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By GOP is gone

November 10, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jim,

I won’t sit it out. I will be there to cast my vote for Jim Martin. As will the rest of my Georgia born and raised family of Democrats. Wow, I might be able to see a Blue Gwinnett soon. Payback is a b!tch Jim.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 10, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Hope you have a restful vacation, Jim. I don’t think any serious people believe Jim Martin represents conservative values even half as much as RINO Saxbe Chambliss. My main regret is that today’s topic will stimulate the crazies who can only post about the “evil things Saxbe did to Max Cleland,” a totally phony argument, intellectually vacuous, not that truth will ever constrain a leftist. The election of Martin would serve to empower Harry Reid, to permit the Congress to drive the country’s agenda. The more interesting aspect of Jim’s essay is, “to what extent will Obama validate the leftists/Marxists in his party?” Two week ago I thought the answer to that question quite obvious, that Obama stood for leftist theft and against freedom generally. Today I am less certain, all due to his appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

Emanuel - he of the pointy elbows - is an unnecessary appointment so far as Republicans are concerned. Republicans lack the votes to do anything in DC. Emanuel is Jewish – I think Obama is sending a message overseas with that appointment. But if Obama merely wanted to send a message to the Middle East terrorist networks, he could do that with a Jewish secretary of state, a la Bill Clinton’s appointment of Madeline Albright. By all rumors Obama intends to nominate a French-looking SoS. I am persuaded that Emanuel’s elbows are intended for his own Congress, to ensure that Obama calls the tune. With a veto-proof majority, the leftist majorities in the Congress, none of whom are answerable to the conservative majority, would drag the country down as they did during the Carter administration, and Obama would be powerless to control his own destiny. Emanuel has previously proven he is about winning elections rather than pushing a leftist ideology – note they people he recruited to run for Congress in 2006, to win back control for the democrats. Even now we find Obama resisting talk about tax increases, and reining back leftist expectations about global warming and most of those other moonbat policies that would leave so much economic damage. A veto-proof majority would mean that even Obama could not stop the loonies.

By catlady

November 10, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Only a fool would vote for Saxby “Me First” Chambliss. Look at his record of “representing” you. Enough said about that.

Wealth has been heavily redistributed under George Bush and others for years. It has gone from the everyday workers to the top folks. Look at the income gap in this country.

The country is actually pretty conservative, until it gets down to a me and mine perspective. Then, we DESERVE this or that thing to rescue us. For example, if you have never been without insurance for your children, you are probably pretty negative about Peachcare. (Lazy bums! Don’t have kids you can’t afford!) But if you, yourself, lose your job (maybe it goes overseas) then things become “different”—you “deserve” the help. Look at the Big Bailout. It was argued that we HAD to rescue those firms. It was the ONLY WAY. So far we are seeing that “have to” money wasted in continued payments to CEOs and money for the rest of us (paying for the bailout) has not “loosened up”. My daughter has a friend who has always been antichoice. He spoke against choice from the third grade (at least). Yet, when his girlfriend became pregnant, you guessed it, it was “different”. There is always a “reason” WE deserve the help.

Americans always want active government to help solve THEIR problems. (emphasis mine, from today’s opinion by Gus Cochran). To h3ll with other people’s problems: they did something to deserve them, but my problems are not of my own making. Ever.

To those that claim they “made it on their own” I ask: were any of your forebearers educated publicly? Have you ever lived in a house with public water and sewer? Have you ever driven on a public road? Have you ever eaten food or breathed air or drank water whose safety has been examined by a state or federal agency? Did you pay for all of your college education? Even the 2/3 that the taxpayers pay on your behalf (assuming you went to a public college)? Do you own a house? Did you get to claim the mortgage deduction? Do you have people working for you (you know, their sweat makes profits roll in for you)? Please DON’T EVER SAY YOU DID IT YOURSELF! That is the biggest lie that can be told.

By RED

November 10, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Saxby’s views on supporting the middle class rather than Lobbyist. Saxby responded, “We can’t let that happen. Our country will never be the same.”

Unfortunately, more of the “same” means more of the Saxby Economics that cost Georgia 88,000 jobs this year alone, sent gas prices soaring to $4 a gallon this summer, and handed $700 billion to the Wall Street institutions responsible for the meltdown in the first place – without any protections for taxpayers. Under Saxby Economics, government spending has skyrocketed, the deficit is approaching $1 trillion, and yet Saxby continues to support billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies, special interests, and companies that ship Georgia’s jobs overseas.

“There’s a clear difference between Jim Martin and Saxby Chambliss,” said Martin for Senate campaign spokesperson Kate Hansen. “Jim Martin believes that when the economy no longer works for middle class Georgians, it’s time for a change, but Saxby Chambliss claims he won’t let that happen. We need a new Senator.”

Saxby Chambliss Can’t Let Change Happen:

While Hardworking Middle Class Georgians Need Relief…

Georgia Has Lost 88,000 Jobs This Year, and Had Some of the Highest Rates of Unemployment, Personal Bankruptcies and Foreclosures in the Country. Georgia has the second highest unemployment rate in the country, has lost 88,000 jobs since January, and leads the nation in home foreclosures. [BLS Unemployment Statistics; AP, 1/30/08; Atlanta Business Chronicle, 3/13/08]

Georgia Has Lost 173,000 Manufacturing Jobs During the Bush- Chambliss Era. Since January 2001, Georgia has lost 172,900 manufacturing jobs. In January 2001, Georgia had 578,800 manufacturing jobs. In August 2008, Georgia had 405,900 jobs in that sector. [Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9/19/08; BLS, 3/1/01]

…Saxby’s Response Makes His Priorities Clear:

A $700 Bailout For Wall Street And CEOs. Chambliss voted for the $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout package that banks are now using to continue paying executive bonuses and dividends to stockholders, and to acquire other banks. Chambliss has received $2,536,728 from the financial, real estate and insurance industry. [Vote Time Magazine, 10/27/08; GPB Debate, 11/2/08; Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 11/6/08]

… And Continuing Tax Breaks for Companies that Ship Manufacturing Jobs Overseas. In 2004 and 2005, Chambliss voted twice in opposition to amendments that would repeal the deferral tax subsidy for companies that outsource production of goods for sale in the U.S. market. In 2005, Chambliss voted against a Dorgan (D-ND) amendment that would “repeal the tax subsidy for certain domestic companies which move manufacturing operations and American jobs offshore.” In 2004, Chambliss voted to table, effectively killing, an amendment that would “partially repeal a tax deferral regulation for U.S. multinational companies by requiring those companies to pay federal income taxes on foreign factories when goods are reimported back into the United States,” according to CQ. [Vote 63, 3/17/05; Vote 83, 5/5/04; CQ Floor Votes, 5/5/04]

By catlady

November 10, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

begin to claw our way back into power with solid principles and integrity.

Eric Johnson must have lost his mind if he thinks re-electing Saxby Chambliss (Mr. No Principles and Integrity” would serve the people of Georgia.

And his transparent attempt to play on folks’ ignorance and provincialism in the next line makes a fool of him to the entire world.

By Steven Daedalus

November 10, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Dang Jim, are you draft dodging, lying Saxby’s campaign manager now.

By findog

November 10, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

“…Consider this is the first race of the 2010 cycle where we begin to claw our way back into power with solid principles and integrity.” While you pray that Stevens holds his seat in Alaska?

By Redneck Convert

November 10, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Well, it’s for sure I’ll be voting for old Saxby, but only once this go-round. I’m still keeping my eye peeled for the cops in case they find out I voted up in Rome and in Forsyth County too.

Anyhow, we got to keep Trickle Down going. If we let the librul Democrats get 60 votes in the senate they could raise taxes. Then rich people like Raghead and AJCCommie would be in a awful fix and the economy would slide straight downhill. Raghead would probly have to take a break from blogging and do lawyer stuff. What with having his train of thought broke by e-mails from his missus and phone calls from friends, he might even decide not to work so hard or just quit. His insurance co. would be ruint by having to pay claims without the legal loopholes Raghead finds.

And I want to keep prices low. That’s why I don’t want WalMart workers to be in a union. It’s a awful thing when workers are allowed any say about how a business is run. Like Eric Johnson says, we would be on the way to communism and the price of white socks would go out of sight.

Anyhow, I sure hope the libruls at the AJC don’t decide just to boot Wooten while he’s on vacation. He’s the only godly conservative voice we got at that lying librul rag. Without him the AJC would join the rest of the country and turn 100% librul. The missus tells me this commie Cynthia Tucker was on one of the big Sunday talk shows on ABC yesterday. I wonder why Wooten don’t never get invited?

Have a good day everybody and vote for old Saxby. The golf courses down this way are already crowded enough.

By catlady

November 10, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Ragnar, forget how Saxby cut off Cleland’s other limb in the last election. Focus on what he has done for everyday Georgians in the last six years. Short list, huh? That is why people won’t vote for him. He has PROVEN what he is all about, and it is NOT representing the people of Georgia!

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

The Rabid Right vs the Angry Left.

80K Georgia Obama voters didn’t vote for Jim Martin. Unless those voters return on Dec. 2 and suddenly care about voting for Jim Martin, then Saxby will win..

Checks and balances are good.

But lets end Iraq, and start Healthcare. We also have to quit allowing fast food franchises to give us our RDA of fat in one french fry. And we have to teach Johnny to read. And we have to prevent anyone from enriching themselves while in public office. And we must neuter fat chicks once and for all. Some say it were the fat chicks what brung down Rome. The Pope even ruled that it wasn’t even a sin to have sex with fat chicks. I mean, who cares what fat chicks do? Nobody.

I dont which party is to blame for fat chicks. Maybe it’s conservatives and their three martini lunches, or maybe it’s liberals and all that free government cheese. It’s a tossup.

But get this: Unless we get a handle on fat chicks…oh yeah…they already have love handles…..nevermind.

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 8:20 AM

“I don’t think any serious people believe Jim Martin represents conservative values even half as much as RINO Saxbe Chambliss.” I will vote for Martin because we know what Martin stands for. Saxby stands for the LOBBYIST that gives him the most money or the best Golf Trip. To say Saxby stands for any values much less CONSERVATIVE is to not look at his record of carrying the LOBBYIST water on the Farm Act, the 1st Bail out the banks/builders act, The Gang of 10 Traitors & the $700,000,000,000.00 Bail out Wall Street Bill with $153,000,000.00 of pork added. FIRE SAXBY NOW, FIRE SAXBY HERE, PAY LESS

By Served my country but Saxby ran away

November 10, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

John McCain criticized Chambliss’ 2002 race against Max Cleland.

“I’ve never seen anything like that ad,” says McCain. “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”” (Washington Post, 7/3/2003)

Chambliss Voted Against the New GI Bill for Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Chambliss Voted Against the New GI Bill for Veterans of the Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. According to the IAVA, Saxby Chambliss voted against the new GI Bill for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. (The Post-9/11 GI Bill: Fair Education Benefits for Veterans second vote.) The emergency supplemental funding for the Iraq War, to which the GI Bill was attached, bounced from the House to the Senate twice while legislators ironed out differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation. In the second round of emergency supplemental voting on the Senate side, a new “transferability” provision had been added to the GI Bill at the behest of the Bush Administration. The new provision offers current service members who agree to remain in the military for ten years the opportunity to transfer their GI Bill benefit to their spouse or children. In a procedural vote to waive a Senate budgetary rule and bring the supplemental with the GI Bill to the floor, the GI Bill advanced by a margin of 77-21. For more information about this legislation, please see House votes 330 and 432 in the House Vote Descriptions, and Senate votes 137 and 162 in this section. [ http://www.iava.org; Senate Vote #161, 6/26/08; http://www.veteranreportcard.org/reportcard.pdf]

By Mableton Mom

November 10, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

CHAMBLISS PUTS WASHINGTON INTERESTS OVER THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN

Chambliss voted against protecting children from sexual predators. Saxby Chambliss voted against a package of 35 non-controversial bills on July 28, 2008, some of which he cosponsored, because his party leaders instructed Republicans to block all bills in the Senate. The bills Chambliss voted against, all but one of which already passed the House by huge bipartisan margins, had all been blocked by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who was single-handedly obstructing nearly 80 bills - the most of any senator. The bills in the package covered a huge range of subjects, from protecting children from sexual predators to improving stroke prevention to expanding access to broadband internet services to helping victims of Lou Gehrig’s disease and paralysis. Some of the bills that Chambliss voted to block that would have protected children include: Drug Endangered Kids (HR 1199/S. 1210); Reconnecting Homeless Youth Act (S. 2982/HR 5524); Effective Child Pornography Prosecution Act (HR 4120); Enhancing the Effective Prosecution of Child Pornography (S. 2869/HR 4136); PROTECT Our Children Act (HR 3845/S 1738). Chambliss opposed expansion of PeachCare. “In this 68 to 31 vote, the Senate passed an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.” In Georgia the program is known as PeachCare. [Chambliss voted NO, 8/2/07, Vote 307: H R 976, Washington Post Key Votes]

Chambliss believed covering more children with health care was too expensive. “I wound up voting against it [SCHIP] because of three reasons. One, they spent way too much money. They’re going from capping the program at 250 percent of the poverty level to 300 percent and allowing waivers for up to 400 percent. [Columbus Ledger Enquirer, 2/16/07] Chambliss voted against an amendment that would provide funding for children exploited in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Voting 41 for and 56 against, Senators refused to add $1 billion nationwide in fiscal year 2006 to the COPS program, which helps local police departments add personnel and equipment. The amendment also proposed $10 million to care for Gulf Coast children exploited in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and $8 million to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse in areas struck by Katrina. [Chattanooga Times Free Press, 9/18/05]

Chambliss voted against expanding early childhood education. Voting 47 for and 52 against, Senators refused to increase Head Start funding by $153 million, or nearly 3 percent, in fiscal year 2006. The underlying bill (HR 3010) provides more than $6 billion for Head Start, which conducts pre-kindergarten schooling for about 900,000 disadvantaged children. The amendment was designed to keep the Head Start budget abreast of inflation, with the additional funding added to the 2006 deficit. [Chattanooga Times Free Press, 10/30/05]

By FRED

November 10, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Sorry, Ragnar. After what happened over the last 8 years I don’t think that the republican party knows what conservatism is any more. If it’s less government involvement in private industry then you are the polar opposite of that. If it’s less government spending then you can’t be serious. If it’s respect for privacy then how do you explain the patriot act? Conservatism has come to mean protection of big business at the expense of the taxpayers. You protected the oil industry when you had the power to enact a comprehensive energy plan that would have weaned us off of foreign oil. You had the power to invest in border security while enacting comprehensive immigration reform. You had some of the most experienced foreign policy experts in the world yet you squandered your political capital on a war in Iraq.

The population of this country is aging and not likely to turn leftist. Young people today have not been influenced by the post-Vietnam era. Today’s conservative is a moderate that is willing to move the country forward by investing in alternative energy, higher education, reducing health care costs, and repairing the nation’s aging infrastructure. If building consensus for moving forward is leftist then I suppose you can call me a leftist.

By OLD VET

November 10, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

How Ironic: Saxby claimed to be too crippled to be drafted, yet played intercollegite baseball for years and now has the NERVE to critize as a coward a man who left three limbs on the battlefield. Yo, Saxby the Coward…we are gonna run you out of office on a rail….some one run and fetch the tar and feathers….

By Saxby's Mom

November 10, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

I have nothing but the utmost disgust and contempt for Saxby Chambliss. We sure don’t need his brand of “representation!” I am not even talking about his defamation of Cleland. If you saw his mailings in the last 2 weeks, you have seen some of the dirtiest lies immaginable! And when Martin threw one back in his face, Chambliss’ supporters start moaning and b*tching about “unfair”. I LOL at that.

Look at Chambliss’ record: for the big agribiz, for the big bankbiz, for the big employer of illegal immigrants, for the pork. Whaddabout the millions of other folks you are supposed to represent, Saxby? Oh, we can’t “do enough for you?”

Notice that Chambliss flip flops when it suits him. Think of what 6 more years of him robbing the till for himself and his buddies will look like. Then vote for someone who has not betrayed us wholesale—Martin. Give him a chance to represent us—Saxby Chambliss has NOT.

By jim is a caveman

November 10, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Maybe it’s just me, Jim, but every time you start talking about the “Angry Left”, you quote someone who sounds awfully like the “Enraged Right” spokesperson. Come to think of it, most of your columns sound like they are written on behalf of the “ER”. I am on the left, and I am quite content right now. References to redistribution of wealth and destruction of the military are signs the right has become unhinged even before Barack Obama has been inaugurated. Scary. You all need a nice vacation. Enjoy, and hope you return tanned, rested and with your sanity restored.

By Conservative Republican

November 10, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

“Suxby Shameless” is a typical fatcat, double-talking, forked-tounge DC shyster (like most on “Crapitol sHill”). The worst part is that he’s deceived many (well meaning) Georgians into thinking he’s a legitimate “conservative”. “Suxby” is a Neocon & to quote real conservative Pat Buchanan neoconservatism is “a globalist, interventionist, open borders ideology.” Massive government spending, foreign entanglements & wasteful foreign handouts & Imperialism are NOT true conservativism!

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Squander is a good word. Like a title to a novel. “Squander”, by Thomas Becker. Inside the jacket, the tease would read, “Imagine a world where everyone squanders everything they get their pea-pickin’ hands on. They pay too much for automobiles. They buy 350 dollar Nikes. They bid up $1.50 newspapers with historical headlines to fifty whole dollars on Ebay. Meet John Doe, who had the temerity to not squander all his money. He hid it inside of a marital aid so no one would ever suspect he wasn’t squandering everything. Then one day he let a nosey hooker into his house…..

Yes, squander is a good word.

By Steve D

November 10, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

I agree we don’t need a filibuster proof senate, but Saxby Chambliss is probably the most dishorable man to ever sit in that office. It might be worth it to see him go

By Dennis

November 10, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten quotes Eric Johnson, “Saxby Chambliss’ re-election is critical if we want to have hope that the U.S. Senate can block the redistribution of wealth and the dismantling of our military that will be attempted by the next Congress.”

Mr. Johnson is a prime example of what is wrong with the Republican party. He apparently doesn’t object to the redistribution of the taxes of everyday, ordinary good American citizens to bail out Wall Street.

Nor is there any objection raised as to the “no bid” contracts to ilk such as KBR, that have caused unnecessary increases in the costs of the unnecessary Iraq war.

It’s the redistribution of the American taxpayers taxes to corporations that is the problem.

For that matter, Jim Wooten’s biased columns in favor of the wealthy and corporations that are investing thteir profits abroad instead of in the U.S. aren’t any help to everyday, ordinary taxpayers, either.

Saxby Chambliss needs to go.

And take Eric Johnson with him.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Saxby is a Crook

November 10, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Jim,

You betcha I will be at the polls voting for Martin. I also plan to help his campaign in any way possible. Not because I want a filibuster proof majority, but because I want to be represented by an honorable man, not one who is big business’s pockets. I truly do not want a 60 Democrat Senate, I would worry about the old “Absolute Power” adage.

It sure is nice to know that the bailout money is going to the right places. I heard it from the wife of an AIG executive that her husband just got a large retention bonus. Those GOP guys are SO good at pocket lining. So all you over 250,000 GOPers, rest assured that your tax increase is actually going to the “right” welfare recipients, Big Business and Wall Street. Hello socialism, GOP style.

By Jarhead

November 10, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Saxby is a lying Chickhawk who spent the 60’s going to Frat parties and refusing to serve his country while people like Max Cleland and Jim Martin were humping rucksacks in the jungle. He doesn’t deserve to be in Congress and should be voted out ASAP. He doesn’t represent the real values of this state.

By Peter

November 10, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim….. DO Right Wing Lemmings get angry ?

Or do they just jump with Joy ?

You are a funny guy today Jim…What is the deficit, Unemployment, or tell us about the contract’s Dick (Dark Vader’s ) office wrote for Haliburton….can you say Cost Plus….??????

Saxby May win…… but it will be a while before America will consider a Republican as a LEADER !

By Max's Girl

November 10, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

From the day I saw Saxby’s lying, despicable Bin Laden ad against Max Cleland, I vowed he’d never again get my Independent vote. Some things are more important than politics. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear Saxby.

By Saxby's Wife

November 10, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

So, we should vote for Sen. Chamblis not because he is an able legislator, not because he’s effective upholding Georgia’s values, not because he’s a statesman who can promote unity. No, we should vote for him strictly because he has an “R” in front of his name. How absurd!

By Jason

November 10, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Ugh. Georgia’s senators are among the most useless and ineffective in the country. They both need to go. Ms. Handel, too.

By hogleg

November 10, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

jim martin has no chance .he road obam coattails that will not be there dec 2!

By Richard H

November 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

I’m an independent voter who went for Obama this time around. I confess that giving too much power to either party makes me uncomfortable. However, I will never forget how Chambliss villified Max Cleland rather than engage him on the issues. When the Georgia GOP learns to appeal to the better angels of our collective nature, then maybe I will consider voting for a Georgia Republican once again.

By Vets for Martin

November 10, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Wooten: I am a 61 year old veteran who voted for Jim Martin on Nov. 4 and I will happily to do so again. Chambliss, who avoided the draft, ran a shameful and dishonorable campaign against a good and decent human being, Max Cleland. I urge you and all veterans, indeed all Americans who care about decency and fairness, to vote for Jim Martin. I also sent the Martin campaign a donation and I urge others to do so. As long as there is breath in my body, I will oppose cowardly, arrogant, hypocrites such as Chambliss.

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

I am 1 of the 127,000 votes for Allen Buckley, I plan to vote for Martin but would vote for Saxby the Socialist if 3 things happened:

1.. Saxby’s LOBBYIST son, Bo retire from being an ETHANOL Lobbyist & find a real job.

2.. Like our 7 Real Republican Repesentatives Saxby needs to sign &keep his word on the no earmark pledge…..http://councilfor.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CCAGWgetinvAdvocacy2007EarmarkpledgeIssuePage

3.. Saxby needs to sign a legally binding contract that he will not run for re election in 6 years. AS it stands Saxby is not going to change, he will have a $8,000,000 war chest from selling our vote, & we will be stuck with him until he dies in office.

We all know this will not happen because Saxby is in this for Saxby not Georgia

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Well, I see the whole anti-Saxby crowd of Democrats is workiing here this morning. Whatsa matter? You are so afraid we will elect Chambliss that you have your propaganda machine working overtime?

Most of us with good minds DO NOT WANT Reid, Pelosi, Barney Franks, Boxer, Dodd and Waxman telling us WHAT THEY HAVE DECIDED FOR US TO PAY and how they are going to waste our tax monaey. Without Chambliss (as Jim mentioned) even Obama cannot control our financially demented Congress.

Time to stop thinking only Dem revenge thoughts and realize THEY ARE GOING TO WASTE YOUR MONEY right along with the taxes of everyone else. Consider your POCKETBOOK. It will be as flat as a pancake without Chambliss in Congress. Are you sure you want to LOSE YOUR INDEPENDENCE and get in line for GOVERNMENT FOOD STAMPS?

Be a giver and not a taker.

(JIM WOOTEN, hurry up and get back here. Tucker and Bookman will run like a bunch of wild rabbits without your steady hand. We miss you!!)

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

better angels is a good phrase. Lincoln used it to great effect. Lucifer could have used better angels. I saw some angel porn once, and they were definitely better angels, feathers make better marital aids, but seriously folks, it is only through our betterness that we can better our betters, in or out of bed, like exotic dancers on a coffee break, we must sometimes rise above the madding crowd……

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Fact: 80K Georgian Obama voters didn’t vote in the senate race. They were there 4 Obama alone. they wont return Dec. 2.

That gives Saxby a commanding lead. Martin is not electable. He’s a milquetoast vs Saxby’s distinguished and respectable look.

Period.

Checks and balances are good.

By Saxby The Socialist

November 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

saxby, and the policies he supported… saxby blame saxby!!!

do you think that “IF” he goes back, he will remember what going against his own party, and the people that elected him, got him???

saxby’s actions snatched defeat, or at least a runoff, from the jaws of victory!

saxby, here are your clues:

you are a republican you rely on replublicans to get elected you screwed them! you expected them to forget! what did you forget?

look up!

many of the folks here want to say… his stance on immigration, drilling, bailout should be ignored… NO WAY!!!

it called taking responsibility for your own actions!

if he voted like the republican he is supposed to be… he wouldn’t be in this mess!!! he would have won!!!

By Peter

November 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA…….By Dusty

November 10, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Well, I see the whole anti-Saxby crowd of Democrats is workiing here this morning. Whatsa matter? You are so afraid we will elect Chambliss that you have your propaganda machine working overtime?

No Dusty……. we are just tired of seeing the Country ruined and run into the Ground by the Republican ME machine !

I guess if Republican’s actually did something, then maybe your SIDE would have done Better !

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Tom Becker aka PoFo, 9:23

Go back to bed and sober up. Then you will realize that you will be BROKE if you don’t vote for Chambliss. You will be taxed in ToTo and that is not for PoFo.

By Dusty is a FOOL

November 10, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Dusty 9:23 AM

“Most of us with good minds DO NOT WANT Reid, Pelosi, Barney Franks, Boxer, Dodd and Waxman telling us WHAT THEY HAVE DECIDED FOR US TO PAY and how they are going to waste our tax monaey. Without Chambliss (as Jim mentioned) even Obama cannot control our financially demented Congress.”…………Are you aware that this the bunch that YOUR SAXBY worked with on immigration & the over ride of President Bush’s Veto of Saxby’s farm rip off of the taxpayer bill??* Has Saxby ever voted against the LOBBYIST that paid him??*

By Saxby is a FOOL

November 10, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Saxby voted for the $700 BILLION Wall Street Bail out because Wall Street LOBBYIST gave him over $2,000,000.00. With Saxby it’s LOBBYIST first, Taxpayer Last

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 10, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Daddy working with his best friends,, Liberal Republicans.. Boxer, Kennedy,ETC;;;;

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

By May

November 10, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

God, I am so sick of partisan politics. I wish we could elect someone who would go to Washington and represent me instead of marching in lockstep with their party.

It took a while, but I finally figured out that the best we Americans can hope for is gridlock in Washington. When one party gets too powerful, the people take it, uh, you know where (as the previous poster said, get the vaseline ready).

If the Democrats get a filibuster proof Congress, the Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. In ‘94, we sent Newt with his “Contract with America” to Washington only to find out it was written on toilet paper.

We Americans already have a contract with Washington. It’s called the Constitution.

Saxby, Pelosi, Obama et al need to read it. Even more, they need to abide by it.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 10, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Reminder of “democrat principles,” such as they are:

The reasonably literate among us understand that Obama promises nothing that will make it easier or cheaper or more profitable to do business in the United States. In a global economy, closing opportunities in one market sends capital to more-open opportunities – that is simply rational business practice. So, while we all regret the looming bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors, such large-scale failure is the natural consequence of government constriction. (What constriction, you ask? Pollution rules, CAFÉ, safety requirements.)

The democrats promise to:

(1) make it easier to compel union membership as a requirement of retaining a job;

(2) raise corporate taxes;

(3) raise taxes on higher income individuals;

(4) renegotiate international trade agreements, to make them less free and more “fair”;

(5) implement a “cap and trade” system for energy, primarily to enrich those who control the system;

(6) restrict production of traditional energy sources, such as coal, oil, and nuclear;

(7) raid the taxpayers for corporate welfare, to be paid to preferred “alternative” energy producers, mostly leftists;

(8) nationalize health care, and to finance all costs through business taxes.

All of those policies increase costs, and will thus reduce quality of life for all living under the yoke of nanny government. The flight of capital, seen in the decline of the Dow Jones Industrial average, is fully rational, and, as we regularly note here, voters deserve the governments they elect. If McCain wins next week, the Wednesday after will see the largest daily point increase in the history of the market, so depressed is the market by the prospect of a democrat government.

Those of you who propose to vote for Mr. Martin, do you favor the democrat agenda? While there may be half an argument for government intervention in the financial industry – and I am not at all certain of that argument - how do you justify corporate welfare for the automobile industry? Simply freeing land for potential oil lease broke the oil speculators and caused the massive drop in prices – what do you believe will happen when Congress and President Obama restore restrictions on the potential new supply? How will you feel about a government that weakens private businesses, that makes them less competitive internationally?

By Jim

November 10, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

I don’t hear any Saxby supporters calling for Bush to come down and help. Why is that?

By Bill

November 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Saxby Chambliss is a draft-dodging frat boy!

He is just like all the other phony republican chick-hawks bush/chenny/rumsfield/ashcroft!

He needs to held accountable for the dishonest and despicable smear campaign he ran against a true American hero, Max Cleland.

Any veteran who would vote for the coward Chambliss should be ashamed! That goes double for all you phony heroes at the local VFW and American Legion posts who turned your back on Max!

By Saxby's Mistress

November 10, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Saxby is the poster child of what’s wrong with America. Grey haired men is dark suits and red ties who have no talent for office but who make a great puppet for whoever will pay them.

By Thinking Wright

November 10, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Good Morning. It’s a sign of the current state of the Republican Party that hope hinges on the ascendency of a convicted felon and the Senator deemed worst incumbent by the Wall Street Journal. There is not a word in your essay this morning, Mr. Wooten, as to why Senator Chambliss deserves re-election. That is because he doesn’t. His record is indefensible, his conduct on the campaign despicable (there is no excuse or forgiveness for his attacks on Max Clelland, and his racist remarks about early voters are embarassing and disgusting), his performance in representing Georgia excreable. Yet you support his re-election simply and solely because he is a Republican. I don’t want single party governance either (and the first six years of the Bush hegemony offer an ugly example of why this is such a bad idea), but I don’t want a venal, stupid, arrogant, self-interested racist to represent me in the Senate, either. Your willingness to overlook his complete lack of character or ability says more about you than you might wish.

By AmVet

November 10, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

In spite of Mr. Wooten’s pathetic fear-mongering, Six-deferment Saxby is a disgrace and major embarrassment to the state of Georgia.

Just like Max Cleland, Jim Martin is a Viet Nam vet, and as we all know, the swift-boating chicken hawks and never-served, never-will neo-cons have no use for us. And worse, these repulsive scumbags are willing to smear even the most valorous among us to keep their self-serving power.

Saxby can go straight to …. for all I care.

By Mike

November 10, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Given that the Democrats are in power, and can pretty much do what they want, wouldn’t it make more sense to have a Democratic Senator so our state can benefit from the next few years, rather than just electing someone to be an obstructionist? No matter what you think of Chambliss and Martin, Georgia will do better in terms of federal dollars and representation if that someone is part of the party in power.

By AmVet

November 10, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

I don’t hear any Saxby supporters calling for Bush to come down and help. Why is that?

He already had the quasi-felon Ollie North do it…

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

To the 9:33 who changes his ID to suit his propaganda rants…..get lost.

You are nothing but a paid person to push out propaganda against Saxby Chambliss. You are so afraid that a Republican will get to Congress you produce enough IDs to act like a whole gang. One paid Democrat does not a majority make.

Try being the real thing with ONE ID. That would be a nice CHANGE we could accept.

By George W Chambliss

November 10, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Good morning all,The Republicans sure do need Saxby in the Senate.No arguement about that.He’s needed ,according to Jim,to offset those nasty Senators up there in Maine who’s biggest fault is they seem to be listening to their constituents.Those two are my kind of politician.

See,The way I look at iti s that people in the middle,both politicians and voters,have to think.They weigh all the issues from both sides before deciding what they like and dislike.Then they vote accordingly.The flaming conservative goes in and asks,”Just tell me which one supports for gay marriage.That’s the one I’ll vote for”.At the same time the real conservative says,”Just tell me which one’s against abortion.That’s where my vote goes,every time “.See the difference people?

By Saxby stole our Social Security

November 10, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Saxby sold out to the big wall street crooks like Goldman and Morgan….The Republican Secretary of Treasury, Hank Poulson, is a recent former CEO of Goldman. Yet Mr. Poulson never once mentioned in all his whining and groveling on Capital Hill that Goldman owed 20 billion dollars plus to their executives for past and present bonus money, and that the 25 billion dollar Federal Tax Payer Bailout (Read “Our Social Security Money”) would go to pay those bonuses, and not to stimulate lending. Saxby the crook supported the lying thief Poulson all thru this debate, and voted to give OUR social security money to New York Fat Cats….The Repukes have got to go, and that includes our fat little crook, Saxby, imho….Make it So…

By Frost

November 10, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld ur 8.20 am post is all about sour grapes and licking ur wounds.Thats understandable! Do see Obama’s intelligence from the wrd go in that Emmanuel appointment.Obama is all about soorounding himself with people who complement him.If you dont understand, that means having people with qualities that he himself lacks.Thats why you have Emmanuel and Biden in the positions they are in! U guys on the right need to sober up,heal ur wounds and start some serious organizing of the GOP,otherwise Jim Martin is walking right in.Mccain has promised to come to GA to campaign for Saxby.That would be a kiss of death,dont you think.Thats clearly repeating the campaign mistakes that Mccain did in his own campaign.Plz stop him before he brings his azz here! Im a progressive who values opposition in congress and the Senate and we need that if we are to get good policies.Or better yet,replace Saxby with someone else better!

By Nikita

November 10, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

I planned to vote for Martin, but wasn’t necessarily planning to do anything beyond that. However, over the weekend I mulled over Saxby Chambliss’s and Martin’s backgrounds, listened to Paul Broun ranting about how people such as John McCain who are somewhat concerned with the needs and wants of the entire country are marxist-enabling cowards, read the article about how one of the more polarizing and hypocritical figures in political history (Newt Gingrich) wants to run the RNC and thinks that going further right is the response to a nation that overwhelmingly voted for a centrist candidate, and I decided not only to send Martin money but to work on his campaign.

There are several reasons. Nationally, yes, it’s possible that with bipartisan work a Martin seat will allow a filibuster-proof majority. But if I recall corrently there are up to a dozen republicans who will cross the aisle fairly often when they consider it warranted. So on issues that have bipartisan appeal that majority is probably there already. And that’s completely appropriate. But locally and statewide, Georgia is pretty republican, and what it has done with that majority and lack of opposition is choose to disregard those of us who are moderate or even liberal in favor of pushing highly partisan issues, particularly those based on curtailing the rights of people they don’t care for and/or advancing the rights and beliefs of those who observe a particular religion. I can’t support that, and I certainly don’t want to support a party that is currently pushing self-interest as the highest form of patriotism.

My reasons for voting for Martin remain pretty much the same. 1. He’s not into backroom dealing, nor is he the same type of nasty, backstabbing, veteran-impugning person that Saxby Chambliss is. 2. IMO, since Chambliss has been in office he’s been a pretty disengaged, lazy legislator. But what he has been good at is rewarding his business allies with preferential legislature. I wasn’t happy about the bailout bill, and I like Jim Martin’s plan to require the companies who have been bailed out to repay the public coffers before rewarding their executives. 3. Martin has a fairly long and distinguished public service career, and I don’t appreciate the way Saxby Chambliss has attacked Martin for not doing perfectly things that Chambliss has never done himself at any level. This includes supporting veterans and soldiers and undertaking any initiatives regarding abused or neglected children. In that regard, I also like Martin’s willingness to do dirty work when it is the right thing to do.

By Ame

November 10, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Fallout from the bailout baby, fallout from the bailout. The Republican party has turned a deaf ear on the working class, the ones you rich folk like to call the loser class. We have been struggling for the past few years to keep out head above water and now we are sinking. The insult to injury was the bailout. The American people are not as stupid as the Republic party believes.

By john denton

November 10, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

“Angry Left?” Is that all you’ve got? Jim, I want you Google the term “projection.” On the left, we fought and we won, not enough, but enough to keep the hogs out of the corn for awhile, and from my stoop I can hear billions singing. Can’t you? Jim? Why the frown, Jim? Can’t you hear the singing?

By Ame

November 10, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

**Saxby Shameless is a despicable, dishonest, draft-dodging corporate puppet who cares about no one but himself.

Jim Martin is a decorated Vietnam veteran with over two decades of experience IN GEORGIA, HELPING GEORGIANS.**

In this election Georgians have finally shown they aren’t mindless, apathetic, or dumb enough to be controlled by Shameless and its corporate buddies.

Republican, Democrat, or otherwise, people in this state are seeing Shameless for what he is—an arrogant, self-serving, immoral poster child for special interests and big corporations.

*LET”S UNITE AND FINALLY GET REPRESENTATION IN WASHINGTON WE CAN BE PROUD OF! *

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

AmVet 9:48

For all your sqawking, you voted for a NON VETERAN ANTIWAR PRESIDENT to run the country. Obama will probably bring home another group of disspirited soldiers who, once again, were not allowed to finish the job they started. I speak of Viet Nam of course.

If you voted Libertarian that was just the same as voting for Obama. Don’t mention Chambliss without mentioning Obama if you want to throw in the military angle.

By Dusty is a Fool

November 10, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Dusty 9:52 AM

Can’t answere 2 simple questions?? So Sad..

By Republican not RINO

November 10, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

I voted for Mack Mattingly, Paul Coverdell, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. On Tuesday I voted for John McCain and Jim Martin. I’m not so eager to throw up roadblocks to the Democrats that I’ll vote again for a man who has sold his honor. Saxby deserves to be fired. I hope our next president will campaign vigorously for Martin.

By Taxpayers against Saxby

November 10, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Saxby’s son is a Congressional Lobbyist in Washington, padding his bank account off Taxpayers.

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

10:02

I don’t answer FOOLS. That would be foolish. Go play with the liberal paper dolls you were given. I’m busy.

By Dennis

November 10, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Wooten’s support of Saxby Chambliss is ample proof of conservative’s dementia.

The last person I’d want “helping” my campaign is Sarah Palin.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Wes

November 10, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I know I will be sure to vote for Martin…just as I did on the 4th.

By Dusty is a Fool

November 10, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Dusty 10:09

Guess my name says it all…….

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Republican not RINO, 10:05

Before you say that Saxby is a man who has sold his honor, I suggest you point out your facts to the Justice Department. You will not because Saxby does nothing illegal. He has made some independent decisions which you do not like but that does not make it illegal. It usually makes it sensible.

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

No, 10:13

It only means you are a liberal Democrat.

By Saxby stole my Social Security

November 10, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Sack Saxby the Crooked Draft Dodger….

By Republican not RINO,

November 10, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Dusty 10:14 AM

Looks like “Dusty is a Fool” pretty much nailed you..

By Steven Daedalus

November 10, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

“Dusty is a fool” Ah, truer words were never spoken.

By Jerry Lee

November 10, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

McCain would have nothing to do w/Chambliss because Chambliss slandered a REAL AMERICAN HERO-MAX CLELAND. Chambliss will NEVER get this vet’s vote. Yes,Martin was a frat brother of Chambliss’-but he DID SERVE HIS COUNTRY-unlike the gutless Chambliss.

By Save our Republic

November 10, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

“Suxby Shamless” is a standard Neocon/RINO/”Rockefeller” Republicrud and a puppet for the Globalist Elite. As an Independent, paleoconservative, Constitutionalist, I voted for Buckley. On principle alone, I won’t vote for the “lesser of two evils” when viable 3rd party options exist. I’m not overly familiar with Jim Martin, so I’ll need to research his platform more. As a paleoconservative, I don’t support Necons or leftist leaning Dems, so I may abstain from voting on the run-off. In my estimation, about 95-99% of “Crapitol sHill” have sold out to the Globalist Elite & the Internationalist agenda (save for rare patriots like Ron Paul).

By Farmers for Martin

November 10, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

6 years ago Saxby promised the small farmers of Georgia help with the farm bill, I voted for him. He went to Washington became the head of the Ag committee, wrote the farm bill & took care of the Sugar farmers in Florida and the Corn farmers in the Midwest. The little farmers got the shaft & the big money got more money.Chambliss is just another crook we sent to Washington. I will be voting Martin.

By Bob in Winder

November 10, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Last year Saxby decides to work with a bunch of LIBERAL democrats to give a bunch of Illegals AMNESTY. We all yelled and Saxby changed his mind. This year Saxby works with a bunch of LIBERAL Democrats to put a windfall tax on oil. We are yelling but Saxby is listening to lobbyist not the voter. I am voting for a MODERATE Jim Martin. You just have to wonder what Saxby will work out with the LIBERAL Democrats next year & what he does when we are not watching.

By Copy Left

November 10, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Moron Jim says: Georgia, then, could give Democrats such power in Congress that Republicans would be reduced to bystanders.

What MJ doesn’t tell you is that he’s not interested in the best interests of the country. Only the best interests of the Rethuglicon Party. What a political hack. He wants obstructionist Saxby Shameless back in Congress to continue filibusters and his red meat baiting of Democrats. He wants to gridlock Congress and thwart the will of the majority.

Another thing MJ doesn’t tell you is that Saxby Shameless has made a lot of enemies in the Senate when he smeared Max Cleland just to get elected. That will not be forgotten if he is returned to represent Georgia. That could mean loss of federal funding for road projects, loss of the AFRICOM military command center, and other things that would directly benefit Georgia. Re-electing Saxby Shameless will be bad for Georgia and bad for the country. Unless you’re a selfish, self-centered, bigoted, homophobic, ignorant, redneck. Then Saxby Shameless is your man.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And re-electing Saxby Shameless is living proof.

By AmVet

November 10, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

As viewed by most combat veterans, you Dusty, just like Saxby, are an inveterate prevaricator and a despicable disgrace disguised as some sort of demented American patriot.

John McCain, Chuck Hagel, Bob Dole and Bush 41 would likely agree with that sentiment.

At least to my knowledge president-elect Obama (Who for the ninety seventh time, dunce, I did not vote for) did not maliciously smear any wounded combat veterans, who have more courage in their little finger than the entire Republican leadership.

Why do think you fake conservatives, chicken hawks and charlatan christian nut jobs have taken it on the chin in such humiliating fashion the past two elections?

Something along the lines of 60 - 4.

OUCH.

If you had a functioning brain, that fact would hurt your feelings a little.

And you ostriches still think you’re doing such a wonderful job…

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

What next?

Saxby stole my lunch bag at school!!!

Saxby copied my answers on a test paper!!!

Saxby hit me with a dodge ball at recess!!!

Saxby hit me with a spitball!!!

Saxby stole the apple I brought for teacher!!!

Saxby is using MY pencil!!!

Saxby tied a knot in my jump rope!!!

Saxby IS the teacher’s pet instead of me!!!

(Democrats are getting younger every day.)

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 9:41 AM

Several of my ex partners were out to the farm this week end. After a few bottles & a good elk steak meal we decided that the low cost for the taxpayer way to handle the Auto mess was a prepackaged bankrupcy. What do you think?

By Findog

November 10, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

In the book, what happened in Kansas [I think] the author laid out the truth that Americans do not vote in their best financial interest. That Georgia could be persuaded to replace Saxby to give them: a leg up on the Africa-Command, or to keep the joint fighter’s rolling off the line at Lockheed, or to prioritize transportation funding to improve the Atlanta interstate bottleneck, or even to secure funding for the port to mountains expressway;

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Dusty 10:37 AM

Actually Saxby stole $40 billion from the taxpayers in the Farm bill, $20+ Billion in the 1st bailout the bank act, and $853 Billion in the Bailout act. Saxby collected over $13 million from various LOBBYIST for his votes. Even your alter ego Jim was opposed to these waste of our money.. Just because Saxby has a R by his name does NOT make him a CONSERVATIVE.

By Sam Black

November 10, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Why? Mr. Chambliss hasn’t deserved to represent this district, ever. After what he did to the honorable Max Cleland, Mr. Chambliss should have been on that plane to Anchorage with Caribou Barbie and never have served one day in Congress. In addition, when W was no longer served an advantage, Saxby dropped him like a very hot potato. Then implied that his people should get out to vote because the “other ones” were voting. Saxby is a piece of #$@&. No issues, no values, win at any cost. Wake up, Southerners, the Civil War is over. Double standards, selective accountabilty - all the way against that right wall. And we are suppose to trust a krait like Saxby? Sad.

By Sit & Watch

November 10, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

You have given me all the reason in the world to vote for Martin. I will be back at the polls to do what I can to make sure Chambliss is not re-elected.

By Farmers for Martin

November 10, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

—-all our 7 real Republican Congressmen in the House voted against the Wall Street Bail out but Saxby the SOCIALIST voted for it first time in the Senate.. By the way, in the PORK that was added an English Company, DIAGEO, got a $192,000,000.00 Rum factory in the Virgin Islands at US taxpayer expense..* SAXBY ECONOMICS AT WORK*

By McCain for Martin

November 10, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Saxby is a draft dodging coward who bashed a triple amputee war veteran…does that sound like the kind of man you want to support?

By Sarri

November 10, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I did not intend to paint all Republicans with a brush stained by Stevens and Chambliss. As I have sprinkled votes relatively evenly between Rs, Ds and other options, I have no inherent malice towards the affiliation although I still think the Parties do far more harm than good. Mr. Wooten’s piece this morning is a very sorry reflection on the state of Republicanism right now, as the best hope of retaining influence rests with a criminal and a venal, deeply stupid stooge. Mr. Wooten’s unyielding advocacy for Chambliss despite the implicit admission that there is not one single positive thing to say about his six years of living at Georgia’s expense - and in fact a cornucopia of failures, thievery and refusal to attend to his constituents’ interests - displays a deep, blind prejudice against a political party that transcends reason or responsible citizenship. Suppoorting a venal imbecile for the sole purpose of obstructing government goes beyond petty and irrational to a betrayal of the duties of citizenship.

Hope all is well with you, whatever your nom de guerre - I’m back to work!

By V Man

November 10, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Ragnar, Jim and the rest. It is time for us to retreat and accept the will of this country. Please remember as we move forward, do not look back, do not respond to the cries for help. If electing a filibuster proof majority, then let the get what they ask for now. Let them reap the harvest of their seeds, without the checks and balances that any intelligent person would prefer, no matter their leaning. I for one will take solace in watching the sheeple experience the fruits of their ACORN based labor.

See you in 4. :-)

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Saxby Economics..After recieving over $2,000,000.00 from LOBBYIST Saxby voted for the $700,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bail Out with $153,000,000,000.00 of pork added. Included in the pork was a gift to an English company of a $192,000,000.00 Rum Plant in the Virgin Islands paid for by the US Taxpayers. It is my understanding that Saxby did not read the bill but his friend Chris Dodd & the LOBBYIST told him every thing was OK. FIRE SAXBY HERE, FIRE SAXBY NOW, PAY LESS

http://www.politico.com:80/news/stories/1008/14939.html

By W Chambliss

November 10, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Johnny’s going to be our senior senator. btw: Notice to GOP, your country club dues are going up!

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Dear AmVet,10:34

I see you are “off your feed” as usual this morning. Sorry, but I don’t lie as you suggest.

As you seem to feel like the rejected mistreated misfit most of the time, my sympathy for the usual dire direction of your thoughts.

My father, husband and son are veterans who have no doubt about my patriotism. Two of them were in combat.

If you are referring to Chambliss running against Max Cleland, ugly remarks were made but few were worse than those that were hurled at President Bush or even John McCain. NOBODY is “clean” in recent poltical races.

I noted that you probably voted for Libertarians which meant you took a vote from McCain, THE COMBAT VETERAN.

Save your invectives for those who deserve it. But making Congress a free acting one view group is not my idea of making this country better. Therefore I will vote for Chambliss while you go on your name calling spiels. That is no surprise to anyone.

By Real Vet

November 10, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Chambliss Asked for and Received Five Student Deferments from the Draft

Selective Service Records for Clarence Saxby Chambliss (1961-1967)

11/10/43: Chambliss born in Warrenton, NC 11/10/61: Chambliss turns 18 12/08/61: Classification questionnaire mailed 12/12/61: Questionnaire returned 12/21/61: Chambliss classified 1-A (Available for military service) 01/22/64: Chambliss classified 2-S ( First student deferment) 11/17/64: Chambliss classified 1-A (Available for military service) 01/04/65: Chambliss scheduled for physical that was cancelled 01/26/65: Chambliss classified 2-S ( Second student deferment) 11/17/65: Chambliss classified 2-S ( Third student deferment) 10/10/66: Chambliss classified 2-S ( Fourth student deferment) 10/24/67: Chambliss classified 2-S ( Fifth student deferment) [Source: United States Selective Service System Records]

Chambliss Claimed a “Bum Knee” Kept Him Out of Draft…

In 2002 Chambliss Said a “Bum Knee” Kept Him Out of Vietnam. “Uh…I was…uh…determined not to be physically fit. I had a bum knee. I had an old football knee that unfortunately they wouldn’t take me.” [Georgia Public Television; GOP Senate Debate, 8/16/02] …But He Went On to Become the 2nd Best Golfer in the Senate, 33rd Best in Washington and Played in the Congressional Baseball Game Year After Year

Chambliss Ranked #2 Golfer in Senate. [Roll Call, “Saxby’s Day Off,” 11/8/05; Golf Digest, October, 2005, http://www.golfdigest.com/rankings/2007/politicalrankingsgd2007] Chambliss Ranked #33 Golfer in Washington, DC. with Just a 6.8 “Handicap” [Roll Call, “Saxby’s Day Off,” 11/8/05; Golf Digest, October, 2005, http://www.golfdigest.com/rankings/2007/politicalrankingsgd2007] Chambliss Practiced as an Outfielder for the Republican House Members During the Congressional Baseball Game. “At the sparsely attended Republican practice Thursday…Rep. Jack Fields (Texas) was back at third, and the outfield included Reps. Peter Blute (Mass), Peter Torkildsen (Mass), Saxby Chambliss (Ga), and John McHugh (NY). [Roll Call, “Democrats Stay Upbeat, Republicans Flaunt Largent as Congressional Classic Approaches,” July 24, 1995] Chambliss Made it to Most of the Practices and May Have Seen Time at the “Hot Corner.” “Saxby Chambliss (Ga); Home: Moultrie; Elected: 1994; Position: Outfield; Bats/Throws: R; Votes: R; Glory days may be here again for freshman Chambliss, who played second base at the University of Georgia for two seasons in the 1960s. Has been to most of the early morning practices and may see some time in the outfield or at the hot corner. Will be wearing an Atlanta Braves number 95 jersey.” [Roll Call, 1995 Congressional Baseball Game Program] Chambliss Once Again Made the Baseball Roster in 1996. “REPUBLICAN ROSTER: Dan Schaefer – Manager; Joe Barton, Peter Blute, Ed Bryant, Steve Buyer, Saxby Chambliss , Jon Christensen, John Ensign, Jack Fields, Jon Fox, Wally Herger, Ernest Istook, Scott Klug, Steve Largent, John McHugh, Mike Oxley, Richard Pombo, Frank Riggs, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Rick Santorum, Chris Smith, Todd Tiahrt, Peter Torkildsen, Jim Walsh, and J.C. Watts.” [Press release, Office of U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo, “Annual Congressional Baseball Game,” 7/16/96]

By Money Talks

November 10, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA VOTERS WAKE-UP! Saxby Chambliss IS A BUSH ‘YES’ MAN AND A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM IN WASHINGTON. WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR GEORGIA? NOTHING. HOWEVER, HE GIVES BILLIONS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE OVERPAID WALL STREET CEOs. WHO DO YOU THINK GOT THE BEST DEAL, GEORGIA TAXPAYERS OR WALL $TREET.

By getalife

November 10, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Jim,

The folks that are angry are the right, your folks.

Turns out, they are only patriotic for your party and not “real Americans” thinking “country first”.

But we already knew that, right dusty?

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

GA VAlues,

Do you scream “THIEF every time a bill is passed in Congress THAT YOU DO NOT LIKE?? That does not mean anything was STOLEN. It means you wished for something else.

If you think Saxby is going to “steal” more money than an a majority loaded Congress, you are in the dark. Chambliss will be an anchor to keep some sanity in Congress. But I guess you prefer the alternative, i.e. let ‘em run wild.

By Jo Joe

November 10, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Our point is that when Republicans believe we are stupid beyond belief, we reject them and we did just that.

Chambliss made lying false statement after false statement on the FISA legislation in 2007 and I could be specific but you wouldn’t understand what I’m talking about. He voted nearly 98% with Bush and he’s a white bigot.

His comment last weekend was “the other ones voted early” and now it’s our time.

The “other ones” meaning African Americans are who are dying in the biggest numbers in Iraq a venue Chambliss’ son is too much of a chickensh*t to go to and Draft Dodger Chambliss was too much of a coward to go to Nam, faking a knee injury.

We removed Chris Shays. There are now no Republican Congress people in the entire NE. Only the bigoted South still has a few. We will remove Chambliss and enjoy firing up the popcorn as we do this just as we removed the moron Palin and the erratic liar McCain from TV.

And if Palin gets her Lt. Gov. pawn to appoint her Senator she will make a fool out of herself and display her stupidity widely. She still will avoid interviews because she knows she can’t answer any questions put to her.

Leiberman was told this morning he can stay in the caucus but he is leaving his committe chairmanship. We hope he goes Republican. It’s just fine with us—we can’t stand him.

Begich still has an excellent chance in Alaska which would block Palin’s getting her Lt. Gov. to appoint her Senator after Stevens is removed from the Senate soon.

By AmVet

November 10, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

NOBODY is “clean” in recent poltical (sic) races.

Another lie. Not everyone is a smear-merchant like you and Saxby.

I noted that you probably voted for Libertarians which meant you took a vote from McCain.

Cute, but senseless. And incorrect.

Someday, little liar, you’ll realize than any American voting their conscience is not taking a vote from anybody else.

It’s called a competitive democracy, something that scares the living hell out of you hyper-partisans and apparatchiks in the GOP.

Perhaps, comrade Dusty, you should go to work for the American Politburo aka the Commission on Presidential debates…

By Drafted Vet

November 10, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Chambliss Has Repeatedly Opposed Efforts to Increase Funding for Veterans Health Care

Chambliss Voted Against Making a Portion of VA Funding Mandatory or Automatic, Like Other Health Related Programs. The VA’s enrolled patient population has grown 134 percent since 1996, while appropriations have risen only one-third as quickly. The Partnership for Veterans Health Care Budget Reform, which represents 26 million veterans, supported this amendment because quality health care should be a right for all veterans. [S 2400, Vote 145, 6/23/2004] Chambliss Voted Against Funding for Veterans’ Health Care. Daschle amendment to create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans’ medical care by $2.7 billion and lower the national debt by reducing the President’s tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year. [SCR 95, Vote 34, 3/9/2004] Chambliss Voted Against Increasing FY06 Veterans’ Health Care Funding by $2.8 Billion and Reducing the Deficit by $2.8 Billion. Akaka, D-Hawaii, amendment that would increase funding for veterans health care by $2.8 billion for fiscal 2006 and reduce the deficit by $2.8 billion. [SCR 18, Vote 55, 3/16/2005] Chambliss Voted Against $3.5 in Additional Funding for Veterans in the FY08 Budget. Saxby Chambliss voted against both the initial and final versions of the Fiscal Year 2008 budget resolution, which provided for over $3.5 billion more in funding for Veterans than the Bush Administration’s proposal. Bush’s budget called for $39.6 billion in funding compared to the Democratic plan for $43.1 billion. The budget Chambliss opposed included $6.7 billion more for veterans than 2007. [Vote 114, 3/23/07; Vote 172, 5/17/07; Senate Budget Committee, 3/20/07, 5/17/07] Chambliss Choose Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Over Additional Veterans Spending. In February 2006, Saxby Chambliss voted against an amendment that would have provided at least $19 billion for military and veterans hospitals, to be offset by rolling back tax cuts for millionaires. According to an official from the American Legion, the proposed funding “acknowledges the need for adequate funding to ensure our nation’s veterans receive the healthcare and other benefits to which they are entitled.” [Vote 7, 2/2/06; Dodd Floor Speech, 2/2/06] Chambliss Supported Budget Which American Legion Said “Short-Changed” Vets. In 2005 Chambliss supported the Senate Republicans’ initial FY06 budget resolution which slashed domestic discretionary programs by $204 billion over five years, including significant cuts to veterans’ benefits. Arguing against the budget, the leader of the American Legion said, “ No veteran should be shortchanged by those in Congress with higher national priorities than the ongoing cost of war.” The final version of the budget included $212 billion in cuts to domestic discretionary programs, including veterans’ health care. [Vote 81, 3/17/05; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 4/1/05; American Legion Press Release, 3/18/05; Vote 114, 4/28/05; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/6/05; Congressional Record, 4/28/05]

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Dusty 11:09 AM

If you want to play with the boys you need to know your facts or defend some one worth defending. Saxby needs to go because he works for the LOBBYIST not Georgia.

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Real Vet,11:03

Please give us the private military records of Obama and Martin. Real ones, please. Not fabricated ones like you did with George W. Bush. That’s not NICE!!

By the way, HOW DID YOU GET THOSE RECORDS? I would think that it would be illegal to find and print someone’s private military records. Are you FBI, CIA, GBI or just a liberal political snooper?

By Ayn Rand was Right

November 10, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Saxby or another Republican it is no matter. At this point what matters is the balance of power. Whenever the balance of power in our government is controlled by one side (or the other) it is bad for our country. As a true libertarian, who does the research and votes her conscience, I have to give Saxby my vote, not for him or his record but, to do what is right for our country. Those of you still swooning from your election of the advertising campaign, sit back and consider, can you afford to have total upheaval during his time as President? Giving him one year of total control, followed by 2 years of campaigning to save the nation (Red and Blue battling over the next Senate and Congressional seats) followed by 1 year (election year by the way) of no movement because the Republicans will take back over majority control, is NOT the answer. Only when the people of this country start to consider motives behind those seeking election and voting after educating themselves will we have a decent governing body.

A perfect example of this is the passage of Prop 8 in California. If not for the single minded focus of “get out the vote for Obama”, this proposition would probably not have had a shot at passage. When you whip under educated (by this I mean about the candidates and issues, not their actual education) people into a frenzy of voting, you get what you deserve. Dems went to the polls in a frenzy of Yes we can and Obama. They didn’t even know what they were voting yes about. Hence, Blue California, now has to annul gay marriage. Way to go!

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Saxby Economics…………

REUTERS Published: November 10, 2008 The mortgage insurance giant, Fannie Mae, said Monday that it had lost a record $29 billion in the third quarter as the company wrote down a tax-related asset that has buoyed capital and the housing slump deepened.

The quarterly loss is the fifth consecutive for the company that had been operating under a government conservatorship since September.

Fannie Mae in October warned it would write down “substantially all” of its deferred tax assets, which had become a controversial addition to capital as losses mounted. Deferred tax assets can be used to offset future taxes but only if the company can show it will return to profitability.

Credit expenses soared to $9.2 billion in the quarter because of deteriorating mortgage credit conditions and as home prices declined, the company said.

Fannie Mae’s loss equaled $13 a share, compared with a loss of $1.4 billion, or $1.56 a share a year earlier. The company said it expected a significant loss for the fourth quarter if downward trends in housing and financial markets continue.

Further losses for the company this quarter mean the government may have to inject billions of dollars of capital to help the company maintain routine operations. The government pledged to keep a positive level of shareholders equity.

Stockholders equity fell to $9.3 billion in the third quarter from $44 billion at the end of 2007. The figure may be negative by Dec. 31, the company said.

Fannie Mae and its rival, Freddie Mac, own or guarantee nearly half of all residential mortgages in the United States.

Equity investors, while nearly wiped out under the conservatorship, have been eager to see if the regulator will instruct the companies to sacrifice profit for bigger volumes in their mortgage guarantee and investment businesses.

Both have been given the room to expand portfolios by a combined $200 billion through 2009, but they have been slow to follow through as their financing costs have risen.

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Published: November 10, 2008 The federal government announced on Monday an overhaul of its bailout of the insurance giant American International Group, saying it would purchase $40 billion of the company’s stock, after signs that the initial bailout was putting too much strain on the company.

Martin Sullivan, former chief of the American International Group, testified on Capitol Hill in October.

In a joint statement, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury said the move was necessary “in order to keep the company strong and facilitate its ability to complete its restructuring process successfully.” The new measures, they said, would help the company and promote market stability while protecting the interests of the federal government and taxpayers.

The revised bailout came as A.I.G. reported a loss Monday of $24.47 billion, or $9.05 a share in the third quarter, after a profit of $3.09 billion, or $1.19 a share, a year ago. The results included pretax losses of $18.31 billion from the declining value of A.I.G.’s investments.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/business/economy/11aig.html?hp

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

Georgia Values,11:16

Chambliss’ son works as a lobbyist. Not Saxby.

Biden’s son works as a lobbyist. Not Biden.

But… by your judgements, Biden WORKS for a lobbyist. The vice president elect of the USA works for a lobbyist. Your designation, not mine.

I don’t play with the boys or the girls here. I just give my honest opinion which upsets some of you little fellows. Not my fault. I’m accustomed to working with adults.

By Dusty

November 10, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Ohhhgeee…

THE WHOLE CONGRESS OF THE USA VOTED FOR THAT ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE. Have you Democrats forgotten that already??

See you later. While Jim Wooten is gone, try to stay out of trouble.

By GayGrayGeek

November 10, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

DustBuster: I would think

No, no you wouldn’t, because you quite obviously don’t, and haven’t for the past 8 years. If you’d have “thought”, even once, then your rear-end would have been at your closest AFEES office.

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, DUSTY?

By deegee

November 10, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Angry Left? Did he say “Angry Left”? Who’s angry?

By Georgia Blue

November 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Wah wah wah wah! You Republicans have only yourselves to blame! Y’all are the ones who pushed the Honorable War Hero McCain aside eight years ago when he would have made a decent leader and President, in favor of the Bush boy whose every endeavor in life was a complete disaster up until the time Daddy’s oil buddies paid top dollar to install him as Governor of Texas to attend to their own specific needs.

You forgave him for ignoring intelligence of imminent attacks to take more vacation days than any President in history. You accepted swagger and speechery as substance, and then glossed over the truth when he pulled our troops out of Afghanistan (where our enemies ARE) and invaded Iraq who did not attack us. You willingly ceded both rights and your responsibility to hold your government accountable while executive power increased, and “The Decider” decided things in secret, including how much of our treasury to empty into the pockets of his friends, sans bidding process, audits, regulations, or transparency.

You made excuses for the inept parade of old school chums he appointed to important positions, and then blamed others for their failures. (“It wasn’t Brownies’s job to save New Orleans!” even though Brownie received regular taxpayer-funded paychecks to manage just such emergencies.) You pretended not to notice that our President was playing the guitar and giggling on stage at a California GOP fundraiser while American citizens were DYING on the streets of a major American city, in puddles of their own feces, from dehydration, in a land where bottles of water outnumber humans on our own store shelves. You praised the divine righteousness of the Almighty Free Market while well-connected, well-heeled crooks lied and scammed and violated rules of honest business to secure their own financial futures, knowing full well the American economy was on borrowed time, and would collapse on the rest of us.

You preached hatred and division instead of unity, judgement and repression instead of individual rights, and YOU INSULTED THE PATRIOTISM OF EVERY AMERICAN WHO DARED EXERCISE OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO SAY, “HEY, WAIT JUST A DOGGONE MINUTE!” OR “I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER!”

Thank you, Republicans of America! YOU made the “not possible in our lifetimes” not only a possibility, but a REALITY!

God Bless You, and God Bless America!

By Real Voters

November 10, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Election Wrap-up

The Libertarian Party of Georgia had a stunning Election Day. Three of our state-wide candidates made history that is rocking the Georgia political establishment. These are the details:

Libertarian candidate for US Senate Allen Buckley got 3.4% of the vote With all but some provisional and absentee ballots counted, Allen has 127,785 votes — way more than any of our Senate candidates got in the past. Most important, Allen forced a runoff between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin!

Our District 4 Public Service Commission candidate, Brandon Givens, got 4.9% of the vote. At 177,793 votes, that’s more than a Libertarian PSC candidate had seen since 1990. Most important, Brandon also has forced a runoff!

Our District 1 PSC candidate, John Monds, set all sorts of state and NATIONAL vote records. John got 33.4% of the vote, a new record for Georgia Libertarians. He received 1,074,780 votes — the most votes any Libertarians has ever gotten anywhere. Yes, even more than any of our Presidential candidates has gotten nationwide!

Speaking of Presidential candidates… The Libertarian ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root got 28,771 votes in Georgia, or 0.7% of votes cast. This outpaces our results in 2004. Nationally, the Barr/Root ticket got 500,045 votes, or 0.4%.

At the local level, Kevin Madsen got 239 votes in his non-partisan campaign for Loganville City Council, or 13% of that vote.

By Chad Harris

November 10, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

I’ve renamed Wooten’s “column” to “Thinking Ignorantly.” But the more ignorance from Right Wingnuts, the more you lose and the worse it is for this country. I remember the days of the Republican intellectual like Buckley who was fun to listen to, even when you disagreed. George Will is fun to listen to even when you disagree.

But ignoramuses like Wooten and Eric Johnson are why your party is not going to win the White House or predominate in the Senate for a long time.

There are enough voters to easily reject right wingnuts in most states.

Georgia is unique but it will change. Right now the predominant vote in Georgia is poorly educated racial biog carckers like Wooten and Johnson, Dick Williams, and his nutcase sidekick’s Kent and Zoeller.

Obviously the Wingnuts haven’t heard Santyana’s dictum that “those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it.

Wooten crowed about a Bobby Jindall (far right Wingnut) ticket with the moroness Snowbilly. If you’re dumb enough to do that, President Obama could win bigger in 3012 than any President in History.

Right Wingnuts trying to preach the politics of hate with childish and stupid guilt by association mantras go nowhere. Hitching your star to an ignorant redneck who is a chronic liar, Joe the Plumjber with that last few week kick to name people the way the Vikings named them in the middle ages kamikazied straight into the ground.

Quoting Eric Johnson is like Quoting the 15 year old moron in the beauty paget who gets videoed time and time again. Johnson is the nutcase that sabre rattled to curtail early voting (in fact it will be considerably expanded so that it won’t discourage people on election day as it did in Metro Atlanta where there were no lines on election day because people stayed home in droves rather than wait in 4-6 hour long lines that they perceived would greet them.

Al Franken debating Wooten or McCain or Johnson would cut them to ribbons. He has a great education, had a great radio show, and will be a very productive Senator. Norm Coleman was a right Wingnut putz.

Saxby Chambliss is Bush in White Racist drag. Everytime you seem him you’re seeing Bush with a JawJaw ignorant Southern drawl. He voted with Bush 100% of the time. He is an open racist and the meme of racism is replete in many of his speeches. Chambliss is a pure bred chickensh*t who draft dodged with a phony knee injury. His son is a pure bred chickenshit who will not join the Armed Forces, but instead takes risk when drinks or thrown at him in Beltway country clubs. Chambliss is owned by a surgar company, and he secretly flies free on Federal Express while huddling with their representatives to grant favors.

The redistribution of wealth is the dumbest concept yet from Rethugs. All of them enjoy the benefits of the redistribution of wealth. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were quintissential redistribution of wealth. The hemorrhage of 12 billion a month or more in Iraq to favored defense contractors like Blackwater is the redistribution of wealth. Incidently that meme got McCain and Moron crushed—See election Tuesday, November 4, 2008 where morons at Fox couldn’t bring theemselves to announce Obama was going to win with anything but an aerial camera shot of the set—how f*cking cowardly and bizarre!

An ignoramus like Eric Johnson, a poster boy for a rock bottom education in JawJaw isn’t going to be picking our Senators.

Remember the cry of the Wingnuts as voiced by moronbilly to Charley Gibson:

“In what respect Charley?”

To Couric:

“Ahll check on thet and git back to ya Katy.” [“Kin I get a lifeline in these intervies?”

The Secret Service is blaming Sarah Palin’s hateful campaign speeches for a dramatic increase in the number of death threats against now President Elect Barack Obama.

By Just Logic

November 10, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Go ahead and write it down. Saxby in a large margin on Dec. 2. Why? Because all of those folks who turned out and voted for Obama that had never got off their rear to vote before and just went down the ballot and pushed D, will not turn out. They already got their guy and will not even give this race another thought.

By Nikita

November 10, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Saxby or another Republican it is no matter. At this point what matters is the balance of power.

Wrong. As I mentioned above, this race is only an incremental step toward a filibuster-proof majority — it won’t push the Ds over the 60-vote minimum, and they already have enough republicans willing to cross the aisle when attractive/necessary/right.

Also, if the candidate is the wrong candidate, it doesn’t really matter what party he belongs to. Saxby Chambliss is the wrong candidate for me, and for Georgia, and to vote for him cynically for party reasons would be morally wrong.

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Dusty 11:27 AM

I did not vote for Obama or Chambliss.. I voted McCain & Buckley.. I will be voting for Martin this time.. You need to get your facts straight before making a fool out of your self..Saxby works for LOBBYIST not Georgia

By Beowulf

November 10, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

Wow, all of you are saying that the right is angrier than the left, but based on what I see here, the leftist definitely seem to still be much more emotional. Now it is more smugness than anger. Personally, I don’t like either candidate, nor Buckley. If I had my way, it would be Zell Miller back again, but I think he’s happy in retirement.

I still have to say I prefer Saxby, only so that there are still reasonable checks and balances. The filibuster will be the only weapon to stop Reid from passing thru whatever he wants, and that could include some stuff that even Obama does not want. Please consider this. If you can’t bear to vote for Saxby, but don’t want Martin either, then just stay home. I would but I care too much about keeping the government responsible. GOP was able to do plenty without ever reaching 60, it scares me to think what they would have done had they gotten it. The current situation is the same. Government Gridlock is our friend!

By Ga Values

November 10, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Bad News for Georgia…

UPDATE by Buzz: Richardson wins reelection 75-25. Votes being counted now for Majority Leader.

By Truthifier

November 10, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Who wants to bet that Wooten thought one-party control of Congress and the White House was a good thing when it was the GOP with the power? As usual, Jim only sees the world from the viewpoint of the Angry Right.

By getalife

November 10, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Can President Obama stop the looting before it’s too late?

The FBI needs to be engaged in this looting to stop it.

The gop are thieves.

By John McCain

November 10, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

John McCain criticized Chambliss’ 2002 race against Max Cleland.

“I’ve never seen anything like that ad,” says McCain. “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”” (Washington Post, 7/3/2003)

By Wall Street Lobbyist

November 10, 2008 12:18 PM | 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 Truthifier

November 10, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Oh, and since Dusty has spent so much of her time lecturing us all on the need to support and respect the President, I assume we can count on her support for President Obama. United we stand, Dusty!

By Chad Harris

November 10, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Wooten’s overtly hypocritical view of Right Wing control of Congress for 12 years in fact, with idiot Senator Phil Graham as Banking Committee Chairman is exactly like his definition of activist judges—judges who don’t issue opinions that Wooten would like to dictate from his ignorant narrow and poorly educated persepctive.

By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist

November 10, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Dusty 11:33 AM

Our 7 Real Republicans congressmen voted aginst the $700 Billion Wall Street Bail out but Dad voted for it because he got over $2.5 million from their lobbyist. Did I do a good job or what????

By AmVet

November 10, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

“I’ve never seen anything like that ad,” says McCain. “Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield — it’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.”” (Washington Post, 7/3/2003)

Why do you think the neoliths were so luke-warm about McCain?

He spoke out against a gutless GOP smear merchant AND the “agents of intolerance”.

And that dog will not hunt in the Moron Belt…

By Redneck Convert

November 10, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

YOU INSULTED THE PATRIOTISM OF EVERY AMERICAN WHO DARED EXERCISE OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO SAY, “HEY, WAIT JUST A DOGGONE MINUTE!” OR “I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER!”

I reckon this means you won’t be giving us godly Republicans another chance anytime soon.

By PinkoNeoConLibertarian

November 10, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Perhaps that explains why no matter which way we turn, We The People get screwed.

By Frost

November 10, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Those of you who propose to vote for Mr. Martin, do you favor the democrat agenda? the american pple decided on Nov 04,why do u want to re-visit that election.The whole cntry is yearning for a new democratic dispensation.Let Obama and his surogates have their 4 years,then lets see what happens.K.So chill for a second.That 9.41 am laundry list u listed is all fear,ur opinions and whatever but it dont matter coz there is a new sherriff in town. PRESIDENT HUSSEIN OBAMA Get used to it!!!!!

By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist

November 10, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics

Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 10, 2008; Page A01

The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration’s request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.

But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion.

The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill. When they found out, some legislators were furious. Some congressional staff members have privately concluded that the notice was illegal. But they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by the change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin.

“Did the Treasury Department have the authority to do this? I think almost every tax expert would agree that the answer is no,” said George K. Yin, the former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan congressional authority on taxes. “They basically repealed a 22-year-old law that Congress passed as a backdoor way of providing aid to banks.”

By BROWNE

November 10, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

If I can find a Republican that will stay out of my bedroom and one that has actually served in the Military, then I will vote for one. As is is now I will take the Democrats and the bull they are serving.

By Gator Joe

November 10, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Wooten: You’re damn right we are the angry left. Angry about what you and your fellow Republicans have done to the enviornment, the poor, the economy, jobs, world peace, and the list goes on and on. As for the military, how appropriate to have as your standard bearer, Chambliss another chicken hawk who along with your support, sends the children of others to fight unneccary wars and dishonors them when the die or return wounded. Vote for Jim Martin December 2nd.

By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist

November 10, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics Here’s the link to the deal Dad gave the banks out of the taxpayer’s back.. Dad earned that $2.5 Million from Wall Street Lobbyist..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902155.html?hpid=topnews

By Gator Joe

November 10, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Nothing says “Loser” like continuing to see a McCain-Palin stickers on the back windows of a gas-guzzling SUVs. Sorry, but its been a long 8 years for us Liberals.

By Bo Chambliss Lobbyist

November 10, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

LOL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

By Peadawg

November 10, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Let’s all pray for this great country if the Dems control everything…allowing abortion(murder) and stem cell research(playing God)…Lord help us all!!!

By Copyleft

November 10, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

Hehehe. It’s funny to watch the fascists—whoops, I mean conservatives—try to invent reasons to vote for Saxby that don’t involve Saxby himself.

They know he’s got zero appeal as a candidate on his own; his corruption, his incompetence, his blatant selling out are all well documented and well known. So what’s left as a reason to vote for him? “It’s the only way to stop Obama!” (Horrors! The Democrats are close to an unnecessary filibuter-proof majority in the Senate, so let’s re-elect the corrupt slimeball we hate!)

This is fascist brainpower at its finest—utterly divorced from logic and reality alike. Since right-wing brains are incapable of learning, it looks like we’ll have to spell it out for you:

Saying “Vote against the other guy” is a LOSING campaign tactic. It didn’t work for McCain, it’s not working for Saxby. You need to come up with a positive reason to vote FOR Mr. Chambliss… and you can’t.

Thus, your defeat is guaranteed—as inferior far-right thinking always will be.

By Jack

November 10, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

We should let the dem’s have it for a while. They’ll hose things up so bad (a-la Jimmy Carter)that they’ll lose the next 3 or 4 elections and maybe the Republicians will have learned something from this.

By John

November 10, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Jim;

Angry? The democrats (I don’t use “left”) is feeling pretty good right now. The anger is in the conservative camps of GOP (the term “right” does not fit them). 57 or 60 is OK by me. Some of the GOP is going to get on-board with the President-elect anyhow. Saxby still has not given a good reason to get my vote.

By reebok

November 10, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Voting for Martin? Not excited by the prospect. Voting against Chambliss? Every single time I get the chance. He is as despicable as they come, even in Washington.

By Nurse Ratchet

November 10, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

“Clowns to the LEFT of me, Jokers to the RIGHT, here I am…”

{sigh}

WAKE UP AMERIKA!

By belljar

November 10, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Hey Peadawg

It’s people like you that make me think abortion is a good thing. If your mama had only taken that route….

By Mommiecrat

November 10, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

The “angry left.” You’ve got to love it. These are the same people who mindlessly rattle off the “hater” comment to those who did not vote for Obama and continue to speak out against upcoming Democrat policies, like the possibility of confiscating all 401, IRA, and pension plans in this nation and putting them in one big collective New Social Security pot for all to share. What a nightmare. Good job, America, and great job Republicans for being stupid beyond stupid over the past 8 years to allow this knee-jerk voter response to happen to begin with.

Team Obama has also done a great job on backing off of strong campaign promises like immediately pulling out of Iraq. In fact, apparently there are so many issues Team Obama is backpedaling on that they have taken down their agendas from Obama’s website. How’s that for change you can believe in???

Agenda disappears from Obama Web site Stephen Dinan Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.

Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.

Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan “to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.”

“We are currently retooling the Web site,” said Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro.

The site went active on Wednesday and was available to the public Thursday. The agenda items, which were active for at least part of the weekend, appear to have been deleted by late Saturday.

Yes, you did.

By Jim Wootem.. on Saxby's Farm bill

November 10, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Forgot about Saxby’s own Income Redistribution program,, here’s what I wrote in May about this Taxpayer Ripoff and Lobbyist benefit.. I’m voting for Martin Now

By Jim Wooten | Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 07:24 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Everything most Americans —- and all fiscal conservatives —- hate about Congress is contained in a five-year, $300 billion farm bill headed to a certain presidential veto.

It’s dishonest. Congress claims that it’s only $10 billion more than the administration wants. In reality, though, said Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner in a conversation Monday, it’s about twice that.

“It’s about $20 billion over budget because they have managed to hide the true cost of the bill quite a bit.” They are doing it, he explained, by moving payouts beyond the time frame used to calculate costs while moving up revenues from things like crop insurance.

Congress did the same thing last year in projecting the cost for the State Children’s Health Insurance program. Spending on that bill, which the president vetoed, was projected to go from $5.6 billion per year to $13.9 billion in 2012, and then —- as Congress employed the game it now plays on the farm bill —- would “drop” 69 percent in 2013 to $7.8 billion and further to $4.8 billion in 2014. Dishonest.

To hide the true cost of the farm bill, “they take a program that they know has to be funded, like disaster money and a couple of others that they know they will have to come back to extend,” said Conner.

In addition to dishonesties, it contains outrages, one after another. An example is the sugar program, which costs taxpayers in excess of $2 billion annually. “The sugar program is essentially a producer cartel run out of Washington,” said Chris Edwards, director of tax policy at the Cato Institute.

“Many people thought you could not get more heavily involved than the government already is under the current program,” said Conner. That program exists solely to benefit sugar beet producers, mostly in Minnesota, Michigan, California, Idaho and North Dakota, and sugar cane producers, mostly in Florida and Louisiana.

It’s designed to keep sugar prices high by requiring that 85 percent of the sugar sold in America be produced here. Taxpayers buy sugar at roughly twice the world price and, heretofore, stored it for sale back when supplies were tight. “This bill says, ‘no, you can’t store sugar, you have to sell it immediately for ethanol,’ ” said Conner.

The value of sugar for ethanol production is about 2 cents per pound. The world price of sugar is about 12.5 cents per pound. “We are buying it at 23 cents a pound and are required to sell it for 2 cents a pound,” explained Conner. “What kind of deal is that for U.S. taxpayers?”

Lousy, of course. Outrageous, certainly. Insane public policy. “I am not talking about a few million bucks here,” said Conner. “This is hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Outrages are evident, too, in a much-publicized provision that would give the owners of thoroughbred racehorses a $93 million depreciation write-off. It is a first, said Conner, the first time that a farm bill has been used to write a tax bill. “These are provisions that would never have passed on their own.”

Outrageous, too, is the provision that suddenly appeared requiring taxpayers to spend $200 million to buy land in Montana that has no farm-related value.

Most outrageous of all is the refusal of a Congress that denied $600 stimulus checks to some in the middle class but now refuses to expunge even the wealthiest of farmers from the dole. The administration proposed to start weaning farmers whose nonfarm income exceeded $200,000. Congress raised that to $500,000 or $1 million for married couples. For those whose income is solely from farming, it’s $750,000 and $1.5 million. “We only targeted the top 2 percent” of farmers, said Conner. As rewritten, “this is going to deny benefits to virtually no one in America,” he said.

“Scarce tax dollars are hard to come by. The notion that people whose annual income is in the million-dollar range, the idea that we have got to use tax dollars to help them, is beyond explanation. We should say to them that ‘there is an American Dream out there and you are living it, but don’t expect any more tax dollars from people who are struggling to find dollars to put gas in the tank.’ “

Within days, Congress will pass this bill. It’s atrocious legislation deserving of the quick veto it’s certain to get.

By abc

November 10, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

By Copyleft November 10, 2008 1:06 PM

Hehehe. It’s funny to watch the fascists—whoops, I mean conservatives—try to invent reasons to vote for Saxby that don’t involve Saxby himself.

It’s even funnier watching a moonbat liberal socialists mention fascist when Dimcrats are poised to have a filibuster proof power trip in Washington. Hehehe indeed. How many of you Dimcrats who wailed at Bush wanting to bail out banks are going to sit idly by while the Pelosi and Reid team lobby to bail out US auto manufacturers, without laying out one single stipulation on union demands. But that’s neither here nor there. I’ll give you just ONE reason to vote for Saxby: that’s one less Reid/Pelosi string puppet in Congress.

By Freedom Watch

November 10, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

We will pick our Senator, not McCain,not Palin,not Bush,not AIG,not Bail-Out Socialists,not chicken-hawk draft dodgers.DEFEAT SAXBY for Freedom .

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Okay, liberals: STOP! We won. You dont have to swing at everything the rabid right writes.

I know that many of the leftist comments here today are written by the rabid right using aliases, and then they make them sound lunatic. Rush Limbaugh does that with phony callers all the time. Or he only airs the one lunatic out of the thousand liberals that actually did call.

So, just dont respond, and watch the Rabid Right stfu. They want you to swing at their nonsense.

Dont.

Lets talk about healthcare, education, and ending the war in Iraq.

Notice how Bookman took my topic earlier about the Georgia Obama voters who didn’t vote for the senate race?

I truly own the ajc blogs. I set the topic, the tone, and the titillation with my scrambled porn biblical code style double entendre’s and puns.

It’s good 2B the king of the blogs.

By hirsutedawg

November 10, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

“Saxby Chambliss’ re-election is critical if we want to have hope that the U.S. Senate can block the redistribution of wealth and the dismantling of our military that will be attempted by the next Congress. The Democrats now have 57 seats — 3 short of the 60 required to break a filibuster. They can usually count on 2 moderate Republicans so Saxby could literally be our last hope.”

This statement is a perfect example of the Karl Rove style politics of fear and division. Someone should remind Mr. Johnson that these tactics will no longer be tolerated and have been repudiated by the American people. What’s next? That we don’t believe in God?

By Fiscal Watch

November 10, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Saxby IS A FISCAL LIBERAL,who must go.

By lam

November 10, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

If any of you on this blog don’t think that Martin will be a puppet you’re crazier than a loon.

By spread the wealth-saxby style

November 10, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

Spread the wealth to Wall Street,lobbyists,my son Bo,and everywhere except to the people of Georgia.

By Tom Becker

November 10, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

I’m a member of the left, and boy am I angry! I’m so PO’d I cant see straight. I’m so mad I wanna punch someone in the nose! I’m ticked off, and outraged, bitter and indignant, and oh so vexed!

But mostly I’m just plain angry. Ooo! Mad as hell and not takin’ anymore!

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 10, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

spread the wealth-saxby style 2:09 PM

The bad part is that I have to share with dad, I love him but what’s fair is fair.. like the fair tax you know..

By Copyleft

November 10, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Har! Thanks for proving my point, abc. You can’t come up with ANYTHING good to say about Saxby; all you can do is urge people to vote “against Obama”!

You know, the guy who already won. Oh, this is priceless. Even Saxby’s supporters don’t want to talk about Saxby himself, because they recognize what a loser he is….

By SaveOurRepublic

November 10, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Conservative Republican @ 9:00 AM - I couldn’t have said it better myself! ;-)

To my “doppelganger” @ 10:25 AM - I don’t mind my re-posts when/where valid. As I’ve said “Suxby Shameless” is a phoney “conservative” (as is RINO “Juan McAmnasty”). However, I can’t in good conscious support a leftist liberal either. I’m researching Martin’s voting record & platform more to see if he sways to far to the Left.

By Independent

November 10, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Ragnar, your ignorance is showing! Madeline Albright may have had Jewish parents, but they converted to Protestantism and that’s how she was raised! And I don’t think Rahm’s being Jewish had anything to do with anything! Quit your oral diarrhea already! All of you, both sides, get on with it! We have a new President-Elect. It’s in all our interests to better our world, regardless of who’s in charge! Being spiteful, hateful, vitriolic and just plain ignorant doesn’t help. If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem! And yes, the Confederacy is alive and well - to everyone’s misfortune.

By Morningstar

November 10, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

By catlady November 10, 2008 8:41 AM Ragnar, forget how Saxby cut off Cleland’s other limb in the last election. Focus on what he has done for everyday Georgians in the last six years. Short list, huh? That is why people won’t vote for him.

Catlady, I hope you are right, but I’m concerned about the percentage of registered voters who don’t vote.

If registered voters don’t get off their buttts and vote, Saxby is in for the next haul.

By SaveOurRepublic

November 10, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

Conservative Republican @ 9:00 AM - I couldn’t have said it better myself! ;-)

To my “doppelganger” @ 10:25 AM - I don’t mind my re-posts when/where valid. As I’ve said before, “Suxby Shameless” is a phoney “conservative” (as is RINO “Juan McAmnasty”). However, I can’t in good conscious support a leftist liberal either. I’m researching Martin’s voting record & platform more to see if he sways too far to the Left.

By JIm's a Cherry PIcker

November 10, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Hi Jim,

So sorry you can’t seem to get past the tired stereotypes that you’ve been using for years, but thankfully the rest of America has.

Interesting quote from Rep Ralston in today’s AJC, referring to his own party’s leadership in GA:

During his address to the caucus, Ralston said, “I am convinced we as a body must have change, and that change must begin today, and it ought to begin here in our Republican family.”

He added, “I don’t believe leadership is grounded in fear, intimidation or threat of retribution.”

True dat. Unfortuately, it’s all you have, and it’s all you know.

By Conservative Republican

November 10, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

SaveOurRepublic 2:31 PM

Glad we think alike,, I voted for Buckley last week, I’ll be voting against Saxby in 3 weeks & 1 day. Martin is not perfect but he is less bad than Saxby..If you get down this way let’s have lunch.

By bamaguy

November 10, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

The line “draw the line in the sand” made my blood run cold. It is almost identical to the line Govonor Wallace used, “I draw the line in the dust,” when he made his infamous stand in the schoolhouse door to attempt to stop the integration of the University of Alabama.

By Kitty

November 10, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Here, here Fred, well said.

By Independent

November 10, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Read this, neocons: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/wallace.kennedy.obama/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

November 10, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

“This is not the last election of the 2008 cycle — consider this is the first race of the 2010 cycle where we begin to claw our way back into power with solid principles and integrity.

Solid principles and integrity? So, you’re trying something new? Well, that’s good to hear. I’m still voting for Martin though. We’ve had enough of the Republinazis in general and enough of Chambliss in particular. Suxsby must go!

By Churchill's Mom

November 10, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

I lied, here’s today’s Palin, hope I get to meet her when she is down to help Saxby. But then Saxby “represented too much of the status quo.”

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that she and running mate John McCain lost because the Republican ticket “represented too much of the status quo.”

In an interview with the Anchorage Daily News posted on the paper’s site Monday morning, Palin pointed a finger at the Bush administration for souring the GOP brand, adding that it was “amazing” that the McCain campaign did as well as it did.

“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration?” Palin said.

“If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented, and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing. So people desiring change, I think, went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It’s amazing that we did as well as we did.”

Looking back on the race, the Alaska governor said that she was “frustrated” by misinformation spread about her, especially related to her family.

“Some of the goofy things, like who was Trig’s mom. Well, I’m Trig’s mom, and do you want to see my medical records to prove that? And banning books. That was a ridiculous thing also that could have so easily been corrected just by a reporter taking an extra step and not basing a report on gossip or speculation,” Palin said.

“Just looking into the record. It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn’t even been written when I was the mayor. So, gosh, we have so many examples, I mean every day, especially the first few weeks, every day something that was thrown out there.”

After railing against earmarks and congressional spending on the campaign trail, Palin promised “fewer earmark requests” for projects “that can help on a national front, not just on a state front.”

Asked about running for the Republican nomination in 2012, the Alaska governor seemed cool to the prospect, pointing out that current polling showing favorable prospects in a potential GOP primary field are likely to shift.

“Look how fickle poll numbers are,” Palin said. “Look where I’ve gone, up and down, up and down, even in the state of Alaska the last couple of months. We can’t pay attention to those numbers.”

By Dave

November 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Vets for Martin - Mr. Wooten and I also 61 year old Vietnam vets (although I was a real infantryman), I honor all of our service. I support Max for many years, but he got what he deserved when he was defeated. He voted with the national party to protect unions over what was best for the country. You can try to rewrite what happend but Max did it to himself.

By getalife

November 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

President Obama is sending his team for Martin. Looks like he wants those Senate votes so help him out GA.

Support our new President by electing Martin.

By I VOTED!!!!

November 10, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

“Angry Left?” We have nothing to be angry about - WE WON!!!! Please do not let Georgia look like the fool we are (see our standing in this country under education, unemployment, etc) and vote for Chambliss. He does NOT deserve this position after what he has done to Ga. Vote Martin!!!

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 10, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Here’s why President Bush won’t be helping dad. He is also mad at dad for getting together with a bounch of liberal Democrats to overried Saxby’s veto of the farm bill. As Saxby says Lobbyist First, country when ever.

With 71 days left in office, President Bush is less popular than President Nixon was at the time of his resignation, according to data released Monday by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation.

The new poll, taken Thursday through Sunday, showed an approval rating of 24 percent and a disapproval rating of 76 percent.

CNN released a chart showing presidential “disapproval” ratings in CNN or Gallup polls for each president dating back to Harry Truman. This list shows the percentage of Americans who disapproved of the way each president was handling his job.

By hhhhmmmm

November 10, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Bamaguy - The line “draw the line in the sand” made my blood run cold.

So now common colloquial phrases are racist? Jeez, I like Obama and hope he’s a good president, but do people on the left really want to waste the next few years parsing everything the right says and then attaching a racist slant to it? Pretty soon, we won’t be able to say hello! “He - a male individual; lo - low, subpar. Must be talking about race…”

Dems led the country toward racial equality. But now the left just wants to use this issue, instead of resolve it. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we didn’t inject race into the thoughts or comments someone makes? And more honest?

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 10, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Mr.Chambliss is part of the old boys network , acts very concerned and gentlmenly then sells you out at the drop of a dime.Georgians PLEASE wake up.Change is good. Mr Martin may not have all the answers but you have all been had by the GA GOP. WAKE UP ! before its to late. GRACIAS AMIGOS.

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 10, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Mr.Chambliss is part of the old boys network , acts very concerned and gentlmenly then sells you out at the drop of a dime.Georgians PLEASE wake up.Change is good. Mr Martin may not have all the answers but you have all been had by the GA GOP. WAKE UP ! before its to late. GRACIAS AMIGOS.

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 10, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Mr.Chambliss is part of the old boys network , acts very concerned and gentlmenly then sells you out at the drop of a dime.Georgians PLEASE wake up.Change is good. Mr Martin may not have all the answers but you have all been had by the GA GOP. WAKE UP ! before its to late. GRACIAS AMIGOS.

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 10, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Mr.Chambliss is part of the old boys network , acts very concerned and gentlmenly then sells you out at the drop of a dime.Georgians PLEASE wake up.Change is good. Mr Martin may not have all the answers but you have all been had by the GA GOP. WAKE UP ! before its to late. GRACIAS AMIGOS.

By h ryder

November 10, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Keep reinforcing the idea that few people offering comments have the requisite ability of critically logicalical thinking and therefore exhibit that individual’s ignorance and prejudices.

By h ryder

November 10, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Keep reinforcing the idea that few people offering comments have the requisite ability of critically logicalical thinking and therefore exhibit that individual’s ignorance and prejudices.

By h ryder

November 10, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Keep reinforcing the idea that few people offering comments have the requisite ability of critically logicalical thinking and therefore exhibit that individual’s ignorance and prejudices.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 10, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics not for the faint of heart…

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOngFPgq7r3M&refer=home

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 10, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Your prequsite for obtuseness is remarkable.Please evcuse my lack of ideas, offerings and logicalness.Yo highness. ADIOS …

By Say What?

November 10, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

ANGRY LEFT? Is that what you think this election and its ultimate result was all about?

Indeed, you are too mired in Republican politics to understand the FRUITLESSNESS of your own party.

You were given the reigns of power. You asserted you had a mandate. You asserted that you had a moral authority born of Christianity. You laid out your governing principles.

And then you did just the opposite.

This vote was a referendum on George W. Bush. It was a referendum on the lies and distortions of the past 8 years. It was a referendum on the lack of accountability and honest assessment inherent in the GOP hard-liners.

Rest assured, this election wasn’t about the left. It was about the left, the center and the right. It was about change.

It was about time.

By SwedeAtlanta

November 10, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Angry Left? I think the anger is coming from across the political spectrum.

People on the left certainly were concerned from 2001 - 2007 when the Republic(an) party controlled both the Executive and Legislative branches of government. This was the era of the middle of the night votes on the Medicare RX plan that was written by pharmacuetical company lobbyists, the engagement in a war of choice, overspending for no gain on mainstreet, excessive greed, etc.

The right have been upset during the past 2 years when they saw that ideological divides between an ever unpopular president and a Congress that was only marginally held by the Democrats in the Senate. The result was gridlock on major policy and spending initiatives.

I think on both sides of the aisle there has been a realization that we must go a new way. That new way needs to be given a chance. We can’t afford to have Republicans in Congress FOR PURELY POLITICAL and IDEOLOGICAL grounds to stifle initiatives from the new President and majority party. If we don’t give them a try we will never accompish anything. I personally would welcome having the Republicans make recommendations for policy and improvements on proposed legislation. But please, for the sake of the nation and your children and grandchildren, behave like children and sulk by standing in the way of the change we all need.

By Auntie Kepila

November 10, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES! THE BEST OF ALL OUR BEST TO THE OLD BREED!

TRY NOT TO DRINK ANYTHING PURPLE TONIGHT, NOR ANYTHING SERVED IN A HELMET, OR BOTH.

SEMPER FI,

glenn

By Cornbread Fred

November 10, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Hey redneck convert: “godly republicans”?? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

By RobT

November 10, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

I will personally hold my nose and vote for Chambliss on Dec. 2. I was very unhappy about the pork laden monstrosity of a water bill and farm bill Chambliss voted for, but the thought of Obama and the Democrats with a filibuster proof majority in the Senate will make me suck it up and push the button for Chambliss.

By Curious Observer

November 10, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARINES! THE BEST OF ALL OUR BEST TO THE OLD BREED!

Thanks for remembering our birthday, Glenn. However, I’m much too old to engage in the fights that usually accompany Marine Corps birthday balls and drink the purple mixture. I think I’ll settle for a glass of chardonnay at home.