Thinking Right

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Think I may borrow a leaf from Tom Becker’s book today after brief commentary. WFB is dead, Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer are both deep in introspection, so that leaves Newt as our only conservative intellectual still in business. Nevertheless we have a stronger position than our leftist friends, as their bench is empty behind Chomsky, and he is older than dirt. Intellectualism is the new chic. Maybe that means MidSouth and Glenn and I will get the babes now. Dr. Sowell’s essay today, “Intellectuals,” re-analyzes Plato’s Republic.

Taranto had a funny yesterday on the topic.
“As we noted Friday, one of Barack Obama’s selling points, among a certain class of educated Americans, is that he talks good, unlike President Bush. Yet less than a week after Obama’s election, the evidence is accumulating that he and those around him are not living up to the promise:  The Belfast Telegraph reports that last month Obama told TV hostess Ellen Degeneres: “Michelle may be a better dancer than me, but I’m convinced I’m a better dancer than John McCain.” It should have been, “Michelle may be a better dancer than I.” Mr. Obama was using than as a conjunction; the implication was “than I am” or “than I may be.” 
 In his press conference Friday, the president-elect declared, “President Bush graciously invited Michelle and I to meet with him and First Lady Laura Bush.” No, he invited “Michelle and me.” You wouldn’t say, “President Bush has invited I,” now would you? One of the Kos Kidz saw a teachable moment here. 
 In the same press conference, Obama said that in choosing his cabinet, “I want to move with all deliberate haste, but I want to emphasize deliberate as well as haste.” That is an oxymoron. Haste by definition is precipitate, not deliberate. Probably he meant “all deliberate speed,” a phrase made famous by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. It was actually a problematic term; as Clarence Page argues, the emphasis on “deliberate” provided an excuse to slow down school desegregation. But let’s save the history lesson for another day. 
 London’s Daily Telegraph reports: “Mr Obama is to meet Mr Bush at the White House on Monday. The visit will include a tour of the residence for his wife Michelle conducted by First Lady Laura Bush, and forms part of what Obama aides described as a ‘collegiate’ transition of power.” This is the White House, not “Animal House.” The word is collegial. 
 Yesterday on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s White House Chief of Staff said: “We have postponed dealing with an energy crisis since 1974. We had a crisis; we kicked it down the can… . We had a health care crisis… . These are, just taking those two examples, these are crises you can no longer afford to kick down the can. The crisis we have here, the American people know we have one… . You cannot afford now to kick those down the can any longer.” You can kick a can down the road, and you can flush something down the can, but “kick down the can”—a phrase Emanuel repeated three times—simply makes no sense. 
“Jake Weisberg of Slate had a long-running feature called “Bushism of the Day.” So eager has he been to find verbal miscues by Obama’s predecessor that he has even, as we noted in 2002, mistakenly attributed foreign leaders’ misstatements to Bush. We suppose there’s no chance of Slate reprising this feature for Obama. But the real question is, are children learning?”

By Tom

November 11, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

Yes, capitalism is a more appealing option. But until the Republicans can learn to keep out of people’s private lives and tone down their rhetoric and agenda on social issues, young people will stay away. The Republicans are poised to fumble the capitalism mantle to the Libertarians.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Dear Tom @ 8:22, I was thinking more like, “the Libertarians are poised to take the Republican party in a leveraged buyout.”

By Sen. John Blutarsky (R-Alcoholic)

November 11, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Actually, “collegiate” IS more appropriate. I knew George W. Bush. George W. Bush was a friend of mine. (Before he was forced by communists to take his drinking on the DL, that is.) In all these years, there has been no finer representative of the Animal House traditions than George W. Bush! No one was more willing to make a run to Tijuana for “supplies.” I miss him. Ramming speeeeeed! And by the way, Eat Me.

By A

November 11, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

Obama wins in a landslide and Jim says:

“The reality is that ALMOST HALF the country is now in the wagon that the other half’s pulling,”

OBAMA: 66,056,046 mccain: 57,838,800

The GOP has more work to do than you think Jim.

By Greg

November 11, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Capitalism without limits is not appealing at all. Pure greed with restrictions removed and risks ignored got us into the current financial mess. It happened back in the 80’s after Reagan, too. The current Republican message just seems to be “spend freely until we go broke, then bail everyone out and do it again.” Clearly that’s the wrong message, until they change it, the majority will not listen anymore.

By Peter

November 11, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Jim is paging anyone these days……Did you page God Jim ?

Also interesting article in the New York Times ……. basically saying the South does not matter much when it comes to National Politics……….

“What may have ended on Election Day, though, is the centrality of the South to national politics. By voting so emphatically for Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama — supporting him in some areas in even greater numbers than they did President Bush — voters from Texas to South Carolina and Kentucky may have marginalized their region for some time to come, political experts say.

The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it “is becoming distinctly less important,” said Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University. “The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics.”

Heck with the lack of Education and Intelligence by the locals, no wonder that is the claim !

Gee has Sonny done anything about the low water situation…..seems Lake Lanier is the lower then last year when Sonny was calling for Prayer………

Duhhhhhhhhhh……… a republican answer to our water crises…..PRAY…….HA HA HA……. Funny thing about Prayer, we should pray for insight and wisdom…….But NOT Sonny and the rest of the Republican’s…….

Heck Sonny is spending our money on a Fish Farm …..Sonny’s PORK !

That’s correct folks he cuts education, heck that is not needed in the South……..just go Fishing !

Gotta love the total lack of intelligence here in the South……all that Religion……….. and Republican’s don’t get it…..!!!!!!

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves !

By Reality Check

November 11, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Good Morning,

The Republican party as we all new it is dead. They commmitted suicide using the same weapons that they used to try and split this country apart (i.e. Hate, Fear, lies ect). The new american electorate has a broader vision of this country, one that respects personal accomplishment, but does not sacrifice a moral responsibilty to care for the in our society who can’t care for themselves. The Republicans stopped being about America and started being about Republicans and Newt the hypocrite led that movement. The right should let him and his ideals die with the rest of their party.

By Mucus

November 11, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Whatever. And, I thought you were on vacation. The world can live without Thinking Right leftovers for a week.

By findog

November 11, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Jim, yes the free bubblub and rainbow stew crowd is shaking in their boots at the thought of the return of Newtie. Jim, please wake up. The Republican Party has to be more than religious right lead by godless moneychangers in the temple. Sure Newt should continue to provide ideas like his drilling platform but if the patient is in triage and I think you should first do no harm; if you remember there were numerous reasons he was cast out by his house mates: infidelity, spending, and divisive politics that prevented the republicans from being more than the 50.1-percent party.

By bearcasey

November 11, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Newt’s time has come and gone. Reagan isn’t coming back either.

By Churchill's Mom

November 11, 2008 9:11 AM | 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 Ga Values

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

If Newt could keep his fly up he would be a good choice but if Newt had been able to keep his fly up Tom Delay would not have destroyed the Conservative wing of the Republican party. I think we need a Social Moderate/ Fiscal Conservative to lead the party but they were all purged from the party by the Delay bunch.

I guess a LBO of our party by the Libertarian Party is our only hope. I sure would love to see Allen Buckley running against Johnny the Socialist in the Republican US Senate primary.

By findog

November 11, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Ragnar,

I read your suggested essay. I agree that professional intellectuals; if you cannot produce you teach, should maybe be heard but never followed blindly.

However, if I might inject I think that President Bush used an anti-intelligent charm to be a regular guy for votes. That line at the Yale commencement congratulating the honors students and then praising mediocrity in his gentlemen’s C example of rising to be President is not what I want my child to believe. I pay quite a bit, as I am sure you do too, for my government and I would like to think that maybe we could get the best and brightest. Newt is an intellectual and never been a producer; could we expect the Republican Party to find a smart individual that has actually produced something to lead them as opposition out of the darkness? Maybe one of the wonder guys at General Electric; who claim to bring good ideas to light.

By Redneck Convert

November 11, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Well, people don’t know how good they got it. That’s why we need old Newt to make them understand. Sure, we got no jobs and are deep in debt and bridges are falling down and cos. are going bankrupt and we got two wars going on. Picky, picky, picky. Old Newt can convince the voters we wouldn’t be in this mess if Clinton had of kept his zipper closed.

The first thing he needs to do is rename the party. Get rid of the Republican and name it the Southren Party. Down here is where all the support is. Let the rest of the country run off and work on its own. We will stick to our guns and God and moral stuff. Sure, we will be poor and dumb, but we will be Right with God.

Anyhow, in a few decades the country will get tired of all the change and look back at the South and decide they want to be like us. And old Newt will be there to convince them they just imagined there was bad times now. The South will rise again. Course, alot of us will be dead when it happens.

Have a good Veterans Day, everybody, including old Saxby. It’s real sad his bum knee wouldn’t let him get into the army, but leastwise he’s a great outfielder on the Congress baseball team and the 2nd best golfer in the whole place. I reckon that crutch don’t keep him down much.

By Churchill's mom

November 11, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Got to quit drinking before lunch, I posted the wrong Palin bit. Where’s my bud Dusty?? She sure made a fool of our gender yeaterday..

Palin waiting for crack in the door

Sarah Palin, in her first sit-down interview since the election, tells Fox’s Greta Van Susteren tonight she’s very much open to a presidential run, and hints that she may have gotten ahead of herself this year:

“You know, I have — faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator’s hands — this is what I always do. I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. Even if it’s cracked up a little bit, maybe I’ll plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don’t let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in ‘12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”

By getalife

November 11, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Today is Veterans Day and Jim worries about his party.

You are a sad pathetic man Jim.

Thank you Veterans.

Our new President will got you out of Iraq and back home to your families.

Good bless.

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Dear Jim Wooten,

After your vacation I would like for you to reconsider this column. Republicans are going to HAVE TO FIND A NEW LEADER not get one from the past.

Newt is the biggest frog in the pond right now but you could kiss him all day and he would never turn into a prince. He’d still be a frog.

We have to keep looking. Take Obama’s WINNING TRAITS. An eloquent speaker, diplomas from great schools, elegant charm and a history of ONE WIFE and a youthful appearance. Get all that and the rest will stay in the shade. The bad companions, the religious mishmash, radical friends and wife, the lack of political experince..all will be forgotten in the perfection of the personality. So that is whom Republicans are seeking, the new mystical magi.

The racial preference for perfection has been worn thin. Gender will have to be the next asset for the young and the radicals.

Does Jindal make a good speech? Is he charming? NO? Then he’s out. Palin? Clever, pretty and smart but still injured by past election but that will rub off in future elections but NOT YET. Condileeza? Lovely lady but not fiery enough.

So we keep looking. Let us not rush into anything yet. Somewhere out there is a Republican leader who will fulfill the bill. Right now, he/she is still lost in the crowd.

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Churchill’s Mom,9:30

Thanks for the compliment. If you didn’t like what I wrote yesterday, it must have been good.

You are still stuck on Palin reports it seems. You and Bookman. Look to the future, Madam. Perhaps you should point to the joys of Michelle instead of rejoicing over Palin’s departure from Washington.

Credit is due to Mrs. Obama in some ways. She is one tough radical cookie. She’ll manage just fine in Washington if she doesn’t break all the WhiteHouse “china” in outbreaks about the USA. We shall see.

Keep your eyes open, Madame Churchill. There are also liberals out there who need your close attention, not just Republicans.

By Churchill's mom

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

Dusty 9:57 AM

Palin is the future.. Who is this Bookman Woman? Is she a Conservative Republican like me?

By Judge Kenneth Starr

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

Newt should tell Georgians that Saxby is not for capitalism, but socialist bail-outs.Saxby must be defeated

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear Ga Value @ 9:22, I’ll second that nomination.

Dear Findog @ 9:24, I think I would wish to purchase a lot less government. While I am truly not hostile to having a few bright lights at the top of government, I think we do not need 300 cum laude JDs at SEC. (Maybe one cum laude and two other JDs, tops.) Sowell is smarter than I am because he made the argument without a single referral to the “foxes and hedgehogs” theory. As to producers, you sound like you are describing Mitt. And while we are on the subject, whatever happened to GE, anyway? Surely one guy cannot make that much difference.

Dear getalife @ 9:31, I second your salute to Veterans. Did you see the article saying that BO will keep Bush’s Defense Secretary Gates?

Dear Dusty @ 9:44, don’t write off Magna Sarah too quickly. She is the equivalent of Reagan in 1962, in age and political/intellectual development. She still has a lot of upside potential.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Hey Findog @ 9:24 and Dusty @ 9:44, how about Petraeus?

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Churchill’s Mom,

Stop the dumb act. Bookman is your buddy so it is NO to playing games. I’ll be gone awhile. Keep up the good front.

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Ragnar,10:13

Petraeus?? Worthy of investigation I would say but much needed where he is.

By VETERANS for MARTIN

November 11, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Vote Martin and send a real Veteran Patriot to the U.S. Senate.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

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

Dear findog @ 8:49, I would respectfully disagree with a single element of your argument, the suggestion that Newt was cast out for “spending.” In fact the Republican congress was incredibly good on spending while Newt ran the show. He was cast out by house republicans when the democrats took the Senate in 2000 – the republicans misread the nation’s mood as favoring “compassionate conservatism.” CC was the death knell of the republicans, as that sounded the moment they became “democrat-lite.”

By F22 Man

November 11, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

We need to elect Jim Martin to save the F22 program and my job. Saxby is a Republican & with the Democrats in control of congress, he can’t help us. Obama wants to kill the F22 & Saxby is hopeless..

By VETERANS for MARTIN

November 11, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Six years of failure from SAXBY.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ 10:20, he has been in service for more than 30 years. He will not need much grief from the leftists to retire.

By Drafted Vet

November 11, 2008 10:31 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)

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

I truly feel sorry for Jim Martin. He may be a good fellow (or not – I don’t know - but the Fair Tax misreprentations don’t look good) but how could anyone vote for him with the constant reminders of who his supporters are.

By Drafted Vet

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

The Draft Dodger Saxby Chambliss Has Either Poor or Mediocre Grades from Veterans’ Organizations

Disabled American Veterans 2006: 60%….

Disabled American Veterans 2005: 35%….

Disabled American Veterans 2004: 0%…

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2006: D-….

Vietnam Veterans of America 2006: 57%…

Vietnam Veterans of America 2005: 33%….

By Saxby is a COWARD

November 11, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

If the war/surge is such a success why isn’t Bo Chambliss in Iraq instead of making all the country club booze parties in D.C.? What’s going to happen to that “surge success” when the Shiite militia calls of the cease fire and the thousands of Sunni insurgents (aka the “CLC”) we are paying millions to get tired of fighting for a country they hate, and there is still no political progress on the most significant contentious issues?

Some 70,000 former insurgents are now being paid $10 a day by the U.S. military. It costs about a quarter billion dollars a year in the three trillion dollar fiasco that’s helping to usher in Depression II.

Ole Saxbuh voted 99% with Bushie in the last eight years. His pronouncements during the passage of the illegal wiretapping debacle were simply false statements meant to take advantage of an indifferent and uneducated populace who is getting the democracy they deserve including the bills Bo writes for the Chicago Mercantile exchange.

Saxby still flies Corporate Jet Air free on company owned planes in a familiar quid pro quo.

“It leaves when you want to leave. It goes where you want it to go when you want it to go there. You don’t have to go through the normal security, and you get a lot more than peanuts.”

Little Bo is a recipient of this largess as well.

A spokesman for US Tobacco, Mike Bazinet, said that it received more requests for planes than it could fulfill and that it generally sent a representative on the flights. A spokeswoman for Federal Express, Kristin Krause, said it was policy to do just that. Ms. Krause rejected the notion that FedEx lobbyists had undue access.

“The way you get there is less important than what you do while you’re there,” said Mr. Chambliss, who spent more on corporate jet travel than any other incumbent senator, the Political Money Line said.

Mr. Chambliss said he never spoke to a lobbyist “about any particular issue” on his trips.

I wasn’t on the plane, but ole Saxbuh flew for free on corporate jets than any other Senatuh.

Here’s lookin at ya Bo and Saxbuh:

Saxby the Sugar Stooge. One of the biggest corporate stooges in the Senate, Saxby took corporate loyalty to a new level at a Senate hearing on Friday.

Based on his demeanor at a Senate hearing on Friday you would think Saxby owned Imperial Sugar Company.Well maybe Imperial Sugar owns him.

Saxby is arguing that a “whistleblower” is responsible for a February explosion that killed 13 people at the Imperial Sugar company plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Keep in mind that Graham. H. Graham (the man being questioned) had only worked at the plant for three months, while others allege years of safety violations.

Let’s follow the quotes and then follow the money and even Saxby’s son ,the corporate lobbyist, and his connections:

The Article in the Houston Chronicle says

“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.”

However that is countered by Graham and his attorneys as well as the other Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson.

“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.”

Let’s follow the money for a second

This might show a little inisght as to why the questions of bias arise.

Look at Imperial Sugar’s PAC $1,000 to Saxby Chambliss this cycle- $2,000 of which was contributed by John Sheptor

John Sheptor is President and CEO of Imperial Sugar who is compensated quite handsomely.

There are several others with ties to Imperial Sugar that have contributed to the PAC Harold Mechler - CFO is a $500 Contributor to the PAC

Gaylord Coan - $1,000 contributor to the PAC is a director

(Apparently Savannah Congressman John Barrow returned some of the money he was given by Imperial and he’s not even questioning them at a Senate hearing)

Saxby Chambliss has received $21k from the Sugar industry this cycle.

Saxby Chambliss has a son Bo Chambliss who works for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a registered lobbyist (the quote is correct there)

Clarence “Bo” Saxby Chambliss has given $2,000 to the Chicago Mercantile PAC.

The Chicago Mercantile lobbyist works on behalf of several companies with ties to the Sugar Industry.

Googling lobbying and CME, we found one article that shows that

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is employing the son of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) to lobby members of his father’s congressional committee and other lawmakers on legislation that may increase trading at the exchange. Clarence Saxby “Bo” Chambliss Jr. is one of two staff lobbyists at the Merc charged with “providing information on issues that impact our industry to decision-makers in Washington,” Merc spokesman David Prosperi said Friday. Saxby Chambliss heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, which jointly oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and must this year pass legislation reauthorizing the futures regulator through 2011. The CFTC’s current authority expires Sept. 30. The panel may vote as early as this month on a bill to reauthorize the CFTC, said a committee spokesman.

Now there isn’t much recusing Bo Chambliss can do with one other lobbyist unless that lobbyist is doing the heavy lifting while Bo is giving mulligans to Judge Smails

Probably not much of a stretch to say that Saxby has some questions to answer about his claim that he is not biased. We will keep searching to see if we can find more connections between Saxby and Imperial Sugar. Or we will let you know if Saxby follows suit of John Barrow and returns the PAC contributions. Conclusion: Saxby Chambliss needs to go home or get a job at some Sugar Refinery (Remember what he did to Max Cleeland) and remember Saxbuh faked a knee injury that was not examined with any modern degree of medical comp;etence and Bo chooses not to serve like so many other Republican cowards.

Thanks to TPM for the research on Saxby aka Saxbuh the Sugar shill.

By Short memory?

November 11, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Oh, yeah, Newt’s the PERFECT choice to resurrect the most corrupt political party in the history of the U.S.:

Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Speaker Gingrich during his term, including claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Following an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, Gingrich was sanctioned for US$300,000 after the House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented “intentional or … reckless” disregard of House rules. Special Counsel James M. Cole concluded that Gingrich violated federal tax law and had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him.

Hey, Wooten, what are you smoking?

By VETERANS for MARTIN

November 11, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

MARTIN IS OUR LAST HOPE* A Real Veteran!

By @@

November 11, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

…there’s nobody better suited to the task.

Jim, I agree wholeheartedly! The only reason that Newt wasn’t among the candidates in this election is because he had committed to “American Solutions” — a conservative grassroots response to MoveOn with a MoveOver from US.

I frequently visit Newt’s site where average Joes offer solutions to America’s problems. I like that! Sho ‘nuff beats politicians who ask us onto their playing field only when they need water (votes). Any other time, we’re assigned to sit on the bench until they need us to quench their thirst for power.

Newt often draws on the wisdom of Ben Franklin.

Upon building the foundation of this great experiment known as America, Franklin was asked:

“What kind of government do you give us?”

His response? “A Republic, madame, if you will keep it.”

Newt is committed to The Republic as am I.

Young democrats would and have traded their freedoms. NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) — A poll of students at New York University found many students would eagerly trade their right to vote for a year’s worth of free tuition.

The poll of more than 3,000 students, taken by a Foundations of Journalism class Oct. 24-26, found 66 percent of respondents would give up their right to vote in exchange for free college, and half said they’d forfeit the right forever in exchange for $1 million, New York University’s Washington Square News reported Thursday.

How sad is ^^^ that?

I also found this tidbit to be distateful.

Dr. Ahmad Yousef, a political adviser to the prime minister of the Hamas-led government, Ismail Haniyah, revealed Tuesday that prior to the US presidential elections, a secret meeting was held between senior officials from the Palestinian movement and President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers in the Gaza Strip.

“We were in contact with a number of Obama’s aides through the Internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza, but they advised us not to reveal this information as it may influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain’s campaign”, Yousuf said in an interview with London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, published Tuesday.

Meeting in private with a terrorist organization?

Mmmm…mm…mm…m…m.

Have a GREAT vacation Jim!

By Ga Values

November 11, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:35 AM

How can anyone vote for Saxby Chambliss & his Lobbyist Son Bo?? Look at all the Lobbyist who have paid him off. Can you really trust this RINO to do anything for the Georgia Taxpayer? His record shows he’s in it for the money & it comes out of our pockets. Martin is not perfect but he is surely more Conservative than Saxby & his Lobbyist Patrons.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Dear Drafted Vet @ 10:31, I disagree. The “Osama” ad was fair, and on a legitimate issue – Cleland’s priorities. Few deserved electoral defeat more richly than did Max Cleland. Maybe a good guy personally, but he did not represent my values.

By VETERANS AGAINST SAXBY

November 11, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

SAXBY represents no values whatsoever.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Dear Ga Values @ 10:44. Fair question. I will vote for Saxbe Chambliss – not against Jim Martin – because of Saxbe’s stalwart support of the missions in Iraq and Afganistan, both of which I supported, and due to his “open” mind on the Fair Tax, and due to his support of Messrs. Roberts and Alito; I perceive those are all areas where Mr. Martin would fall short in the jbmlaw calculus, and those are the three top issues. Mr. Martin may be purer that Stalin’s wife, but that is not a basis to vote for one.

By reebok

November 11, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Newt Gingrich in 2012: Building a Bridge to the 20th Century

By ..FREEDOM WATCH..

November 11, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Honor a VETERAN—-VOTE FOR MARTIN

By Ga Values

November 11, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

good read from they NYT.. Think they covered Dusty in this 1.. You go girl..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11south.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

By Ga Values

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

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:51 AM

Did you watch the debates? It was obvious form Allen Buckley’s questioning that Saxby had no idea of what the National Sales Tax was about. Just remember Saxby sells our vote & if a lobbyist pays him to vote for the most LIBERAL Justice there is he will. Remember he promiced the small farmer they would get justice out of the farm bill but they got nothing due to the Lobbyist money.

By ....watergate on wall street

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

Saxby is ideal for ignorant people.

By findog

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

Ragnar @10:13 Petraeus is perfect, like Ike leading the republicans back to the white house after 20-years. As for Mitt I think he would end up like Georgia’s Milliner – doomed to failure because of how he made his money. But the GOP cannot wait for the general to retire, and America will not survive without a good, conservative [is that redundant?] voice of reason for the loyal opposition to rally behind. As for the size of government Amen, and the number of the brightest in each field should be minimal with sufficient teachable staff.

Again I think that part of what Newt down, besides the divisiveness, was that when he failed to check Clinton on the 1995 shutdown, or checkmate with the impeachment, that the class of 1994 finally broke after the 1998 elections because he could, or would, not tighten the belt enough to offer the tax cuts envisioned by the fiscal conservatives. That is how GWB got his chance; Newt versus Bush over credit crippled each other’s legacy. His biggest single character defect [even greater than fidelity] is that he does not pick his battles efficiently; thus someone with a proven record of tactics is needed, until an actual tactician is available [Petraeus].

By Peter

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

Pretty funny stuff……..By @@

“Jim, I agree wholeheartedly! The only reason that Newt wasn’t among the candidates in this election is because he had committed to “American Solutions”

I guess that pretty much sums up the Rest of the Republican’s…….they are committed to raping the American Treasury !

By Lobbyists for Saxby

November 11, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Lobbyists come first,—not disabled Veterans. —Elect Saxby and get 6 more years of this great father of a Lobbyist.

By Chad Harris

November 11, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

It’s stupidity from the Wooten troglidites that would hope for a Jindal Palin ticket, would quote Graham who f*cked up the economy along with other Rethugs, and thinks Newty should lead the party. Conceptualizing Democrats as children of flower children is even more ignorance—in abundance in the head of Cox Newspaper’s 3rd grade level columnist and chief welfare recipient.

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.

Keep morons like Broun and Palin talking. It just insures we control Congress and the Oval for a very long time.

Snowbilly Palin who can’t do enough TV interviews because none of them ask her the questions that would need answering for promotion from Grade 3 to Grade 4 is under increasing pressure to give back the clothes that she stole being true to her slutty snowbilly roots.

Republican party attorneys are going to Alaska to recover the clothes despite her lying about it. The clothes are not all located in la casa Moron Palin

Palin denied they were going to her home but that was never alleged by NYT.

Palin and RNC still haggling over clothes she stole; Moron sorts “her clothes”.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/10/america/Palin.php

Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, said his daughter spent Saturday trying to figure out what belongs to the RNC.

“She was just frantically … trying to sort stuff out,” Heath said. “That’s the problem, you know, the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for.

“Nothing goes right back to normal,” he said.

RNC lawyers have been discussing with Palin whether what’s left of the clothing and accessories purchased for her on the campaign trail will go to charity, back to stores or be paid for by Palin, a McCain-Palin campaign official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the campaign hadn’t authorized comment.

Meanwhile the Bush administration tried to sneak $140 billion out of your pockets via Paulson. And Jim Wooten (if he knew and of course he doesn’t read newspapers or anything else—he’s the Cox Newspaper welfare recipient) would approve.

AJC has of course, not covered it. It would confuse the Jawjaws. Maybe they should get more feeds from NYT and WP.

A Quiet Change to Tax Policy Without Telling Congress from Bushco

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

By Tom Becker

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

Wooten keeps conjuring Ginrich, in spite of Newt’s jaundiced legacy. Nixon kept rising from the dead, and repackaging himself, so maybe Newt can too.

Newt has an advantage cause Newts can hide in Kudzu, and if there’s something Georgia gots plenty of it’s kudzu.

But know this: Newt is unelectable. I only wish the GOP was dumb enough to squander the next election on Newt.

Plus, Newt is a comedian’s dream candidate. I’ve got 45 minutes on bedpans alone.

CNN just reported that a convoy of medi-copters were spotted at the Alaskan Governor’s Mansion. There were fire engines, ambulances, and a entire batallion of national guard on hand. The emergency? Palin had a yeast infection.

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowin’ through the jasmines of my mi-iind….

By Saxby Economics

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

By BOB HERBERT Published: November 10, 2008 The most important thing the Democrats and President-elect Obama can do with regard to the economy is bring back a sense of fairness and equity.

The fat cats who placed the entire economy at risk with their greed and manic irresponsibility are trying to lay claim to every last dime in the national Treasury. Meanwhile, we’re nowhere close to an economic recovery program that will help the people who are hurting most.

Back in September, with the credit markets frozen and the stock markets panicking, the treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, was telling anyone who would listen that his $700 billion bailout package had to be passed with lightning speed — no time to look at it too closely, no time for dissent.

The package was modified, but hurriedly. Now we learn that while all eyes were focused on this enormous new burden for American taxpayers, Mr. Paulson’s department was also engineering — separate and apart from the bailout — what The Washington Post described as “a quiet windfall for U.S. banks. ”

With virtually no public attention, and without the input of Congress, Treasury made a change in an obscure tax provision that benefited banks to the tune of well over $100 billion. Was this good policy? In the absence of proper scrutiny, how is it possible to know?

We’ve also learned that the government bailout of the giant insurer, the American International Group — already more than $100 billion — is apparently insufficient. Tens of billions more are needed.

When the Champagne and caviar crowd is in trouble, there is no conceivable limit to the amount of taxpayer money that can be found, and found quickly.

But when it comes to ordinary citizens in dire situations — those being thrown out of work or forced from their homes by foreclosure or driven into bankruptcy because of illness and a lack of adequate health insurance — well, then we have to start pinching pennies. That’s when it’s time to become fiscally conservative. President Bush even vetoed a bill that would have expanded health insurance coverage for children.

We can find trillions for a foolish war and for pompous, self-righteous high-rollers who wrecked their companies and the economy. But what about the working poor and the young people who are being clobbered in this downturn, battered so badly that they’re all but destitute? Can we find any way to help them?

In an article on Sunday, The Times mentioned a young woman in Philadelphia, Kyuana Everett, who is 21 years old, has a high school diploma and is desperate for work. “I’ve tried everything,” she said, “retail sales, office work, but the employers all say they have too many staff and they’re not hiring now.”

The article noted that Ms. Everett cannot even afford to rent a room for herself. She stays with her grandmother, secretly, in a home for the aged.

This is no ordinary recession. With brokerage houses, banks and a mammoth multinational insurance company depending on the Treasury for resuscitation, and with automakers like General Motors staring bankruptcy in the face, it has the feel of a monster downturn, a recession on steroids.

That kind of downturn buries people at the bottom of the economic ladder. We have an obligation to look out for them as well as for the banks and the A.I.G.’s of the world.

If I could place a message on the desk of the incoming president, it would have just one word: Jobs.

With credit cards maxed out, the stock market in the tank, family savings depleted and home equity evaporating, that weekly or monthly paycheck has never been so important.

Congress and the new administration need to think big — bigger than the stimulus package of $100 billion or so, which is being kicked around. Now is the time for a coast-to-coast “Rebuild America” infrastructure program. Put people to work repairing and rebuilding roads and bridges, decrepit schools and ancient sewer systems. Get the construction industry back on its feet.

And now is the time to get going on candidate Obama’s promise to move the country as close as possible to a system of universal health insurance. Pump the money from that vast project into the economy and get those jobs up and running.

And let’s get some help, quickly, to the families who are suffering most from the housing crisis — the ones trembling and heartbroken in the dark shadow of foreclosure.

The naysayers will claim that all of this is too expensive, that we can’t afford it. Where were they when we invaded Iraq? And how do they feel about the staggering amounts being funneled, with nothing like the proper oversight, to the banks and Wall Street?

Let’s try investing in America and its people for a change, rather than just hurling our billions into the abyss.

By Wide Open Borders

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

SAXBY protected our borders for 6 years, a real Patriot for Georgia.

By Iacopus

November 11, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Allow me to suggest that Ron Paul would be a better, more ideologically consistent leader with a more comprehensive, more correct, and palpably different perspective on economics. Though reviled by most of the “leadership,” he has never compromised or betrayed his conservative principles and is a lot closer to Barry Goldwater than any of the other clowns the Republicans have managed to dredge up over the last 10 years or so.

By findog

November 11, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Coward @10:38

Our future vets have enough to do without dealing with some senator’s son to baby sit. Further, Saxby’s support of the President’s agenda was 99% when spending wildly. When the president wanted to reduce spending, or the size of government, Saxby took the principled stand to spend more of your money…

By Fat Cats for Saxby

November 11, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

SAXBY IS A FAT-CAT FOOLING THE VOTERS.

By Peter

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

Hey Chadd……can you cut and past the article from the Washington Post……

“A Quiet Change to Tax Policy Without Telling Congress from Bushco”

I tried signing up for it the other day, and had no luck !

Thank you….

By Tom Becker

November 11, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Wooten keeps conjuring Ginrich, in spite of Newt’s jaundiced legacy. Nixon kept rising from the dead, and repackaging himself, so maybe Newt can too.

Newt has an advantage cause Newts can hide in Kudzu, and if there’s something Georgia gots plenty of it’s kudzu.

But know this: Newt is unelectable. I only wish the GOP was dumb enough to squander the next election on Newt.

Plus, Newt is a comedian’s dream candidate. I’ve got 45 minutes on bedpans alone.

By Chad Harris

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

Keep Moron Snowbilly lyin’ and talkin’ ‘bout 2012. It’s the gift that keeps Dems in power.

Since AJC provides welfare payments to Wooten for his moronic columns, they should provide a reader and an interpreter who will interpret the news that AJC never prints from top tier newspapers and websites.

Right now, 6 time draft dodger Cheney is speaking to veterans and putting wreaths at toombs in ceremonies that mean nothing to Cheney and Bush another draft dodger.

Wooten wants you to vote for draft dodger Chamblis who is an employee of the sugar company whose stupid practices killed nearly 20 people.

Leiberman is history at on the DHS Committee. We want him no where near “security.” He can help Wooten write these welfare columns at 3rd grade level.

Medically care for Vets has been falling through the cracks in many areas. The VAH is vastly underfunded—Wooten never writes about that because he’s ignorant of what it’s like to try to care for vets in a VAH.

As one writer said:

“It’s a lot easier on our corporate masters if we spend the day shopping the Veterans’ Day sales at the mall, rather than spending it standing out on Main Street listening to our veterans’ stories and confronting the actual flesh-and-blood consequences of our leaders’ decisions….sobered into silence once again by the magnitude of the sacrifice these men and women are making.”

By ..Republican for Martin

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

Newt the retread tire and Old Phil Gramm are about as important as Herbert Hoover who died years ago. Welcome to 2008 Mr. Wooten.

By Tom Becker

November 11, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

It’s Veteran’s Day. My dad fought in 3 wars, as a pilot. Air Force. Spinning fools. Barrel rolls.

A story to inspire on Veterans Day? It came on a peacetime mission. It was 1959. My dad was flying T-33’s out of Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas. San Antonio: (We visited the Alamo often, and I always stood in the spot where Davey Crocket died, and re-enacted his death over and over in the days leading up to and the days following our semi-annual visit.)

A routine flight was scheduled that day, my friends. My dad’s preflight was normal, but my dad remembers asking the sarge how the brakes were, who answered that he had checked them out just fine, despite the fact that the same plane had rolled harrowingly too far on the last landing.

So, of course, this solo ended up in the ditch at the end of the runway past all the safety barriers and warning buoys. In the hospital with a back injury, my dad languished for a week. I joined him in the same hospital room when I coincidently had my tonsils taken out. We temporarily even shared the same hospital bed, as they were booked solid for some reason, probably polio. It was the fifties, after all. Air Force doctors: Isn’t that an oxymoron? I remember that this one doctors stuck his head in my room and clacked together tongs in a joke about the coming extraction. I wasn’t amused and knew the guy was an idiot even though I was a naïve nine years old.

We have a photograph of that wrecked T33, it’s tail up high, it’s nose in the ditch. I know that I was overanesthetized during my operation and half my brain destroyed, (but fortunately for me, there are no visible side effects, nyegh nyiggy wiggy poodle pie)

Happy veterans day.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Dear GA Values @ 11:03, I concede that I did not watch the debates at any level this year; I think performance art is the province of NEA, and not for serious minds. You leave unchallenged my observation, that Saxbe is “open” to Fair Tax (even if he does not understand it – in all fairness, how many do, other than you and me and Boortz and Linder?) and that Martin is not. Hardly a reason to vote for Mr. Martin.

Dear findog @ 11:09, I yield to a brilliant argument, my compliments.

Dear economics @ 11:26, “The most important thing the Democrats and President-elect Obama can do with regard to the economy is bring back a sense of fairness and equity.” Certainly elimination of freedom and equality of results are long-time goals of the loonies. At least Herbert acknowledges his hostility to freedom on the front end. Thanks for posting.

By Tom Becker

November 11, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

It’s Veteran’s Day. My dad fought in 3 wars, as a pilot. Air Force. Spinning fools. Barrel rolls.

A story to inspire on Veterans Day? It came on a peacetime mission. It was 1959. My dad was flying T-33’s out of Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas. San Antonio: (We visited the Alamo often, and I always stood in the spot where Davey Crocket died, and re-enacted his death over and over in the days leading up to and the days following our semi-annual visit.)

A routine flight was scheduled that day, my friends. My dad’s preflight was normal, but my dad remembers asking the sarge how the brakes were, who answered that he had checked them out just fine, despite the fact that the same plane had rolled harrowingly too far on the last landing.

So, of course, this solo ended up in the ditch at the end of the runway past all the safety barriers and warning buoys. In the hospital with a back injury, my dad languished for a week. I joined him in the same hospital room when I coincidently had my tonsils taken out. We temporarily even shared the same hospital bed, as they were booked solid for some reason, probably polio. It was the fifties, after all. Air Force doctors: Isn’t that an oxymoron? I remember that this one doctors stuck his head in my room and clacked together tongs in a joke about the coming extraction. I wasn’t amused and knew the guy was an idiot even though I was a naïve nine years old.

We have a photograph of that wrecked T33, it’s tail up high, it’s nose in the ditch. I know that I was overanesthetized during my operation and half my brain destroyed, (but fortunately for me, there are no visible side effects, nyegh nyiggy wiggy poodle pie)

Happy veterans day.

Any 1 dig the umlaut? See what a master can do with diacritical marks? That’s why I say they’re wasted on Jblowmeinlaws. If I wrote in Islamic Cursive, I’d start a diacritical jihad, have you seen the motley assortment of suicide accent graves and unibomber umlauts they use? OMG! Like shut up.

By Lobbyists for Saxby

November 11, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 10:51 AM

Saxby’s calls & Emails were 500:1 against his vote for the $700 Billion Bailout Wall Street Bill but Saxby kept his word & the $2.5 million we gave him. Saxby is a man of honor to us Lobbyist but is a draft dodger to the country.

By Keeping It REAL ESTATE

November 11, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

What can Mr. Gingrich do about the property values on and surrounding 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue going down dramatically on the afternoon of January 20th?

The DC government should change the name of that street from “Pennsylvania” to “Clayton County Avenue”.

By RED

November 11, 2008 12:29 PM | 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 Served my Country but Saxby Ran AWAY

November 11, 2008 12:41 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)

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 LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 11, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Here’s an idea, Rush Limbaugh for Prez and Sean Hannity for V.P.. LOL

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

November 11, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Dear Tom @ 12:15, you will appreciate Taranto’s story yesterday from New York’s Daily News:

A drunken Jersey City councilman was arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington nightclub, police and club sources said Saturday.

Councilman Steven Lipski was caught relieving himself onto several revelers at the 9:30 Club during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band Friday night, club sources said.

“He was very drunk,” the source said, noting that it wasn’t the first time Lipski had caused a ruckus at the popular concert venue.

“We’ve dealt with this man before,” the source added. “He’s never peed on anybody, but he gets really belligerent and drunk.”

So we read the story and we wondered: What political party does he belong to? The Daily News didn’t say. Neither did Lipski’s hometown Jersey Journal, PolitickerNJ.com, United Press International or the Associated Press. So, we thought, he must be a Republican, right? After all, what he did totally goes against the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in his 1933 Inaugural Address called for “the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal.” But as it turns out, we finally found a later AP dispatch that mentions Lipski’s party. He’s a Democrat after all. Must be one of those yellow dog Democrats.

By abc

November 11, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

The very idea that sheeple in Minnesota are coming close to putting a comedian in a very serious position as a senator speaks loudly on the direction of the radical leftist liberal sheep herding in this nation. How preposterous and what an abomination to that state’s electorate - or should we say obamanation? Not to mention of course all the mysterious votes that are showing up. They say Bush stole the election in 2000 and 2004 [even when the rule of law was used and never broken], but if you really want to see what a stolen election looks like, here you go:

When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it was 239. Late Sunday night, the difference had gone down to just 221 — a total change over 4 days of 504 votes.

Amazingly, this all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will be sent to the secretary of state by Friday. The actual recount won’t even start until November 19.

Correcting these typos was claimed to add 435 votes to Franken and take 69 votes from Coleman. Corrections were posted in other races, but they were only a fraction of those for the Senate. The Senate gains for Franken were 2.5 times the gain for Obama in the presidential race count, 2.9 times the total gain that Democrats got across all Minnesota congressional races, and 5 times the net loss that Democrats suffered for all state House races.

Virtually all of Franken’s new votes came from just three out of 4130 precincts, and almost half the gain (246 votes) occurred in one precinct — Two Harbors, a small town north of Duluth along Lake Superior — a heavily Democratic precinct where Obama received 64 percent of the vote. None of the other races had any changes in their vote totals in that precinct.

By ron

November 11, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

90 years ago today it was finally all quiet on the Western Front.Thanks to all who served.Special thanks to those that served with me and with Wooten.To D.l. in Alaska;It’s been a great life.

Jim,Don’t be paging the Salamander.He’s so gone by that he’s ineffective.Mark Shields had it right.Republicans are moving from their home to the rest home and then to the funeral home.Newt’s on the move,but not in the right direction.

By republicans nothing but pure evil

November 11, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

I love to hear the phrase ga values, which means no abortion,but bomb the old and young in iraq,no to gays but its neo-con that down low sissies,dont look out for the poor,but looks out for the wealthy,republicans preach jesus,but act more like satan. you evil nazi-cons dont practice truth but falsehood,lies and death,its funny how the democraps go fight the wars for you chickenhawk republicans while you all hide behind your rich daddies,bush,cheaney rumsfeld,suxby shameless ducked the vietnam war,while the poor whites and blacks went to fight. P.S. all who claim to be republicans and scream war war war all the time and dont help go fight the wars are cowards and chickenhawks, put up or shut-up evil neo-CONS speak with facts only hitler lovers!

By Gator Joe

November 11, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

The last bit of respect I had for John McCain will be gone if he comes to campaign for Chickenhawk Chambliss. I don’t hate Chambliss for what he did to Max Cleland, because hate isn’t a strong enough word. I will with pleasure once again vote for Jim Martin, and I urge my fellow veterans and all who care about decency to do the same.

By Jim's A Cherry Picker

November 11, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Hi Jim, So now that the gop isn’t in control any longer, Newt can begin selling this again like it’s new:

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;

THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;

FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;

SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;

SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;

EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

By CH77

November 11, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

All this left wing hand wringing over Saxby and the middle class is laughable. Perhaps no greater cause to help the middle class is the Fair Tax, which Saxby supports. Anyone who has actually studied the plan and plugged in real world scenarios knows this, including the Harvard economists and other economists and experts that back it. However, if you only listen to the snide talking snippets of opinion editorial hacks who misrepresent the Fair Tax like the AJC is wrought with, then you would not know that. In fact, a political campaign ad run by some Democrat committee against Saxby in support of Martin claimed that under a Fair Tax, the middle class would spend $20 more on gas on every fill up as an example. Where the moonbats got that lie from we’ll never know. If you want to lie about something, at least be good at it and don’t look ignorant.

By Shawny

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

Bring back Newt!

By Jim's a Cherry Picker

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

Hi Jim,

Here’s a platform that Newt can use if elected to head the RNC; seemed to work pretty well last time for him:

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives. That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year’s election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public’s money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act “with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.” To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;

THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;

FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;

SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;

SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;

EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

By Ga Values

November 11, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

republicans nothing but pure evil 12:54 PM

you need to read my post not my name.

By AmVet

November 11, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Yes, by all means, bring back Newt the Nut!

And keep these years in mind: 1954 - 1994.

Let all Americans hope that the “center-right” (which still makes me laugh out loud!)/”conservatives”(more laughing)/neo-cons as defined since Ronnie the Thespian, are looking at another forty years in the political land of nod.

They are on their way after the past two electoral debacles…

By Mr Snarky

November 11, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Keep on fighting those culture wars Jim! Never surrender! Everyone else has moved on though, so you’ll be irelevant, but I’m thinking you’re okay with that.

By Ga Values

November 11, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 12:08 PM

I know John Linder pretty well & doubt he has ever read “his Book”. I could waste a bunch of space here leting you know why the National Sales Tax is a sham but it would be easier to go to Allen Buckley’s home page & read what he says about it. He debated Boortz once & handed Neal his head with the real facts, now Boortz hangs up when Allen calls. Here’s Allen’s Home page:

http://www.buckleyforsenate.com/welcome.asp

By BS Aplenty

November 11, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Ah, the smell of fear amoungst the Democratic blogging idiots is palpable. Just say ‘Gingrich’ and they soil themselves. Amusing - at a distance.

I will be elated when all the paid Dem bloggers go back to Schenectedy after the Dec. 2 election of Saxby Chambliss.

By Ga Values

November 11, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Ragnar Danneskjöld 12:08 PM

Sat next to my State Rep at Rotary today. I asked him about Saxby’s speach yesterday & he said that: 1. More than 1/2 of the Republican State Reps voted for Allen Buckley. 2. It would be a cold day in hell when he did anything to help Saxby. He asked Saxby for something last year & Saxby did not return his call. 3.Everyone thought Saxby’s warning they would lose in 2 years if he lost next month was a joke. 4. Lt Gov. Cagle is not doing himself any good being seen on Saxby’s bus. 5.The State legislature is not going to be a happy place next session because there are going to be some DEEP cuts or tax increases made.

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 11, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

The Bush [so called]administartion should all be charged with treason.They have turned the American Dream of OUR forfathers into a NIGHTMARE for our children and grandchildren.The way Veterans have been treated is a DISGRACE. They are all responsible and should be held accountable for raping this country and its proud people.

By Old NCO

November 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 11, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

The Bush [so called]administartion should all be charged with treason.They have turned the American Dream of OUR forfathers into a NIGHTMARE for our children and grandchildren.The way Veterans have been treated is a DISGRACE. They are all responsible and should be held accountable for raping this country and its proud people.

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 11, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

The Bush [so called]administartion should all be charged with treason.They have turned the American Dream of OUR forfathers into a NIGHTMARE for our children and grandchildren.The way Veterans have been treated is a DISGRACE. They are all responsible and should be held accountable for raping this country and its proud people.

By LMAO!!

November 11, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Bring back Newt? LMAO! Newt started the sh&t that got you in this sh&t. You ignorant Republicans are incapable of learning.

By Copyleft

November 11, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

I would LOVE to see the right-wing losers start talking up Newt the Failure along with Sarah the Failin’ Palin.

There’s no better way to ensure that the idiots of the fascist right stay irrelevant for many elections to come.

By AmVet

November 11, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Ga Values,

Did you see the “debate” between Buckley, Martin and Chambliss.

The Libertarian absolutely SMOKED both of them. I have never been an advocate for Buckley, but even so, it was both shocking and illustrative.

Saxby, in particular was an absolute embarrassment.

Mr Snarky,

In a modern day world of progressives, the repressive reactionaries still live and control the GOP.

Truly amazing. And laughable…

By Chad Harris

November 11, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Chambliss the Draft Dodger and slave of his corporate masters is lying on taxes.

Saxby Chambliss supports a new national sales tax of 23 percent on everything you buy – food, gas, medicine, everything. He says it will reduce taxes. John McCain disagrees with Saxby Chambliss. So does the Wall Street Journal. McCain says the Chambliss Tax would, “increase tax rates into the thirties,” and would not eliminate the income tax as Saxby Chambliss claims. In a presidential debate, McCain said Saxby Chambliss’ proposal would cause middle class Americans to feel “more of the pain.” Saxby Chambliss is out of step with the middle class. He’s even out of step with John McCain.

JOHN MCCAIN AND SAXBY’S SALES TAX PLAN

McCain Opposed To Chambliss Tax Because of “Tax Rate In The 30s.” At the CNN/YouTube Debate in November 2007, when asked if he supported the Fair Tax proposal, Sen. John McCain responded, “I do not, and I think we should look very carefully at it. And I think we should look very carefully at some of the provisions, which according to the Wall Street Journal would increase an individual’s tax rate up into the 30s.” [; CNN/YouTube Republican Presidential Debate, 11/28/2007]

McCain Said Chambliss’ Tax Would Not Eliminate The Income Tax For Good. “As you know the fair tax has gained a lot of traction. I would point out to you that if you wanted to impose that kind of tax or adopt that system, you would have to repeal the 16th Amendment of the Constitution which allowed for the income tax because I don’t think you or I trust, trust the government that if you go to a consumption tax or a sales tax, whichever you choose or whatever that, that the government when it needs money might just go right back to imposing the income tax again…I think there’s some flaw associated with it, but I think it’s a symptom of the anger and the disgust and the frustration Americans feel about the present tax code. “

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

GA Values 10:56

I read your link and it was atypical Southern accents without the Southern reality. It was harping on the same ol’ stuff as Southern. So what’s new? Nothing with most journalists.

The first joke is Arkansas and Clinton. I think of Arkansas as being Southern about as much as I think of South Bronx being Southern. Clinton I think of as the national Romeo( instead of using the real name for what he is).

Journalists, who are still dragging around their carpet bags of bygone days, haven’t noticed a few things. Southerners are very clever about sniffing out phonies. One whiff and they stall to see.

Remembering 9/11, they voice their disapproval of Americans taught in Muslim schools. They appreciate the military men and women who protect and fight for us. They do not like anti-war actions during war time. They do not like American radicals who bomb American buildings. SOUTHERNERS NOTICE!

Many Southerners appraised the facts that were given and voted for McCain. Race may have been a factor for some. But black and white Southerners have been living together several hundred years and we have gotten to know each other. For better or worse, both have come to realize that there are good and bad in the human race, no matter the skin color. So it goes.

But this so called “southern strategy” in politics and other such hokum is detrimental although journalists and bigots love to pursue it.

Forget it! Give us a candidate that isn’t shot full of character holes and other deficiencies and Southerners will vote for that one. You can count on that, SUGAH!!!

By Churchill's Mom

November 11, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Here’s tomorrow’s Palin, Jim you had better write about this or you are gone. Personally I don’t understand how she cas work with a SLIMEBALL like Chambliss but I’ll go see her any way as long as I don’t have to vote for the Draft Dodger.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in the midst of a whirlwind media tour aimed at answering her critics and positioning herself for a possible run for president in four years time.

By Thursday of this week, Palin will have sat for interviews with Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, NBC’s Matt Lauer and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Her week will culminate that day with a press conference (novel idea!) and a speech entitled “Looking Toward the Future” at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami.

The goal of Palin’s busy week is clear: for her to remain a national player in the Republican party and a legitimate contender in 2012, she must beat back the various negative stories about her being peddled to the media.

Palin remains a darling of conservatives for her “regular gal” appeal, but she is a savvy enough politician to know that if the GOP smart set completely sours on her (the result of the $150,000 clothes story and the rumors about her decided lack of knowledge of foreign affairs), she will struggle to overcome the conventional wisdom that she was a mistake-pick by John McCain and nothing more than a national flash in the political pan.

In her interview last night with Van Susteren, Palin laid out the framework for how she will handle the various questions sure to come her way over the next few days and weeks.

• On the $150,000 in clothes: “I did not order the clothes,” said Palin. “Did not ask for the clothes. I would have been happy to have worn my own clothes from day one.” And, she added, the whole issue is largely “irrelevant” when compared to the huge and historic changes happening in country.

• On whether Africa is a country or a continent: It was all a big misunderstanding because, of course, she knew Africa was a continent. “I don’t know how they took our one discussion on Africa and turned that into what they turned it into,” she said.

• On her lack of media interviews during the campaign: It was a decision made by the McCain team that she disagreed with. Asked by Van Susteren what she would have changed, Palin said: “I would have preferred more opportunity to speak to the media more often, because there were a lot of things that I think it could have, should have said that could have, would have helped John McCain.”

But, by far the most important element (for political junkies at least) of Van Susteren’s interview came when the FNC anchor asked the Alaska Governor about her future plans.

Palin responded (and we are excerpting the whole thing because it’s important):

“I can’t predict what’s going to happen a day from now, much less four years from now. You know, I have — faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator’s hands — this is what I always do. I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. Even if it’s cracked up a little bit, maybe I’ll plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don’t let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in ‘12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”

The key phrase? “Plow through that door”. As we have written in this space before, Palin, plucked from relative obscurity by McCain in late August, has absolutely no plans to go quietly into that good night.

Her media tour this week and her speech at the RGA on Thursday are all aimed at a single thing: establishing herself as a power player in the party over the next four years.

Expect Palin to make some appearances in key races — maybe as soon as this month for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his Georgia runoff — to show her drawing power and popularity among grassroots Republicans.

For Palin’s future prospects, the next few months are crucial. Will she be remembered as a blip in the Republican history books or a force to be reckoned with in 2012?

By GOP is gone

November 11, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

I think you need “Eye of Newt” to get your party back on track after the spend-a-thon Bush administration and nationalizing of the banks.

PLEASE keep bringing on Ditzie Palin, and bring her VooDoo doctor too, he can supply the “Eye of Newt”.

By Cornbread Fred

November 11, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Hey “short memory?” - THANK YOU! On an evolutionary scale a “newt” is not too far removed from a “snake”. But that won’t matter to these good righties, it wouldn’t matter if he were a child molester as long as he is a “godly republican”! End the two party system and make America free!

By Bo Chambliss LOBBYIST

November 11, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics

A federal investigation into UBS concerning its sale of offshore private banking services to wealthy Americans is concentrating on senior and midlevel executives and bankers, and could result in one or more indictments,

By AmVet

November 11, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

I don’t think the Republicans need their Southern Strategy any longer. Because it has already worked. The South, aka the Bible Belt, is now the very base of the Republican Party. And perhaps the last bastion. Certain of Southern support, neo-cons now concentrate their campaigns on winning the North.

The bottom line? The xenophobic Republicans got tired of losing elections in the second half of the last century and saw an opportunity to profit by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks.

And the truth shall set you free…

By Churchill's Mom

November 11, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Old NCO 1:33 PM

Thanks for posting Lt.-Col. John McCrae poem. When I was a child the vets sold paper poppies for a good cause..

By Saxby Is a Coward

November 11, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

Sissy Saxby will observe Veterans Day by playing golf. His knee got him out of the draft but it doesn’t keep him off the links.

By Saxby Is a Coward

November 11, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Saxby’s Buddy from Freedom Watch is in financial trouble wonder what that’s going to cost us??

Casino giant Las Vegas Sands will detail its plans to handle its debt crisis early next week, according to a person close to the company, a development that may ease bankruptcy worries and could include another capital infusion by billionaire founder Sheldon Adelson, The Associated Press reported.

By Chad Harris

November 11, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

LOL@ dusty—

Palin is a pure bred moron. The more she gets airtime the worse you lose. The “intervies” were puff pieces. She can’t answer questions a normal 3rd grader should be able to answer. She doesn’t stand a chance against Obama or whomever will be President after 8 years in 2016. We’re goin’ for 60 and making great progress. Keep the moron snowbilly in play if you’re dumb enough.

It’s amazing how many dumb Republicans would even be stupid enough to mention the moron Palin. Or maybe not.

By SickofIt

November 11, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

It is fitting that you quote Phil Graham regarding the Republican comeback. Phil Graham who sponsored the deregulation of the financial markets that brought about this financial catastrophie. (If you believe it was Acorn and Bill Clinton you are a certified lunatic.) Phil Graham whose family fortune was earned by his wife by sitting on the audit committee of the Enron Board of Directors. (Great job, Wendy.) Quoting Phil Graham, good Lord.

By Drew

November 11, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

I would hope to see a Libertarian surge within the GOP. ‘Moral values’ are all well and good, but to paraphrase Barry Goldwater when asked about gay rights (in his later years, mind you), he said ‘what the hell business is it of mine who they sleep with?’

The GOP should remember that smaller government goes far beyond the pocketbook issues.

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Yes, NCO@1:33

Thank you for remembering Veteran’s Day with the Poem you posted. Certainly one for us to treasure on this special day.

I am too far away from the National Cemetery at Beaufort, S.C. to visit the grave of my father (and mother) today. It is a beautiful place of peace. It is also a place of love now gone but still dear to my heart.

Happy Veterans Day, NCO. I send you the best of wishes and gratefully remember all those who have given us so much.

By SaveOurRepublic

November 11, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Iacopus @ 11:28 AM - Absolutely! The GOP has sabotaged itself by allowing this mass infestation of these phoney “conservative”/RINO/”Rockefeller Republican”/Neocons! A Globalist like (former CFR member) Newt Gingrich is NOT the best solution for the falling GOP. There best chance is to fully embrace the Constitutionalist, real (paleo)conservative platform & leadership on true patriot like Dr.Ron Paul!

By Veteran Watch

November 11, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Saxby Lied about Max Cleland, we won’t fall for his tricks again.

By making

November 11, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Don’t know if Newt would even attempt a run, BUT he would be an excellent person to head the GOP and get some young, bright, and inspiring candidates within the party to go after Biden in 2012.

By dirty harry

November 11, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Dusty @ 1:57

Dusty, you never cease to amaze me with your IDIOTIC comments.

You write this… “Race may have been a factor for some. But black and white Southerners have been living together several hundred years and we have gotten to know each other.

Dusty, have you forgotten George Wallace? Lester Maddox, the boys in Selma? Have you forgotten the hatred in Mississippi? Have you forgotten the segregated water spigots? The toilets, hotels? Lunchroom counters? Have you forgotten the Grand Lizard, and the Klu Klux Klan? Lynching’s because one was UPPITY, and didn’t know his place?

The black and white population of the south may have been living together for the last several hundred years….but, it was never as equals!

By National Rifle Association for MARTIN

November 11, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

CHAMBLISS IS not for the people.

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Chad Harris@2:47

After you have been mayor of a town and governor of a state, THEN come back and tell us about pure bred morons. We’ll even settle for President of the PTA if you can manage that.

What is it with you and Sarah Palin? Is it because she is smarter than you? Because she is a woman? Because she is a Republican? Or because you are paid political junkie with no claim to fame whatsoever?

Go pick on someone the same size as you.. a small twit with a bully complex.

By Truthifier

November 11, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Jim, your wagon metaphor is totally off.

You do realize that the red states, generally speaking, contribute far less to the federal government’s revenues than blue states, while reaping far greater rewards in federal funding and programs?

In other words, it’s the Flower Children who are footing the bill for the Rednecks.

By GOP- for -MARTIN

November 11, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

RON PAUL predicted all the Bush/Saxby financial collapse but no one would listen.-Martin is our only choice

By Dusty

November 11, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

dirty harry@3:48

I do not care to go into past records as I can dig up just as many heinous black crimes as you can dig up white ones. It is a losing game for both sides.

We have done away with slavery and segregation but you keep recycling it. For what purpose? To keep the hate going?

As far as I am concerned and it seems the same for most Americans, there is equality NOW. It is about time for you to catch up and move on. You are a drag on the finest of your race.

By MAX

November 11, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Paging Saxby.Your defeat is waiting.

By Allman

November 11, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Yes, bring back Newt! The fellow that left politics when he abandoned his wife for a younger staffer! The guy who won so much support for shutting down the government!

Republicans are pathetic - bring ‘em on!

By Sarah The Guv!

November 11, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Is Spain a continent? I’m boning up for a run at the Whitehouse in 2012, and while I’m strong on foreign policy, I’m a little weak on geography.

By Saxby Is a Coward

November 11, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

AIG is getting mega billion dollars more from the government. This should insure the CEO’s going to another spa vacation.

By Saxby Is a Coward

November 11, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Please stop re-electing incumbents! Send the message that we really want change!

By Saxby Is Slime

November 11, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Chickenhawk Chambliss should not be allowed a runoff vote until he apologizes to war veteran Max Cleland.

By Saxby Is Slime

November 11, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

SAXBY ECONOMICS

Instead of all these “bailouts” why not just pass a law that individuals, businesses banks or corporations no longer owe anyone any money? All is forgiven. There, that solves everything and we can all start from scratch again.

By making

November 11, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Biden vs Blunt 2012

By LATINOS FOR CHANGE

November 11, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin isn”t qualified to run the Wafflehouse on Buford highway,as for Saxby the draft dodger Chambliss his record of failure is remarkable he is on pace to even outdo George Bush for the most incompetent elected offical ever.Please people look at the facts.

By Redneck Convert

November 11, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Well, the only redneck in the race lost big-time but I still support her. I guess she went back to her trailer in Alaska. Who cares if she knows weather Africa is a country or continent? Ain’t nothing but Those People living there anyway.

If she comes to GA to campaign for old Saxby, I’ll be there. Heck, we might even invite her up to Billy Bob’s for a PBR on us. It’s for sure old Newt wouldn’t come. That young hussy he married wouldn’t allow it.

By dirty harry

November 11, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Dusty, Im’ not trying to recycle anything. Just pointing out the facts to your absurd claim that…..

“black and white Southerners have been living together several hundred years and we have gotten to know each other.”

Again tell that to the African Americans who had to sit at the back of the bus, eat at a different counter etc..etc..etc!

I am just stating the facts…of course the facts are somewhat alien to you…know aren’t they?

By catlady

November 11, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Get Newt, Bob Barr, and Saxby Chambliss to co-chair. A three-way winner!

I mean, Newt? He seems ethically challenged to me. Just right for the GOP.