I think that picture tells you all you need to know about our Georgian Senators, both of whom have now taken pot shots at Governor Palin within the last few weeks.
Posted on 08/26/2009 5:13:31 PM PDT by Al B.
AUGUSTA,Ga---Dozens gathered at the Augusta Museum of History for a chamber of commerce forum on health care reform with Senator Saxby Chambliss. Chambliss attempted to set the record straight on what he calls misinformation.
"Say goodbye," said Susan Swanson who is fed up with Washington lawmakers. "Kick out the bums. Kick them all out."
She fears talk of health care reform.
"My concern is all this talk about death panels," said Susan. "All the bureaucracy that people have to go through."
The death panel rumors were given credence by Sarah Palin who campaigned with Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss in Augusta back in November. Chambliss is looking to distance himself from Palin on his latest trip to Augusta.
"I don't agree with her that there will be death panels created by any of the plans that are out there," said Chambliss.
Susan doesn't know who to believe.
"It's not Washington," said Susan. "I don't believe Washington."
"I commend the president for spending political capital to bring this issue to the forefront," said Chambliss. "We've talked about reforming health care for years, but we've never gotten around to it."
Chambliss reached across the aisle as Senator Ted Kennedy, a champion for health care reform, loses his battle to cancer.
"The Senate is a family," said Chambliss. "We are all good friends within the Senate, and Senator Kennedy was a great legislator."
But nice gestures won't ease Susan's concerns about Washington.
"We're not going to give up our freedom of good health care to make them happy," said Susan.
Senator Chambliss says he would like to see the government provide tax credits. He says he could not support the current house bill that would pay for reform by possibly taxing the rich.
Has this guy been living in a cave with no communications with out side world or is he really this stupid?
There. I fixed it.
You back stabbin’ SOB. Why don’t you do us all a favor and go “Spector” on us now?
I think that picture tells you all you need to know about our Georgian Senators, both of whom have now taken pot shots at Governor Palin within the last few weeks.
sounds like we got another senator reacharound...
...and to think I actually voted for this RINO POS c@$^#!&*&r!
NEVER AGAIN!!!
“So Sarah basically gets this chump re-elected and now he has the nerve to ‘distance’ himself from Palin and the obvious truth in the bill?”
Exactly!
Ping
Suxby is sitting pretty until Nov 2014.
Unless there is a recall.
America's Founders and Framers of our Constitution had seen tyranny. They wished to limit their government's power through a "people's" Constitution, and they published and circulated 85 essays, known as THE FEDERALIST in order to convince the citizenry to ratify their new document.
Now it's time for citizens, once again, to examine those strong and clear words of Madison Hamilton, and Jay. They are just as clear for today's audience as they were then.
Circulate the following excerpts to your friends. Even the least politically savvy will "get" Madison's meaning, especially in light of the power grab now going on in Washington. After all, THE FEDERALIST was the Framers' authoritative explanation of their Constitution, and directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in 1825 to be used as the text for its law school in its studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man," and said by Jefferson to "constitute 'the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S., on questions as to its genuine meaning.'":
"The house of representatives... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63, and take heart. According to Madison:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
“Unless there is a recall.”
RE-CALL CONGRESS NOW!!!!!!!! While we’re at it, RE-CALL OBAMA, TOO!!!!!!!!
I had a round with this RINO back when he was supporting the sale of federal lands.
Sarah now has the power and the time, without constraints, to campaign AGAINST Chambliss! I hope she does.
I was disappointed when Sarah campaigned for him, but I don’t think she probably had very much say in the matter.
it was either chambliss or guaranteed filibuster proof senate
“I had a round with this RINO back when he was supporting the sale of federal lands.”
hmm what’s wrong with that? don’t you think the govt should give more control to the private sector?
He doesnt care what we think, he just got reelected to another cushy six year term. He thinks we wont remember in six years and nobody can beat him anyway.
Probably not. He's probably read the "Obama-approved DNC talking points" and thinks that they are true.
People need to keep pressing these idiots. Study sections of the text of HR 3200 and ask specific questions about specific parts that are particularly unpalatable.
I just hope she finds out about Saxby's remarks.
Ain't gonna matter by then. The US is goin' down faster than the Titanic and all these idiots want to do is hole up in the first-class rooms. It's like they want to secure theirselves in the highest part of the bow of the ship as if sinking 2 minutes later than the rest of us will add worth to their lives.
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