Shameless Chambliss
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| Wed, 11-12-2008 - 8:00am |
Senator Saxby Chambliss is in a runoff election with Jim Martin in Georgia. Chambliss is the guy who in 2002 took out Max Cleland, a former U.S. Senator, triple-amputee disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, decorated war hero, and a critic of the Bush Administration. In the 2002 election, Chambliss stooped to run an infamous ad blasting an image of Cleland next to Osama bin Laden.
Then Chambliss was content to go right along with Bush and his failed policies for the past six years. Now
Chambliss expects people to reelect him for it.
How is Chambliss expecting to get himself reelected? By using the same hit-em-low fear tactics that Bush used to get himself reelected and that Chambliss used to defeat Cleland in 2002.
You can watch Chamblis' latest ad here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#27669978 , complete with fear music playing as the narrator says Obama is a scary liberal and shows his opponent Martin holding a sign reading "Women for Obama." I don't know about you, but Obama doesn't sound so much like a scary liberal to me. In fact, many think he's right of center. Instead, Obama sounds a lot like hope. And what is up with the prominently featured picture of the "women for Obama" sign in the Chambliss ad? Weird mind games I guess.
This is nothing new. Chambliss has a history of whipping people up with baloney:
"Chambliss was criticized for remarks he made during a November 19, 2001 meeting with emergency responders in Valdosta, Georgia, where he said that they should "turn the sheriff loose and arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line." "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss
By the way, let's compare Chambliss and Martin's military service, which is always a good baloney barometer:
"In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, Chambliss was given five student deferments and he received a medical deferment (1-Y) for bad knees due to a football injury."
"From 1969 to 1971, Martin served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War."
Just like Bush in 2000 and 2004, Chambliss was the wrong choice in 2002. Nothing makes him any better today.

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The Republicans have a really sorry track record in the South recently. It's not just that demagogue Chambliss and their activities in Georgia.
In neighboring Alabama it's amazing what went on in the Republican hatchet job on former Governor Siegelman.
This article details some pretty incredible charges of misconduct within the U.S. "Justice" Department. The US Attorney who publicly recused herself from the case because her husband was a Republican big whig who was friends with guess who, Karl Rove of course, stayed right in the middle of it. The "Justice" Department (I have to use quotes whenever referring to the word "Justice" in the Justice Department under Bush's tenure, because the word is a misnomer) hid evidence of witness tampering from the defense and even from the judge. You've got to read the whole article to see how thoroughly rotten these fops (Fox-Republican officials and politicans) are.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1858991,00.html
I am going to post a separate thread on because it is so outrageous.
Are you saying that it's not part of the checks and balances; and if so does that apply when one party holds Congress and another party holds the White House? Seems to me like a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate would be a pretty effective check on a Republican president.
I agree with you. I think that would be a very effective check on a Republican president. My point was simply that I don't think that was the original intent of checks and balances. Although, we had to adapt the original concept because of our extreme partisanship.
And I'm definitely ready for "exhausted." I know it will be hard, but I'd rather be exhausted with a newborn than bored, hugely pregnant and confined to my couch all day.
Shameless Chambliss just repeated that his 9/11 hatchet job attack ad on triple amputee war hero Senator Cleland was "truthful in every way." This guy Chambliss was, is and always will be el slimo maximo.
http://washingtonindependent.com/18946/chambliss-on-cleland-ad-“truthful-in-every-way”
Chambliss was the wrong choice in 2002, and we are paying the price for Bush guys like him. Reward Chambliss for his bad job by voting him back in and you'll get more of the same.
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