Chambliss talks to Glenn Beck

Saxby Chambliss was a guest on Glenn Beck’s radio show this morning. Below is an excerpt but you can read the complete transcript here.

GLENN: Okay. So I saw a disturbing poll from the American people yesterday that said they don’t have a problem with concentrated power in one party. They don’t seem to have a problem. Do the voters in Georgia understand how important your race is?

SENATOR CHAMBLISS: Well, we’re doing our best to educate them. Obviously that’s part of our campaign to make sure that we do maintain the ability to stop bad legislation or shape bad legislation and if you give the Democrats a blank check, which certainly 60 votes would do, then they are going to enact legislation that a majority of Georgians are not in favor of and that certainly is part of our campaign.

GLENN: Give me some of the ideas that you think that they are going to do.

SENATOR CHAMBLISS: Well, there’s no question but one of the first things they are going to do is try to reinstate the moratorium on offshore drilling and the only way we can combat that is with legislation, and it’s imperative, obviously if we move toward energy independence, we’ve got to have that. The card check is going to be a major piece of early legislation and taking away the secret ballot, which is a fundamental right. Raising taxes, you know, as I’ve been around the state, Glenn, which we did obviously on a regular basis leading up to the general election, I heard small business person after small business person say, Saxby, I’m not going to expand my business, I’m going to sit tight if Obama gets elected because we can’t afford to grow our business in the face of knowing we’re going to have our taxes raised.