Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment
Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment
On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking for work. That same day, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is locked in a tough run-off election battle with Democrat Jim Martin, gave a campaign speech on the state’s economic troubles:
It’s imperative that we continue down the road of putting liquidity, integrity and confidence back in the financial marketplace so that we can see the credit market free up and people having the ability to borrow money to to operate and expand their businesses.
However, Chambliss was so busy campaigning that day that he actually skipped the Senate’s vote on the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008, which extended unemployment benefits “by 13 weeks in states with an unemployment rate of at least 6 percent.” Chambliss was one of just four senators to miss the vote. WCTV reported that Chambliss later sent out a press released praising “the passage of the law and [said he] hopes it will help laid-off workers get by while seeking a new job.”
Yesterday, WXIA in Atlanta said that Chambliss claimed he would have voted for the bill anyway. Watch WXIA’s report:
Chambliss has been pulling in a parade of high-profile conservatives to campaign for him at the last minute, including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, and next week, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Let the Senate Vote record stand…
… Chambliss was ABSENT the day it came to stand for UE Benefits.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pmwith any luck sexy saxby will be the next on the list of rapepublicans to hit the unemployment dole
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pmUnfortunately, so was Biden. But take a look at the four senators who voted against the bill.
NAYs —6
Barrasso (R-WY)
Coburn (R-OK)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Not Voting – 4
Biden (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Sununu (R-NH)
Anybody know off hand the unemployment numbers in South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming and Oklahoma?
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmIt’s imperative that we continue down the road of putting liquidity, integrity and confidence back in the financial marketplace
that same liquidity, integrity and confidence the GOP knocked out of the market.
Y’all Georgians know better than to go for repair to the surgeon that botched the job in the first place, right?
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmBe honest TP, he was covering a wide-stance of issues.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pmThat name always reminds me of some sort of seriously low brow vintage.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pmTP should post Obama’s Saturday Radio Address.
… every saturday.
please.
it would be a great “open thread”.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pmalso, see:
Dick Morris Openly Fund Raises for Saxby Chambliss on Hannity and Colmes
at http://crooksandliars.com/node
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pmDoes anyone else have the uneasy feeling that no matter what this waste of Senate office space says or does between now and the runoff, he’ll win?
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pmDirty Tricks? Thousands Of GOP Ballot Requests In Georgia Don’t Have Signatures
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/22/dirty-tricks-thousands-of_n_145732.html
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 pmTypical repug double-speak – remember how dur chimpfurher would appear at businesses promoting economic growth and promoting jobs at home and then, weeks later, those business would lay off all their workers and outsource everything overseas.
This is a standard republican tactic. It is only possible because the media “catapults the propaganda.”
In other words – this type of hypocrisy is structural. It is inherent in a system dominated by a few global media corporates.
Eventually, our dialog needs to shift – we need to talk about the corpocracy that enable these tactics to work and not just blog about the folks that use them.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pmSaxby helps the Georgia Democrats with every sentence uttered.
I guess he doesn’t like peach cobbler, because he sure likes the those large slices of humble pie.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pmChambliss is one of the most disgusting politicians I’ve ever read about. He hates veterans & humiliates them. What a disgusting person.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pmThe negative attack ad approach worked soooo well for McCain, I guess Chambliss thinks it will work for him too.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:52 pmLet’s see how many votes he gets from those who are unemployed or afraid they might be unemployed. He should he is out for the vote and not willing to represent the people of Georgia.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:54 pmMcWars Says:
Be honest TP, he was covering a wide-stance of issues.
McW, that’s funny! Did you happen to catch Larry Craig’s “in praise of Stevens” speech from the other day? He became extra enthusiastic when he talked about the airport named after Ted.
You can take the Senator out of the stall, but you can’t take the stall out of the Senator.
Tap tap tap…
PEACE
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm“He became extra enthusiastic when he talked about the airport named after Ted.”
Is that the airport they don’t have a bridge to, and still have to take the fairy?
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmIs that the airport they don’t have a bridge to, and still have to take the fairy?
AAAAhhh So that is why they wanted the bridge!
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pmIt would have provided housing for their trolls as well.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 pmThis is a point that has to be hammered home…….the gop got us into this mess. It belongs to them.
They obviously have no answers for getting us out of it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 pmIgnoring the People while bailing the inc.’s seems a little odd. Giving them all our money then allowing us to starve to death doesn’t appear to be a sound business model. I mean, who, other than failed CEO’s, can even BUY anything?
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 pmI would enjoy seeing the homes of the Golden Parachutists firebombed, if not nuked.
Rudy Giuliani?
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:13 pmHe is doing this to be on the news programs.
He is only for one person…..A sorry A hole.
That’s how they do it.
The explanation will center around working with the people to come to a solution rather than listening to those in Washington who don’t know what it is like to be unemployed.
It is an art what they do.
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm