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By Conservative Republican

October 6, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

In 4 weeks our Economy is going to be in worse condition. Everyone I know is ready to throw the crooks out. I just went by the local GOP hq. for some McCain sign, they said no one would take a Saxby sign. Saxby has lost the base with Amnesty, The Farm Bill, the Gang of 10 Traitors and the Bail out Wall Street. Saxby works for lobbyist not the Georgia Taxpayer, he needs to be fired.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

October 6, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

You think you’re angry NOW?

Wow, wait until the Democrats have a majority of 60, and then a lot of the Republicans switch to Democrat just like the Democrats switch to Republican in our state when the Republicans took over.

Politicians are loyal to themselves first and foremost. Its only a question of how much.

But wait, it gets worse. See everyone on the left remembers Newt Gingrich and the “Republican Revolution” of 1994, so they’re pretty much expecting them to try something like that in 2010, when the state legislators draw up the lines, only now Democrats have grassroots internet funding and Republican style targeted databases and Campaign Finance reform is still mostly intact so you can’t just get all your money from rich people.

And they’ll probably make is s 527’s can’t be anonymous anymore either.

That, and if we do head into another depression, it will be about 20-30 years before people really trust Republicans again. That’s how long it took last time.

But hey, your children might be able to vote Republican.

By David S

October 6, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Change the subject if you want traitor. The folks you help oppress here in Geogia are getting too smart to fall for that crap. Martin is only 1% behind you and by election day that lead will have widened. Why don’t you tell your co-conspirator Johnny not to get too comfortable either. I understand the “impeach Isakson” website is almost up and running.

I am encouraging everyone I know to shum you both and to refuse to do business with you. Its the least we can do for your morally reprehensible vote.

By Ga Values

October 6, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Where Saxby Chambliss gets his money::

Agri Business—-$1,368,000 Banks, Insurance, Real Estate—-$1,332,000 Lawyers & Individual Lobbyist——$641,000 Misc Business —-$679,000 Other ——$606,000..

The Agi Business got a gift of $20 billion waste from Saxby’s Farm Bill. The Banks, Real Estate & Lawyers just got a $2 TRILLION gift from the Bail Out the Banks act which Saxby & Johnny voted for. Not a bad return on your money.

By Matt22

October 6, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Throw-the-bums-out!!! Everyone that voted to help greed Wall Street execs at our expense as tax payers needs to be sent packing…Their party affiliation doesn’t matter. Our constitutions says “we the people” not ‘us the politicians that know better’

THROW-THE-BUMS-OUT!!!

By Tom GA Values Hunter

October 6, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Saxby will win. Buckley will got the way of Ron Paul. Saxby is the best candidate to vote for in this race.

By Tom GA Values Hunter

October 6, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Saxby will win. Buckley will got the way of Ron Paul. Saxby is the best candidate to vote for in this race.

By Matt22

October 6, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

throw-the-bums-out!!!

We as tax payers are being forced to reward the risky behaviors of Wall Street execs with bailing them out of the mess they created. Regardless of the party affiliation, if they voted for this toxic trash bill they should be sent packing. Democrat and Republican alike, there is not difference…

throw-the-bums-out!!!

By brownie's twin

October 6, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

You’re doing a heckuva job, Saxby! And don’t worry about gas prices, they will fall plenty when the Depression hits.

By Ga Values

October 6, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Saxby & the Gang of 10 Traitor’s position on Oil from the WSJ. Wonder why Saxby isn’t telling the truth??

Republican Energy Fumble August 8, 2008; Page A13 Politics has its puzzling moments. John McCain and most of the GOP experienced one late last week. That was when five of their own set about dismantling the best issue Republicans have in the upcoming election.

It’s taken time, but Sen. McCain and his party have finally found — in energy — an issue that’s working for them. Riding voter discontent over high gas prices, the GOP has made antidrilling Democrats this summer’s headlines.

Their enthusiasm has given conservative candidates a boost in tough races. And Mr. McCain has pressured Barack Obama into an energy debate, where the Democrat has struggled to explain shifting and confused policy proposals.

Still, it was probably too much to assume every Republican would work out that their side was winning this issue. And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson — alongside five Senate Democrats. This “Gang of 10” announced a “sweeping” and “bipartisan” energy plan to break Washington’s energy “stalemate.” What they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.

That’s because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast — putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.

The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on … oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn’t have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.

Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang’s bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he’s only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang’s efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.

Equally gleeful was Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, the Senate’s most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production — a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with “five Republicans” to “lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home.”

Mr. McCain, who had been commanding the energy debate, was left to explain why he, of all people, wasn’t more enthusiastic about a “bipartisan” effort on energy, especially one that includes “drilling.” His camp was forced to take refuge in taxes, explaining that their boss couldn’t sign up for a bill that included more. If this is what Mr. McCain’s good friend Lindsey Graham considers “helping,” somebody might want to ask him to stop.

And pity poor Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been working overtime to stanch GOP losses this fall and head off a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate. His dogged efforts to highlight Democratic opposition to drilling has kept energy in the news and laid the groundwork for GOP candidates to use the issue to their advantage.

In the Colorado Senate race, Democrats had christened former GOP Rep. Bob Schaffer “Big Oil Bob” — hoping to smear his oil industry career. “Big Oil Bob” has instead embraced his pro-drilling positions and is pummeling opponent Mark Udall for his antidrilling stance. In recent weeks, Mr. Schaffer has erased Mr. Udall’s lead. Polls show Republican Sens. Norm Coleman (Minnesota) and John Sununu (New Hampshire) both climbing in the polls on the back of strong energy arguments. As two of the GOP’s most vulnerable senators, both might well have run for cover with the Gang of 10. Instead they’re fighting on the merits.

The “bipartisan” Republican senators have undercut these efforts, and boosted Ms. Landrieu. They’ve even put a smile on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s face. He’d been struggling to tamp down the energy debate through November, where he hopes to increase his majority and permanently shelve drilling. He’s now counting on the Gang to fruitlessly continue “negotiations” straight through the Senate’s short September session and solve his problem for him.

Not one of the five Republicans in the Gang is facing a tough election this year. That’s the sort of security that leads to bad decisions. And theirs is the sort of thinking that could leave Republicans in a permanent minority.

By Taxpayer

October 6, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

Why heck yes folks, let’s talk about the gas shortage. Why you betcha. Let’s start by talkin’ about the little overlooked fact, by the Republicans, that the Gulf of Mexico gets hit regularly by hurricanes — big hurricanes. Let’s talk about how the Republicans were bragging about all the improvements in oil drilling and pumping and refining and the Drill Baby Drill mantra. Then, let’s talk about the truth, the cold hard facts. Let’s talk about Hurricane Ike and the half a million gallons of crude oil that were spilled as a result of that hurricane. Let’s talk about how that hurricane ripped through the refineries in Texas that supply gas to half of Georgia and other locations and how we were just plain lucky to get gas pumped to Georgia as quickly as we did this time. We might not be so lucky next time. Let’s talk about the facts — the fact that the Republicans should be shouting Spill Baby Spill and Shortage Baby Shortage. I have a much better topic though for you Republican politicians, all of you, don’t let the screen door hit your sorry buttocks on the way out. I’m tired of your pandering and your years of do nothing politics and your years of feeding off of Georgians.

By Phil Grammoldmanski

October 6, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

your all a bunch of winers

By Stan

October 7, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Just like the most recent mid term elections. The Repubs deserve to lose and the Dems don’t deserve to win.

I will NOT vote for Saxby, not gonna happen. I haven’t decided yet to vote for Buckley, more likely, or Martin, I would truly have to hold my nose for that.

By SpaceyG

October 7, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

So we suck all the oil out of America as fast as we can. Then where do we go to get more?