Chicken

By Sniffles

Saxby, we hardly knew ye. A mere 10 years after you smeared a triple-amputee war hero to win a Senate seat, you're turning tail and running.

For the hills, that is — not for Senate in 2014.

Why? Because Saxby needs to duck a tough fight with the right-wing whackjobs who have taken over his party, for whom even Saxby Chambliss is not conservative enough. Which boggles the mind, but that's fodder for a separate post.

What we cats are focused on right now is the fact that Chambliss, of course, is a chickenhawk. He had multiple deferments for Vietnam. But in 2002 that didn't keep him from Swift Boating Max Cleland in one of the most shameful episodes in American political history. Chambliss has gone on since then to saber rattle, preach invasions, and enable the lies, deceptions and failures of Bush-Cheney foreign policy.

And now he's too scared of nuts like Paul Broun, Tom Price, Herman Cain or even Allen West to run. He could learn a thing or two from Democrats like Cleland, John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Daniel Inouye, George McGovern and Tammy Duckworth about the value of courage under fire.

We cats HISS at Saxby Chambliss, dump our dirty litter boxes on his stupid head, and say, good riddance.