Tea Party Express chair targets Saxby Chambliss
Amy Kremer, chairman of the national Tea Party Express and a Georgia resident, made it clear in a CNN interview today that as far as she’s concerned, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss has earned himself a primary challenge with his vote in favor of the “fiscal cliff” legislation that passed the Senate by a vote of 89-8.
“The Tea Party Express, we haven’t decided anything at this point, but I can tell you I live in the state of Georgia and Saxby Chambliss is going to be primaried. Our own senator. It’s unacceptable to have somebody who votes with the Democrats more than they do with the conservatives, and he has proven time and time again he’s all about the spending.
“And we’re a red state, we deserve a conservative senator, a conservative senator that would stand with [Sens.] Marco Rubio [R-Fla.] and Rand Paul [R-Ky.] and Mike Lee [R-Utah] who all voted ‘no’ for this bill.”
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, also of Georgia, also voted in support of the bill, which was opposed by all eight of Georgia’s Republican congressmen.
It should be noted that the Tea Party Express also championed the campaigns of Sharron “Second Amendment remedies” Angle, who lost a winnable race against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell, who lost a winnable Senate race in Delaware.
– Jay Bookman
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barking frog
January 3rd, 2013
10:38 pm
Kamchak
That is what politicians do, they talk.
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In the first debate, Obama didn’t.
td
January 3rd, 2013
10:40 pm
Brosephus™
January 3rd, 2013
10:31 pm
Huntsman IS conservative
He may be a conservative by your standards but he could only get 15% of the vote in the moderate state of NH.
Soothsayer
January 3rd, 2013
10:41 pm
Kam, great Karen vid.
Even in this vid, you can see she is starving herself to death. She’s “fluffed up” with her clothing to mask it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
10:42 pm
He may be a conservative by your standards but he could only get 15% of the vote in the moderate state of NH.
And there’s the same sign.
RF
January 3rd, 2013
10:43 pm
Here’s an interesting tidbit on a would-be Republican congressman who just couldn’t handle being defeated:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ap/crime/nm-candidate-accused-of-slashing-opponents-tires/nThck/
Seems the guy went a little postal after being knocked off the ballot in the primaries. The candidate who went on the general election lost to the Democrat anyway, and then the former opponent went on a tire slashing spree evidently. Crazy stuff from someone who’s supposed to represent what true, patriotic Americans are supposed to be these days.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
January 3rd, 2013
10:44 pm
Sooth
Lovely woman and a distinctive voice. Too bad she was a product of the cheesy 70s.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
January 3rd, 2013
10:47 pm
I might have to switch parties temporarily to beat this tea party.
Thulsa Doom
January 3rd, 2013
10:51 pm
“I don’t think Shula should have been hired in the first place. Bama passed on Sylvester Croom to hire Shula, and Croom made us pay every year we met.”
Brocephus,
I don’t think Shula should have been hired either. Or Croom. There was a 3rd candidate that no one talked about who was eminently vastly more qualified than either of them. For some reason that never got talked about.
Croom was a better candidate than Shula but in retrospect I’m glad he didn’t get that job. It would have been doing nothing more than setting up the first black coach at Alabama for failure. That was an impossible situation to win in with the program at a low point and with the probation and scholarship losses being the 2nd worst ever handed down at that point in time.
And Croom didn’t win every game against Alabama. He went 1-2 against Shula and 1-1 against Saban.
Thulsa Doom
January 3rd, 2013
10:56 pm
Wow. Oregon just scored a 1 pt. safety against Kansas State.
Brosephus™
January 3rd, 2013
10:59 pm
td
Not my standards. Had you bothered to click on the link I posted, you would have seen some prominent mouthpieces who said he was conservative. Then again, I know you’re one of the reading challenged posters here when the source doesn’t fit your version of the truth.
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Doom
I didn’t say that Croom beat Alabama every year. He did, however, make people question the hiring of Shula each year that he met up against Bama.
vuduchld
January 4th, 2013
12:00 am
Tea Beggers, those bottom feeding maggots still around?
getalife
January 4th, 2013
12:12 am
First time I have seen a one point safety.
Good luck in the NFL coach.
Georgia
January 4th, 2013
12:16 am
That 41 year old Bartow county school board member who deliberately ran over a student with her SUV has resigned. This monster belongs in a cage. Look at her photo. Her eyes are set too far apart. She’s an animal mutant. She belongs behind bars. The student was saving a parking place that the witch wanted. Big mistake.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
6:14 am
actually met Linda Ronstadt at a bar/dancehall in rural Maryland in
1966. me and another AF guy went for some entertainment and got
there around 5 o’clock. the place was empty and she was warming up.
the place had picnic tables and we got a beer and sat down. she
finished and came over and sat down and we offered a beer but she
declined. we stayed the rest of the night and she danced with each of
us during breaks
BF, add me to the “I’m not worthy/so in awe of your awesomeness” club.
weetamoe
January 4th, 2013
6:35 am
To the person Bookman called a liar: Among the *alleged* pork items in the hurricane Sandy aid package were/are funds for improvements to the Kennedy space center, for refurbishing some overseas embassies, for a buncha new federal vehicles and for US fisheries –even some as far away as governor Palin’s Alaska.
Wilbur
January 4th, 2013
6:50 am
If I were Jay I would work hard to not talk about the fiscal cliff deal that his Lord and Master jammed through the congress. I would try hard not to talk about the signing statement he attached to the bill. I would try hard not to talk about how irrelevant this process has become to the out of control federal budget. I would especially try hard not to talk about the miserable economic recovery the Obmamorons still try to defend while so many are out of work.
Way to go Jay.
Buzzy
January 4th, 2013
7:04 am
Did anyone take note of the fact that Gov. Chris Christie (R. N.J.) really tore into the Tea Partiers in the House regarding Sandy relief this past week? He did not mince words with the Tea Party radicals.
The Tea Party has turned itself into a dangerous radical and obstructive group and I truly hate to see Georgia go the way of the Neanderthal Tea Party.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
7:36 am
“Did anyone take note of the fact that Gov. Chris Christie (R. N.J.) really tore into the Tea Partiers in the House regarding Sandy relief this past week? He did not mince words with the Tea Party radicals.”
other than the “Chris Christie Lashes Out at GOP, Boehner” article blog entry by Jay … nope. no one noticed.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
7:37 am
” for US fisheries –even some as far away as governor Palin’s Alaska.”
wow. this whole fisheries thing has legs.
the wingnuts have been all aflutter about it since they got their FOX-approved talking points yesterday.
Corbin Sharpe. Baby Boomer...and Ban the Gun Thug!
January 4th, 2013
7:51 am
Good Friday morning to all y’all… I’m back at work…on crutches, but I couldn’t take another day on home rehab. I was going stir crazy! I didn’t get to wish many of y’all a Happy new Year, so belatedly…HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL Y”ALL!!! May this year be everything you envision.
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I guess I’m going to have to back up on this fishery thing…haven’t heard about it.
GT
January 4th, 2013
7:52 am
This is like one of those Indian weddings where someone else picks you spouse and you learn to love them. It always ends up being the nonsmiling wife with the diary. Money dictates politics and that money becomes corrupt money, and now from outsiders who can’t even vote in your district.
One of the Tea Party’s blind spots for last election was not realizing people do care as much about social issues as they do about the economy no matter what their polls say. You got a governor who would leave Georgia citizens dead on the street, not participate in Obamacare, to entertain these carpetbaggers and get their monetary support.
I have never understood mega churches where you have to ride a bus to church from the church parking lot is so far away. The minister that marries or buries you has not a clue who you are. Now we will have to ride a bus to Washington to find who pulls the strings of our local politician and unless we belong to one of those mega churches we won’t even get a hearing. This is how mad white men get off track and show up very mad with guns. We are lost in a sea of greed and power struggles that very well may not be our main issues in life, yet no one cares what our issues are. Their’s are more important.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
7:52 am
Happy New Year Corbin “Hop-Along” Sharpe!!!
I hope you and yours had a fantastic holiday (even with a mangled knee)
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
7:56 am
Among the *alleged* pork items in the hurricane Sandy aid package were/are funds for improvements to the Kennedy space center, for refurbishing some overseas embassies
yeah yeah yeah, this was discussed already, and it’s clear that those who are raising those pissant little items as talking points well after the fact are covering their collective asses.
Face facts–your House screwed up, again. It is getting to be quite the nasty habit.
One of the reasons Republicans opposed reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act was the issue of giving tribal governments jurisdiction over white men who assault Native American women. To have done so would have given clarity to who enforces what laws and how, a threadbare patchwork, at best, now. To oppose it is, well, savage.
are you actually *proud* of this, wee-in-so-many ways?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
7:58 am
dB – “To oppose it is, well, savage.”
and just look at the whirlwind they reaped as a result!
Saxby
January 4th, 2013
8:02 am
Primary this.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:07 am
Now we will have to ride a bus to Washington to find who pulls the strings of our local politician and unless we belong to one of those mega churches we won’t even get a hearing.
We should abolish the Senate and increase the number of Representatives and, of course, place the responsibility of establishing districts in some kind of less-corruptable, less-partisan hands than the frickin’ free-for-all that exists now.
That would not solve everything, but it would solve (I humbly submit) >50% of what is messed up in America today.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:10 am
…and by “abolish” @ 8.07 I mean it should take a backseat to actual lawmaking. I guess I would be ok with having some kind of honorary House-of-Lords kinda deal where they get to go on pretending to be Da Greatest Legislative Body in Da World, providing some advise, perhaps, but no consent.
Being the actual conservative that I am, I would suggest phasing this in over the course of a decade or so, to minimize the bloodshed and upheaval.
ylojkt
January 4th, 2013
8:11 am
Good! Anything to get rid of Chambliss is A-OK in my book. I’m fed up with his support and advancement of legislation that erodes our civil liberties. He has not seen one single bill that violates our Constitution that he doesn’t like; his support of NDAA, FISA, and many other bills of this ilk has proven that he is a threat to the American way of life.
Gale
January 4th, 2013
8:21 am
I have never been a fan of Saxby-Chambliss, but I agree with someone who said he was just positioning to stay with the winners. The Tea Party is proving to be losers. They are too radical for the moderate majority. What I would like to see is a Congressional rule that only amendments actually pertaining to the subject of a bill may be added to the bill. Too much spending gets added to needed legislation to “buy” votes. The bill should pass or fail on its own merit.
oops
January 4th, 2013
8:24 am
“The bill should pass or fail on its own merit.”
Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans. Which is good in my mind. It does make corralling votes for tough issues more difficult though because people are only voting on their conscience, not bribes. Which is as it should be.
independent thinker
January 4th, 2013
8:24 am
Amy Kremer has guaranteed that Saxby will get many ofthe Democrats to vote for him.Which part of the Tax compromise offends her- taxing the rich or the fact that it was proposed by a Black president?
Willis
January 4th, 2013
8:25 am
I’ve been trying all my adult life to get primaried but haven’t yet. Is there still hope?
UNCLE SAMANTHA
January 4th, 2013
8:27 am
are the white racist democrats going to run an old white man for senate in 14 like roy barnes………
its disgusting what they did to thurbert baker in 10 when he would have beat deal for the govenor
except the racist white democrats kept him out
vinny
January 4th, 2013
8:31 am
I’ll take any one of em over Barry “spread the wealth” Obama. Talk about an incompetent tool…….
DannyX
January 4th, 2013
8:31 am
“Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans.”
Very, very funny oops! I can’t stop laughing!
Doggone/GA
January 4th, 2013
8:32 am
“because people are only voting on their conscience, not bribes. Which is as it should be.”
Sure, it SHOULD BE…but how many of them are now voting against out of spite?
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:34 am
Earmarks have been ended by the Republicans.
und zhere hass NEVER been a successful eshkape from Stalag 13.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
8:34 am
goooooooooooooooo economy!!
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
gain of 155K jobs … plus an extra 15K in November!
TaxPayer
January 4th, 2013
8:35 am
Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
8:37 am
and, in fact, there was decent job growth throughout the year:
In 2012, employment growth averaged 153,000 per month, the same as the
average monthly gain for 2011. In December, employment increased in
health care, food services and drinking places, construction, and
manufacturing.
slow growth, but that prevents hyper-inflation …
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
8:37 am
“Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other.”
dude.
that much fat can NOT be good for one’s cholesterol.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 4th, 2013
8:38 am
TP
Do Republicans use any condiments while munching out on each other
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Of course they do, they you horses ass sauce
Jack ®
January 4th, 2013
8:38 am
Handel for governor. Chambliss for president. They both have to move to the middle, though. And promise to give away a lot of stuff.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:38 am
gain of 155K jobs … plus an extra 15K in November!
well, it’s not quite time to cue up Song 2 from Blur, but good news nevertheless.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 4th, 2013
8:38 am
USinUK, clearly you do not know what you are talking about. I know our cons all promised us that the October and November numbers were being cooked to help Obama win the election and we would see big big big drops in December.
Unskewed jobs, right?
TaxPayer
January 4th, 2013
8:40 am
One trillion dollar coin would cover the cost of Sandy with enough left over to pay down most of the deficit for one year.
Should a trillion dollar coin be sized such that it can be carried in one’s pocket or should should it be bigger?
What image should be on a trillion dollar coin?
What should the trillion dollar coin be made of?
How many trillion dollar coins should we have?
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:40 am
Now, just think what the job numbers would look like if the House hadn’t been controlled by psychopaths the past two years.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
January 4th, 2013
8:42 am
dB – at least you didn’t refer to any song by Muse. gah. too pretentious by half.
Keep Up – and they tried to derail the economy to give us those numbers just this week!!
TaxPayer
January 4th, 2013
8:44 am
I hear there are lots of jobs available in statistical analysis… and no Republicans that qualify. Bummer.
JamVet
January 4th, 2013
8:47 am
And promise to give away a lot of stuff.
But only to the right “people”, like corporations and the super-wealthy, huh Jack?
The only good thing about you self-destructive Republirubes, is that you cannot evolve, ergo…
curious
January 4th, 2013
8:47 am
Who added all those “pork” line items into the Sandy relief bill?
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:48 am
Taxpayer @ 8.40, fortunately for you I have already given this matter some serious thought.
The answers are:
Slightly bigger than an Eisenhower Dollar;
Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Twighlight Sparkle, and Cheerilee Pony;
Platinum; and
Four ought to do it for now.
(They can be deposited as needed, but might as well have ‘em minted and ready to spend.)
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 4th, 2013
8:50 am
Who added all those “pork” line items into the Sandy relief bill?
Republicans.
This has been another episode of answers staring you in the face but you refuse to believe if. Republican Alaskan fisheries!
TaxPayer
January 4th, 2013
8:53 am
The minting of a trillion dollar coin highlights the obvious need for the minting of millions of billion dollar coins and million dollar coins in order to make change when only a portion of a trillion dollar coin is spent.
Granny Godzilla
January 4th, 2013
8:58 am
Taypayers
Can we get the change in chocolate coins?
My endorphins need stimulating this morning.
stands for decibels
January 4th, 2013
8:59 am
jerbs SHEETZ.
Ben Shockley
January 4th, 2013
9:00 am
Saxby Chambliss is a RINO in bed with the farm subsidy/cotton subsidy cabal (The AJC ran an excellent expose’ on this several years ago) and voters from both parties should be glad to see him go.
GT
January 4th, 2013
9:45 am
Saxby Chambliss is far better than someone sent down from the home office to keep their satellite state under their thumb. This is a great chance for Georgia to get out from under the boot and maybe start improving our lives. We haven’t done this ever in the history of our state, stop blaming others for our weak character, show some guts instead of always hitting the greed button.
Uh Huh.............The GOP will self-destruct
January 4th, 2013
10:45 am
I HOPE and PRAY that the GOP will self DESTRUCT.
They REAP what they SOW.
nowayjose23932
January 4th, 2013
12:47 pm
Hey, Georgia Republicans, it looks like Jim Martin was right about Saxby Chambliss after all. The sweet taste of schaudenfreude.
Jmaguire
January 6th, 2013
7:18 am
It would be nice to have a conservative run against the moderate Saxby. I think Georgians would all be better off if someone with principle ran and won versus this politician.
Jay – what is better, a principled man you disagree with or a politician who wants to “win” votes?