Now get this: For every hour the F22 Raptor flies it needs an average of 30 hours of maintenance. Now come on folks, can you believe this one? Why in the hell would you want to own and operate anything that takes 30 hours of maintenance for every hour of use?

Well ... that's just it. The Pentagon has made it clear that they don't want any more of these airplanes.

That brings us to Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss. He is pushing for funding for a number of additional F22s. The Pentagon doesn't want them, but Georgia jobs are at stake.

Look .. if this is about jobs let's just pay the workers at Lockheed whatever they're earning to rake leaves on Kennesaw Mountain without building the airplanes. Get them out there picking up trash along roadsides or painting over graffiti. Anything ... just pay them for the length of time it would take to build the additional Raptors. This would work two ways for the taxpayers. First, the would get some service out of these fine folks that we actually need, and they would save money in the bargain.

How about it, Senator? Isn't that a better idea? You're welcome.

That would be Saxby Chambliss.  The voters in Georgia gave him a ten point margin and sent him back to sit on the sane side of the Senatorial aisle.  There goes the Troika's 60-seat majority, no matter what the dwarf pulls off in Minnesota.  Good job, voters.  Looks like Obama made the right call in not coming down here to campaign for the Democrat. 

All eyes on Georgia tomorrow.  There is one more election where the voters still have an actual say ... and that would be right here.  Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is facing Democrat Jim Martin in a runoff.  The vote is tomorrow; and it's all about turnout.

Yeah, I know.  They're still counting votes in Minnesota, and Norm Coleman may still prevail against Democrat funny guy Al Franken.  But this one is in the hands of the politicians, lawyers and judges.  Georgia is in the hands of the voters - it this may be the last stand before a 60-vote filibuster proof Democrat majority in the Senate. 

There is voter anger against Chambliss in Georgia.  This I understand.  Saxby's vote in favor of the bailout bill has a lot of people fuming .. but there's a lot of second-guessing here.  We now know that that the $700 billion bailout essentially amounts to a slush fund .. and hundreds of billions may be saved for Obama to spend.  This is not what the people wanted and not what the Republicans in the Senate voted for.  But now it is what it is, and letting the Democrats have their 60 seats isn't going to change anything.  This is about votes to come.  Votes to raise taxes, votes to redistribute wealth, votes to expand the power of government, votes to confirm anti-Constitutional Supreme Court justices and to pass the unionization-by-intimidation bill.  In a worse-case scenario this election tomorrow in Georgia could be about votes on whether or not the government will seize all or a portion of our 401Ks and pension plans, and a vote on whether or not to remove the cap on Social Security taxes.  Would you like to see means-testing for your Social Security benefits?  Would you like for the government to come to you when you reach retirement age and tell you that you have simply been too successful to collect your Social Security -- that the money is needed for people who didn't work quite so hard?

It's all about turnout.  The polls show it too close to call.  You can bet that those who vote for a living will be at the polls.  The unions will be sending their vans out, driven by union volunteers, to collect as many Democrat voters and deliver them to the polls as possible.  Hey ... they have the card check bill to protect.  Churchgoers across Atlanta were admonished to go to the polls and vote for Martin on Tuesday.  The Democrats are running ads of Saxby Chambliss pictured next to a multi-million dollar yacht cursing the seas - the wealth envy card being played to the hilt.  Those with no job - those who vote for their living - will have no trouble leaving work (yeah, right) to vote.  Will you? 

Check this out. Click here and take a look at this one ballot in Minnesota. Minnesota, in case you don't know, is where the Democrats are busy stealing a Senate seat. Just 150 or so votes separate the incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and ultra-leftist Democrat Al Franken. Al Franken is actually taking this one particular ballot to the courts saying that the voter was obviously voting against Norm Coleman. Again ...just look at the ballot to get a clear idea what is going on here.

Are we going to allow the Democrats to use tactics like this to get their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate? Well, that depends on the voters in Georgia. On December 2nd Georgia voters can prevent that 60-vote majority, no matter what Al Franken manages to pull off in Minnesota. The Minnesota Senate race will be determined by politicians ... the Georgia Senate runoff between Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin will be decided by the voters ... and it's all going to rest on just who heads to the polls.

There is going to be much gnashing of teeth of the last roadblock - the possibility of a Republican filibuster - is removed from the path of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. There is absolutely nothing in Martin's past that indicates he would be anything other than Obama's dog washer and Reid's sock puppet in Washington.

Weeks ago I was saying that the political focus was going to be on Georgia after the general election. Finally I get something right. We need something to slow down the big-government goals of the Democrats. Georgia voters are that something.

We expected 1000. We had room for 1500. We filled the place .. and more. The FairTax rally yesterday in Gwinnett County was, by any measure, a great success. The crowd heard from Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss (Yes, Jim Martin was invited), Congressman John Linder, and I had the honor of introducing former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to the crowd.

Now is EXACTLY the wrong time for you to be tired of hearing about the FairTax. Bear with me and read just a few bullet points here. Then you can read the comments and hear from all of the naysayers who will tell you that it just can't be done. Bear in mind as you read those comments that during the entirety of the Revolutionary War the majority of the Colonists were telling that ragtag army of farmers and merchants with borrowed rifles and worn out shoes that it couldn't be done. They didn't listen. I'm not listening to them now. OK ... bullet points.

The crowd just LOVED Mike Huckabee. I suspect many of them were thinking that things might have been a bit different if he had been the nominee. Now he has a top-rated TV show on Fox and a twice-daily commentary on ABC radio .. really positioning himself for 2012.

• Do you want to talk about a bailout plan? Fine. There is about $13 trillion dollars in U.S. wealth working overseas to escape our punishing tax system. Pass the FairTax and that $13 trillion starts flowing back into our economy. Care to consider the consequences?
• Middle class tax cut? Hey ... what if much of the middle class and all of the poor had their federal tax burdens eliminated entirely? And what if every single American household could purchase their basic necessities every single month with no federal tax consequences at all?
• If Obama does what he says he is going to do, and that would be raise taxes, then we're going to see more American jobs going overseas and small businesses and corporations outsource jobs and run from our second-highest-in-the-industrialized-world corporate taxes.
• Obama won this election by delivering his "tax cut for 95% of the American people lie" loudly and often. If we had the FairTax politicians would not be able to lie to the American people on tax issues. Now you see one of the reasons politicians will have to be drug kicking and screaming to the FairTax.
• I'm told that the FairTax people approached another (and much more successful) talk show host about getting on board with the FairTax. The response from that host's producers? "What makes you think we want to help Boortz sell more books?"
• Foreign political leaders don't like the FairTax. I had some journalists in Ireland tell me personally that they were scared to death of the proposal. Why? Because they fear that businesses would flee Ireland to relocate in the United States.

Now .. here's an interesting twist. Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine was there yesterday. Oxendine has started a movement to get various states to call for a Constitutional Convention to eliminate the 16th Amendment and bring us the FairTax. Now THAT is an interesting idea. I can tell you what would happen here. Once the congress realizes that there is a good deal of steam behind the idea of a FairTax Constitutional Convention they would trip over themselves to enact the FairTax and begin the repeal process on the 16th Amendment on their own. Why? They don't know what else the people might chose to do at such a convention. Term limits anyone?

Now, if you are one of the few out there who are really not up to speed on the FairTax, here are two books for you to read. The FairTax Book, and FairTax, the Truth. Answering the critics. Yup .. the money still goes to charity.

Well, for better or for worse, the Boortz Show really has to be on its game the next couple of weeks ... just when I'm feeling a bit lazy. (So, what else is new?) The nation will be tuning in to see Georgians Saxby Chambliss and that anti-FairTax liar Jim Martin battle it out for the Senate. We still have one county counting its votes, but it looks like it's going to be a runoff to be held December 2nd. Yesterday CNN was reporting that Chambliss had the 50%. Finally, when it came down to it, Chambliss missed it by 0.1% ... he ended up with 49.9% when he needed to get 50% of the popular vote.

The good news is that with Alan Buckley (also an anti-FairTax candidate) out of the race, we will have to see how many of those Libertarians will defect to the Republicans versus the Democrats.

We'll see if Jim Martin has the onions to abandon this "Saxby Chambliss will add 23% to the price of everything that you buy" line and campaign on the truth. This is one of the big problems with the FairTax, it is easy to demagogue. Martin proved that in this Senate race. Let's see how many informed voters there are out there.

It appears that Saxby Chambliss got his majority over that anti-FairTax liar Jim Martin. This is one victory I am really glad the Democrats cannot claim today. Imagine how much damage could have been done with this Jim Martin adding to their 57+ Democrat majority.

Fox News has now called my home state of Georgia for McCain. Also - to make the news even better - Fox has called Georgia's Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss the winner in the Senate race. The Chambliss win is comforting on several levels. One, his opponent campaigned on lies about the FairTax. I still believe in the FairTax as strongly as ever .. but more on that later. Secondly, this is one Senate seat the MoveOn Democrats won't be able to count on for their filibuster proof majority.