Do you find yourself yawning at pundits speculating about who is going to be in Obama's cabinet? Have you caught up on all the mundane chores and recreational activities you promised yourself you'd get to as soon as the election was over? Are you still jonesing to put Republicans out to pasture? We'll you're in luck!
Some of Scott Harper's (IL-13) staff have gone to Georgia to help Jim Martin defeat Saxby Chambliss. They need home phonebankers calling into Georgia and asked me to spread the word.

I don't need to tell you how important this race is. With Begich's all but certain win in Alaska, Franken's pretty good odds in the Minnesota recount, a Martin victory in the runoff on December 2 would give us a filibuster proof 60 Democratic US senators.

Sure Lieberman won't vote with us on some issues but where he won't we'll be able to pick off some of the more reality based Republicans. Anybody really think Lugar isn't going to go along with Obama on Iraq? With a 60 vote majority it'll be almost impossible for McConnell to hold his caucus together on Iraq, healthcare, and any number of issues.

There's no better candidate to retire than the execrable Saxby Chambliss. He's a chickenhawk on a par with Cheney, five Vietnam era student deferments until he found a doctor to give him a medical deferment for a "football" knee. Yet he's marched in lockstep with Bush on Iraq.

We all remember his disgusting 2002 ad against Max Cleland tieing him to Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein for standing up to Bush on workers' rights at the then new Homeland Security Dept. Even John McCain called the ad "reprehensible" and "worse than disgraceful" back then for attacking the patriotism of a man who lost three limbs for his country. Of course that hasn't stopped McCain from going to GA to campaign for Chambliss the past couple of weeks.  

Chambliss is also a blatant racist. I know that's not so uncommon in the south, even in 2008. But it ought to be and there's no better way to show the Republican party that the Southern Strategy is deader than the confederacy than to send this creep packing.

A few examples: following the 9/11 attacks, Chambliss said Georgia ought to "arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line." During early voting last month as African Americans were turning out in droves as expected, Chambliss told his white supporters that "the other folks are voting" to push Republicans to get out and vote. In another instance, Chambliss told the New York Times that the "rush to the polls by African-Americans" in Georgia "has also got our side energized, [because] they see what is happening." After failing on 11/4 to get 50%+1 of the vote required under Georgia law to avoid a runoff, Chambliss in a Fox News interview said it was due to the "high percentage of minority vote" this year and the the fact that "we weren't able to get enough of our folks out on Election Day." Now the vote in Georgia sadly still breaks down overwhelmingly along racial lines. But we only need to turn a small percentage of white voters and/or inform Georgia minority voters about how important it is that they elect this Democratic senator. It's eminently winnable. Kos's poll done by R2K shows Chambliss up only 49-46% in this two way race.    

Jim Martin, served in Vietnam, is an accomplished legal scholar, and was a Georgia state legislator for 18 years. The guy's no lightweight. He supports the Employee Free Choice Act (union check card), wants to get us out of Iraq and has run TV ads attacking Chambliss for not supporting Obama's agenda. Of course Saxby has attacked Martin for supporting Obama. That tells me pretty much all I need to know about the most important issue at stake here: how they'd vote in the senate for the next 6 years.

So if you have some free time over the next week and a half and are still fired up and ready to go sign up to make calls for Jim Martin. As anyone who has read Kos or Nate Silver the last few weeks knows this run off is like most special elections. It's all about GOTV, flushing the base. Turnout is expected to be low, maybe much lower than the general. Nat'l Republicants are putting everything they have into saving Saxby Chambliss. They won't give it up easily. It's up to us to take it away from them.

You can sign up here.