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By Denise

February 13, 2009 6:43 PM | Link to this

What, exactly, has he done for this state?

By Al in west cobb

February 13, 2009 8:34 PM | Link to this

Denise I have been wondering the same thing. He only votes the way georgia wants him to when there has been enough heat put on him. This guy is a joke with papers to prove it.

By Michelle

February 14, 2009 5:50 AM | Link to this

He couldn’t even get a paltry 15K credit for taxpayers to buy a house and help stimulate the economy and he was a real estate broker! Republicans created this economic mess and now Georgia republicans are out in the cold in a democratic congress and president. Georgia wake up.

By GOP LOST IN SPACE

February 14, 2009 9:16 AM | Link to this

you hear the clown of the GOP now they don’t want you to bring up (W) Bush name after he and his party mess up every thing that was good about our country. now look at them cutting and hurting still at every turn. now look at Georgia under the GOP worst. They only have one play in there book TAX CUTS. People in Georgia don’t make a lot of money to start with and if they gave a 100% tax cut it would not solve most of the problem they the GOP caused. Name something they have done for working class people ? working people in Georgia most of you are working class people and the GOP is for the rich folk and big business. They crow about every thing wrong( most of the problem they caused) to put working georgia back to work. The right wing nuts Taliban has lost there way Georgia. now we are trying to come out of a deep deep hole after they spent like a drunk sailor. There is no other way but to spent money now . They want us to be like the hover days (1930’s). They have to many to the right wing nuts. you need view from all across the board not just one side. They will only be a party with power only in the south the world in made up of all kinds of people and there views are not the same as only right wing nuts. By 2050 you right wing nuts will almost be a thing for the histoey books. america need you and some of your views not all. the country need all america help. But GOP say my way or the highway. The Dems are in power and they don’t need the most of the GOP help . But they are still asking every day for your in put GOP. In November the people have spoken they want more than just tax cuts they want help in jobs health care.GOP please help out not hinder at every turn!!

By GOP LOST IN SPACE

February 14, 2009 9:20 AM | Link to this

you hear the clown of the GOP now they don’t want you to bring up (W) Bush name after he and his party mess up every thing that was good about our country. now look at them cutting and hurting still at every turn. now look at Georgia under the GOP worst. They only have one play in there book TAX CUTS. People in Georgia don’t make a lot of money to start with and if they gave a 100% tax cut it would not solve most of the problem they the GOP caused. Name something they have done for working class people ? working people in Georgia most of you are working class people and the GOP is for the rich folk and big business. They crow about every thing wrong( most of the problem they caused) to put working Georgia back to work. The right wing nuts Taliban has lost there way Georgia. now we are trying to come out of a deep deep hole after they spent like a drunk sailor. There is no other way but to spent money now . They want us to be like the hover days (1930’s). They have to many to the right wing nuts. you need view from all across the board not just one side. They will only be a party with power only in the south the world in made up of all kinds of people and there views are not the same as only right wing nuts. By 2050 you right wing nuts will almost be a thing for the history books. America need you and some of your views not all. the country need all America help. But GOP say my way or the highway. The Dems are in power and they don’t need the most of the GOP help . But they are still asking every day for your in put GOP. In November the people have spoken they want more than just tax cuts they want help in jobs health care.GOP please help out not hinder at every turn!!

By GOP LOST IN SPACE

February 14, 2009 9:21 AM | Link to this

you hear the clown of the GOP now they don’t want you to bring up (W) Bush name after he and his party mess up every thing that was good about our country. now look at them cutting and hurting still at every turn. now look at Georgia under the GOP worst. They only have one play in there book TAX CUTS. People in Georgia don’t make a lot of money to start with and if they gave a 100% tax cut it would not solve most of the problem they the GOP caused. Name something they have done for working class people ? working people in Georgia most of you are working class people and the GOP is for the rich folk and big business. They crow about every thing wrong( most of the problem they caused) to put working Georgia back to work. The right wing nuts Taliban has lost there way Georgia. now we are trying to come out of a deep deep hole after they spent like a drunk sailor. There is no other way but to spent money now . They want us to be like the hover days (1930’s). They have to many to the right wing nuts. you need view from all across the board not just one side. They will only be a party with power only in the south the world in made up of all kinds of people and there views are not the same as only right wing nuts. By 2050 you right wing nuts will almost be a thing for the history books. America need you and some of your views not all. the country need all America help. But GOP say my way or the highway. The Dems are in power and they don’t need the most of the GOP help . But they are still asking every day for your in put GOP. In November the people have spoken they want more than just tax cuts they want help in jobs health care.GOP please help out not hinder at every turn!!

By Chris Broe

February 14, 2009 9:53 AM | Link to this

Was Christ the Jewish 911? Was the whip-wielding, property-destroying Son of Man a terrorist? Conservatism meant commodities in 33 AD. Mostly cattle and produce, precious metals and currency. How much do we have to give to Caesar today, David? . What R orange juice futures today, Saul? What R pork futures? (But then I kid the holy of holies.) Jerusalem relied on Kosher Tourism and the money tourists brought. The temple had evolved into a Piltdown Wallstreet, and currency brokers could make a Ponzi Pile of money out of all the Potsy’s and Gomer Pyles. Christ saw this and overreacted.

Is christ the perennial conservative? W was the last conservative, because he was only conservative to the extent that he was born again. Now, with W out burning brush, conservatism can no longer rely on Christ. I wonder if the burning bush speaks to W, too.

Conservatism fell out of favor with the voters because none of them understood the secular aspects of conservatism: low taxes. strong defense, and clever inventions like the phrase, “death tax”. Voters only knew they were mad at the God who spoke to W.

Conservatism is wide open. Voters now must undertake a massive effort to understand why there could be an ideology and a matching party. Why only two, then? Why only liberal and conservative? Why isn’t there also a whining party and a groping party? “The Whining Democrats passed the stimulus bill after an across-the-aisle, reach-around compromise with the groping Republicans.”

Jklol

Rushannity: Conservatism is Conservatism times two. (it’s got crunch time)

By Welfare for the Rich

February 14, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this

Isakson will not be getting my vote or my families. I am disappointed with the way business is done concerning the working class. They hurried up without a clue giving $1 trillion to a war, $700B to banks and, $0.00 to the working class. Chambliss was lucky this time around—Martin did not have the appeal to run and win (unfortunately). Gingrey apologizes to a racist, drug addict. What is wrong with the Georgians???

By Tom Ga Values Hunter

February 14, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this

I will be supporting Johnny. Good for you Senator. This bailout will fail and all those who put thier names on it will have some explainning to do.

By Jim Jess

February 14, 2009 3:33 PM | Link to this

I’ll be supporting Johnny Isakson. He is one of the outstanding public officials I have known. He thinks through the issues and advances the interests of Georgians in Washington. His experience in business and his long service in public life give him a depth of perspective in approaching issues and proposing solutions. And I would imagine that most of the folks that support him are literate and can put sentences together, unlike the “Lost in Space” writer who has written so much that defies any sound logic. (Did this person even finish high school?)

I applaud Sen. Isakson for introducing the $15,000 tax cut for home purchases. He is smart enough to know that this would have been in the taxpayer’s best interests, even if he was not going to support the final package, which would have been hard for any fiscal conservative to do. His amendment may have influenced the final package, because an $8,000 incentive for homebuyers was included in the final package. Thank you Sen. Isakson for trying to improve a bad piece of legislation.

By Welfare for the Rich

February 14, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

explainning it is spelled explaining.

I see why Georgia is 49 in the country in literacy to many guns, religion, and family values that don’t include education.

By Anne Weltner

February 14, 2009 6:05 PM | Link to this

Johnny is a good man. I would be more inclined to vote for him if he could separate himself, literally and figuratively from his fellow Senator, Saxby Chambliss. I see Isakson as a moderate Republican who considers issues and then tries to vote his own mind without wandering from the party line. Chambliss, however,comes off the golf course like the Good ole Boy he is, to vote the Republican line and then returns. By the way, I am a Democrat who would support a Democratic Candidate who chooses to oppose Senator Isakson.

By GOP LOST IN SPACE

February 14, 2009 7:41 PM | Link to this

I will say this Is Isak son is a Moderate don’t run with the herd! Saxby is a joke and it is on Georgia! Georgia what has the GOP done for Georgia?! The GOP Good Ole Boys just look at your self you clowns kill this country and state ( just look around Georgia). You kill the banks by no oversight WEAK SEC, the market knows all (what a joke). Man left to his self with no rules will kill his self Let the rich get the money or Big business you say and they will do the right thing (wrong greed my friend.. I ask what other play do they have in there play book other than TAXS CUTS to the right Tax Cuts to the Left. We need a lot of thing , GOP what have you done for the people of Georgia lately? mountain of debit! you cat just cut your way you will soon have to pay up!

By Jim Jess

February 16, 2009 9:21 AM | Link to this

Lost in Space - that’s good name for you. Mentally, you are OUT THERE! The mountain of debt you talk about was generated due to pork-barrell politics and support for a Keynesian economic model, if you know what that is. A free-market model supports the idea of a balanced budget, not deficit spending. I will be the first to admit that not all Republicans have supported balanced budgets and limited spending, but their track record is a lot better than the Democrats. FDR and his crew brought us the delights of deficit spending and an agency for every problem during the Great Depression. Some Republicans, who have supported free enterprise, limited government and free markets have moved the debate in a positive direction. The late Congressman Larry McDonald, a Democrat from Georgia, also was a free-market guy. You can wail all you want about Republicans, but until you start looking at what individual officeholders do and quit viewing all Republicans as the same, you’ll never figure it out. Some Republicans are fiscally responsible. I won’t claim that Bush always was. He made some mistakes in this regard. But if you check the record, you’ll notice that at the national level, nearly ALL Democrats are big spenders. I think there were just 7 House Democrats that voted against the final stimulus package. The record speaks for itself.