a discovery that would bolster public sentiment for drilling.
All this is better than the approach recently announced by the other “Gang of 10.” Five Republicans — Lindsey Graham (S.C.), John Thune (S.D.), Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson (Ga.) — agreed to join five Democrats and endorse $84 billion in energy subsidies plus higher taxes in exchange for allowing more drilling in a portion of the Eastern Gulf and offshore of only four states.
Senator Chambliss told Rush Limbaugh last week that the deal was necessary to get 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster. But this is the mentality that has undercut sound GOP positions in the past. Democrats are on the defensive over their opposition to new oil-and-gas supplies, which means the GOP has a legitimate shot at finally forcing a sound national drilling policy. Mr. Chambliss’s shimmy gives political cover to liberals who want new drilling kept to a minimum.
Current law prohibits any “exploration leading to development of ANWR,” but that prohibition is aimed at exploratory drilling. Seismic testing involves the equivalent of 3D photography and is environmentally benign, so Mr. Bush is well in his rights to issue the order. It’s time to get serious about drilling, and a new survey is a useful first step.
See all of today’s editorials and op-eds, plus video commentary, on Opinion Journal
By Democratic Debutante
August 20, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Saxby Shameless gets a drubbing by even conservative publications like WSJ because he is a boob even by GOP standards and that bar is already set pretty low. Saxby got his seat by villifying a Viet Nam Vet, a triple amputee, in the most callous and obscene bit of advertising dirt I have seen in my lifetime. Saxby wraps himself in a flag he has never carried or defended. In fact, if you look at his history, you will find that he managed to get a deferral so he did not have to expose his cowardly behind to the the Viet Cong; and, believe me, it would have been his behind because there is no way he would have been facing the enemy.
Does it not raise a question in even GOP minds (if there are such) when Saxby wants to hand out tax subsidies to companies that are posting record profits in an economy that has tanked in other sectors? Offshore drilling, drilling one of the few remaining pristine wildernesses on earth — not harmful? Look back at the archival footage of the oil spills of the past and what they did to the shorelines. Who but the greediest Republican would think the chance was worth it.
The evidence of Saxby’s record is enough to make you sick. He has voted for the worst of GB’s disasterous policies and against things like insurance for children, keeping Medicare fair, for the destruction of the Consititution and against alternative energy sources. Saxby tells you how much he loves his country and respects our soldiers and votes against the GI Bill of Rights. Saxby must be stopped. It is way past time to drag him kicking and screaming away from the trough of Pork Barrel politics and $$$$ signs in his eyes every time another big lobbyist toadies up to him.
Jim Martin is a fiscal conservative with a proven record even under a Republican Governor. Jim Martin is a vet who served honorably in Viet Nam and I think he can do more for the State of Georgia than float a resolution to honor Watermelons a month after the harvest was over.
Get some sense and get rid of this idiot.
Dem. Deb.