Thinking Right

By Another White Voter

November 22, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Chambliss has been a Bush rubber stamper who should be flushed down the political toilet like the rest of the Bush crowd.

By Sweet P

November 22, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Checks and balances are good.

By SOUTHERN ATL

November 22, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

During the election, the people of this “GREAT STATE” had BARACK OBAMA and JIM MARTIN…..on their minds!! If OBAMA would have spent more time here, he could have won GEORGIA!! I think that he wanted FLORIDA and NORTH CAROLINA more! We have a SECOND chance on giving him this state by choosing “JIM MARTIN”….If Dr. Martin Luther King was alive, he would probably be proud to know that his home state has united to elect MARTIN…..The ROAD always leads back to GEORGIA…….and the WORLD is watching…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8IqkRbxcTA&feature=related

This will be the biggest upset of the SOUTH! YOU BETCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Redneck Convert

November 22, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Well, us GA people got to stick with the old ways and vote for old Saxby. Some people might think the War of Northren Aggression is over, but it ain’t never been. These carpet baggers ain’t going to take over this state.

We made a big mistake bringing Those People over here to be our slaves. Turns out they multiply like rabbits and they turned on us. Us White folk got to stick together and keep godly Republicans in office. Even if old Saxby is pretty worthless as a senator, leastwise he’s White and votes that way for us. We got to keep this Obama from getting what he wants. Otherwise we’ll be the slaves. He’ll put a end to Trickle Down and sic the civil rights people on us. If we ain’t careful Those People will be just as good as us.

So be sure to vote but don’t vote more than once. They are about to check the voting rolls to see who voted more than once in this state. I’m still sweating it out but maybe they won’t find out I voted up in Rome too.

Have a good day everybody.

By AmVet

November 22, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

It is highly unlikely, even given his abysmal track record, that the rabid rural right and other Georgia crackers will exercise any critical thinking skills regarding not sending Socialist Saxby right back to DC to practice yet more of his unique “fiscal conservatism”.

But this runoff for Old Blood & Guts is apparently causing him to lose it in more obvious ways. He’ll probably get a total pass on the matter, though that other headcase Kenny Rogers, while a member of the Texas Rangers, was suspended for twenty games and fined 50 large when he took out that camera man who dared question him.

MANY, MANY people in this state despise Six deferment Saxby — for a host of reasons. And he knows it. Hanging on by a fingernail will relegate him even further to the lunatic fringe of the US Senate where he belongs, lobbying for his socialist buddies and corporate paymasters.

The man is a complete disgrace, but the “faithful” in the boot licking BushCo base love their neo-cons, and are now eight deadly years down the road are NOW wailing about “checks and balances” and “filibusters” so I predict back he’ll go…

By southside girl

November 22, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Another White Voter………….I agree!

By mike

November 22, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Nice history lesson in the article. Now it is easy to understand why the state of Georgia lags so far behind other states in most categories. At least when this run off is over, those personal attack tv ads will be over. Between Sony, Saxby and Johnny Georgia a trio of clowns running around this state.

By Jim Jr.

November 22, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Run for something Sarah Sax needs the money

By Gerrii

November 22, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

SWEEP

Thanks W – The President. You did your part —20% approval rating. Thanks Sarah – The Governor – More than did your part —58% incapable rating.

Read um and weep

By Tom

November 22, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Of course Saxby is going to go back. Remember, the same issue of National Journal that rated Barack Obama the most liberal member of the Senate also rated Saxby the third least-influential senator, ranking him 98/100 in terms of Senate influence. National Journal’s comment: “Chambliss is considered a real intellectual lightweight, even by his colleagues on the Republican right.”

Way to go, Saxby! Keep doin’ Georgia proud!

By Copyleft

November 22, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Looks like Wooten’s taking what little comfort he can… “Right-wing ignorance may have lost its grip on the country, but by golly we still own Georgia!”

By Devastator

November 22, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.

“These aren’t just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis. These are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long,” Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address.

The goal is to it quickly through Congress, with help from both parties, after Obama takes office Jan. 20. The plan, which envisions those new jobs by January 2011, is “big enough to meet the challenges we face,” he said.

Obama noted the growing evidence the country is “facing an economic crisis of historic proportions” and said he was pleased Congress passed an extension of unemployment benefits this past week. But, he added, `We must do more to put people back to work and get our economy moving again.”

Nonetheless, he said, “There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.”

It will take support from Democrats and Republicans to pass the economic plan, Obama said. “I’ll be welcome to ideas and suggestions from both sides of the aisle,” he said. “But what is not negotiable is the need for immediate action.”

People “are lying awake at night wondering if next week’s paycheck will cover next month’s bills,” if their jobs will remain, if their retirement savings will disappear, he added.

The Labor Department reported that claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level since July 1992, providing fresh evidence of the weakening job market.

“We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels,” Obama said. He also made a commitment to fuel-efficient cars and alternative energy technologies “that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.”

Obama pointed to the past, saying that Americans in this country’s darkest hours have risen above their divisions to solve their problems, as a hope for the future.

“We have acted boldly, bravely, and above all, together,” Obama said. “That is the chance our new beginning now offers us, and that is the challenge we must rise to in the days to come. It is time to act. As the next president of the United States, I will.”

By Republicans R Crooks

November 22, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Well, since the dummycrats let Lie-berman keep his chairmanship of the homoland security, ah reckon I can now vote for Martin. Striping Traitor Joe of the Chairmanship would have been worth allowing that idiot Saxby to remain in the Senate another six years. But the old boys network prevailed, so if i am in for a nickle, I might as well double down and put up a dime. Besides, the Obama team is looking real good, highly qualified people who will change the direction of this country from the disaster of the W’s eight long years of failure. Did you know that the W administration people are having a very difficult time in finding jobs outside of guv? It has been reported that W’s people are the most unqualified ever to grace the halls of power in WashingAss, they are just a pack of political hacks much like the Kirchners in Argentia. Good, no one hire a W alumni, not even for janitor….MAKE IT SO….

By ron

November 22, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Good late morning,The blacks weren’t interested in voting for Martin the first time through and I doubt that they’ll come out for him on Dec.2. Saxby should go back to Washington with about 57% of the vote.

Redneck,——I’ve told you before,when you vote more than once,use someone else’s name.The cemetaries are full of names for those with little imagination.Steal someone’s handbag and use their driver’s license.So what if you register as Mrs.Throckmorton Q. Ledbetter.Just let it be known that you intend to vote Republican.

I watched an interesting show on “NOW” via PBS last evening regarding the involvement of the ratings companies such as Standard and Poors and Moodys.If only half of what was reported was true it’s still pretty gruesome.The entire financial world was running on sheer greed.Entirely out of control.

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Well, have all you paid Democrats had your say this morning? I would hope so, but probably not.

OBama has 25 field offices in Georgia and I don’t think we have heard from all of them yet.

Saxby Chambliss will keep a Democratic Congress from running wild. He knows his way around Washington.

Don’t send Martin to Congress to raise your taxes, decimate the military and change your doctor for you. We do not want a socialized country.

Vote for SAXBY CHAMBLISS and keep Congress safe for America.

By Gator Joe

November 22, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Wooten: You are correct, President-elect Obama could not, nor could anyone else, convince a monolithic group of racist, narrow-minded, mostly white, mostly male southerners to vote while using common sense and reason. It is impossible, I repeat impossible, for Obama and a Democratic Congress, with Jim Martin, to do worse than Bush and a Republican-controlled Congress did.

By Republicans R Crooks

November 22, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Here is one example from the Washington Post of unqualified W people sneaking into civil service: Akers, a former GOP Capitol Hill staffer who did not make the list for the three best-qualified candidates when he initially applied for a GS-15 job at the DEA, got a second chance last month when the agency advertised it was taking applications for two weeks for a soon-to-be-vacant job in the Senior Executive Service.

Acting DEA chief Michele Leonhart announced on Nov. 13 that she had chosen Akers for the career position to help oversee a division called Demand Reduction, a headquarters job that the agency had previously told budget analysts it planned to eliminate.

A source familiar with the situation said the Justice Department raised concerns about the initial plan to hire Akers without opening the position for full competition. A Justice Department spokesman declined to elaborate but said the agency instructed the DEA to make the process fair and open.

Akers’s career path within the DEA over the past three years has yielded considerable financial benefits. For nine years before joining the DEA, he worked for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and as the director of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, where in 2005, his last year on the Hill, he made $39,000, legislative records show.

In his political “Schedule C” job at the DEA, Akers had a salary range of $115,00 to $149,000, depending on his step. His new senior executive position pays from $114,000 to $172,200

By Mr Charlie

November 22, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Gator Joe, why don’t you look at Obama’s fathers country to see how much worse things can be.

Our grocery stores are stocked, our “poor living in poverty” weigh 300 pounds, but yea, it would be impossible for things to be worse…..You just wait, I have a feeling we will be pining for the good old days of 2008.

By AmVet

November 22, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Of course, the Know-Nothing Party is miffed about Obama’s early picks.

The GOP First, Nation Second gang were fervently praying that he would pick modern day versions of Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell, Bert Lance and Griffin Bell.

Now that he hasn’t, the stupid analogy they’ve posited for weeks falls to pieces.

Like virtually every one of their moronic theories…

By Gerald West

November 22, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Saxby Chambliss is a faithful member of the Bush-Cheney-Republican team that brought America down from a robust economy to a financial meltdown. Now, he wants another term in the Senate to disrupt any good-faith efforts to repair the damage.

An honorable man in his position would have resigned before voting for the $700 billion bailout of financial speculators.

By Sweet P

November 22, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Obama has a popular imperative, an obligatory mandate, a pressing decree given him by no less an authority than the American People: Endow this country with a healthcare plan. Educate our youth. End our occupation of Iraq.

I watched all morning ( CSPAN) congress’s honorific speeches given for Alaska’s Sen. Stevens. They loved this guy. His crime does seem trite compared to the esteem in which his friends on his side of the aisle hold him so dearly. These speeches come across like the spectral opposite, bizarro world counterpart of a Roast Ceremony. I mean, Don Rickles would have thrown up.

I looks almost certain that GM will get it’s bailout. Hope you bought at the bottom. It’s too late now. You can thank me. I wrote a shock piece over at Galloway’s Blog entitled, “Die, GM, Die” for which I’ve been banned from commenting. I was using reverse psychology to shock congress and america into saving GM, cause the USA without a corvette just aint right. Anyway, you’d think a journalist would know over-the-top heavy handed chickensheet satire when he reads it. Imagine a pro falling for schtick like that. But you’re welcome. The auto companies are getting bailed out.

I am now banned from two blogs, Bookman’s and Galloway’s.

I am humbled, honored, and aw shucks, ya shouldn’t’ave.

By Churchill's MOM

November 22, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Here’s today’s Palin,, fun, fun, fun…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-holds-news-con145375.html

By Dusty for Martin

November 22, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Saxby is SLIME, vote MARTIN

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

I don’t believe ANYBODY wanted a remake of President Carter’s entourage. That is whom you named. Don’t know why you think Republicans would want such a group.

But it is surprising to get such a rerun of President Clinton’s confederates. There was a sigh of relief when they left and now some of them are back. But, if the only familiar faces are from Chicago politics or Washington insiders, I guess “insiders” are a better choice.

I do hope Obama keeps Gates. If ever there was a steady hand, he is IT! No sea of Democrats will sink him. There is SOME hope here.

By Focus On The Family

November 22, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

REPUBLICANS FOR JIM MARTIN

By National Homebuilders Association For Jim Martin

November 22, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

$axby has ruined the construction business.-No more taxpayer bail-outs.

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR WINNERS—GO CHAMBLISS!!

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Churchill’s MOM,

I though Obama had let the workers off for today. Didn’t they tell you? Oh and Sarah Palin is not running in any race. So you don’t need to link Huffinton Lib news here about her. We know that Huffington is a hate Republican venue.

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

MARTIN hates Construction Builders cause they don’t depend on government. Vote SAXBY CHAMBLISS for PROGRESS!!

By ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BAIL-OUT

November 22, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

*THE GEORGE BUSH DEPRESSION IS A REAL WINNER *—SAXBY IS A DRAFT-DODGER.

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

DEMOCRATIC DO NOTHING CONGRESS NEEDS STABILIZING.

VOTE FOR CHAMBLISS! HE CAN DO IT!

By Conscious

November 22, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Once, we educate young voters and new black, Latino and Asian voters to “vote down ticket” for Senators, etc. Georgia will become a Liberal Democrat stronghold.

Even Gwinnett County will be light blue beginning in 2012 and dark blue by 2020.

Thanks for pointing out this opportunity Wooten. Yes, we can! turn Georgia dark BLUE.

By REPUBLICAN GREED lLINES SAXBY'S POCKETS

November 22, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

$ 25,000 BAR-B-QUE PLATE DINNER FOR SAXBY and the rest of the FAIRY tax losers

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

The 25 Obama branch offices in Georgia are now shutting down for the weekend. Anybody that sounds like them is just someone who sneaked past Homeland Security to disrupt the country.

VOTE FOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS….THE GOOD CITIZEN WHO LOVES AMERICA*

By republicans evil time is up

November 22, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Notice how the rural north and south georgia rednecks scream how holy they are when they are the bootleggers of liquor, the weed pushers, the weed in the ghettoes come from the hillbilies,WHO SLEEPS WITH THEIR SISTERS REDNECKS,WHO TAKES A AK-47 to school and shoots everybody REDNECKS,WHO LISTENS TO DEVIL WORSHIPPING MUSIC REDNECKS, WHO OUTWARDLY WORSHIPS SATAN REDNECKS,WHO WANTS TO BOMB AND KILL EVERYBODY JUST LIKE SATAN REDNECKS, WHO IS GLAD WHEN BABIES AND OLD PEOPLE ARE KILLED REDNECKS. P.S.WHO CALLED MAX CLELAND A TERRORIST RACIST EVIL DEMONIC SUXBY SHAMELESS REDNECK DEVIL WORSHIPPING SUPPORTERS!

By Dusty for Martin

November 22, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Classic Republican campaign theme - scare the hell out of voters. There is a group of strange other people who aren’t like you and me, and they want to ruin our country. Nice.

I’m a Democrat, and I voted for Martin. So I guess I’m against freedom in America and the fundamental beliefs of the country?

We’ll see how much longer that dog will hunt in Georgia. But it ain’t working nationally.

By Saxby is a LIAR

November 22, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

So if Saxby is pro-gun, why is he he bringing in Rudy to help him out?

By Dusty for MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Saxby has some problems with sugar, and in particular with the Imperials Sugar fire. Watch him blame the whistleblower in this video of committee testimony. This is yet another example of Saxby being in the pocket of big agribusiness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OHF-ZaodkQ

And here saxby loses his cool when asked a simple question about Imperial Sugar. He puts his hand over the camera lens and pushes the amera aside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5QSk1_e3UQ

By Dusty for MARTIN

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

kathy cox is a $axby clone

By Dusty for MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

ELECT JIM MARTIN for U.S. SENATE

By Cathy Cox

November 22, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

CATHY COX MATH 101…Call SAXBY-,maybe the Republican Crooked Committee can come up with another BAIL-OUT.

By DUSTY FOR MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

REPUBLICANS HAVE RUINED THIS COUNTRY

By DUSTY FOR MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

*Back when the Democrats were in the minority, Republicans decried the use of filibusters in the Senate as “obstructionism.” Now Sissy Saxby’s whole campaign is a promise to thwart the will of the majority. Well, that and helping lobbyists. *

By DUSTY FOR MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.

At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.

You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.

He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!

Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.

Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.

Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.

As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

HEYYYY..I told you they would sneak past Homeland Security and here they are. They are even incorporating my ID (Dusty) into their propaganda bit.

Hide the women and children!! Hide the sugar!! Hide the cameras! Hide your ID!! But most of all.. hide Martin and keep him out of Congress!

VOTE FOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS AND SAVE CONGRESS!!!

By republicans evil time is up

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

Hey suxby supporters if suxby is reelected dont come to atlanta looking for work you north and south georgia hicks,remember the JOBS ARE HERE WHERE US LIBS DEMOCRATS ARE YOU POOR DUMBA** BROKE SUXBY SUPPORTERS, dont cry about your JOB BEING SENT OVER SEAS OR YOUR KIDS CANT GET STUDENT LOANS, OR YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET EVICTED FROM YOUR HOME, REMEMBER YOU WERE WARNED NOT TO RE-VOTE THIS SELL-OUT SUXBY,YOU RACIST HICKS DONT DO NO RESEARCH ON SUXBY, JUST BECAUSE HE STANDS NEXT TO THE REBEL FLAG AND SCREAMS DIXIE HE GOT YOUR VOTE P** OFF ON YOU HICK BACKWOOD ANIMALS

By LOBBYIST for Saxby

November 22, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Well, how convenient for Chambliss that he doesn’t have to talk about his Mafia like strong arming. He is good at representing the needs of Company Executives but not so much at supporting those whose family members died in an industrial “accident” that was bound to happen given Big Sugar decided to ignore safety regulations and recommendations. Oh wait, Chambliss expressed his deepest sympathy for the families (on his way to play golf).

By LOBBYIST for Saxby

November 22, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Poor taxpayer, you are confused. Sissy Saxby supported Ted Kennedy’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants. But it’s not his fault, his lobbyist bosses told him to do it.

By Saxby is a CROOK

November 22, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

Something to consider: Those folks who say “vote your pocketbook.” It seems that they recognize that Saxby is as corrupt as they come, a liar who shows favoritism toward big corporations but is the enemy of the real workers of this country. But by “voting their pocketbooks,” they’re willing to forget about what’s best for this country and cast their votes for a true sack of shinola. They put personal gain (or at least the chance of personal wealth) above what’s good for the country. Isn’t this flirting with TREASON? What’s the difference between selling out the best interests of this country for a few measly tax cut dollars and selling state secrets? Not much, really. Saxby is nothing but a fear-mongering crook who’d be more at home in the jail cell than in the Senate.

By Corporations for SAXBY

November 22, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Chambliss was the member of Congress a couple of years ago cited for the most heavy use of corporate jets to fly home to Moultrie, despite nearby commercial airports at Valdosta and Tallahassee. I might not agree with the political views of Johnny Isakson, but he’s not a crook like Chambliss. Georgia voters need to send him the same message that they sent Ralph Reed (taking money from the Indian casinos via convicted felon Jack Abramoff), go to hell!

By Dusty

November 22, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Hmmm they are getting a bit touchy here, aren’t they?

Well, if you see my ID here later, it is simply the escapees sounding off. Excuse them. They don’t know any better.

Maybe I will see you tomorrow. Now don’t forget: SAXBY FOR CONGRESS!

By VETS FOR MARTIN

November 22, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

From an Oct. 26, 2008 AJC article: *”But even McCain condemned as “reprehensible” a Chambliss ad against Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a Vietnam War triple amputee, in 2002.

Claiming a bad knee, Chambliss received deferments that kept him out of Vietnam. But his ad, which featured photos of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, implicitly questioned Cleland’s patriotism and explicitly doubted his courage.

“Since July, Max Cleland voted against President Bush’s vital homeland security efforts 11 times!” the voice-over intoned. That completed a remarkable Swiftboating of the truth.

In 2002, President Bush initially resisted calls from several Democrats, including Cleland, to establish a Homeland Security department. When Bush finally relented, he tangled with Democrats over labor rules for department employees. Disagreements about those rules accounted for the votes Chambliss used to paint Cleland as soft on terrorism.*

Chambless surely is, as noted above, a scumbag and an embarassment to the citizens of Georgia.

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 22, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Chambliss is shameless and corrupt. The earlier post is correct; Chambliss has received large campaign donations from the sugar industry and specifically Imperial Sugar. During the senate hearing, he falsely accused the whistleblower of being the one who was responsible for the conditions that led to the tragic explosion. But this is Chambliss’ pattern. Consider the tragedy of Katrina. Afterward, he voted against all legislation that would have helped schools and individuals. He was opposed to investigations of the government’s response to the hurricane. Instead, he voted for tax breaks for businesses. Also, consider his response to the financial markets plunge. There are a large and growing number of foreclosures taking place in Georgia. There are hundreds of thousands of mortgages that are 60 days past due. Instead of trying to figure a responsible way to reduce the number of foreclosures, he hands $700 billion to the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. For those of you who do not know, Goldman Sachs was one of the biggest players in sub prime lending and derivative trading. Chambliss is a corporate lackey.

By SAXBY STOLE MY 401K

November 22, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Saxby’s Gang of 10 Traitors has helped elect OBAMA. His vote for the $700,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bailout with an added $153,000,000,000.00 of pork was done after he got over $2,000,000.00 from LOBBYIST. Saxby worked with Pelosi, Reid, Boxer & Kennedy on the ILLEGAL AMNESTY Bill & to over ride President Bush’s Veto of the PORK filled Farm Bill. If this is what our country needs we are in deep trouble.

By AJ

November 22, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Ask yourselves: What has Chambliss done to benefit Georgia directly? Hardly any job growth. Hardly any funds for transportation improvements. Hardly any changes in public policy. Did he even show up for work? It’s difficult to tell!

Saxby, what have you done for me lately?

By SAXBY shipped my job to CHINA

November 22, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

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 AmVet

November 22, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

Don’t know why you think Republicans would want such a group.

Because like you, Musty, they hope beyond hope that the loathed liberal fails. Even to their own detriment, just like supporting BushCo was. The GOP comes first though, and the country second…

Socialist Saxby’s TV ads about Martin wanting to raise our taxes and Mr. Fiscal Conservative himself wanting to lower them is lacking something.

Oh yeah!

There are no pictures of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein!

The poor old coot must be doing his compassionate conservative schtick…

By mister.earl

November 22, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Read And Learn

“This is the violin model: Hold power with the left hand, and play the music with your right,” David J. Rothkopf, a former Clinton official who wrote a history of the National Security Council, said on Friday, as news of Mrs. Clinton’s and Mr. Geithner’s appointments leaked. “It’s teaching us something about Obama: while he wants to bring new ideas to the game, he is working from the center space of American foreign policy.”

At the time Mr. Geithner developed a reputation as the ultimate pragmatist, putting together a package of more than $100 billion in aid to halt the financial contagion. That turned out to be a training session for his role, a decade later, in the bailouts of Bear Stearns, A.I.G. and the injection of nearly $350 billion in Congressionally authorized money, whose exact use has become something of a political football.

Mr. Geithner grew up in Asia — in Tokyo, New Delhi and Bangkok — and keeps his ego well in check. He asks a lot of questions, but does not have Mr. Summers’s overwhelming — some say overbearing — personality.

“He clicked with Obama,” one outside adviser said. “If you think about it, their sort of cool, distant styles are alike.”

• NYT

By cochise

November 22, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Georgia loses jobs and it Bush and saxby’s fault, has nothing to do with jobs going over seas to avoid our tax code that is insane. Unemployment hand outs go up and it is bush’s fault, nothing to do with the raise in minimum wage. Barak want to “Create” jobs, How does the government create jobs, it has no money, no income, just what it receives from taxpayers. To take money from someone who is working and then to create a job and give that money to someone else is not how it works, those are not the kind of jobs that last. They are jobs on paper only. If people lay awake at night and worry about their problems, how is that the job of government to fix it and make them warm and fuzzy at night? When you lay awake and worry about your bills, you cut spending to the bone and get another job at night. I have held 3 jobs at the same time and never wondered how the pres. was going to take care of me. A nation of losers has elected one of their own.

By catlady

November 22, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Bush, Cheyney, Chambliss, Perdue, Richardson, Cox, Handel, Palin, ……. Anyone see a pattern? I can continue if needs be.

By cochise

November 22, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

and lets talk about katrina, if you are told to evacuate because a hurricane is coming, and you decide to stay, why are you some body else s problem? If you live in that area you should be ready for things like that to happen. If not , to bad. Why is the government supposed to come and rescue a bunch of parasites? If my house burns down , who comes to my rescue? The insurance company I pay. Also the bank I put my savings in for emergencies. I was angry to see all those people whining with their hand out, they spent enough time and energy crying in front of TV cameras to have gone out and found work. F-em. The vultures have to eat too.

By Chad Harris

November 22, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

The odds are against Georgians giving Obama what he wants because it ranks near the bottom in education. Georgia is still a backwoods haven for racial bigots with 2 bit educations who continually make fools of themselves misunderstanding the legal system. Jawjaw is a slave state and it’s higher education icon is the keg.

Rethuglicans pander to ignorance and it is abundant in Jawjaw.

Meanwhile the Bush moron is being hung and burned in effigy. It needs to resign now. As Collins noted, Bush is meeting in Peru with Asian leaders who could care less whet he thinks. Bush has been preaching free market while the financial syhstem disintegrates around him, and as with Katrina he doesn’t have a clue what to do with the clusterf*ck his administration and Phil Graham created.

March to 60 Progresses On

Al Franken is narrowing the lead and now is within 120 votes of the moron Coleman. Franken will soon overtake Coleman and if their is litigation it will be decided by the Democratic laden US Senate. Kiss that one buh buh Thugs.

Minnesota Recount by County as of 4:30PM 11/22

http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenco.html

The racially bigotted Thugs and Wooten’s party are as dead as Coverdale.

The Republican members of the Jawjaw house are laughing stocks of the rest of the country. One idiot from Mayretta wanted to eecute physicians who performed legal abortions. The same moron, Bobby Franklin crafted a bill without the help of Legislative Counsel that asserted stem cells cause metastatic neoplasms.

Wooten oozes ignorance and swims in it. I wouldn’t be citing the Jaw Jaw legislature as a symtpom of anything but ignorance.

The black percentage and percentage of non-white carckers continues to grow in JawJaw and soon the Rethugs will be as dead as Coverdale.

Suxbutt Chumpass attacked a camera when a journalist hit at the truth—that just as he ran from the draft to Vietnam as a coward, Suxbutt is running from a subpoena to testify that he’s the puppet of a sugar company whose negligence resulted in nearly20 deaths.

If someone as ignorant and poorly educated as Wooten can find his way to the “polls” so can Obama’s voters for Martin whether Obama comes down to the slave state and bastion of ignorance and the wasteland in education Jawjaw.

Chumpass is a loser and his efforts and Wooten’s at obstruction and racially bigotted hatred will be overwhelemed by the Obama administration and the next Congress.

By Jim Wooten

November 23, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

I have to write this garbage about Saxby the Socialist but I am VOTING FOR MARTIN Here’s my May 13 editorial about SAXBY’s LOBBYIST POEK filled farm bill. Vote Martin early and often

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 SUGAR LOBBYIST FOR SAXBY

November 23, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Chambliss toughens criticism of refinery worker Imperial Sugar Factory explosion near Savannah By Ben Evans | Associated Press | Story updated at 10:49 PM on Friday, August 1, 2008 WASHINGTON - Sen. Saxby Chambliss - already facing heat for sharply questioning a whistleblower in a fatal sugar refinery accident outside Savannah - toughened his criticism by saying the employee is “on the hook” for the February explosion that killed 13 workers.

Asked about the issue in the Capitol on Friday, the Georgia Republican suggested that the whistleblower is trying to deflect from his own failure to act by accusing Imperial Sugar Co. executives of resisting safety warnings about the company’s plant in Port Wentworth.

Chambliss said if vice president of operations Graham H. Graham knew the plant was so dangerous, he should have pressed more urgently to shut it down.

“My question is if it was that bad, and you thought somebody was fixing to get killed, why in the world weren’t you more forceful?” he said. “Why didn’t he really do something? Because … as a result of his failure to do something a serious accident did happen, in my opinion.”

“This guy Graham knows he’s on the hook,” Chambliss added.

Chambliss, who works closely with the sugar industry as the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, insists he is not trying to defend Imperial, which is among the largest U.S. sugar producers.

But his comments are the latest in which he has focused on Graham as a culprit instead of the company, despite a recent government investigation that accused Imperial of willfully and egregiously violating dozens of safety standards.

Graham’s supporters emphasize that Graham had worked at Imperial for just three months before the accident, and that safety hazards had developed over years.

Graham’s attorney, Philip Hilder, called Chambliss’ criticism “absolutely nonsensical.”

“That plant has existed for some 90 years before Mr. Graham came,” Hilder said. “He was diligent in addressing the problems and got pushback from upper management, and for the senator … to suggest that he joined the company just a matter of weeks before the explosion and that fault lies with him - even though he saw the problem and tried to rectify it - is just the height of irresponsibility.”

Hilder and others have accused Chambliss of doing the company’s bidding on Tuesday when he sharply questioned Graham at a Senate hearing. Chambliss’ questions raised eyebrows because no one aside from Imperial had publicly doubted Graham’s claims. That includes Chambliss’ fellow Georgia Republican, Johnny Isakson. The two rarely split, but Isakson says he has full faith in Graham’s account.

Some of Chambliss’ questions at the hearing were similar to a line of questioning that Imperial had suggested to lawmakers, but Chambliss said Friday he never saw any questions suggested by Imperial.

Chambliss also said he has not been influenced by any lobbyists for the Sugar Land, Texas-based company or by his son, Bo. The younger Chambliss is an in-house Washington lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which also is represented by an outside firm that lobbies for Imperial Sugar.

“My purpose has been to try to get the facts out,” Chambliss said. “This guy (Graham) is an agent of the company. How anybody can interpret that I’m doing something for the benefit of the company when really I’m chastising their agent is beyond me … The company’s got to stand on their own. I’m not about to defend them in any way.”

Investigators say the refinery explosion was fueled by excessive accumulations of dust that was probably ignited when a large bucket used to haul sugar in a silo elevator broke loose and struck the metal siding, causing a spark.

In his Senate testimony, Graham described the plant as the dirtiest and most dangerous he had ever seen. He said it was littered with debris and sugar dust. Electrical equipment had missing safety covers, and motors and controls were encrusted with sugar, he said, while fire protection gear was “sheathed in dust so thick it was impossible to determine if it was operable.”

OSHA has proposed nearly $9 million in fines, which if sustained would be the agency’s third-highest on record.

Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 080208

By LOBBYIST FOR SAXBY

November 23, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Saxby has worked hard to get things done for his friends on Wall Street.

Yes to rewarding companies that send American jobs to China, India, and other countries. In 2004, Chambliss voted against closing up $39 billion in tax breaks for companies that outsource their jobs. [Vote 90, 5/11/04] In 2005, Chambliss voted against against repealing tax incentives for domestic companies that move their manufacturing plants out of the U.S. [Vote 63, 3/17/05] He even gave those same companies a tax cut. In 2003, Chambliss voted to cut taxes on U.S. companies’ overseas income from 35% to 5.25%. [Vote 165, 5/15/03]

Won’t hold U.S. companies accountable if they deal with terrorists. Chambliss even voted against an amendment that makes U.S. businesses liable for dealing with foreign businesses that have links to terrorism. [Vote 203, 7/26/05]

By Tommy

November 23, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

jim, i saw you at the “bookstore” yesterday afternoon…

By Dusty for MARTIN

November 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

The bailout, a different perspective

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed.

Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a w******* house and selling booze?

By Redneck Convert

November 23, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Well, about all I got to say this a.m. is I’m real sorry Sister Dusty come out for this Jim Martin, a commie if there ever was one. And here I thought she was a good Christian woman. She needs to get Right with the Lord. Instead of blasting me and acting like I’m some kind of librul bum.

I’m headed down to the Church of Holiness to hear the Rev. Postlewaite preach about the sins we done to get us into a mess that caused the Lord to visit this Obama on us. He ain’t as good as the Rev. Jim Bob Buice, but he’ll have to do now that the Rev. Jim Bob can’t be around kids no more on account of being caught buck-nekkid with that boy in the bushes.

Later me and the missus are headed for Ryans to put on the feedbag. One thing’s for sure, she gets her money’s worth. They need to just hand her a big platter instead of a little plate so she won’t have to go back so often. Maybe one the size you use to put a turkey on. She probly wouldn’t have to go back more than two or three times with one of them. It’s awful hard on her. She needs to use a cane on account of she’s too heavy for her legs and it takes her forever to go back and forth.

Have a good day everybody and don’t try to buy beer on my Sabbath. We got to keep Sunday holy. This is a Christian state and if you don’t have sense enough to stock up on Saturday you deserve to be thirsty today.

By Send Washington a message

November 23, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Negative ads are $axby’s trademark,-never anything about his accomplishments which do not exist whatsoever.

By Jack Smith

November 23, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

WE HAVE MORE TO DO:

Democrat Jim Martin is in a runoff against Bush Republican Saxby Chambliss for the Senate seat from Georgia. Bush’s Saxby Chambliss voted against spending a few measly dollars to provide health care coverage for Georgia, and Americas needy children. But he supported wasting hundreds of billions of your dollars, and the life BLOOD of Americas finest on an unnecessary war in Iraq.

At a time when 47 million of you have no health insurance coverage, and over 100 million of you with insurance are just one major illness away from complete financial destruction. Bush and Saxby Chambliss voted to make the heart break of bankruptcy relief even harder for all of you to use.

You see, Bush and Saxby Chambliss, and his family don’t have to worry about their health care coverage. They have the finest health care coverage your tax money can buy for them. Courtesy of you. The American Tax payer. In fact, no one but the super rich can afford the health care coverage you the tax payer provide for Saxby Chambliss, and his family for FREE! with your tax dollars.

He supposedly works for you. But he doesn’t think you and your family should have access to the type of taxpayer supported FREE health care that you provide for him, and his loved ones for FREE!. Doesn’t that just make you BURRING MAD!

Vote for JIM MARTIN for US senator from Georgia. Vote for JIM Martin who will be on your side. Vote for JIM MARTIN who will work with President Obama and a majority congress for you. Vote for JIM MARTIN most of all for your-self, your family’s, friends, and loved ones. Vote for JIM MARTIN for a better America, and a better World.

Don’t let Saxby Chambliss make a chump out of you by tricking you into voting against your own best interest. Saxby chambliss is NOT! on your side. He’s not one of you. He is on George Bush’s side. And we all know what a catastrophe the Bush Chambliss administration has been the past 8 years.

Contact all your family and friends and do every thing you can to see to it that JIM MARTIN and GEORGIANS! take that senate seat back for Georgia, and America. No matter where you live in America. This is important to you. President Obama will need all the help, and power you can give him to try and fix this catastrophic mess that the Corrupt Bush Chambliss administration has created.

As I said before you will have to vote in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush Chambliss “Let Them Eat Cake” vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help everyone you can get to the polls and vote for JIM MARTIN. You and your loved ones don’t have to be Saxby Chambliss’s victims anymore.

I know you will get it done. Just like you did for President Obama.

God bless all of you

By Dusty for Martin

November 23, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

The election issue for Georgians is really quite simple and straightforward: Would you rather have a Senator Martin sitting in the power centres of the Senate, deciding the form and content of policies being formed to deal with Bush’s economic disaster, Bush’s foreign adventurism, and Bush’s deficits? Or would you rather have a Senator Chambliss sitting over among the nay-sayers and Bush clones, with no power to do more than yell, “NO!” Choose, Georgia!

By Chad Harris

November 23, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Moron Bush continues to exacerbate and create enormous problems and landmines for President Obama. The most constructive service Bush could ever perform for this country is to call in the moving crews and get their clusterf*ck butts out of Washington this morning.

Tom Friedman picks up the chant, though presumably tongue in cheek:

*If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. Forget the inaugural balls; we can’t afford them. Forget the grandstands; we don’t need them. Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let’s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One. *

The reality is that Bush is still President, has no intention of leaving early, and his cabal is frantically leaving land mines throughout the nation’s regulatory system as fast as they can force bad rules through what’s left of the legal process. There will be more damage done to health and safety, energy resources and environmental protection in the next 60 days than in the last two years, even as dozens of corrupt Bushies burrow into the federal civil service.

Congress should be in session without recess into January to disrupt this ideologically spent and corrupt regime’s efforts. But more than that, we should not be letting the Bush Administration or this Congress off the hook for confronting the financial and economic crises they’ve created and mostly neglected.

The economy’s plight is their responsibility and dealing with its fallout, including the need to save the nation’s auto industry, is not something that can wait. Since we need a rapid stimulus to rescue cities and states to save health coverage and jobs, and Detroit needs a bridge loan to get them into next year, there’s no excuse for not doing that now.

We’ve got people losing health care, losing homes. There are viable proposals (SCHIP, Bair’s foreclosure plan, etc) to address these, or at least keep them from getting far worse, so enact them now.

And don’t tell me the Republicans will obstruct this or the President may veto anything decent. Let them try while they’re attending conferences and giving mindless interviews on CNN on how they plan to resurrect their Party’s deservedly dismal image. Why are we listening to these clowns when the nation is drowing? Congress should be forcing votes on these issues now, so that when January comes, there’s no doubt why these multiple crises remain unaddressed if Congress and President Bush fail to act.

By AmVet

November 23, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Spineless Norm Coleman:

(Reuters) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee is opening a probe into causes of the global financial crisis, focusing in part on whether bond-ratings firms, driven by conflicts of interest, boosted mortgage investments which have since collapsed, the Wall Street Journal said.

The ranking Republican on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, Senator Norm Coleman, told the WSJ in an interview that investigators want to know whether competition among firms led them to issue certain ratings in order to win business from banks.

“We’re going to look at the root causes of this, looking at whether the inherent conflict clouded the judgment of the agencies,” Senator Coleman said.

McGraw-Hill Cos Inc’s Standard & Poor’s, Fimalac SA’s Fitch Ratings and Moody’s could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters.

Critics of the firms have accused them of fueling the credit crisis by wrongly assigning high ratings to structured debt, including debt tied to risky mortgages, in the hope of winning fees from issuers.

But, are the government’s toadies going to do anything other than look? Not likely. They wouldn’t want to indict any of the corporate criminals and casino capitalists who just happen to be their paymasters.

And for whom they work rather than for you and me…

By Chad Harris

November 23, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Shorter: Bush Cheney have wrecked this country beyond any expectations in history. Get these morons out of the way now and take Suxbutt Chumpass with ‘em.

By shiny happy people

November 23, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

i almost feel sorry for obama

the weight of the expectation must be enormous.

By Chad Harris

November 23, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Coleman’s lead has been trimed to 180 ballotws with 32% of the ballots left to count. The key could definitely be in the challenged ballots which will be reviewed in mid-December by the Canvass Board.

From the Miknnesota Star Tribune:

*Another way that some sources may report the recount results is by setting the vote totals to zero, and reporting only the new vote totals for each candidate as they come in over the ensuing weeks. But those totals could show one candidate leading the other by thousands of votes based on partial returns – and yet if neither candidate has picked up a net increase in those precincts compared with the pre-recount totals from those precincts, then the overall gap remains at 215.

In other words, don’t compare the difference in the statewide vote totals for Coleman and Franken to the 215-vote gap, because that would be an invalid comparison until every ballot is recounted.

If that’s not confusing enough, keep in mind that the way news organizations collect and report data from recount sites during the course of each day will vary – and thereby result in inconsistent tallies. The Secretary of State will receive end-of-the-day reports from recount sites and will post the results on its website – www.sos.state.mn.us — at 8 p.m. each day. We will each day reconcile those results with the results already published on StarTribune.com.*

By Fred Tucker

November 23, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Looking at the campaign ads on tv turns my stomach. Republicans seem to think the only solution to economic downs is to cut taxes, because I seldom hear anything else from this Chambliss guy.

Jim Martin hasn’t put forth anything to interest anybody except he isn’t Chambliss.

Someone said you get the government you deserve. If these are the 2 options to pick from, this country is in deeper trouble than I thought.

I cannot vote in this election, having just moved from Texas. But I feel sorry for this state. Jobs are being lost daily and nobody is proposing solutions, just smears.

By E

November 23, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Things to keep in mind…

Anyone else feel like having a civilized conversation about the future of our Country?

By Dusty

November 23, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

My goodness, have you ever seen so much propaganda at one time, all saying the same thing? Jim Wooten lets anybody post here, even the lib nut cases.

Our undercover agent, RedNeck, is in on the act also.

Oh well, it is the holiday season and we need a few more lib comics. I will give you a helping hand:

GIVE CONGRESS MORE CLOWNS. VOTE FOR MARTIN!

By mdr

November 23, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

if the state of geargia gave lier metals saxby would be number one

By Ga Taxpayer

November 23, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Dear Saxby,

Thanks for nothing.

Sincerely, Betrayed Georgians

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

November 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

krusty the clown, Chambliss is a crook and we’ve had enough of him. He’s got to go and he will go! It’s a new day and this vampire has stayed past sunrise. Drive a stake through his heart and listen to the screams on election night!

By wtf?

November 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

where’s the grey gay goose?

By catlady

November 23, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

It is simple. Look at what Chambliss has and has not done. If you are happy with what he has done, vote for him. If you think his stands on immigration (until he got an idea of how mad the electorate was), pork, supporting the troops (without becoming one himself), rewarding agribusiness at the expense of helping family farmers, etc are the right way, vote for him. If not, don’t give him a second chance to betray you. If you don’t vote FOR Martin, at least vote AGAINST Chambliss. He has ridden the golden goose for 6 years. Time for him to get off and walk. He can perfect his golf game on his own dime.
Time to send a message to Washington, via voting Chambliss out of office, that WE WON’T PUT UP WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL. THE RAPE OF THE TAXPAYER HAS TO STOP.

By Dusty

November 23, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

GIVE CONGRESS MORE CLOWNS. VOTE FOR MARTIN.

By Dusty for MARTIN

November 23, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Dusty 3:15

Better clowns than CROOKS,, Save Congress Vote MARTIN

By ron

November 23, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Good evening folks,Been busy today.Helped to install some plumbing.Lot of work.We put in Pex tubing. Good stuff.

I see everyone is still yammering about the same humdrum things.Even Conrad Black.He says he’s innocent and the American justice system is full of holes.I say he got what he deserved.He can do the sme slimy tricks in Britain and Canada and get away with it.Not here though.Slammer time.

Dusty—-Be good to Redneck.

My gasoline bill this week was $14.02.Thinga are gettng better.Citibank is collapsing.They need to purchase Wachovia to surviive and didn’t have the money.The CEO says they have enough money to make it.How long?Two weeks? More bailout money please.

Redneck—-Buying beer on the Sabbath has to wait until the preacher gets back from church and opens up his bootleg business.

By One Voice

November 24, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

How pathetic is it that the Republican party is hanging all of their hopes for having any power whatsoever on a runoff in order to be able to filibuster and be obstructionists? Barely holding an incumbent spot in a red state during a runoff is their last great hope. Ha! Ha!

But they’ll most likely get their wish and hold the seat of that corrupt lowlife, Saxby Chambliss. It’s pretty sad when a party has to rest all their hopes on a person of that (low) caliber. But Georgia is one of the last red(neck) states with more than 3 people. There are enough ignorant hillbillies (read: a lot of them) in Georgia and Texas to at least give Republicans a few electoral votes every election.

With the Latino and Black populations increasing and young voters overwhelmingly voting Democratic, I don’t think the Republicans realize the extent that they will be marginalized over the next 20 years. That’s fine, though. Keep chugging away with your failed policies and we’ll keep rejecting them.

By **The Devil's Advocate**

November 24, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Already voted. I even received a robo-call from Saxby. Sorry buddy. Not this time.

On the attack ads put out by the Saxby camp… did anybody take time to notice the years that Martin committed the bad ole’ raised taxes… voted himself a raise?

Some were from the late 80’s and others from the early 90’s. I can’t even remember the economy back then.

By SOUTHERN ATL

November 24, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

There comes a time when the people of this “GREAT STATE” will say ‘ENOUGH ALREADY”!!

We are speaking loud and clear at the polls and on the AJC blogs….No matter how many Republicans stump for SAXBY, he is not OUR CHOICE Jim Martin is!!!

Rudy Giuliani, Sara Palin, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee you are invited to join Congress on December 2, 2008 in Washington D.C………….

The congress will come to order….. They will ask “SENATOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS” to stand…..speeches will be made…followed by applauses…and a song will be dedicated… here is it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YSHwJ_SAA&feature=related

Thanks to all of you for a hard fought race!!!

By Cindy

November 24, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

It never ceases to amaze me how people will defend and support incompetence in the name of a political party.

By DeFeXon

November 24, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

My brothers, we are now in position to get the reparations due to us for 400 years of oppression. We need to push hard for this now so that we can get what is due to us for what was stolen from our ancestors. White people need to give us back the wealth they gained from our people’s sweat and blood. The quicker we can begin this process the better. We need to elevate our people in this society to a more prominent level that will advance our race. Reparations (wealth redistribution) will do this for us. This is the change we need. Go OBAMA and JIM MARTIN!!!!!

By SaveOurRepublic

November 24, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

The fact that Saxby “Shameless” is bringing in that RINO scumbag Rudy “Ghouliani” speaks volumes of “Suxby’s” Neocon status. “Ghouliani” is a 9/11 profiteer who’s made millions from that heinous (false flag) attack & was probably in cahoots (or had some degree of prior knowledge)….if you doubt that, just ask yourself “Cui Bono??…ie - Rudy & his million$ in books, speeches, “Ghouliani” Partners contracts, etc.”.

That being said, I can’t justify casting a vote for Leftist leaning Martin either. I suspect he’ll fall in line with “Bacrock Obuma’s” anti-2nd Amendment, anti-1st Amendment (“Fairness” Doctrine), UN pandering & pro-infanticide agenda. As I voted for Buckley in the General Election, I’ll probably abstain for voting for the “lesser of two evils” in the primary.

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By ...Fiscal Conservatives for Jim Martin

November 24, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

$AXBY IS ABOUT as INSPIRING as TED STEVENS and his bridge to nowhere .-Let us all come together and finish throwing these rascals out and try to clean up the incompetent mess they created with our tax dollars.

By NO GREED... LEFT BEHIND

November 25, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

MOTHERS AGAINST SAXBY (sissy) CHAMBLISS