Saxby Chambliss Doesn’t Know What A Recession Is
November 30th, 2008, 12:12 PM EST
Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” played an ad by Chambliss’ opponent, Jim Martin, where Chambliss, fighting to retain his Georgia senate seat, says, “We may not be in a recession. I don’t know what that term means.” Chambliss says he was quoting Alan Greenspan, even though Greenspan said last April that we’re headed into a recession. Chambliss then went on to misstate what the technical definition of a recession is. It is actually two consecutive quarters of negative GDB growth, not two consecutive months as Chambliss states.
h/t Think Progress.
And this is surprising for a guy who can’t tell the difference between a war hero from Viet Nam and Osama Bin Laden?
He’s an embarassment to the Senate, Georgia, and himself….no wonder the GOP loves him. He is their “firewall” against a filibuster proof senate…but, is it really? At last examination, there are several senators up for re election in two years who aren’t too anxious to be the blockers of progress in these troubled times. Dem’s don’t really need the 60….it’s there already.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
A typical Republican who is out of touch with reality. I’ll guarandamtee he doesn’t worry about the rising cost of food. So, therefore, there is no recession in his mind.
I recall not too long ago, Ol’ ElRushbo said there was no recession because he tuned into football games and a NASCAR race and saw a full house. I wonder if Ol’ ElRushbo has read any recent reports about NASCAR. I doubt it though. These days he is too busy recanting FDR’s New Deal. The guy has not learned that all of the hatred spewed by his ilk, toward the Dems, has only made the Dems more powerful and put Obama in the White House. He preaches hate to the tune of $28 million every three years yet, espouses disdain for the guy working in the automobile factories.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I will be curious to see if Ol’ ElRushbo takes Huckabee to task tomorrow for having the automobile workers on his week-end show to disspell the huge wage rumors they are paid.
I think overall the next four years will be most interesting. I am sure there will be much amusement in watching many of the conservatives turn on each other.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Robert Blair said~
“Dem’s don’t really need the 60….it’s there already.”
VERY interesting thought, Robert. Although I think that the conservative players will want to see how effective and popular Obama’s actions are. If they are neither, then they will jump at the chance to be the voice of dissent, and use their dissent as campaign material in 2010 and 2012.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
We all know Rush hates facts. He’ll want to keep the lie of the $70 per hour wage going as long as it meets his ego’s need. LOL
Chambliss…the guy who smeared a man in a wheel chair….class act….Georgia should apologize to the senate if they elect this clod…again.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Anita~ Thankfully my new job has me on a schedule where I get to miss ElRushbo on the airwaves. He and Hannity are going to keep *itchin for a while.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Check out the voting members of Maine, Conecticut, and several other states that have folks either with brains and/or republicans who see the “writing on the wall” about 2010….oh, and don’t forget that “maverick”, too. LOL
Can the Dems find three or four votes each time??? I’d bet on that with a pretty fair pace of reliability.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Chambliss is a better faux warrior than faux economist.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Check this out
This Alaska notebook will appear in Saturday’s print edition, on the editorial page:
by Matt Zencey
Gov. Sarah Palin is putting her conservative Republican fame to work in Georgia, stumping for Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a tough runoff for re-election.
I wonder if she knows the true measure of the man she is eagerly helping.
Chambliss was elected to the Senate in 2002 by running one of the most reprehensible campaigns of modern times. He was up against incumbent Democrat Sen. Max Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran who lost both legs and his right arm to a grenade during that conflict.
Chambliss avoided serving in Vietnam. He got four student draft deferments, and when his number finally came up, he was medically disqualified with knee troubles.
In the best Karl Rove fashion, Chambliss the draft-evader attacked Cleland the war hero for being soft on terrorism. Distorting Cleland’s votes about workplace rules for the new Homeland Security Department employees, Chambliss portrayed him as a tool of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
Here’s how the Almanac of American Politics (2006) described it:
“Chambliss ran an ad, much attacked in the press, showing pictures of Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Max Cleland, and saying that Cleland ‘voted against the President’s vital homeland security efforts 11 times.’” (Those “vital homeland security efforts” Cleland opposed were intended to strip homeland security employees of union rights and other workplace protections.)
The man who couldn’t bring himself to serve in the military said a man who left three limbs behind in war was a weakling who would turn the country over to terrorists.
Chambliss was a congressman during the 9-11 attacks. Congressional Quarterly’s “Politics in America 2006” noted that Congressman Chambliss “quipped that one route to security would be for local sheriffs to ‘arrest every Muslim that comes across the state line.’”
So there you have the fine American that Palin is trying to re-elect to the U.S. Senate.
Gov. Palin’s eldest joined the Army and has been deployed to Iraq. As a justifiably proud military mom, she might ask herself why she is using her conservative star power to support such a reprehensible Republican chicken hawk.
— Matt Zencey
December 1st, 2008 at 12:45 am
I wish he would have asked ole Shameless what he found so unpatriotic about Cleland. Shameless is just another Republican shill. I hope the people of Georgia have the common sense to vote him out.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:55 am
Robots ! Conservatives like CHAMBLISS,right wing talk radio are still singing the same tune. Only shows how out of touch the conservate branch of THE GOP is.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:19 am
I too hope,that we in Georgia have the brains to vote Saxby out and put in JIM MARTIN. Shameless Saxby should have NEVER been in the senate to begin with, imo.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
You people are out of your minds! I would be willing to sit back and let this country contiue down the path towards socialism by letting the Democrats control all three branches of gov’t, but I haven’t heard Jim Martin say one thing that was true! It is so bad that I don’t believe him when he says his name!!!
December 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Brent:
Okay, we should elect Chambliss and continue down the path of CORPORATE socialism? Your comment makes no sense to me. No, thanks. I’ll take my chance with the democrat.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Come on guys,
It is elitist to expect people to know definitions of words. What’s next from you people? Are you y’all going to expect him to read newspapers or something?
December 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Speaking of reading, it’s incredible how many die-hard Republicans I know whose kids can’t do just that. Maybe it’s because more people in my locus of familiarity are conservative, but I do wonder sometimes if there’s a connection. The kids are heavy into sports, trips, shopping and church — all worthwhile endeavors to a degree, but when they preclude reading for enjoyment or enlightenment, I guess this is what happens.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Brent, it amazes me why someone dedicated to your train of thought would come to a site named, “Liberaland” unless they are just wanting to spew out crap for a fight….
Your distortion of reality is only surpased by your obvious lack of common sense.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Sarah Palin is doing what Sarah Palin does. She’s keeping her face in public and campaigning for Sarah Palin. As usual it’s all about her! I guess it was too much to expect that she’d go back to Alaska and busy herself with her job. Oh well, let us all hope that she is the Rep. candidate in 2012!
December 1st, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Out of touch Chambliss. Our country is in a recesion. Like i said , robot thinking. Is the right program with a chip or something? The GOP is doom else the modrate base of the party takes over and find a voice as well. PALIN is not the 1. However,she is not going away.
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 am
Golly, Grandma, you’re pretty handy mumbling SNIDE comments yourself! Zing!
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Every time I scroll fast and glance at this headline, it always strikes me as “Sexy Chambliss…”
Ick.
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm