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DEL.ICIO.USSaxby Chambliss says he’d vote to expel Alaska senator, and Sarah Palin may be ready to replace him
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saxby Chambliss said Wednesday that he’ll vote to expel Republican colleague Ted Stevens, should the long-time Alaskan senator win his re-election bid.
Stevens was convicted of seven felony counts last month related to the failure to report gifts from lobbyists. He is leading narrowly in his re-election bid but has not officially been declared the winner of a seventh full Senate term.
“First of all, I hope Senator Stevens is successful in being re-elected. And assuming that he is, I intend to support any motion to remove him,” Chambliss said during a press conference with John Ensign of Nevada, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina has served notice that he’ll seek to expel Stevens from the Senate Republican Conference at a meeting next Tuesday.
While Ensign said that he, too, would vote to expel Stevens from the GOP circle — a move that would foreshadow expulsion by the entire Senate — the Nevada senator counseled waiting to see whether Stevens wins his race.
“If he actually wins the election, then you have to expel him twice. And so it’s probably better to let Alaska — it’s probably going to take a while to count all the votes up there — let that take place, then after the first of the year deal with it,” Ensign said.
Expulsion or, more likely, a resignation would trigger a 90-day special election to replace him, Ensign said. It would also give Republicans a chance to keep the seat out of Democratic hands.
Gov. Sarah Palin, the former GOP vice presidential candidate, has been mentioned as a candidate if Stevens leaves or is ousted. And just by coincidence, she was interviewed this afternoon on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”
In the interview, which airs at 9 p.m. tonight, King asked Palin if she intends to finish out her term. ” I will do what the people of Alaska want me to do,” Palin replied. “If they call an audible on me, and if they say they want me in another position, I’m going to do it.”
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By Denise
November 12, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
David Brooks is right about Palin: She is indeed a cancer on the Republican Party.
So I guess we Dems don’t have to bother with saying “a pox on the GOP’s house.” Looks like they already have one!
haha!
By catlady
November 12, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this
Dear God! Palin and Chambliss in the Senate? The blind leading the blind (at least ethically)
By gerard
November 12, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this
Why do we keep having to hear from this woman..she makes me sick. If God wills it she will go to the Senate, how about the wilderness.
By gerard
November 12, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
Why do we keep having to hear from this woman..she makes me sick. If God wills it she will go to the Senate, how about the wilderness.
By atrick
November 12, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this
Saxby got 2 1/2 million for reducing controls on wall street; We got screwed! Now we need Pull (with a capital “P”) in Washington. Saxby will “Pull” us all down the sewer, with him! The only thing Saxby will do for Georgia is stink the place up! (North Carolina will get 10 times as much as Georgia from Washington because of 1 democrat senator) Wake up Georgians! Times are going to be bad! We will need help from Washington! Saxby can’t get it!
By Fairlane
November 12, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this
Why are the lefties so worried about what Sarah Palin does? You don’t have to vote for her! She doesn’t need your simple minded vote to win… have a nice day.
By Fairlane
November 12, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this
Why are the lefties so worried about what Sarah Palin does? You don’t have to vote for her! She doesn’t need your simple minded vote to win… have a nice day.
By kat
November 12, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this
You want to know why you keep hearing about palin..She will be our change for 2012..You all are just so jealous its eatin you up..You might as well take a nap for the next 4 years..
By larry jones
November 12, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
trig palin 2028 lets break the final glass ceiling
By Sissy Saxby
November 12, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this
Sissy Saxby hopes Stevens wins? Why?
By VETERANS for GEORGIA
November 12, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this
EXPEL SAXBY in the RUNOFF—VOTE MARTIN
By Hamad Meander
November 12, 2008 10:48 PM | Link to this
Vote for Martin - enjoy higher taxes, more unemployment, more government control of your lives, and less national security. The choice is clear. Vote Socialist, and have more choices made for you for the greater ‘good’ of all.
By Leesa Murkycow
November 12, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this
“if the people want me in another position”? Huh? Once again , Palin exhibits (or professes) ignorance. If she replaced felon Stevens, it would because SHE SELECTS HERSELF.
Hot damn! Sary Palin and the Wasilla Hillbillies head for ol’ DC. Yeee Haw! Looks like her redneck hubby will need to keep those $40,000 worth of duds after all. He might miss a few of the Alaskan Independence Party meetings, though.
By Shannon, M.Div.
November 12, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this
Atrick is onto something.
With a Democratic majority, if we want any of those $$ coming home, we’d darn well better send a Democratic senator.
By Mike K.
November 12, 2008 11:16 PM | Link to this
According to the latest count, the Democratic challenger has just taken the lead over Senator Felon.
By VETERANS for GEORGIA
November 13, 2008 12:48 AM | Link to this
SISSY SAXBY MUST BE DEFEATED
By Republicans For MARTIN***
November 13, 2008 12:53 AM | Link to this
SAXBY IS A SOCIALIST DRAFT DODGER
By FREEDOM WATCH.....
November 13, 2008 1:26 AM | Link to this
Why not bring George Bush in to help Saxby,is he ashamed of *”W’ and the WRONG they accomplished together?*
By Filibuster Draft Dodgers.....
November 13, 2008 1:37 AM | Link to this
McCain hit it right on the head,Saxby Chambliss is disgraceful.
By Give us a Filibuster Proof Senate.
November 13, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this
Do not support theRescue package for the Saxby and Bo Chambliss financial community.
By truetejas
November 13, 2008 1:53 AM | Link to this
The bad news is that some candidates will have a given number of supporters no matter how devisive or reprehensible their stance may be on issues of the day.
But, the good news is that the population of those supporters keeps getting smaller and smaller.
The fabric of the country is in shambles after 8 years of neglect and instead of any constructive thought all we hear are cries of “socialist”. A democracy always gets the government it deserves.
By Mothers Against Draft Dodgers
November 13, 2008 2:01 AM | Link to this
MADD: says-throw the draft-dodger out!
By texancowboy
November 13, 2008 2:24 AM | Link to this
Truetejas, I think your just an enemy of Americans. I think your a mexican immigrant that takes glee in the idea that whites are dissapearing. I have a news flash for you. This is all coming to a head, and there could be hell to pay.
By LaughingAtYou
November 13, 2008 3:18 AM | Link to this
Texancowboy wrote: Truetejas, I think your just an enemy of Americans. I think your a mexican immigrant that takes glee in the idea that whites are dissapearing. I have a news flash for you. This is all coming to a head, and there could be hell to pay.
Look! Look! The Klan is here (mis-spelled words and all). Talk about “enemies of America!”
By Will Jones
November 13, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this
“True” Texas is the Texas Railroad Commission, Big Oil and the Rockefellers; Dallas’ police department, municipal government and legal establishment on November 22, 1963, and a statewide history of corruption and racism in defiance of the ideals and principles of the American Whig Founders.
There is only One America, with 50 states, under Annuit Coeptis and the Creed. The state in question, like Alaska, shall now be turned back to the true American path with the ebbing of the fascist Bushite/Nixon/Rockefeller faction and the rise of the People’s president to office…and it is spelled T-E-X-A-S.
The Roman Anti-Christ’s plan is to promote illegal immigration by their adherents/slaves of the Babylonian pedophile priesthood. Its Fifth Column has been greatly advanced by the Rockefeller/Bush machinations, assassinations, open border and amnesty.
E Pluribus Unum all Americans must unite. American is our language; American is Our Creed. The principles are whig (which means “anti-Roman Catholic”) and our “house” must not be divided by Rome’s agents, whether Paul Broun, advocates of illegal immigration, or those who wish Spanish to be a legitimate official language in Our Country.
By Senator Saxby Chambliss
November 13, 2008 7:36 AM | Link to this
I just want to say that Senator Stevens and I are dear friends. He gave me $15,000.00 which I am keeping. As all of you know what I say before election & what I actually are VERY different things. I will stay loyal to Ted because we are just alike. Look at all the lies that I am telling about my frat brother Jum Martin, you know I’ll stand by my HERO Ted Stevens.
By ii
November 13, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this
NOW the GOP is trying to scare people with how bad one-party control can be by CITING THE MASSIVE DAMAGE THEY DID when in control?
Amazing.
By Sissy Saxby
November 13, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
Sissy Saxby is looking out for Numero Uno.
By VETERANS FOR SAXBY?????
November 13, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
Last time I checked, the VFW endorsed Saxby AGAIN for the US Senate race! Why would such an organization endorse someone if they weren’t doing a good job for veterans affairs?!?!? Face it, Saxby looks out for us veterans.
By VETERANS FOR SAXBY
November 13, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
Saxby’s campaign tactics of smearing a war veteran are indeed “reprehensible,” his record on veterans’ issues in the Senate may be even worse. Saxby voted to send our troops to war without proper body armor, voted 23 times to cut their healthcare when they return home, and even opposed a tax cut for our veterans while they serve in the line of duty. Saxby voted twice against Jim Webb’s dwell time amendment to give our troops more time with their families between tours of duties and opposed funding for traumatic brain injury research, the “signature wound” of the War in Iraq. It’s no wonder that so many veterans’ organizations have given Saxby poor and failing grades for his record on veterans’ issues – Saxby has failed America’s veterans.
By han man
November 13, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
Go Palin! Drag the GOP into the abyss that is the religious right fringe! If that happens, the GOP is going the way of the dinosaur for a generation.
By clichy
November 13, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this
I don’t care what religion a person chooses to adhere to or whether he or she believes in nothing but the idea that a woman who advances the radical ideas of creationism as science, who professes that homo sapiens and dinosaurs lives contemporaneously on earth, that global warming is not caused by human activity, and who refuses to release any medical records aside from a note from her doctor (what is this, high school gym?) scares me.
We already have the Air Force Academy in the hands of religious extremists we don’t need them, or any more of them, in the Senate.
By FedUpEditor
November 13, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Why is it Democrats are so full of hate? Instead of discussing the issues sensibly, they resort to lame insults and pseudo-intellectual attacks. Palin is the essence of what America stands for. Hate filled liberals are what is wrong with the country.
In my opinion, Palin needs to stay out of Washington in case she turns into one of “them”. By staying as governor of Alaska she can bring REAL change to Washington when she runs in 2012… and WINS because of her unique perspective. By then, Democrats will have worn out their welcome with wealth redistribution, the country will be in shambles and in need of a true hero. Go Sarah!
By Will Jones
November 13, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this
America “stands” for Hitler’s perspective on a woman’s sovereignty over her own body? That a raped woman must be forced to bring to term her rapist’s seed is insane and abomination…as is any who share that thoroughly un-American, Anti-Christ, papist pedophile priesthood - subjugate womanhood - view…with Palin.
She is indeed “Caribou Barbie:” inbred whitetrash with a “Dull/Normal” sub-90 I.Q..
G-d made it clear where she stands and she isn’t right.
Righteous America stands, by the Creed, with G-d by Grace…not with the likes of accursed Sarah “Barracuda.”
By big rich
November 13, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this
Sarah Palin, unbelievable; beauty is skin deep, but stupid is patently obvious when one opens one’s mouth. The only safe avenue for Sarah is to keep quiet.
By Shawn
November 14, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
I think Palin would be a very entertaining senator and she would be a daily reminder to the nation what the GOP has turned into.
Go Senator Palin! (snicker, snicker)
Bu-bye, Saxby. It’s been real.
Sonny? You’re next.
By John
November 14, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Vote Martin!
Martin for Pres. in 2016!
By jacksmith
November 17, 2008 6:17 PM | 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
jacksmith - WORKING CLASS… :-)
By Democrats 08
November 18, 2008 2:38 AM | Link to this
Chambliss is a crooked scam artist, Jim Martin is for the people.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/100000-Reward-For-Information-About/story.aspx?guid={796FE9A6-7543-47D5-89D3-25C22E6F8F95}
By AMike
November 18, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
All the corrupt liberal media attacks during the campaign couldn’t stop Sarah winning 47% of the vote for McCain. He would have polled much lower without her. The various anti-Palin smears have now been exposed as baseless lies. The Dems spent twice as much as the GOP - the Dems are the party of the wealthy and of the Washington insiders. But they can’t buy everything and the fightback is on.
By Tom GA Values Hunter
November 18, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
I cannot wait to vote for Saxby in the runoff. Martin is just like Reid and Pelosi. Saxby may not be perfect but he is far better than that weirdo, creepy ,little Martin fella.
By Mike
November 19, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this
Palin makes you sick because you know that Obama can’t turn this country around in four years, and she and/or Bobby Jindal are going to be the voice of change in 2012.
By hannan
November 21, 2008 2:42 AM | Link to this
It seems obvious Sarah Palin scares the hell out of the demmies who opine in this format. She is one tough lady - or they are too easily scared.
By hannan
November 21, 2008 2:43 AM | Link to this
It seems obvious Sarah Palin scares the hell out of the demmies who opine in this format. She is one tough lady - or they are too easily scared.
By Katie
January 20, 2009 9:14 PM | Link to this
Saxby ordered a woman put in jail for ‘disruption’ at a Senator election committee of Judges. This woman was the last ditch effort to stop a corrupt Judge from being reappointed for ANOTHER eight years on the Bench. Saxby Chambliss is a DISGRACE to the American People. Please, please voters in Georgia, don’t keep re-electing this man to Public Office; not only did he vote to send our young people to fight in a war illegally declared but he voted against funding for children in need of healthcare. Chambliss is a MONSTER!
By Katie
January 20, 2009 9:15 PM | Link to this
Saxby ordered a woman put in jail for ‘disruption’ at a Senator election committee of Judges. This woman was the last ditch effort to stop a corrupt Judge from being reappointed for ANOTHER eight years on the Bench. Saxby Chambliss is a DISGRACE to the American People. Please, please voters in Georgia, don’t keep re-electing this man to Public Office; not only did he vote to send our young people to fight in a war illegally declared but he voted against funding for children in need of healthcare. Chambliss is a MONSTER!