As Buzz noted, ‘ol Saxby was on the Glenn Beck program today in the 11 a.m. hour. And, unfortunately, it was a pretty poor showing considering the softball questions.
On the Constitution: I mean, the framers of the Constitution intended for there to be a balance of power and that balance of power may blow in the winds if we’re not careful.
Since when did you start caring about the Constitution? Seconds later you spoke about being in favor of “loan guarantees to allow [American automotive companies] to retool, I’m much more sympathetic to that because we need more flex engines.” I must have missed the part of the Constitution that said it’s okay for the Federal Government to loan money to private companies because of the perceived need for flex engines.
And where in the Consitution is it okay for Medicare, Part D? Because, Senator, as you told Glenn today, you “thought that there were a number of seniors out there that, number one we could save money on instead of them going into a nursing home or having more emergency room expenses if they had drugs available to them.” Constitution be damned if some seniors can get drugs, eh?
On losing Conservative values when in the majority: Well, what we found out is that it’s much tougher to govern in the majority and maintain all of those principles, Glenn, but you are right.
Absolutely pathetic, Senator. You failed because it’s “tough?” It’s not tough, you are just weak.
On taxes: Glenn, I’ve never voted for a tax increase and I never will. That’s not going to help this economy to raise taxes.
But Medicare and government intrusion and bloated spending does? Whatever, guy. It’s clear you still don’t get what it means to be Conservative.
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Sen. Chambliss may never have voted for a tax increase, but votes he has cast for Medicare and the bailout will lead to crippling tax increases down the road.
In 100% agreement.
Flex engines = Ethanol.
Saxby, my good friend, it’s time to look beyond the farm lobby. They’ve been well taken care of.
I went along with the bailout because of the amount of underlying obligations that the Fed already guaranteed, though I’ll admit I’m quite a bit miffed at Paulson today for saying, “Nevermind, I’ve decided I’d rather spend $700 Billion in a way that I testified to Congress wouldn’t work just weeks before you guys gave it to me”.
The “auto industry” isn’t asking for a bailout. The legacy companies (who, I might add, no longer build cars in Georgia) are trying to make sure their unions and retirees continue to receive benefits that don’t resemble the real world.
Ford commissioned a project earlier this decade known as project Blue, to build a domestic, world-class, small car. They abandoned it within a year, because they concluded there was no way to make money on a small, fuel efficient car with their cost structure.
Huyndai/Kia seems to have figured out how to do it, and they’re doing it here in Georgia. Toyota does it in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Mississippi. Honda does it in Ohio and Alabama. Volkswagen will soon be doing it in Tennessee.
Chrysler is owned by a Private Equity Company, that made a huge (and wrong) bet less than 2 years ago. Why do we want to bail them out, when their entire company represents over-capacity in the industry?
While a stable manufacturing base is important to our domestic economy, the system will not collapse in any way near the same manner if one (or even all three) of these company fails. In fact, the airline industry offers a model of what could happen if each takes advantage of the remedies available under the bankruptcy code.
It’s time to get off the bailout bandwagon, and start recommending “restructuring” as the buzzword of the day.
Is there a link or full transcript to Saxby’s interview?
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“Since when did you start caring about the Constitution? Seconds later you spoke about being in favor of “loan guarantees to allow [American automotive companies] to retool, I’m much more sympathetic to that because we need more flex engines.” I must have missed the part of the Constitution that said it’s okay for the Federal Government to loan money to private companies because of the perceived need for flex engines.
And where in the Consitution is it okay for Medicare, Part D? Because, Senator, as you told Glenn today, you “thought that there were a number of seniors out there that, number one we could save money on instead of them going into a nursing home or having more emergency room expenses if they had drugs available to them.” Constitution be damned if some seniors can get drugs, eh?”
For one…where does it say that you can not. There was this interesting part of the Constitution that was added to prevent morons like you from being single minded…it was called the Preamble.
Furthermore, Saxby (and the rest of the “conservatives” in this country) didn’t care about one party rule from 2002-2006. I seem to remember you people (there, I said it…”you people”) embracing one party rule during those years.
NOW the GOP is trying to scare people with how bad one-party control can be by CITING THE MASSIVE DAMAGE THEY DID when in control?
Amazing.
The only hope to win is to move to a conservative stance. Unfortunately, I don’t think he has it in him.
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The Preamble does not grant any particular authority to the federal government and it does not prohibit any particular authority. It establishes the fact that the federal government has no authority outside of what follows the preamble, as amended. Nothing in the enumerated powers authorizes a bailout and neither does any amendment. If the general welfare statement was supposed to apply to this situation why in the world would the founding fathers have gone to the trouble of enumerating the power of the federal govenment? If they had intended the feds to spend on Medicare, Medicaid, farm bill, bailouts, etc. they could have simply replaced Article I Section 8 with the following: “Congress shall have the authority to do whatever it thinks best to guarantee the public welfare.” That’s pretty much what they been doing for the last 50 years. It’s only picked up the pace in the last 10 or so but I have a feeling we ain’t seen nothing yet.
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