I am thrilled about the upcoming 2010 elections for two reasons. First, I’m confident that true conservatism is on the move and that some non-RINO Republicans will take office. Second, I’m excited to campaign for whoever will run against Johnny Isakson.
Recently Isakson wrote me (because I’m on his mailing list) to ask what I thought about President Obama’s budget. I responded to say how I found it ironic that he was thrilled to oversee government growth under the Bush administration but now that there’s a Democrat in the White House, he’s opposed to massive government growth.
Isakson sent another message to his mailing list this morning. Basically it was a follow up to his obviously loaded question about the budget. He’s running for reelection, and he needs your money.
Um, no thanks.
This behavior in email correspondence is nothing more than partisan politicking that we need to get away from. Quoting Isakson in his most recent email:
Thanks in large part to the astronomical budget that unfortunately passed, the estimated deficit will be $1.75 trillion this year.
Isakson is rightly upset about a bad budget being passed, but is this the same Johnny Isakson that voted on bad Bush budgets? Apparently, deficit spending is only acceptable when your party is doing the spending. Isakson is pointing the finger at the Democrats’ bad spending (rightfully so) but is conveniently forgetting the bad spending that happened during the majority of his term in the Senate.
I’ve not yet found anybody running against Isakson in the Senate election. Is there a real conservative who wants to represent Georgians in the Senate? You’ll have my support.