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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Zell Miller video from that Saxby Chambliss rally on Thursday
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Perhaps recognizing that he was the best part of a large Thursday rally for Saxby Chambliss, even better than former presidential contender John McCain, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has cut loose a web-only ad of former U.S. senator and governor Zell Miller’s remarks at the event.
It’s not TV quality video, but you might expect something like it before this U.S. Senate runoff is over. Couple bits of background: Miller declares that Chambliss may be the “last man standing” who would allow the Republicans to block Democratic initiatives with a filibuster. As a senator, when Republicans controlled the chamber, Miller declared reliance on a 60-member cloture vote in the Senate, needed to shut off debate, to be undemocratic.
Miller also accused Democrat Jim Martin of being the first state lawmaker to speak against a $100 million tax cut that Miller proposed as governor. But he made no mention of the fact that, as lieutenant governor, Miller joined Martin in support of a statewide sales tax increase in 1989. The Chambliss campaign has been hammering Martin on that one.
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Bourgeois, the Fort Benning protester, faces excommunication by Vatican
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the Maryknoll brother who has led protests down at Fort Benning for decades, has let it be known that he stands to be excommunicated by the Vatican for his support of the ordination of women.
Blog for Democracy gets the hat tip. And here’s the article from the National Catholic Reporter.
Bourgeois, now 70, began his protests against the School of the Americas, an Army training school he blamed for human rights abuses in Latin America, in 1989. The institution was closed. In its place, the Pentagon opened the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation in 2001.
Bourgeois has continued his opposition. The last major demonstration occurred two years ago, attracting an estimated 10,000 protesters.
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