U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss to announce retirement

[kpete]

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss to announce retirement
9:42 am January 25, 2013, by jgalloway

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss will announce this morning that he’s dropping plans to run for a third term in 2014, a decision certain to set off an avalanche of Republican candidates who will seek to replace him.

Word out of Washington is that Chambliss broke the news to his senior staff this morning.

At least two GOP House members from Georgia, Paul Broun of Athens and Tom Price of Roswell, have been contemplating primary challenges to Chambliss, who has been criticized for participating in a bipartisan effort to broker a deal to address a $16 trillion federal deficit.

Both Chambliss and U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson had voted this month for the Senate-negotiated deal that avoided the “fiscal cliff” imposed by a 2011 fight over the federal debt ceiling. All Republican House members from Georgia voted against it.

Read more: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2013/01/25/u-s-sen-saxby-chambliss-to-announce-retirement/

[onehandle]

1. Goodbye, you sack of shit. nt

[JoeBlowToo]

6. I think Bag o' Crap would be the polite term...

we need more civility in our political intercourse (we talk nice, they screw us.)

[lastlib]

11. "Wet turd-smear" is my preferred nomenclature

[Mojorabbit]

25. +1000 nt

[msanthrope]

2. Max Cleland. 2014. nt

[unhappycamper]

7. yup

[MBS]

20. Oh, please, yes!!

Saxby Chambliss ran a despicably dishonest campaign. I will never forgive him for what he did to Max Cleland, and it would be such sweet justice (not to mention good for the Senate) to have him back where he deserves to be.

[ReRe]

21. Absolutely

Max Cleland! When is Chambliss's term up?

[brooklynite]

23. Sorry, no

I respect him a lot, but he'll be 72 on Election Day.

[alp227]

28. Mike Malloy, the former WSB/Air America/now independent radio host, should be a write-in candidate.

[samsingh]

3. good

[niyad]

4. good riddance, you thieving pos. some of us have not forgotten what you did to max cleland.

[lastlib]

13. I will NEVER forget those vicious lies

[kimbutgar]

5. Please Paul Broun run so we can get a Democratic Senator from Georgia in 2014.

Saxby stole the election the first time he ran. The voter suppression and the attack ads against Max Clelland was appalling and disgusting.

[brooklynite]

22. Actually, the current top choice among Georgia Republicans is...

Herman Cain

By far and away the Republican who would pose the greatest threat to Chambliss in a primary, if he changed his mind about running, is Herman Cain. Cain would lead Chambliss 50-36 in a hypothetical match up. Cain has a 68/20 favorability rating with GOP primary voters, which compares quite favorably to Chambliss' 45/36 approval spread. Other long shot candidates we tested against Chambliss were Allen West, who trails 47/26, and Erick Erickson who trails 51/22.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/12/chambliss-vulnerable-in-a-primary.html

[alp227]

27. ALLEN WEST, who doesn't even live in GA?

[RiffRandell]

8. Good riddance, asshole.

From a GA resident.

[trishtrash]

9. Exactly! This is great news.

Here's the scenario: Paul Broun, nutty far-right creationist congressman, will run, hopefully against John Barrow, popular blue dog dem who continues to be re-elected to the House despite every repub effort to gerrymander him out of existence.

[gademocrat7]

10. Good riddance.

He waged a very dirty and dishonest campaign against Max Cleland.

[blue neen]

12. Saxby, while you're at it, why don't you leave the Senate right now?

Oh, what he did to Max Cleland. It will never be forgotten.

[6000eliot]

14. Buh Bye, Asshole!

[Berlum]

15. Americans will remember Chickenhawk Chambliss as the Republican creep who crapped on honorable vets

Freaking Chickenhawk Draft-dodging Republicans like Chambliss have an ongoing campaign against America's honorable veterans....Ptoooey.

[Paladin]

16. Have A Short, Miserable Retirement, Scumbag.

There is no forgiveness for the campaign you waged against Max Cleland.

[Kolesar]

17. What sucked about the war in Iraq is what made it work for Bush

Thoughful people had doubts about his "war on terror" and he used any expression of doubt to hammer his Democratic opposition. He used the unionization of TSA against Senator Max Cleland and installed this creep.

And the Republicans wonder why we call them Nazis.

[Glorfindel]

18. Good riddance to the most loathsome politician in the USA

He deserves the worst of everything, and I hope he gets it!

[Coyotl]

19. People don't change, but

us old ones do fade away with time

[n2doc]

24. Good to see him go

But I fear given the yahoos in this state, that we will end up with some t-bagging scum.

[friendly_iconoclast]

26. And not a nanosecond too soon

[Ken Burch]

29. How about John Lewis for Senator?

Maybe the state would finally take the chance to make history.

If Cleland doesn't run(and I'd love to see him leave treadmarks on any GOP candidate as much as anyone) Lewis is who I'd go with.