run-off. and it s all very exciting. what s exciting, though, rate now about georgia, is that there has been legitimate suspense both in terms of tonight s primary and looking ahead to the general in thames of what s going to happen with that senate seat, the saxby chambliss seat wasn t supposed to be like this. the republican math on their efforts nationwide to take back the senate, all the republican math to do that assumes that hold i holding on to that saxby chambliss senate seat was going to be a no problem proposition for the republican party. when you look at what s going on in georgia, though, much more interesting, much more open question than that. also tonight in georgia there s been some rare suspense on the democratic side of things. and the story there is sort of dramatic enough i m surprised it hasn t had more national attenti attention. we re all wired now to look for suspense in contested elections among republicans. we re just not expecting that from democrats. in geo
house. you may have heard tell recently about how the highway trust fund is going broke and repair projects are idled across the country, literally potholes aren t getting filled in and bridges stopped being repaired because the funding got shaky. people will lose jobs because we haven t been able to fund all the basic transportation and repair projects we fund year. that is in part because bill shuster, who has been facing this tea party challenge back home in pennsylvania in tonight s primary, is in charge of the transportation committee and republicans facing tea party challengers are not the most likely candidates for passing huge spending bills out of their committees no matter how popular and necessary those bills are. well,that race tonight in the ninth district in pennsylvania we re looking at just about 16% of precincts in. right now bill shuster, the incumbent republican congressman there, has 50.4% of the vote. tea party challenger there, 42% of the vote. if shuster survives
party just in time to run as their presidential candidate the where upon, as i mentioned, he tanked. he placed even after lower than ralph nader in the 2008 presidential election. now bob barr wants to come back and now he s a hard core republican again. and that s because this guy, two-term conservative republican senator from georgia saxby chambliss saxby chambliss is retiring. his retirement has set off a feeding frenzy among elected georgia republicans who want to move up in the world, who want to move up into saxby chambliss still warm senate seat, and that includes three currently serving members of congress who decided to sacrifice their existing seats in congress to give up their existing jobs in order to run for the senate seat. one of them, phil gingrey.
and that was mine. at the time i think i had 18 co-sponsors was all in november of 1997. and what i did, i took that document figurativelfigurativelt off, added language to it. darn if it doesn t sound pretty good with barack obama s name in there. the impeachment proceedings against bill clinton, those worked out excellent for house republicans. why not do it for barack obama, too? bob barr running as the impeachment candidate in georgia. he s a former libertarian, former republican congressman, wannabe again and he is running to try to get back part of his old district from the house. there are six republicans vying tonight in the republican primary for that one seat in georgia. among them some of the people with the best flames in all of politics right now against bob barr tonight there was mr. loudermilk running for that