Very interesting... And something I would like to see Mike step up and say about his party that is detererating weekly - yet they just simply cannot see that through their hatred of GWB...
Zell Miller: Will America Survive?
Zell Miller, former Democratic Senator from Georgia, said that the United States is in a crisis of morality that could destroy the country. Miller served in the Senate four years, serving out the term of Senator Paul Coverdell, who died in July of 2000.
He made his remarks on the Right Hour, an Internet radio program hosted by Paul M. Weyrich, CEO and Chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, where he discussed his new book, "A Deficit of Decency” and other national issues.
"Recent generations have been more interested in giving their children the material things that they did not have when they were growing up. But they have failed to give them the spiritual things that they had when they were growing up; the valuable things like family, and Faith, and love of country, and duty. Duty to family, duty to country. These are the things that seem to be missing so much right now,” said Miller.
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who recently compared the American military to fascists on the floor of the Senate, did not escape Miller’s sharp eye. "As far as what Senator Durbin did, that’s a national disgrace. He should have apologized, and the U.S. Senate, in my opinion, ought not to let him get away with just an apology. He deserves some kind of reprimand or censure. What he did is to put our men and women in uniform further into harm’s way than they already are."
Miller also continued to be critical of his own Democratic party and its current chairman Howard Dean.
"Probably the Republicans ought to be cheering him on, because he’s doing more harm than good for the Democrats. Here is a man who should be trying to broaden the base of his party, a party that has been shrinking now for many, many years. Instead, he is narrowing the base even more. How can you broaden the base of a party when you are talking about independents and Republicans having no sense, being evil, not working a day in their life? It is ridiculous.”
The former Senator expressed strong support for the nomination of John Bolton to be Ambassador to the United Nations. "I want a man up there who will aggressively defend the interests of the United States, not tiptoe through the tulips. I want a John Wayne kind of character, not a Woody Allen,” he said.
Miller noted too that the country’s immigration problem was a bipartisan "dereliction of duty” that is unrivaled in the history of the country.
Georgia political analyst Bill Shipp reports that former Sen. Zell Miller - the guy who piously brags about his own integrity - essentially stole $80,000 from Georgia taxpayers upon leaving office when he was governor.
According to Shipp, who was quoting a WSB-TV investigation, Miller "pocketed more than $60,000 in taxpayer funds earmarked for entertainment and other expenses at the Governor's Mansion." Miller "also picked up a check for more than $20,000 for 'unused leave' - a sum to which he was not entitled as a constitutional officer."
Hilariously, Zell explained himself by "say[ing] that he was technically eligible to take the mansion money as his own because no one said he could not." Of course, "every other living governor from Jimmy Carter to Sonny Perdue told [WSB-TV] that they did not consider the mansion money theirs - and that they would not have taken it. The cash was meant for use at the mansion, not for lining the occupants' pockets, they said."
In some sense we shouldn't be surprised: the same man who lied about John Kerry has now been proven to essentially be a thief - not exactly shocking. But still, Zell's willingness to rip off his own state is really stunning.
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