...the South shall rise again. If they get better intelligence, anyway.
Senator Saxby Chambliss (the Vietnam-era "bad knee" 4Fer who sleezed into his seat by attacking Max Cleland's patriotism in 2002) just provided us with a prime example of his own credentials as a patriot. A Confederate patriot, that is:
When sources first contacted HOH, they thought they remembered Chambliss say, "We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we'd be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln."
In fairness, I should probably mention that Chambliss' office claims that this is a misquote, and that the Senator actually said, "If Gen. JEB Stuart had had better intelligence, we'd all be meeting in Richmond right now."
Neither quote puts Chambliss in a particularly good light. The first one has him identifying himself with the Confederacy; the second is stupid to the point of incoherence. (First of all, JEB was the guy who was supposed to be providing the intelligence. Second, the USA would still be around if the South had won, it would just be a bit smaller. Third...). Personally, I think the first quote has the ring of truth to it, while the second has the stench of a staffer frantically trying to find something, anything, that will make it seem like the boss really isn't that stupid.