{"id":1688,"date":"2001-11-25T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2001-11-25T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2001-11-25T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2001-11-25T13:58:29","slug":"glad_to_see_wer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/25\/glad_to_see_wer.html","title":{"rendered":"Glad to see we’re taking this all in stride"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Wednesday’s Washington Post<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security and a candidate for the Senate, yesterday sought to play down remarks to Georgia law enforcement personnel suggesting they “just turn [the sheriff] loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line.”
\nIn a letter to the Valdosta Daily Times, Chambliss contended that his comments were taken “out of context” and “should in no way be interpreted as my view of what should happen. . . . If my remarks were offensive in any way, I apologize.”<\/p>\n

He had previously tried to get the story of his comments killed, and asked the referred to sheriff to try to block its publication.<\/p>\n

While it’s disheartening to hear such repulsive blather from elected officials (though what else one would expect from, ahem, a Georgia Republican), it’s good to know that such things are going down very poorly with the electorate — as demonstrated both by Chambliss’ attempts to get the story quashed, and by the crashed-and-burned career of John Cooksey (R-La.), who uttered the famous remark about questioning anyone with “a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper.” <\/p>\n

(Via 24-Hour Drive-Thru<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Wednesday’s Washington Post Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security and a candidate for the Senate, yesterday sought to play down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131987,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/another-small-silver-lining.html","url_meta":{"origin":1688,"position":0},"title":"Another small silver lining","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Nov-16 7:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Aloha to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. 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