saxby chambliss

White voters who might sour on the president are more likely to turn out than the young and black voters who made up his margin of victory in 2008.

In this corner: President Obama, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, (reluctantly) the service secretary and chief of staff of  the Air Force, this very smart Air Force captain, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), and the current threat environment the U.S. faces. In that corner: Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), a [...]

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget, here’s the showdown you’ve been waiting for: Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who cut er, “completed” the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet order at 187 planes, versus Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), a staunch advocate for the F-22, which is partially manufactured in his state. Chambliss [...]

The hearings are back underway …
Here’s Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), back in full effect. He wants to know about prosecutions for interrogators, which CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta rejected yesterday.
“My view is whether you agree or disagree with the opinions issued by the Attorney General [in the Bush administration] with regard to interrogation methods, the CIA [...]

Although Leon Panetta hasn’t had so much as a single senator come out against his nomination to become CIA director, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will reconvene at 10 a.m. at the request of Vice Chairman Kit Bond (R-Mo.), who said yesterday that both he and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) have additional questions for [...]

On the heels of Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ (R-Ga.) impassioned plea to Defense Secretary Bob Gates to consider production of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor as part of a responsible stimulus package, check out this Website, passed along by an eagle-eyed friend. It urges readers to send President Obama and Congress this message:
Keeping the production line [...]

Here’s something to keep an eye on over the next few months: Defense Secretary Bob Gates challenged Congress to help him rein in wasteful defense spending. But some senators are already indicating that they may try and shoehorn defense spending into the stimulus package.

Most folks around the country have had a few privileged weeks to recover from the drone of election-year politics. Not in Georgia, where tomorrow’s run-off vote will decide whether one-term GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss can make it two. And the big guns are out — at least on the Republican side.
Sen. John McCain visited the [...]

Spencer sends over a short video clip revealing that Sen. Saxby Chambliss probably needs some rest.
Facing a runoff election in a few weeks — and recently hit with a subpoena to testify about his ties to the sugar company whose refinery exploded in February, killing 14 — the Georgia Republican has turned his frustration on [...]

This went somewhat under the radar, but as Georgia GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss prepares for next month’s runoff election against Democratic challenger Jim Martin, he claims no regrets about a controversial ad that helped put him in the seat six years ago.
You know the one: It used images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein [...]