With ‘Taxby’ gone, Tea Party tacks new RINO hide to wall
As my colleague Jim Galloway first reported, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss will soon announce that he will not seek re-election in 2014.
Georgia conservatives are already taking credit for the decision, arguing that they pushed “Taxby” into retirement. And they probably did. The senator has a very conservative voting record, but not conservative enough for many in his party. His admission that maybe, just maybe, the Republicans would have to accept higher taxes as a necessary evil made him unacceptable in their eyes, guaranteeing a bitter primary fight.
I doubt Chambliss will admit that internal party dissent played a role in his decision. He might say that by announcing so early, he allows himself to devote the next two years to trying to solve problems in Washington. He’ll probably also tell us that if he had wanted to run again, he’s certain that he would have won.
However, few will believe him, and his departure marks another step in his party’s inexorable march to the right.
The announcement also sets off a free-for-all among Georgia congressmen, who are all too aware that an open Senate seat doesn’t come along very often. As they give up their seats to run, that in turn will create ripples in the Georgia General Assembly, as legislators position themselves to fill those vacancies. It promises to be quite the scene, with GOP Senate hopefuls competing with each other for the title of most-diehard-conservative-ever-ever-ever.
And as an added attraction? As the AJC’s Dan Malloy tweets from Washington, a spokesman for Newt Gingrich may be cracking the door open a bit, observing that “Newt might be on Medicare, but he is not ready for the retirement home.” As you recall, Gingrich won the Georgia presidential primary by 20 percentage points. He had ruled out running in a primary against Chambliss, but this could change things.
(Personally, I think a Gingrich run is unlikely. But in a second tweet, Malloy reports that “Expecting a statement from @NewtGingrich on #GASen today after he speaks with his wife.” UPDATE 12:34: A Gingrich spokesman now says that the former speaker “will not be a candidate in the 2014 GOP Senate primary.”)
On the Democratic side, the promise of a hard-fought, expensive, blood-letting GOP primary, with the process almost certain to produce a candidate much more conservative than the conservative Chambliss, may create a small window of opportunity.
No, the timing isn’t perfect. The demographics of the state may be changing, but they haven’t quite changed enough. The political fortunes of Democrats in general are improving, but they haven’t improved quite enough in Georgia. And the party infrastructure in much of the state is abysmal. Nonetheless, the right Democratic candidate, with the right campaign and message and against the right opponent, could potentially accelerate the process by a cycle or two.
And who might fit the bill as the “right Democratic candidate”? The list is pretty short. U.S. Rep. John Barrow, the only white southern Democrat remaining in the House, has already announced he won’t run for Senate. State Sen. Jason Carter of Decatur has a bright future, but youth and relative inexperience would make victory difficult. And while Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is probably the party’s best hope in a statewide race, it would be a big political risk even for him.
– Jay Bookman
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barking frog
January 25th, 2013
4:08 pm
Regnad Kcin
2) Maybe he snuck away one time when the author wasn’t looking.
………………………………………………………………………………………
I have always preferred the word ’snuck’ to sneaked, it seems so
much more descriptive of the action.
Paul
January 25th, 2013
4:08 pm
Jm
I’d like to second JamVet’s ‘well done’ regarding your 2:28.
Nicely said.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:08 pm
“Morality” — “Mama – a human fetus has human DNA – and will never be anything else but human. That is a scientific fact. Human cancer cells are mutated cells. Cancer cells in humans also have human DNA but that they will never be a human child. Trying to make this real simple for you here.”
Then you need to work out your arguments with greater care before you present them.
“You already know all of this of course but you refuse to agree because you will lose the debate.”
Nope.
“Killing a human fetus is killing a human being.”
I disagree.
“I did not say murder because murder is a legal term.”
I understand and respect that. I appreciate you meeting me halfway here.
Towncrier’s suggestion that I take a class on semantics is, of course, about 25 years too late. Besides, he — and you — wants me to apply a specific denotation to “child” that I simply don’t agree with. I don’t reject the notion that a fetus is “alive,” but being “alive” is not, in and of itself, sufficient for the imputation of *human* rights. Ergo, pro-lifers like yourself and Towncrier are now trying to argue that a fetus is “alive” (which I grant) and that it is ‘human’ (which I don’t) and that it is a “child” (which I also don’t grant).
Towncrier’s right in that this is a matter of semantics, but he’s incorrect in his insistence that his preferred denotaion be used. He’s certainly welcome to use it himself — and I presume that you’d agree with him — but he’s in no position to require that others use it as well.
Good try though, TC.
Coolio
January 25th, 2013
4:08 pm
Jay, we’re about to prove to the entire country that Georgia can out-mississippi Mississippi for the Hickville Headquarters of America. Paul Broun will seek to do more than embarrass Athens. He will try to become a statewide nuissance. My money is on Austin Scott. He’s already built a track record for referring to our two term president as “that boy”.
Regnad Kcin
January 25th, 2013
4:09 pm
“If they are “alive” then it must be a child and therefore if the child is killed then it is homicide.”
Extreme logic fail…
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:09 pm
“In which case you’d never get to go.”
Tag. You’re it!
Chuck UUGA
January 25th, 2013
4:11 pm
Someone signal when it is time for me to quit laughing myself into unconsciousness! Jay Bookman actually thinks there is a snowballs chance in hell that a Democratic candidate has a chance to win a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia in 2014! Right smack in the middle of Obama’s second term?! You are kidding us Jay, right?! If so, I am going to walk on at UGA to play football because even I have a chance at winning next year’s Heisman Trophy…even though I will be 53 this June. I have the same chance of making the team as anyone running for Senate in Georgia and winning as a Democrat!!
alex
January 25th, 2013
4:11 pm
It’s Friday night and Mick, Jam, and Kam are going drinking….GOD help us all…..Goodnight and have a safe weekend, Josef, did you get the book?
norman
January 25th, 2013
4:11 pm
Conservatives should support Jack Kingston. No one is more conservative but many from Metro Atlanta in Congress cannot keep from spouting nonsense about sex and rape.. Kingston is bright, a gentleman, AND A MAN GEORGIA COULD BE PROUD OF, AS WE IN SAVANNAH ARE PROUD OF HIM.
Morality?
January 25th, 2013
4:11 pm
Mama – Christianity isn’t a religion. Do I believe in Muslim, etc,etc,etc – no because they are religions and they aren’t real. I know God is real from personal experience. Hopefully you will know the TRUTH some day. I am not here to try to convince you of any thing. If you KNOW the TRUTH then there isn’t any other possibility. You think you know the truth but you don’t. As for the Guard – I was around back then so I now that if you could get in the Guard you would be safe from going to Nam. Unless you wanted to volunteer of course. If you were poor, a minority, a male and 18 and passed the physical you were going to Viet Nam if your draft number came up. Viet Nam was a poor man’s war. LBJ signed off on it.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:12 pm
td — “Did I call you out by name?”
Since I was the only person to make the argument you were complaining about, I suggest you pull up your big-boy pants and admit that you were responding to me.
“Now that we are on the subject. If they are “alive” then it must be a child”
Nope.
“and therefore if the child is killed then it is homicide.”
Nope.
Of course, if that’s what you think, then I encourage you to live by that code in your life. However, I don’t agree with it and I don’t choose to comport myself in that manner.
Morality?
January 25th, 2013
4:17 pm
Mama – yes Human cancer cells are mutated human cells and will have human DNA but they will never become a baby. A human fetus has human DNA also and will most likely become a human child unless the fetus dies before reaching term. You argument is ridiculous.
AmericaShrugged
January 25th, 2013
4:17 pm
It’s just playing with semantics to justify what is unethical behavior at the least. Even playing the legal game, how many people have been convicted of mulitple homicides for killing a pregnant woman? I’m pretty sure homicide is a synonym for murder, so yes even under the law we’re talking murder. No one was ever tried for war crimes for firebombing and nuking a few hundred thousand Japanese women and children either, but that didn’t make it a morally righteous act.
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:17 pm
“Towncrier’s suggestion that I take a class on semantics is, of course, about 25 years too late. Besides, he — and you — wants me to apply a specific denotation to “child” that I simply don’t agree with.”
I would like you to do that, but realize full well that is not going to happen without some kind of conversion to a different worldview (as I intimated in part in an earlier post). But I responded initially to your original post because you made the statement that there was “no such thing” as an unborn child. I responded that it was all a matter of one’s POV, that there was no real objective grounds for saying that.
weetamoe
January 25th, 2013
4:18 pm
Josef, Jay, someone, please get that person who calls himself Fred a tinfoil hat.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:18 pm
Towncrier — “Perhaps before some of those posting here might want to read this in preparation:”
Gosh, just imagine if someone posting here were to even actually change their political views and persuasion.
Surely THAT’S never happened with anyone posting here.
Dixie Normous
January 25th, 2013
4:19 pm
Yes Dems. PLEASE nominate Thurbert Baker. He couldnt win an election for dogcatcher.
blackprix
January 25th, 2013
4:19 pm
I remember we NONE OF THE GOP folks said crap about Bush and spending connected to two wars!! I don’t want to hear one word from any of you hippocrits.
Eight years of Bush and not one conservative spoke out. Enough from all of you!
Cox
January 25th, 2013
4:22 pm
Bookman, you are such a jerk.
Regnad Kcin
January 25th, 2013
4:22 pm
“I have always preferred the word ’snuck’ to sneaked, it seems so
much more descriptive of the action.”
When we were young, my brother and I often snuck around. I don’t recall that we EVER sneaked around.
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:24 pm
“I will add that it imo it is an excuse when people who want term limits, continue to vote for the same person because they might have to vote across party lines or for a 3rd party candidate. ”
That is fine and I can certainly accept and appreciate your thinking on the matter. But saying that as you have is different than saying “we already have term limits” in an attempt to shut down or ridicule others who think differently. Don’t you think?
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:26 pm
Morality — “Mama – Christianity isn’t a religion. Do I believe in Muslim, etc,etc,etc – no because they are religions and they aren’t real.”
I find nothing distinguishing about any of the three. All are religions so far as I’m concerned, no one superior to the other two and no one worthy of my adherence.
“I know God is real from personal experience.”
Good for you.
“Hopefully you will know the TRUTH some day.”
I do not believe that there is any TRUTH whatsoever in what you fancifully claim to be the TRUTH. However, if it serves a purpose in your life and you derive some sort of value from it, then I wholeheartedly encourage you to participate in in to your heart’s content. I simply see no need or value in it, and feel no reason to participate in it myself.
“I am not here to try to convince you of any thing. If you KNOW the TRUTH then there isn’t any other possibility.”
I think you should recognize that you you believe to be the TRUTH may not necessarily be so to anyone else.
You think you know the truth but you don’t.
Who are you to say that to me? Who do you think you are?
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:27 pm
“Surely THAT’S never happened with anyone posting here.”
Probably NOT as a result of anything I have said, ROFL. Yeah, Mamet went the right way and you went astray.
Jay
January 25th, 2013
4:28 pm
Those who say sneaked have never snucked.
Those who have snucked would never say they sneaked.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2013
4:28 pm
“Bookman, you are such a jerk.”
Cox, you are such a jerk
td
January 25th, 2013
4:29 pm
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:12 pm
td — “Did I call you out by name?”
Since I was the only person to make the argument you were complaining about, I suggest you pull up your big-boy pants and admit that you were responding to me.
If I wanted to talk about what you specifically posted then I would have absolutely no problem as to address you. I was scanning the blog and saw several comments on the subject so I wrote a post back in general terms addressing the general views of progressives.
Jay
January 25th, 2013
4:30 pm
Oh, and Cox?
Somehow, I will have to find a way to live with the knowledge that somewhere out there, some anonymous person doesn’t like me.
Such a burden.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:30 pm
“Morality” — “A human fetus has human DNA also and will most likely become a human child unless the fetus dies before reaching term.”
Like in a spontaneous miscarriage?
“You argument is ridiculous.”
Well *yours* is *delicious,* NOM NOM NOM.
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:32 pm
“Somehow, I will have to find a way to live with the knowledge that somewhere out there, some anonymous person doesn’t like me.”
As long as she isn’t your wife, I think you’ll be fine Jay.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:32 pm
Towncrier — “But I responded initially to your original post because you made the statement that there was “no such thing” as an unborn child. I responded that it was all a matter of one’s POV, that there was no real objective grounds for saying that.”
I eagerly await your posts in correction of “Morality,” who likewise has no real objective grounds for his assertions.
saywhat?
January 25th, 2013
4:34 pm
Any word on what Chambliss’s golden parachute will be? Sure he’s got two more years, but maybe another high paying position at GPB might miraculously open up at about that time?
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:34 pm
td — “If I wanted to talk about what you specifically posted then I would have absolutely no problem as to address you. I was scanning the blog and saw several comments on the subject so I wrote a post back in general terms addressing the general views of progressives.”
And I replied to you, which is what we do here. Grow a thicker skin, ya noob-acting mook.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
4:39 pm
Towncrier — “Probably NOT as a result of anything I have said, ROFL. Yeah, Mamet went the right way and you went astray.”
Shrug.
Maybe y’all can make up some ground with the voters by luring away more folks like Mamet before 2016 rolls around?
Mr Right, the FOXBOT,not the JAYBUTT
January 25th, 2013
4:40 pm
I recommend Hank Johnson for the Dems,seems like he would be a good fit for them!
Erwin's cat
January 25th, 2013
4:48 pm
Somehow, I will have to find a way to live with the knowledge that somewhere out there, some anonymous person doesn’t like me.
Come on Jay…surely there’s people you know that don’t like you either
and family doesn’t count
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:52 pm
“I eagerly await your posts in correction of “Morality,” who likewise has no real objective grounds for his assertions.”
LOL. To tell you the (honest) truth, I don’t read all of the comments posted here. I scanned a few od his posts, but that is all. I generally don’t care for allegories all that much.
. So I am not sure to which assertions you referring. But guessing you are referring to his claims of (what you would call) a fetus being a child, since you already stipulate a “fetus” (even one that looks remarkable human like in early stages of development) is “alive” but NOT an “unborn child” then obviously the scientific facts are not going to objectively decide what terms are applied to such a being or organism.
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
4:57 pm
“Maybe y’all can make up some ground with the voters by luring away more folks like Mamet before 2016 rolls around?”
I think JamVet would say that was highly unlikely. I think if our side gets one more besides Mamet, Medved and Prager (all Jewish converts to the right), we’d be lucky.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 25th, 2013
5:01 pm
Just back from a council meeting.
How’s the screeching batsh$t crazy Bircher pen doing today?
Any unshat spots on the newspaper-covered floor for me to stand here?
Ralph
January 25th, 2013
5:05 pm
Sure is hard to be a common sense conservative centrist focused on getting things done in any way that makes sense. The toxic climate evidenced by posts here illustrate what’s killing our democracy.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 25th, 2013
5:13 pm
Ralph: “Sure is hard to be a common sense conservative centrist ”
Common sense conservative centrist?
There’s a whole party dedicated to supposedly “common sense centrism”. It’s called the DEMOCRATIC party. You ought to check them out. They even have a sitting president who’s just been re-elected, too.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2013
5:29 pm
Towncrier — “But guessing you are referring to his claims of (what you would call) a fetus being a child, since you already stipulate a “fetus” (even one that looks remarkable human like in early stages of development) is “alive” but NOT an “unborn child” then obviously the scientific facts are not going to objectively decide what terms are applied to such a being or organism.”
FWIW, the bugs in your digestive system are “alive” and you kill them by the millions whenever you take antibiotics for seasonal upper respiratory infection. The definition of “alive” is quite broad, but I’m sure we could agree that Streptococcus Thermophilus are in no way “human.”
Honestly, I think the definition of “child” or “human being” — when it comes to the abortion issue — is going to have to be couched in a legal definition that’s simply *bound* to upset some people. Either it’s going to be too inclusive (which would give me agita) or it wouldn’t be exclusive enough (which would likely trouble you).
Clearly, there has to be an operational definition of “child,” and since not everyone operates the same way, some people’s opinions are simply inevitably going to be trod upon. I’m afraid I don’t see any way around it.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2013
5:43 pm
“I’m afraid I don’t see any way around it”
I don’t either. I know where *I* would set it, but you’re correct…not everyone would agree or be happy with it.
Itchy Finger
January 25th, 2013
6:05 pm
Why would a dem bother running? They have no chance here….
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
January 25th, 2013
6:27 pm
All you guys have to do is get another 100K or so on food stamps (should be no problem for hard working democrats) and you can elect Bozo the Clown as the next Senator from the Great State of Georgia (kind of like Al Franken).
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2013
6:29 pm
“Why would a dem bother running? They have no chance here”
That’s not quite true. They might have only a very slim chance, but it’s only if they don’t run that they have NO chance
mark
January 25th, 2013
6:40 pm
go back to watching MSNBC…
joe m
January 25th, 2013
6:52 pm
Saxby shows a little common sense and a sincere interest in doing what is right for the country and the
wacko rights hammer him. The GOP continues to slide into irrelevance. The very wealthy and blue collar whites now the majority of their. Wealth only care about taxes and the blue collars are too dumb to know they are voting against the own interests.
Jm
January 25th, 2013
6:55 pm
Compliments from liberals
I may need my head examined.
1776
January 25th, 2013
7:03 pm
Ol’ Suxby Shameless is hardcore neocon and (like most senators) a globalist shill. We need a strict Constitutionalist (ala Ron Paul) serving in there.
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
7:22 pm
“Clearly, there has to be an operational definition of “child,” and since not everyone operates the same way, some people’s opinions are simply inevitably going to be trod upon. I’m afraid I don’t see any way around it.”
Well, if an absolutist position is not taken (one is a human being at conception or only one upon being born), then all everyone is doing is engaging in line drawing. I mean, the very definition or idea of “viability” has changed since Roe v. Wade due to nothing more than medical and technological advances (since 90% or more of babies born before the 28th week now survive). That to me proves how ill-advised (if not immoral) it is to draw lines with respect to human life. My own personal opinion is that any and all abortions should be allowed OR none except in cases where the mother did not choose to engage in intercourse (because she was raped or molested) causing a pregnancy or her life is endangered by the pregnancy (on the theory that the government cannot compel her to either bear a child or risk her own life for what would likely be religious reasons).
Johnny
January 25th, 2013
7:22 pm
Let Nathan Deal run for Saxby’s seat in 2014 and then I would like to see Wayne Mason’s son, Keith, a true blue / yellow dog democrat, run for Governor next time around?
Towncrier
January 25th, 2013
7:25 pm
“Compliments from liberals…I may need my head examined.”
I would be worried, if I were you. Have you been talking incoherently of late?
td
January 25th, 2013
7:32 pm
Just Saying..
January 25th, 2013
5:35 pm
Cons, you can spin this any way you like, but the fact is the Party throws away a near certain win, with three term seniority, for first term (Mack Mattingly, anyone?) replacement, at longer odds.
Or, the same decision making that resulted in:
-loss of the White House
-fewer seats in the Senate
-fewer seats in the House
You seem to have forgotten to also say that:
30 Governors
total control of 29 state legislatures
half control of 6 state legislatures.
233 to 200 majority in the house while in 2008 256 Dems and 178 Republicans.
See the parties that hold the power in the states control the congress.
Corey
January 25th, 2013
7:39 pm
I thought the reelection of Mr. Obama would surely cure some of our regulars of the affliction of ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome). Boy was I wrong; the affliction has only gotten worse. You see, some of them have even changed the monikers, but their infantile phrases and writing styles have not.
independent thinker
January 25th, 2013
7:59 pm
I sure hope Price get the nomination- we need a real clown to replace Saxby or someone whose unethical behavior makes them qualified by Georgia GOP standards.
Clueless Democrat
January 25th, 2013
8:07 pm
Let’s all get behind John Lewis for Senate!
independent thinker
January 25th, 2013
9:43 pm
Stupid party (Jindal’s term) just rewarded Rinse a Prebus for creating the circus that lost the election in 2012 by picking this clown for another term. Mean time the GOP leader who brilliantly achieved success in 2010, Michael Steele is given the boot.
Nduka
January 25th, 2013
11:31 pm
“The political fortunes of Democrats in general are improving, but they haven’t improved quite enough in Georgia.”
Jay I’d argue their fortunes have peaked in Georgia and probably will peak relatively soon elsewhere as well.
Consider the demographics. The current Dem base is largely younger voters, African Americans and Hispanics. As the young’uns mature, and … assuming the economy grows … the minorities prosper and learn about paying income taxes they will transition over to the other side. That’s the way it usually plays out. By the time BHO’s second term has ended everyone will be so disenchanted and disappointed that their won’t be another Dem in the WH for many years.
Towncrier
January 26th, 2013
12:44 am
An interesting read related to the status of the unborn:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/23/salon-yeah-abortion-takes-a-life-so-what/
I had never even considered this whole question from the standpoint of individual women vacillating in completely contradictory ways on whether or not the life they are carrying is human. You have to be kidding me! That is no way to logically resolve the question. So the morality of abortion is determined by a woman’s moods (if her pregnancy was brought on by a choice she made to have sexual intercourse without ensuring she wouldn’t get pregnant if that isn’t what she wanted)? How unbelievably idiotic, contradictory and immoral!
dbm
January 26th, 2013
8:51 am
td
January 25th, 2013
4:07 pm
When a lab takes a blood sample from any of us, the sample contains living human cells. Is that murder?
Of course, a fetus is different from a blood sample. But it is also different from an actual human being. A fetus is only a potential human being. Killing a fetus is not murder and should not be criminalized or otherwise forbidden.
hamiltonAZ
January 26th, 2013
12:43 pm
Looking for a qualified successor to Sen. Chambliss? Willing to look at the person and not blindly vote by party? Figure out who this person might be.
The son and grandson of army generals.
Graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama.
Served in Vietnam as an Airborne Ranger reconnaissance platoon sergeant
Earned two Bronze Stars (with “V” devices for valor) and a Purple Heart.
Inducted into the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame.
Undergraduate degree from Princeton University and
Law degree from Boston University.
Mayor of Macon with strong fiscal conservative credentials.
two terms in the US House of Representatives.
Towncrier
January 26th, 2013
2:34 pm
“Looking for a qualified successor to Sen. Chambliss? Willing to look at the person and not blindly vote by party? Figure out who this person might be.”
As a social and fiscal conservative, I think Jim Marshall might be worth looking at. Is he going to run?
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
7:50 pm
“You see…. Georgia is a moocher red state that depends on Federal money to keep it afloat.”
If that is the case it is only because of the proliferation of carpetbagging yankee transplants.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
7:53 pm
“Kasim Reed would be a good choice.”
If I’m elected, I promise to give every person who voted for me their own stadium, funded by some bogus tax or another. Thanks for your vote…and your campaign contributions.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
7:54 pm
“You mean like Georgia’s version of Ray Nagin, Nathan Deal?”
I think you meant to say Raw-ee Barnes.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
7:59 pm
“What? We were sent here to undermine Georgia by asking for rationality. The legislation and GOP are completely irrational so our plan is on track so that soon we’ll take the entire state. This has been our plan since Lincoln.”
And to think we believed you when you said you came down here for purely altruistic reasons. Just like your predecessors 150 years ago, all you wanted was the natural resources. Yankee hypocrites.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
8:03 pm
“Why don’t the Democrats go ahead and nominate Cynthia McKinney for the seat? She is the perfect candidate – very representative of the D Party in Georgia today.
_____
Is she the same Congresswoman that exposed George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction?”
Yes, Cynthia, the great conspiracy theorist. She’s still looking for those evil space aliens. Actually she was exposed for assaulting a police officer.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
8:17 pm
“Just look what those idiots let out of the bag when they impeached Clinton for a triviality. Even Newt told them not to…………….”
Well, I’m sure lots of folks don’t have a problem with obstruction of justice, as long as it’s a candidate from their party. However, folks on the other side of the aisle can expect the worst.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
8:22 pm
“Obama dodged Viet Nam? Who knew?”
I’m afraid you’re confusing Obama with ol’ draft dodgin’ Billy Clinton.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
8:49 pm
“There’s a whole party dedicated to supposedly “common sense centrism”. It’s called the DEMOCRATIC party.”
Not intended to be a true statement.
Oppressed Suth'ner
January 26th, 2013
9:01 pm
Again, I am not an anti-abortion extremist, but why is feticide criminal if unintended, but legal if intended?
O.C.G.A. 16-5-80 (2010)
16-5-80. Feticide; voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child; penalties
(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term “unborn child” means a member of the species homo sapiens at any stage of development who is carried in the womb.
(b) A person commits the offense of feticide if he or she willfully and without legal justification causes the death of an unborn child by any injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, or if he or she, when in the commission of a felony, causes the death of an unborn child.
(c) A person convicted of the offense of feticide shall be punished by imprisonment for life.
(d) A person commits the offense of voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child when such person causes the death of an unborn child under circumstances which would otherwise be feticide and if such person acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from serious provocation sufficient to excite such passion in a reasonable person; provided, however, that, if there should have been an interval between the provocation and the killing sufficient for the voice of reason and humanity to be heard, of which the jury in all cases shall be the judge, the killing shall be attributed to deliberate revenge and be punished as feticide.
(e) A person convicted of the offense of voluntary manslaughter of an unborn child shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 20 years.
(f) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to permit the prosecution of:
(1) Any person for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman, or person authorized by law to act on her behalf, has been obtained or for which such consent is implied by law;
(2) Any person for any medical treatment of the pregnant woman or her unborn child; or
(3) Any woman with respect to her unborn child.
Sen. Saxby (a.k.a. Taxby) Chambliss will not Seek Another Term in 2014 | Conservative Heritage Times
January 27th, 2013
12:50 pm
[...] Chambliss is retiring. Rumor has it that Taxby is stepping down rather than face a bruising primary fight. Well Taxby, if you don’t want to get challenged in the primary, then don’t say stupid [...]
Dino K
January 27th, 2013
10:55 pm
how about newt’s wife callista? she could pawn millions in jewels for the needed campaign cash and newt could raise millions more from inside DC access.
independent thinker
January 28th, 2013
7:27 am
Stupid party will pick someone who exemplifies true Georgia Repub values-
1. bigoted
2. progun
3.unethical
4. anti- women’s rights
5. anti public health care
6. pro wealthy donors
anything else?