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DEL.ICIO.USSaxby Chambliss endorses T. Boone Pickens’ energy plan
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saxby Chambliss, the Republican incumbent in the U.S. Senate race, has announced a “major endorsement” for Wednesday morning.
(Update: Pay no attention to the unfounded speculation in the next paragraph. The press conference will focus on a declaration of support by the Fraternal Order of Police.)
You have to wonder if a clue to the topic might be found in an Atlanta Business Chronicle article filed late Tuesday:
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., pledged Tuesday to push for congressional passage of an energy independence plan being pushed by billionaire Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens.
Chambliss said Pickens’ proposals to develop new domestic sources of energy while expanding proven American technology share much in common with bipartisan energy legislation he is sponsoring in the Senate.
“Boone’s got great ideas,” Chambliss said during a meeting with Atlanta Business Chronicle editors and reporters. “He knows I agree with him.”
…Pickens, the chairman of BP Capital Management, is calling on the 111th Congress, which takes office in January, to enact an energy plan that reduces U.S. dependence on foreign oil by at least 30 percent within a decade.
Specifically, the series of national television ads he is bankrolling trumpets renewable energy, particularly wind power, and developing technology to power cars and trucks with natural gas.
See this earlier post on the topic.
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Comments
By SpaceyG
October 8, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Saxby wouldn’t know a great idea if he putted one in from 3 miles away. All he NOW, finally, knows is that people hate W, the sorry-a horse that he, Saxby, so long attached his green (as in the greed kinda green) wagon to. And boy is that gravy train a’dryin’ up fast! I’m gonna stop mixing the metaphors, by gosh, and get back to work now. And when are you AJC.com folk EVER going to do something about your commenting interface? It continues to stink bad.
By Will Jones
October 8, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this
Chambliss is sucking up to the same “Swiftboat”-funding, false-patriot moneybags who brought us the greatest abomination in Our Nation’s history: George W. Bush, a draft-dodging closet-queen cheated into the White House by only the Roman Catholics’ votes on the Supreme Court.
No doubt there will be a money transfer from Pickens to Chambliss’ campaign coffers in return.
G-d willing the campaign contribution/”bribe” from Pickens to Chambliss will be added to his recent billion dollar losses in BPCapital with a landslide win for Martin and Obama next month.
Pickens’s promotion of Bush has been an offense against The People, G-d, and The Constitution. As Chambliss is “good buddies” with this antichrist fraudulent president it is understandable that his false spirit be revealed in his currying favor with a man who has been proven by his support for Bush to be an Enemy of America.