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December 1, 2008

Innovative Saxby Chambliss Campaigns On Promise To Do Whatever Alan Greenspan Says

by Jim Newell  

Here’s heavy-petting Saxby Chambliss defending himself, on the Fox News, against a Jim Martin ad that quotes Chambliss saying he doesn’t even know what the term “recession” means. We’ll cut him some slack on that, because a new person is declaring a new version of the word everyday. But what’s notable is that Chambliss defends his comment by saying that he was quoting Alan Greenspan, people. He appears still to think that this is the ’90s/early ’00s, when name-dropping Greenspan worked as a blanket defense against criticism or, more importantly, an excuse not to learn anything about economics. This caused several problems. [YouTube]

{ 29 comments }

ManchuCandidate December 1, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Quoting the words of the now forever disgraced Aynn Rand fuck toy isn’t a smart move, Sexby. Just shows you are also guilty of being dumb as well as a slimy chickenshit.

nurple December 1, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Jimmy Dean called from Diamonds Are Forever to say Saxby is fired.

BillyClubb December 1, 2008 at 5:28 pm

He may as well have been quoting Nostradamus, or the Farmer’s Almanac. Both of those sources are about as reliable as any economist you can name.

V572625694 December 1, 2008 at 5:32 pm

This jerkwad is so ignorant he doesn’t even know the textbook/rule-of-thumb definition, which anybody who ever turns on the teevee or NPR knows is two or more consecutive quarters of negative growth. Of course that kind of ignorance plays well in Georgia, where so-called “knowledge” is elitist.

I have two words for anyone who disagrees with this characterization of Georgia voters: Lester Maddox.

SayItWithWookies December 1, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Greenspan just toed the line of whatever president he was working for/with (depending on how you define the relationship of the government to the Federal Reserve). In that sense he was no brighter than Tony Blair. Both looked highly capable under Clinton and looked like tools under Dubya.

rocktonsammy December 1, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Saxby’s real first name is Clarence.

Also had 5 deferments to get out of going to Viet Nam.

A real American.

loudmouthredhead December 1, 2008 at 5:40 pm

That’s Saxby “Tittie McGropie” Chambliss. Get it right!

nurple December 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm

OK, so it’s 1932 all over again. So in 8 years we go to war with Germany? And that licks the Depression? I don’t mind going to war with Germany, but they better get movin’ if their gonna be at all evil enough, or well-tailored.

Texan Bulldoggette December 1, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Figures. I imagine the 90s/early 00s is the last time this dickweed had a cogent thought. Also, a hearty THANK YOU to Saxby for bringing Bible Spice back to the lower 48–just when I had hoped we could go a week without hearing from the skank queen….

ph7 December 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Can’t imagine a whiter person.

Borat December 1, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Who cares what a recession feels like when you have so many nice young things to feel? Yet another republican parading around his bible family while scouring for suitable bathrooms to be a pervert in.

DAmicosonegoodyear December 1, 2008 at 5:54 pm

He’s too pink to get SLACK!

Lionel Hutz Esq. December 1, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Can the State that gave us Zell Miller and Newt Gingrinch continue this IQ dropping string and return one of the most despicable and foolish of the Bush Republicans to the Senate?

Cousin Fuckers everywhere want to know.

p-Sludge ofTheElves December 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm

[re=188413]nurple[/re]: jesus. I’ve been biting my lip for days. Thank you.

DangerousLiberal December 1, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Saxby Chambliss is the human embodiment of evil on earth. He is Satan’s messenger, unleashed here to loose a plague of locusts, etc., on everything that is good and right with the world. He is perhaps the lowest form of life in the Senate, and that includes the bacterial on the dog shit that some page tracked into the Senate this morning. But as long as there’s Georgia, we’ll have assholes like this in the Senate.

Dave J. December 1, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Meanwhile, who gave Chris Wallace his balls back?

Dernyul December 1, 2008 at 6:19 pm

The biggest problem in this pseudo-macho state-o-mine is that they have footage of an arts-and-crafts-lesbian looking Jim Martin prancing around with a “Women for Obama” rally sign. It really is kind of embarrassing.

On a brighter note, it won’t matter a shit if he wins. He’s perfectly invisible in the Senate and the two remaining New England Republicans will feel so much pressure that they’ll pretty much tow the line. Fuck Saxby and his syphilis nose.

ManchuCandidate December 1, 2008 at 6:29 pm

[re=188413]nurple[/re]:
Is Sexby’s mistress named Tiffany, Plenty, Bambi or Thumper?

sarahconnor December 1, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Alan “i never met a derivative i didn’t like” Greenspan is a major part of the reason we are in this mess, ya dipstick.

sarahconnor December 1, 2008 at 6:34 pm

oops, just clicked on yr link in which such connections are well stated. my bad.

sarahconnor December 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm

dang, that wiki is pretty breathtaking.

stumpycuse December 1, 2008 at 6:41 pm

even in his attempt to state that he knew the definition of a recession, he got it wrong. He refers to it as “two consecutive ‘months’ of negative GDP”… the actual definition he was trying to state was “two consecutive ‘quarters’…”.

shortsshortsshorts December 1, 2008 at 6:42 pm

[re=188486]stumpycuse[/re]: He should have been more blunt with “6 consecutive ‘years’ of negative GOP.”

S. Cullen Bonz December 1, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Saxby Chqmbliss (R-Aintry)

P.T.T. December 1, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Hey! Lester Mad-ox….. what’s so retarded about him? Let’s wiki

“The restaurant became known for its simple, inexpensive food, including its specialty, skillet-fried chicken. It soon became a thriving business. The restaurant also provided Maddox with his first political forum: the restaurant became well known in Atlanta for large newspaper advertisements that featured cartoon chickens. Following the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, these restaurant ads began more and more to feature the cartoon chickens commenting on the political questions of the day.

O, now I remember.

Deepthroat December 1, 2008 at 7:21 pm

I don’t care what he is saying or who he is interviewing: Chris Wallace needs to have his goddamn smug fucking face punched in. Maybe Randy Newman can write a stupid fucking song about it. I just HATE THEM BOTH SO MUCH! Okay, I feel better now that I’ve got that off my chest.

SayItWithWookies December 1, 2008 at 8:55 pm

[re=188526]Deepthroat[/re]: What’s so bad about Randy Newman? He’s written some very nice songs about Cleveland.

lumpenprole December 1, 2008 at 11:14 pm

A lot of late-90s stuff is still cool out there in flyover country.

trondant December 2, 2008 at 2:48 am

[re=188473]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Lindsey Graham.

[re=188428]rocktonsammy[/re]: Clarence? I guess it’s true what they say – every time a GOP senator smears a triple amputee he gets to molest his own offspring. It would explain why that ad ran so many times in ’02.

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