Asserts Constructive Feedback, a conservative blogger in Atlanta metro, Ga. He discusses the heated and officially non-partisan Atlanta race, where Mary Norwood could become the city's first white mayor since 1973 : "I knew that the Atlanta Mayor's race would have a dramatic finish that draws upon the biases of people, having them to put aside their sensibilities. I have to admit that I had previously...
Hate crimes legislation passed a cloture vote moments ago in the Senate. The Senate now has up to 30 hours to vote on the final defense authorization bill. The measure passed 64-35. A cloture vote effectively moves the legislation forward and shuts off unlimited debate and focusing debate on the underlying question. Originally, it looked like the Senate would skip the 30 hour debate period, but Senate...
This morning on NPR, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland was interviewed about his new book " Heart of Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove ". LISTEN HERE (link also includes the foreword from his book, which is an open letter to America's veterans). I found myself enraged all over again upon hearing about the treatment this man, this veteran who lost...
Byrd, Jay Wary of New Senate Climate Bill "I am pleased that Senators Boxer and Kerry are placing a greater focus on clean coal technology," Byrd said. "While it is an encouraging sign, we have a long way to go on this legislation. Many issues have yet to be addressed. There is still a tough road ahead." Teamsters Commend Kerry, Boxer for Recycling Program in Climate Change Bill...
In his upcoming book, "Heart of a Patriot" , former Senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran Max Cleland unloads on his political nemeses and dishes some details on his friend Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. After the inauguration of George W. Bush, Cleland used to joke with colleagues that the nation was about to get "screwed" -- and during the Bush presidency he says...
In a boneheaded editorial this past Thursday, the Athens Banner-Herald shows why newsprint in this country has no credibility. Attempting to draw parallels between Senator Saxby Chambliss and Rep. Joe Wilson from South Carolina, the Banner-Herald did it’s best to paint Chambliss as a typical southern racist: In a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Chambliss was talking [...]
It's amazing what adjectives can be racist Again from Taranto: "The Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald accuses Sen. Saxby Chambliss of racism, or something approaching racism anyway: "In a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Chambliss was talking about Republican expectations for the president's address when he said, "I think what you're looking at is folks on my side anxious to see what the president...
7 Aug 2009 The US defense secretary’s decision to end F-22 funding signals a shift from a Cold War fighting mentality to one that is tailored to present-day combat and countering asymmetric threats, writes Andrew Rhys Thompson for ISN Security Watch. By Andrew Rhys Thompson for ISN Security Watch In early April US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates presented his plans to end funding for the F-22...
The way Congress continues to support the F-22 is shameful. Their price tags are showing, as it were. The NY Times has an editorial that slams their actions: An unlikely alliance of senators — led by Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and including Edward Kennedy and John Kerry of Massachusetts and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut — is [...]
O ff the Wire: WASHINGTON, July 7, 2009 -- Newswire services this afternoon reported that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that he did not foresee a veto over the authorized funds for seven more Lockheed Martin F-22s and for a second Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engine produced by General Electric and Rolls Royce. The Pentagon did not request any funds...
Wow. I... just don't know what to say to this. Are his meds off? Is he now channeling his inner Strom Thurmond? MATTHEWS: What do you make of the president's concern that our history over there-he's voiced this in the Cairo speech-that our history over there of getting involved with Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA, overthrowing those elections back in the '50s, getting rid of their democracy when they...
Several Atlanta ONE members participated in the CARE National Conference and Celebration May 5 and 6 in Washington, DC. It was a great time for advocacy, and we met with Senators Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA), among many Georgia Representatives from the House about three key issues: hunger and food aid, preventing child [...]
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The AP reports, "A judge has ruled Sen. Saxby Chambliss doesn't have to answer questions from a lawyer suing Imperial Sugar on behalf of victims of the explosion at the company's Georgia refinery last year." The lawyer, Mark Tate, who...
Last fall, Saxby Chambliss was served with a subpoena by Savannah attorney Mark Tate, who wanted to question the Republican Senator “on whether Imperial Sugar enlisted his help to defend the company after the Feb. 7, 2008, explosion that killed 14 workers and injured dozens more” as part of his lawsuit against Imperial. According to the [...]
Senators John Thune (R-SD), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) have reintroduced legislation that would fix the flawed definition of renewable biomass in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The definition of “Renewable Biomass” in the 2007 Energy Bill excludes any material removed from national forests and most private forestlands. Therefore, cellulosic ethanol...
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