Here are some of the things Matthews tried to ask Miller about while the good Senator flipped out . .
In a 2001 speech, Miller called John Kerry
"one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders and a good friend." He said, "John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington
He fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment."
In a speech on 2/25/96, Miller said:
"Republicans sold us out with a generation of trickle-down economics that blew the deficit sky-high, drove poverty through the roof, and squeezed the middle class like a lemon at a county fair. They gave themselves the goldmine, and "Republicans sold us out with a generation of trickle-down economics that blew the deficit sky-high, drove poverty through the roof, and squeezed the middle class like a lemon at a county fair. They gave themselves the goldmine, and they gave the rest of us the shaft."
In 2000, Miller said he
"supports protecting Social Security and paying down federal debt as higher priorities than tax cuts." He also stated, "I think the best tax cut we could give to our children is to use the budget surplus to pay down the national debt." [Sources: Florida Times-Union, 11/5/2000; Macon Telegraph, 10/30/2000]
As a congressional candidate in 1964, Miller not only pledged to vote against the Civil Rights Act, he attacked those who were pushing it. He said President Lyndon Johnson "is a southerner who has sold his birthright for a mess of dark porridge." As Georgia history professor James Cobb said, "Had he lived and run again, Kennedy would not have benefited in Georgia from the opposition to the Civil Rights Act voiced by a certain congressional candidate in 1964, Zell Miller. "
This past May Miller gave a speech claiming, "With John Kerry on national security, it's vacillate, retreat and turn over to the U.N. With John Kerry on domestic policy, it's tax, spend and redistribute income."
He called Kerry's Senate voting record on national security "shameful," even though Kerry has cast the exact same votes on intelligence funding as Miller. [Source: AP, 5/15/04; Senate Votes, 12/06/00; 12/13/01; 9/25/02; 11/21/03]
I think 'ol Zell better find a less psychotic way to deal with these questions then he did tonight or duck out of site for awhile. . threatening to shoot Chris Matthews isn't going to upset a lot of people, but Katie Couric is pretty popular and acting the same way with her might cause some problems. .
