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By DSCC2008

October 21, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Why is Saxby sitting next to “Dung Heap” Harkin? Saxby will win this by 5 points, let there be no doubt. Saxby will be our senator for the next 6 years. I love it!!

PAGING TOM GA VALUES HUNTER……….

By explainer

October 21, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Sissy Saxby and Harkin joined forces to give us the wonderful Farm Bill - aka No Lobbyist Left Behind. That is why they are sitting together.

By Churchill

October 21, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Obama man tapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5TprmkgRw&feature=related

By Okay, Deal.

October 21, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

If Chambliss gets reelected, then Bulldog fans aren’t paying attention.

By Churchill

October 21, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

President Bush has raised $146 million for Republican Party committees and candidates this election — $40 million less than he raised last cycle and $4 million less than Barack Obama raised last month.

Bush’s drop contributes significantly to the financial shortfall the Republicans face heading into November, and it represents a major shift from just a year ago.

The president raised $63.5 million for the GOP and its candidates in 2007, about $1 million more than he raised in 2005, the last nonelection year, according to numbers the Republican National Committee provided to Politico in 2007.

So far this year, Bush has raised $82 million, according to the RNC, dramatically less than the $127 million CBS News reporter Mark Knowler says the president raised in the year leading up to the 2006 mid-term elections — elections that saw the GOP lose control of both the House and the Senate.

RNC spokesman Alex Conant says comparing 2008 with 2006 is like “comparing apples and oranges” because the GOP’s presidential contenders — both John McCain and those who ran against him — were out competing for fundraising dollars in 2008.

The White House blames the drop on economic and natural disasters.

“For the first time in 14 years, the president will not have his name on the ballot and will not serve in the future with the candidates who succeed this November,” said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel.

“Additionally, our country has been confronted by considerable challenges in recent weeks and months. We have been hit by two very powerful hurricanes, a financial crisis which threatens our entire economy. Consequently, President Bush has kept the enormous responsibilities of his office ahead of political activities and has remained focused on leading the country through this difficult period. In doing so, he has chosen to forgo some previously planned trips to build support for Republican candidates.”

In fact, the president hasn’t appeared at a single rally on behalf of a Republican House or Senate candidate this cycle.

Bush did not attend the Republican National Convention this fall, appearing only on video beamed in from Washington by satellite. And while Bush has appeared at 84 GOP fundraising sessions this cycle, Stanzel said a Tuesday night dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee will be his last of the cycle.

One-fourth of Bush’s 2008 haul comes from a single event in June — the annual “President’s Dinner” at the Washington Convention Center. The event brought in $21.5 million. McCain did not attend.

McCain and Bush did appear together at a fundraiser in May in Arizona that raised $3.5 million, according to the Arizona Republic, but the two have appeared together few times since.

Conant said that McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have done the fundraising that Bush would have been doing.

“As a result of the team effort, September 2008 was the RNC’s best fundraising month EVER (we raised over $66 million) — and we’re on pace to having another record month in October,” Conant said in an e-mail. “We’re very thankful that the president took time from his busy schedule to help the party raise record amounts of funds for this cycle.”

Even with the RNC’s September success, the party still lags far behind the Democrats. McCain had $47 million on hand at the beginning of October and the RNC had nearly $78 million, for a total of $125 million. Obama had more than that on his own — $133 million — and the DNC went into the month sitting on $27.4 million.

Having declined public financing, Obama can continue to raise money. McCain is constrained by public-financing rules from raising any more funds before the election.

Every dollar counts, and the $40 million Bush hasn’t raised this cycle could count a lot— a point underscored this week when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis accused Barack Obama’s campaign of raising $4 million through inappropriate means.

“I’d love to have that $4 million right now to put into Pennsylvania,” Davis said on a conference call with reporters Monday. “It’d be a good thing for our campaign. I think it’s a game-changer if I can slap all of that right on the Philadelphia media market. It’s an expensive place.”

By Churchill

October 21, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Sagging corporate profits weighed on investor confidence today, sending stocks down.

The sell-off wiped away half of yesterday’s rally, which included a more than 400-point gain by the Dow Jones industrial average. It is not unusual for investors to lock in some profits after such a rally, but stocks were largely negative today, reflecting concerns about the degree to which the financial crisis is weighing on corporate balance sheets, analysts said.

The Dow fell 2.5 percent, or 231 points, to close at 9,033.66, while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell 3 percent, or 30 points, to 955.05.

By llihcruhc

October 21, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

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By AirBro

October 21, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

So the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation finds something suspicious about a Republican benefiting from $100,000 worth of ads.

Of course the same fish-wrap lauds a left-wing bigot who “raises” half a billion dollars, and hides 80% of the contributors.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

October 21, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

Because AirBro, you clearly think we have the right to know everything about you.

Please send the link to your medical records, voting history, sexual liaisons and movie rental history and post it here.

I’m sure we’ll all find it very enlightening.

Not to mention of course, accusing Obama of hiding things while neglecting to mention McCain hiding his medical records and (up until VERY recently) his tax records is not hypocritical in the slightest.

By 5 Year old

October 21, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Airbro made a funny about #1 and #2!

He so funny!

By Churchill

October 21, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

SAXBY works for the middle class, are you kidding Saxby works for the LOBBYIST,, Guess why he voted for the $700,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bail out and added $153,000,000,000.00 of PORK for the LOBBYIST.. Fire Saxby NOW, Fire SAXBY Here, Pay less

Agribusiness $1,390,331 Communic/Electronics $271,104 Construction $318,237 Defense $146,650 Energy/Nat Resource $286,055 *Finance/Insur/RealEst $1,352,121 *Health $475,759 Lawyers & Lobbyists $652,285 Transportation $251,500 Misc Business $682,499 Labor $16,000 Ideology/Single-Issue $491,240 Other $601,332

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 21, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Freedom Watch, all good boys from GEORGIA

Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation and the fifteenth richest American in Forbes magazine’s rankings last year, is the top donor.[6][3] Mel Sembler John Templeton, Jr, board member of the Templeton Growth Fund and financier of Let Freedom Ring. Kevin E. Moley, former U.S. ambassador to international organizations in Geneva, and a senior adviser to Dick Cheney during the 2000 campaign. Howard Leach, CEO of Leach Capital and former ambassador to France who also helped fund the Florida recount. Anthony Gioia, head of Gioia Management and former ambassador to Malta. Richard Fox, co-founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Gary Erlbaum, owner of Greentree Properties. Ed Snyder, owner of the Philadelphia Flyers and 76’ers.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 21, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

Freedom’s Watch has tight connections to the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and the American Enterprise Institute.[3] The group was conceived at a Florida meeting of the RJC in March 2007 [4][5] in part to counter MoveOn.org and help the Bush administration sell its Iraq policy.[3] It was founded by a dozen conservatives of immense wealth,[4] most notably Sheldon Adelson, who donated almost all of its initial funding.[6] Four out of five members of Freedom’s Watch original board are Republican Jews, and four of the eight initial donors are Jewish, though board member Matt Brooks said “it would be a mistake to regard the group as having a Jewish direction,”

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 21, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

Freedom’s Watch also purchased advertisements during the 2008 election cycle in support of Republican congressional candidates. For example, the group purchased $550,000 in advertising in the Mississippi 1st district special election in support of Republican candidate Greg Davis.[16] The group also ran ads in support of Republican candidates in two other special elections to fill vacant house seats in Illinois and Louisiana. All three Republicans were subsequently defeated by their Democratic challengers in historically Republican districts.

By flip wilson

October 21, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

Sissy Saxby is in the pocket of lobbyists.

By Okay, Deal.

October 21, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

R U asking if that’s a lobbyist in my pocket or am I just happy to see Saxby?

That doesn’t make sense. Now I want my mommy.

By Oscar Lewis

October 22, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this

It’s such a happy ad for such sad times.

One million people are dead in Iraq, some of those are American service personnel. They are dead because Saxby refused to expose Bush as a liar.

You want truth in advertising, watch my videos about Saxby.

Also at YouTube

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

October 22, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Saxby has worked hard to get things done for his friends on Wall Street. Yes to rewarding companies that send American jobs to China, India, and other countries. In 2004, Chambliss voted against closing up $39 billion in tax breaks for companies that outsource their jobs. [Vote 90, 5/11/04] In 2005, Chambliss voted against against repealing tax incentives for domestic companies that move their manufacturing plants out of the U.S. [Vote 63, 3/17/05] He even gave those same companies a tax cut. In 2003, Chambliss voted to cut taxes on U.S. companies’ overseas income from 35% to 5.25%. [Vote 165, 5/15/03] Won’t hold U.S. companies accountable if they deal with terrorists. Chambliss even voted against an amendment that makes U.S. businesses liable for dealing with foreign businesses that have links to terrorism. [Vote 203, 7/26/05]

By Will Jones

October 22, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Chambliss is tight with the faction of false Jews who had no problem seeing Bush/Cheney commit the 9/11-Reichstag Fire Redux, shedding innocent blood, to send us to die for oil, heroin and the Saudis…with no moral authority whatsoever.

Any “Jew” who would vote for a representative, like McCain/Palin/Chambliss, of the Roman Anti-Christ/Amalek Fifth Column, who financed the rise of Nazism, through their bagman Prescott Bush, to accomplish the Holocaust, is no Jew at all.

Chambliss wasn’t right for Georgia to begin with, and his time in Washington selling us down the river proves he isn’t right for us now.

Martin/Obama ‘08

Jeffersonian Exegesis

By rural

October 22, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

Freedom;s Watch can’t save Chambliss now. Chambliss has worn out his welcome. from the votes for bush’s spending bills have racked up the deficit & national debt, the gang of 10 which would have resulted in a $38 million tax increase, his votes against the ledbetter act granting women equal pay as the men, etc. As a republican I will still vote for McCain, but will not vote for chambliss & instead vote for Martin & Bill Gillespie who’s challenging Jack Kingston down here in the 1st district.

By Jason

October 23, 2008 12:48 AM | Link to this

The lady in that commerical holding her kid, is on the back of my granola cereal box. I soo hate it when they recycle print ads.

By Gene Harrison

November 18, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

The current ad uses voting records against Jim Matin that are almost 20 years old. The voting records date back to 1997, 1998. Can’t these poor republicans come up with something a little more timely? Jim Martin can site voting records of Saxby that are more current. Saxby Chambliss, more of the same old lies and rehetoric. Arne’t you tired of the same ole unsuccessfull politics? Bye Bye Chambliss. Reite and take a hike!