Chambliss' rhetoric doesn't match his actions
Saxby Chambliss has started running ads for his re-election campaign:
It's unimpressive. Chambliss has almost no personality, not to mention his record doesn't back up what he is saying. There were several things he said that raises an eyebrow, but these two were the most objectionable.
Chambliss starts off by saying, "I believe the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are as relevant today as when they were written."
Chambliss has voted for every single bill pushed by the Bush Administration that has infringed on the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and spirit of the Declaration of Independence. He voted for McCain-Feingold (First Amendment), he voted for the USA PATRIOT Act and the new FISA bill (Fourth and Fifth Amendments) and he voted to expanded Medicare (drastically increasing entitlement spending, not to mention the lack of constitutional authority for such a program).
These are not the votes of someone who claims to believe in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If anything, he should repudiate these votes and apologize for blatantly ignoring the the Law of the Land.
Chambliss: "I believe in capitalism and competition."
This is certainly the most laughable line out of the ad. Chambliss essential in pushing through the farm bill earlier this year, as well as overriding the Bush's veto.
The farm bill is stuffed with pork and subsidies that only cost Americans more money, not only through tax dollars, but at the grocery store. It stifles competition with Congress picking the winners and losers. That is not capitalism.
Chambliss has a very mixed record on trade (his record in the House on trade can be found here). He voted for an increase in the minimum wage. And he is also part of the "Gang of 10," which is pushing a terrible energy plan.
Even Jim Wooten, the AJC's resident conservative, is expressing dissatisfaction with the Republican status-quo, ostensibly Saxby Chambliss.
Chambliss doesn't believe in capitalism. He believes in corporatism and mercantilism.
Comments
Very well stated. Too bad most of Georgia's voters won't take the time or effort to learn all this for themselves. I don't know who I'm more disappointed in, Saxby or the ones that blindly vote for him. I guess the R beside his name stands for all "Rhetoric" and no action.
Posted by: Daniel N. Adams | August 26, 2008 11:25 PM
You are right, voters don't take the time to learn about the candidate and many only vote for the party. I have asked voters before about elections and many said they voted either Democrat or Republican; but they could tell me nothing about the person they just voted for. They were blindly following the rhetoric of the party they had attachments to. It is truly sad.
The Doctor
Posted by: The Doctor | August 27, 2008 12:04 AM
Labeling makes the world of politics go round. Neither of the two major parties are really what they say they are or what the other side say they are. With all this confusion, both are allowed to clean out our wallets.
Posted by: Joe Mack Eckler | August 27, 2008 07:38 AM
Saxby Shameless is a much better Democrap than is Jim Martin due he can look you in the eye tell you a lie knowing it a lie,knowing you know it is a lie yet still telling it to be fact.
Jim Martin on the other hand can look you in the eye tell you a lie that you know is a lie. The difference being is he, Martin doesn't know it is a lie, he actually believes what he is saying.
I guess if you look at most of the Democraps and Republicans that would be a description the fits both.
We are finally and firmly a one party system.
Maybe we should allow dueling at 10 paces once again. They are all so greedy and corrupt that hopefully they would duel to the death and eliminate at least half of the problem in politics.
Don Henderson
Posted by: don | August 27, 2008 08:29 AM