They Were Different as Frat Brothers

  After reading about the different personalities of Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin when they were frat brothers at Georgia, my support for Martin intensified. We need a deliberative, cerebral thinker representing Georgia in the U.S. Senate.  Chambliss loved to party, according to some of his fraternity brothers, while Martin was more serious, studious, doing such things as getting elected class president.

Are the Republians Going to Steal the White House Again?

  If Sen. Obama were white, the election would almost be in the bag. If the Bradley effect (whites who tell pollsters they will vote for a black candidate but don’t) doesn’t keep him from winning, those who rig elections could. Voter suppression appears to be a Republican specialty, and it could happen in Georgia. After all, we do have a Republican Secretary of State.

  You can read up on the controversy over screening for immigrants not qualified to vote by going to this link.

An Attempt to Suppress College Student Voting

 

 Thanks to Joann Locascio for sending this.

Here’s another voter suppression article. This one is about election officials telling college students they can’t vote. Go to this link.

Socialism for the Rich

 Republicans are people who oppose socialism, unionism, taxes, big government, spending on social programs, regulations on corporations, and are for free markets and reliance on competitive capitalism. Democrats are people who are for socialism, want big government, want regulation of corporations, are pro-union, and are opposed to free markets and competitive capitalism. We’ve heard those definitions supplied by Republicans for a long time. One, the definition is too simplistic and, arguably, untrue. Turns out the new breed of Republicans, the ones who control things now, don’t really mean it, anyway. (Just look at how big government has become under Republican domination of the White House and Congress for more than a decade. The national debt is heading way past $10 trillion.) It’s a con. What they do believe in is socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the middle class.

 

  Now that the financial world is collapsing because of deregulation and reckless lending practices that made a few people very rich and are now placing the nation on the brink of another Great Depression, this new breed of Republican is for socialism. No, not socialized medicine, or any socialism that would aid the middle class, but socialism for their financial losses. The free market is a wonderful thing as long as it is working for them, but when it stops, they are quite willing for the American taxpayer to cover their losses. This is the socialism that America now faces.

 

  It’s a socialism that works very well for them, and they get the added benefit of knowing if the country spends more than $700 bailing them out, there won’t be any money available for shoring up Social Security and initiating universal healthcare.

 

  They will try to make this presidential election about anything but the critical issues facing the American people right now. But, this time, it appears they are not going to get away with it. The American people are thinking about their financial survival now, not lipstick on a pit bull, or a pig.

   

Who Does Sen. Chamliss Represent?

    Who do you believe, the lawyer that accused Senator Saxby Chambliss of using questions prepared by Imperial Sugar or Chambliss, who said he asked his own questions? The lawyer said Chambliss was trying to discredit his client Graham H. Graham, an Imperial VP whistle-blower who told a Congressional commitee that he had been stymied and repremanded for making suggestions to make the plant safer. 13 people died in a fire at Imperial Sugar in Savannah in Februrary.

  Chambliss was given a $1 thousand campaign contribution by an Imperial Sugar political action committee. Whether such a contribution would impact on Senator Chambliss selection of questions, I’ll leave up to you decide.

  A University of Georgia political scientist says that  businesses or other organizations  provide questions for Senators and Congress members all  the time. He also said it is common pratice for the questioners to throw softball questions to their friends and hard ball to others. Common Cause Georgia’s Bill  Bozroth says the problem is the  way that campaigns are financed. He’s for public financing exclusively. There is, as you kinow, optional public financing for presidential campaigns, but when the candidates see they  can a lot more money privately, the opt to do so.

  I guess it just boils down to who you think would be fairer regardless of campaign contribtions. Martin probably  would. Hopefully, we’ll get the chance to find out.