Your daily jolt: ‘You could see riots in the streets,’ says Saxby Chambliss
A newly re-elected President Barack Obama will make a White House appearance early this afternoon to set the tone for negotiations with House Republicans on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff.
But no pressure. Certainly not from U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, one of the leaders of a bipartisan approach to tackling the question of spending cuts and revenue increases. From an interview with Chambliss in today’s Washington Post:
”I was watching the news this morning and looking at Greece. That’s exactly where we’re headed. There are riots in the streets. It’s either going to be done by us, using this opportunity we have now, or the people we sell our bonds to are going to [respond]. You could see riots in the streets of the United States if we don’t do this right. We have the opportunity right now, and it’s imperative that we do, primarily through a $4-5 trillion package over 10 years.”
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Several thousand residents of Georgia would rather see a dead scientist in Congress than a fellow who declares evolution and such to be lies from the pit of hell. Via this morning’s Athens Banner-Herald:
Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke County in balloting for the 10th Congressional District seat retained Tuesday by five-year incumbent Republican Rep. Paul Broun….
“I can’t ever remember seeing a (write-in ballot) report that long,” said Athens-Clarke County Elections Supervisor Gail Schrader after releasing the full list of write-in numbers to local media Thursday morning.
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed quietly gathered a group of core supporters on Thursday to assure them that he had no intention of accepting any appointment from the new Barack Obama administration and would press on with his 2013 re-election bid.
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In the first 48 hours after Tuesday’s presidential defeat, many Republican eyes are putting immigration at the top of the fix-it list. From today’s Wall Street Journal:
House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans in Congress said Thursday that they want to consider broad changes to immigration laws next year, after an election in which Hispanic voters turned out in force to help President Barack Obama win a second term.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer may have stirred up the most dust on the topic:
The principal reason [Hispanics] go Democratic is the issue of illegal immigrants. In securing the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney made the strategic error of (unnecessarily) going to the right of Rick Perry. Romney could never successfully tack back.
For the party in general, however, the problem is hardly structural. It requires but a single policy change: Border fence plus amnesty. Yes, amnesty. Use the word. Shock and awe — full legal normalization (just short of citizenship) in return for full border enforcement.
In Georgia, immigration activist D.A. King is pushing back. From today’s Marietta Daily Journal:
Nearly half the illegal aliens in the U.S. did not come here illegally. They overstayed temporary visas. For votes, should we ignore visa violations, too? This is how most of the 9/11 terrorists were able to remain here….
Documenting millions of resentful undocumented Democrats is a crack-pot method to elect a Republican President.
Former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin passed on a link to this Miami Herald article, which she said was passed to her by Manuel Diaz, the former mayor of Miami. It includes the following:
Obama actually won Cuban-Americans on Election Day itself, taking 53 percent of their vote compared to 47 percent for Republican Mitt Romney, who built up a lead among those who cast absentee and early in-person ballots, according to the survey of 4,866 voters conducted by Bendixen & Amandi International.
So Romney narrowly carried Cuban-Americans, 52-48 percent, which is a decrease for Republicans when compared to 2008.
“Obama is picking the Republican lock in Florida,” Fernand Amandi said, noting that Hispanics are Florida’s fastest-growing segment of the electorate.
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Sharon Mitchell, the interim elections director for Fulton County, admitted some problems on Tuesday night, but denies that it was the “debacle” that Secretary of State Brian Kemp said it was:
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State Sen. Doug Stoner, D-Smyrna, reports that he has tried to reach out to Republican Hunter Hill, who defeated him on Tuesday, but hasn’t been successful.
“I had to leave a message,” he said.
Last year, Stoner’s Cobb County district was drawn into Republican Buckhead last year, with Tuesday’s result in mind — part of the Republican quest for a constitutional majority in the Senate. In conceding, Stoner added this:
“The final tally of 52.87 percent to 47.13 percent demonstrates that had this district not been gerrymandered, I may well have won. In fact, I carried the Cobb County portion of the district two-to-one,” Stoner said.
Stoner managed to run slightly better than President Barack Obama in the redrawn District 6, but not by much. While the Cobb County portion of District 6 is 36 percent African-American, that number dropped to 8 percent in Fulton County. In his worst precinct – the wealthy one that includes the Governor’s Mansion and West Paces Ferry Road, Stoner lost to Hill by 80 to 20 percent.
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Just in case you missed the Augusta Chronicle’s after-the-fact, harsh judgment on Lee Anderson, the newspaper’s champion in the effort to oust U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Augusta, from the 12th District:
Clearly, the inarticulate Anderson’s strategy of laying low – not debating Barrow and, worse, not making himself available to say much more than “hello” to the media – crippled his campaign and torpedoed his image.
“Lee Anderson ran the worst campaign of all time,” one normally soft-spoken political observer told us.
Yup. Political science teachers may want to use it as a textbook example of what not to do to be elected. Even sympathetic voters were turned off by Anderson’s unavailability to explain himself or his agenda.
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Over at PeachPundit.com, Charlie Harper offers this thought on the same topic:
Twelfth District Republicans have vowed to begin immediately recruiting a higher profile candidate for the 2014 congressional race. Senate President Pro Tem Tommie Williams’ name is floated most often.
He is stepping down as President Pro Tem for the 2013-2014 session of the General Assembly and has remained somewhat coy as to his future plans beyond that. He will likely receive a number of calls from local GOP members inquiring if his desire to work in DC has changed.
Those same folks may want to consider making a call to one other person as well. That person is John Barrow.
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Former President Jimmy Carter this morning will formally join the board of trustees of Mercer University. From the Macon Telegraph:
Carter’s ties to Mercer include a session in his living room in Plains about six years ago with Mercer President Bill Underwood and former university President Kirby Godsey. The three men talked about a large meeting to bring Baptists together. That led to a 2008 convention at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The event, Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, also featured former President Bill Clinton, a fellow Baptist.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Jon Lester
November 9th, 2012
10:04 am
The editorial staff at the Augusta Chronicle are the kind of people you never want to go into business with. They were all about how great an Anderson win would be, and not about to give second thoughts to John Barrow, but once the counting was done, they went and made it obvious how little they really thought of Anderson. As a near-daily thorn in their side, I’m still not sure if they honestly believe some of the stuff they print, or if they’re really just contemptuous people.
RomeGaGuy
November 9th, 2012
10:05 am
Does Hunter Hill have someone that screens his calls and messages like Stoner did?
Secretary Kemp should know what a debacle is by how he handled the State Archives issue.
Bob Young
November 9th, 2012
10:05 am
Which members of the Georgia delegation voted to create the fiscal cliff in the first place? Are they having buyer’s remorse now? Will they apologize to the people of Georgia for creating a “crisis”?
Tom
November 9th, 2012
10:06 am
The 4,000+ write-in votes Darwin received represents nearly a quarter of Broun’s total in A-CC. Write-in numbers for the entire distrcit aren’t available yet.
James Connah
November 9th, 2012
10:09 am
The economy is heading downward as the full impact of some of the new measures hit next year. I decided to quit charitable donations since the government seems to be doing so much and I have no say in that. It is tiresome bailing out countries because they have made poor choices and have bad citizens. It is tiresome bailing out people who live on the coast and want everyone to share their pain when the inevitable storm hits. Here’s to a black market economy where sales and income taxes are ignored/not reported. I just sold $100,000 in gold which cost me $31,000. I’ll report 0 gain. Ha Ha
Mr. Peanut
November 9th, 2012
10:15 am
And James goes galt. don’t worry, we won’t miss you. nothing you think is going to happen is in fact going to happen. the grownups are back in charge.
cc
November 9th, 2012
10:24 am
Saxby is correct . . .
Unless drastic action is taken, America will soon resemble Greece.
On another note, the stock market which has done surprisingly well through the first four years of Obama’s reign is now tanking. I think that part of the reason the market did well was the anticipation of a new president with leanings towards fiscal accountability. Absent that anticipated change, the stock market is now responding accordingly.
I’m glad I removed myself from the stock market and invested solely in gold at $232.00 per ounce! when that option was available.
rawmilkdrinker
November 9th, 2012
10:28 am
168 years ago today, after having burned Atlanta to the ground, ordering general mayhem and destruction, and capturing 4-500 women and children from Roswell to be sent to Kentucky, that great American Republican, General William Tecumseh Sherman began his scorched earth “March to the Sea” campaign. I guess it’s a good thing that he was ordered to go to Washington DC by boat from Savannah instead of marching up through the Carolinas and Virginia!
Georgia, The " New Mississippi "
November 9th, 2012
10:31 am
This stuff is amusing to minorities that have faced far more difficult challenges in life than the ‘fiscal cliff ” the elected politicians has placed our nation on. This cliff might be a good thing for some of the population to experience. If may correct the behavior that got us to this point.
Bob Andrews
November 9th, 2012
10:33 am
Jim, The main purpose of President Zero’s comments today is to CALM our financial markets!
You may be interested in this video from Argentina: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9666350/Argentines-flood-the-streets-to-protest-against-President-Cristina-Fernandez.html
Suess
November 9th, 2012
10:34 am
Those “Grownups” need to be put in the corner, Peanut. And all of the other Liberals and Commies!
Say What?
November 9th, 2012
10:43 am
PLEASE. The government and economic situation in Greece no more resembles this nation than Mars. Two of the biggest reasons are 1) unlike the Fed, the European Central Bank does not have a dual mandate to pursue low employment as well as low inflation. 2) The ECB’s authority is limited to maintaining low inflation, known as “price stability,” which the ECB defines as an inflation rate below 2%.
When the 2008-2009 global economic collapse pushed down GDP and trade, and pushed up budget deficits around the world, Greece was already dealing with a massive trade deficit and high government debt. Greece had consistently run government deficits greater than 5% of its GDP, and had carried government debt that just about matched its GDP for nearly a decade, both clear violations of Eurozone guidelines. But Greek banks, and banks in Germany and France, lent money to the Greek government, buying their bonds, which regularly yielded a great 5% rate of return, and which presumably carried limited risk as the sovereign debt of a developed country unlikely to default. But as the Greek economy collapsed, Greece had to raise its interest rates to above 12% to sell the additional debt it needed to stay afloat. By the summer of 2010, Greece was pushed to the point of default.
That is why Greece is not at all like the US situation. No matter what extreme right wing organizations like The Heritage Foundation would lead you to believe.
Norris T.
November 9th, 2012
10:44 am
The only rioting I have seen was by angry rednecks at Ole Miss when Obama won a second term.
Toes The Line
November 9th, 2012
10:46 am
Senator Chambliss should be issuing those warnings in his own caucus rather than trying to scare the majority. It’s those knuckleheads who’ve delivered us into this mess.
Don't Tread
November 9th, 2012
10:46 am
Saxby got it right.
Historically, people tend to riot when their gimmies are taken away. (Or when a court produces a verdict they don’t agree with.) This appears to be more the “norm” as time goes on.
Weetamoe
November 9th, 2012
10:52 am
Gee, Kasim, Bill Campbell said the same thing when Clinton was king. Did him no good at all. After amnesty those bright young hispanic kids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and NY will find themselves beaten up for getting good grades just like the Chinese kids before them–by those who are again left behind. Given the alternative, I choose the cliff.
MANGLER
November 9th, 2012
10:54 am
Quick reminder folks: For months I’ve been reading where “Obama and the Dems had Congress for the first 2 years”. OK, they stopped the economic free-fall that was occurring and their thanks was getting a GOP stale mate. The “cliff” legislation was written and passed, by Congress, in 2011. And who was running Congress then? Hmmm? Anyone? So quit your blaming and start your isle-crossing.
Oh, and a fiscal reminder to all y’all political couch potatoes – the POTUS does not have a United States check book and cannot spend a dime. Congress does that.
BARON DEKALB
November 9th, 2012
10:55 am
Don’t Tread wants us to believe: “Historically, people tend to riot when their gimmies are taken away.”
I can’t think of any example of rioting in the US that fits this description, unless you want to go back to the “Bonus Army” of the Great Depression. Black rioting in the 1960s was fueled by years of poverty and exclusion, as well as flashpoint events such as MLK’s assassination. The Chicago 1968 convention turned into an orgy of violence as the nation’s most famous recent “police riot.” And recently, the only thing people seem to get excited enough to riot about is when their sports team comes out on top. Our values may be skewed but it’s in an entirely different way than what you suggest.
shivas
November 9th, 2012
10:57 am
Riots in the street? Well, quit playing political games and work with the President to fix our economy! Dimwit.
shivas
November 9th, 2012
10:58 am
As per Anderson, Jon Lester hit the nail on the head.
David
November 9th, 2012
11:00 am
Decades of CAREER POLITICIANS put us in the mess that we are in today, to include CHAMBLISS; and he is correct, we are not beyond riots in our streets…..wait and see!
intowner
November 9th, 2012
11:02 am
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/markets-usa-stocks-idUSL1E8M77G320121107
trial email, last post seems to have gone awry
double
November 9th, 2012
11:03 am
CC get over it.If you got a golden egg,sit on it.One thing for sure you have Obama for four more years.Your if,ands,& buts change nothing.Ann says no more Romney,and she should know.
intowner
November 9th, 2012
11:04 am
Ah, good
My spouse wishes to publicly thank all individuals who believe Obama’s re-election is the cause of the stock market going down, relying on second-rate news organizations rather than first-rate financial news services. It allows him to trade off of your ignorant position, sweetening our portfolio substantially. Merry xmas to us~
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/markets-usa-stocks-idUSL1E8M77G320121107
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-ecb-rates-highlights-idUSBRE8A70U820121108
double
November 9th, 2012
11:06 am
Repeat,repeat,all you gurus,we going to be like Greece.Well thanks for informing us.No news like old news.
Political Avoider
November 9th, 2012
11:08 am
Hey all you Obamacommies, Obamacommie shedding a tear for you because if you ARE working you are likely to be laid off because companies are already saying they will do so because this commie was elected. YOU voted for him thinking YOU would get more handouts. Expect your taxes, insurance, etc to rise because of him. Its a sure bet. All you freeloading parasites will suffer along with the rest of us.
In 1931 Dr. Adrian Rogers wrote this profound short paragraph:
” You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives
without working for, another must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anyone anything
that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not
have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my friends is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. “
kjds
November 9th, 2012
11:12 am
i guess saxby will be moving to that senior complex in woodstock so he can avoid a potential riot.
Skip
November 9th, 2012
11:14 am
I’ll believe the riot crap when Mitt and Sax get on a plane to France.
GaBlue
November 9th, 2012
11:15 am
Man, my Republican friends are really upset! They truly did not see this coming — probably because their selective “news” sources only tell them what they want to hear. They’ve either dropped or blocked their FB accounts… or blocked me.
I made a point to not gloat, or even comment on or after election day, and only commented prior on things like Amendment one, the definition of rape, and to respond to Rev. Huckabee’s assertion that I was heck bound. (Seriously, CAN WE SMOKE down there? Inquiring souls want to know!)
Bless their hearts. Some of them are really nice people whose company I enjoy. I hope they get past this soon. I hope they don’t hate ME for having the sense God gave me!
Oppo
November 9th, 2012
11:19 am
Saxby is right. Hoping the grand compromise will happen. Surely the dc fools aren’t so stupid they’ll sink the whole ship.
BobV
November 9th, 2012
11:19 am
I haven’t read the Augusta Chronicle in a few years. Was wondering: did they ever change their editorial position from being the last segregationist daily newspaper in America?
RCB
November 9th, 2012
11:20 am
Kasim would LOVE a nod from Obama. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Nitemare
November 9th, 2012
11:22 am
Stoner was flushed down his automatic MARTA toilet!
Oppo
November 9th, 2012
11:24 am
And anyone who saw Anderson speak knew he was not qualified. What’s amazing was he won the primary. The chronicle is a disgrace of a paper. It’s never the staff. It’s the candidate stupid. And the prob here is that the candidate is stupid.
Democrat Man
November 9th, 2012
11:25 am
Americans should be proud that we’ve elected Obama. Now no one will have to worry about health or even getting a job. The federal governent will be taking care of us!
DEAinATL
November 9th, 2012
11:28 am
Enter your comments here
yuzeyurbrane
November 9th, 2012
11:29 am
Saxby is hungry for adoption of the Simpson-Bowles plan because he could then claim his support of it saved the nation. Without commenting on that plan, maybe it is a good proposal, Chambliss is factually way off base in comparing the U.S. situation to Greece. Besides the obvious fact that Greece is a much smaller country with a much smaller economy, the riots in Greece are being caused by the severe austerity measures being imposed on the Greeks by their German bankers. While there have been austerity measures here, they have been nowhere as draconian as those in Greece. Now they might be if we were to follow the TeaParty formula of massive spending cuts only imposed in 1 big hunk, and indeed civil disorder could occur if we reached 25% unemployment like the Greeks. If more reasonable heads prevail then temporary additional stimulus combined with phased in budget balancing (spending cuts and tax increases) could get us over this rough patch. Simpson-Bowles could provide a starting point for discussions on this. With increased demand, the over $70 TRILLION held on the sidelines by the 1% might actually be spent on increasing production and hiring to meet the increased demand.
KPH
November 9th, 2012
11:31 am
There have been 1100 companies announce major layoffs (fifty or more employees)
in the last 48 hours. Brace yourself America this is only the start of what a second Obama term is going to produce.
DEAinATL
November 9th, 2012
11:32 am
Greek riots are causedd by 25% unemployment due to counter productive “austerity” measures to save big European banks. Perhaps Chambliss knows whereof he speaks – the Ryan budget would destroy the economy and perhaps lead to anti-GOP riots.
Kris
November 9th, 2012
11:37 am
Some one tell saxby to be sure to come inside when it rains.
I have been watching Boehner,
He is flop flopping like a fish on land from sonny’s fish farm.
Let me say he looks like he has been on a 3 day drunk…still stupid. The repub’s do not need to redefine themselves as we all know what they are (scum) they are willing and might still tank the economy to get their idiot in the White house…Wrong they need to do what is right FIX the damn ECONOMY… Then fix all the other PROBLEMS they caused.
While on the subject of repubs…Watch the Gold dome antics.
The word of the day is ….RECALL
Nopper
November 9th, 2012
11:38 am
Carter a joke for church leader.
Halftrack
November 9th, 2012
11:41 am
Riots are coming. If voters across our nation had understood the “fiscal cliff” that is upon us they would know that the wolf is at the door. America is little red riding hood without someone to look after us. On a radio talk show recently a single mom thought the most important issue in our Country was that Romney would take “Sesame Street” off the air. Is this critical thinking? The wolf wins and little red riding hood loses.
Jo
November 9th, 2012
11:41 am
It is hard to place blame for the fical cliff on anybody. It is hard to point to which part of the problem is due to deficiet spending, how much to low GDP growth, how much due to the payroll tax cut or refundable credits. It is amazing that we owe 16 trillion racking up 1 trillion more per year and we are worried about decreasing this amount by $506 Billion. If we do it by increasing taxes, we remove that amount from the economy, if we do it by cutting expenditures we remove it from the economy. Do we solve this problem cold turkey or a slow weaning. Even Robert Ruben wants more stimulus spending, a exemption from Payroll tax on the first $20,000 to grow the economy to solve the problem.
Increasing the growth rate of the economy while holding spending stagnet is the only way to solve the fiscal cliff. It is not popular but raising taxes on the wealthy just removes the money from the economy.
Lets just hold on throught 4 more years of the new normal and go over the cliff and get it over versus a protracted series of corrections that are just too little to be effective.
RCB
November 9th, 2012
11:41 am
People think that companies have all this cash and will be hiring IN ADDITION TO having to implement Obamacare? You’ve never run a business. They do indeed have a lot of cash, but they are responsible to their shareholders, not you and me. They are required to balance their budgets, unlike some people we know.
James
November 9th, 2012
11:43 am
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/09/1159450/-David-Frum-on-Morning-Joe-Republicans-have-been-exploited-and-lied-to-by-Right-Wing-Media
You guys have been lied to and you won’t understand it until you lose again in 2016.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-conservative-media-lost-to-the-msm-and-failed-the-rank-and-file/264855/
Better still you’ve been brainwashed by folks who are picking your pockets at the same time. Back up and reassess YOUR thoughts. THINK how many are “selling” you their conservative values? Why are you buying their stuff? Think for yourself.
RCB
November 9th, 2012
11:44 am
Obama and Harry Reid–the new Thelma and Louise.
Nopper
November 9th, 2012
11:44 am
Kris most uninformed on blog. Get out of the out house and open your eyes. The Demo are the ones who in last 4 years spent 6 Trillion not Repu….But blame Bush you scum a@@.
Kris
November 9th, 2012
11:48 am
@ napper….Your Point?
RepublicansAreHypocrites
November 9th, 2012
11:50 am
I find it amusing how so many people like to to accuse democrats of being the free loaders always looking for a handout. Go down to your local trailer park where everyone is white and with all of two teeth in their mouth and accompany them to the grocery store. The same people bashing handouts and voting republican will be paying with their EBT card at the grocery store and receiving welfare checks.
Tap Out
November 9th, 2012
11:59 am
Just drag a BBQ pork chop and a beer thru the middle of the street….that will break up any right wing riot.
yellowdog
November 9th, 2012
12:00 pm
y’al are at it again; not yet a week since election and hatred abounds. i think its time for your meds.
burntgrassroot
November 9th, 2012
12:03 pm
Informative, lively, intelligent, reasoned, good-natured humor–I’m loving these posts, y’all! I think the election’s mandate from the American people is majority rule, and minority rights protected. Elected officials serve the people and their interests first and foremost. The represented must monitor their representatives’ activities and hold the latter accountable for results. It might be well to evaluate whether to pose the question of suspension of federal congressional pay and pensions until the country’s inertia toward the fiscal cliff is averted.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
Article 1 Section 6 of the US Constitution: “(The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.) (The preceding words in parentheses were modified by the 27th Amendment.) They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.” Have a great, safe weekend, all!
Bill
November 9th, 2012
12:05 pm
Sad that so many of the tea baggers on this site have no understanding of historical economics. Without the stimulus we have had, and still need, there will not be a full economic recovery. Without stimulus, a recession will greatly decrease tax revenues, leading to even greater federal debt. U.S. growth and recovery is doing much better than Europe because Europe has been cutting spending-like tea baggers desire-instead of the Obama stimulus policies.
Deficits are not causing current economic problems-it’s lack of demand for products and services. Virtually no one cared about W racking up trillions in debt-for no good reason; just enriching the wealthy more. Then the black guy came along, and Bubbas went nuts.
Lexi
November 9th, 2012
1:01 pm
Amazing the way the speech police on this blog work. “Tea bagger” is quite alright, but “parasite”is offensive and banned. The latter is apt; the former offensive..
Manuel
November 9th, 2012
1:06 pm
the government better grant full amnesty for all immigrants in the country or the republicans will keep losing election.
Ashamed to be a Southerner
November 9th, 2012
1:09 pm
Don’t bash the coasts, Mr. Connah. They are supporting the deep south including Georgia. Southerners take a lot more in federal spending than they pay in. Meanwhile, they believe they are superior because they are white and buy everything they are fed in church and don’t see the point in learning to read or think for themselves. The entitled southern one percent works really hard at maintaining a permanent underclass to mop their floors and mow their lawns. Southerners are poor and ignorant and seem to want to stay that way.
J to the G
November 9th, 2012
1:43 pm
parasite … hmm, worked fine for me. Might I suggest the problem is “operator error”??
Moon Mullins
November 9th, 2012
1:44 pm
The Republican/Tea Party will not regain any measure of credibility as long as it continues to send people to congress like Dr. Paul Broun.
The statements of Dr. Broun and a meriad of other Republican candidates have made 1.9 GPA from Texas A&M in Animal Husbandry, Rick Perry, sound like a freakin’ genuis.
And, that is no easy task to accomplish.
Red
November 9th, 2012
1:46 pm
Dear Saxby,
Ever thought about YOUR contribution to this debt? How many pet projects did you push for? Farm Bill ring any bells? Might want to look in a mirror before climbing on that self-righteous pedestal you love to get on.
curious
November 9th, 2012
1:51 pm
Reckon any of the doom sayers predicting stock market collapse are the same ones predicting a landslide victory for Romney?
Michele
November 9th, 2012
2:07 pm
Here Chambliss goes again. Remember that King George is the initaitor of the problem our economy now endures, and the so called Fiscal cliff is just another Republican way to make an issue of President Obama’s inability to solve a decades old problem in under four years. I hear you. It is time for you to get on the soapbox and pound your chest to show just what a wonderful patriotic sole you are. Never happen! You need to wake up. stop playing the partisan politics you so love and serve the nation in resolving the financial crisis we still endure. I expect nothing from you, just as you seldom serve the best interest of America. In this election, the good old boys of America finally lost one. Try doing what is best for all of us, not just the white male elite.
Gordo Meisin Canton
November 9th, 2012
2:18 pm
In English;The GOP leadership in Washington has decided to leap to the left on immigration and enforcement in hopes that thery will get more votes from the Latinos (they won’t) and more donations from the business community (they will). One thing: I have called both US Senate offices in DC and my own congressman The reaction? NO COMMENT.
D.A. King’s Marietta column today is full of info, including that Hispanics don’t vote for Republicans even when they get their amnesty—
‘In his run for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan promised legalization. And got 37 percent of the Hispanic vote. In 1988, just two years after the GOP delivered amnesty, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points. Even the super-Hispandering GOP Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign, got less than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Republican John McCain got 31 percent of the Latino vote despite his promise of amnesty “on day one” in 2008.
The record low was Bob Dole at 21 percent in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, meaningful enforcement with “Operation Gatekeeper,” a massive project announced in 1994 “to restore integrity and safety to the nation’s busiest border” that secured the American/Mexican border in San Diego. Pro-enforcement Democrat Clinton won in a landslide with 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Documenting millions of resentful undocumented Democrats is a crack-pot method to elect a Republican president.’
King knows more about this than the Georgia congresmen and Senators. Bend over Republicans. And if you are looking for a job, prep[are to watch the president add 20 million more low skilled entitlement seekers to the (legal) mix
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/20772192/article-%E2%80%98Amnesty-again%E2%80%99-wrong-answer–for-GOP-in-2016?instance=secondary_story_left_column#comment_reply_20780025
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – ‘Amnesty again’ wrong answer for GOP in 2016
yuzeyurbrane
November 9th, 2012
2:45 pm
KPH–care to share a citation to the source of your claim of 1100 employers announcing major layoffs in last 48 hours?
Daisy
November 9th, 2012
8:23 pm
Hey Lexi, lol guess were both in the same boat, everytime i try to post something in some libtards website about my comments, its also quiet alright for them to not post my comments.. They won’t even post what my free rights are. Amazing the way speech police on their blog works.
Buymadeinusjobs
November 10th, 2012
5:18 am
Saxby, didn’t you lie about Cleland, a disabled veteran to get that Washington money/job? I do not believe any of you Republicans are serious about debt/defict. Didn’t you sign Norquist Pledge “no increase in tax”. Didn’t you come in with Bush ERA Republicans Ryan, Cantor,,Bachman, Mcconnell and didn’t you destroy President Clinton’s path to no debt by reducing taxes twice for wealthy. I think you all said if you left the money in washington, democratics would spend it. You have wanted to destroy entitlements such as food stamps, medicaid, you Republicans[governors, senators, state government have been in charge in red poor Southeast states for many years. Why are your residents so poor that they use more entitlements than blue states? If you Republicans are so great, do more for your residents. Georgians account for 41% of Rommey's 47% victims.
Republicans controlled the House during Bush ERA and they are responsible for making laws and funding the government in tax revenues. You Republicans borrowed money from China and spent it on wars, rebuilding Iraq, Afgan, tax cuts for rich, exploding Defense depart., homeland security[is this excessive]. If someone charges 2000 dollars on credit card, interest, late charges added, more charges, you get exploding credit card debt and this is how you have exploding federal debt. Previous congress spent social security /other trust funds on wars, defense etc thru the years and now must pay retired their money from current tax revenues which are way down because weathy took Republican tax cuts but destroyed good paying manufacturing jobs in USA. More people have to depend on foodstamps and medicaid[healthcare for children] because 50% of employees are working on jobs that pay 35,000 or less.