It was one year ago that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted its first profile of Johnny Isakson, For all his supposed “concessions”, Johnny Isakson also has had some of the most anti-gay voting records in Congress during his tenure, has voted repeatedly against womens’ issues from their right to choose to equal pay legislation, and has consistently voted against raising the debt ceiling. Isakson met with some controversy where he met with the candidate challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his seat in Nevada, Sharron Angle, and described her speech to the Senate Republican Caucus as the kind of speech “she wouldn’t give to the unwashed back home”, but still won re-election in 2010 through having the luck to have been suddenly hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat and a blood infection that kept him out of the public eye regarding that controversy. In his long Congressional career, Isakson has voted for displays of the Ten Commandments to be placed on government property, a Constitutional ban on same sex marriage, the Iraq War Resolution, and the 2013 Government Shutdown. Meanwhile, he has voted against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” being repealed , voted against the Franken Amendment (a dedicated assist to defense contractors who want to be able to sexually assault or help cover up the sexual assaults of female employees by Isakson) voted against various equal pay measures as well as Hurricane Sandy relief funding, and since President Obama took office in 2009, has voted against every debt ceiling increase, despite the fact that not doing so would be catastrophic to not just the U.S. economy, but the global economy. As early as August of 2015, Sen. Isakson was calling for investigations into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server, and admitting the end goal of those inquiries was to “end her presidential candidacy”. Sen. Isakson pledged to support votes on all judicial nominees back in 2005, but since Barack Obama was elected president reneged on that deal, and has blocked not just the nominations of District Court and Circuit Court judges, but now defending how the GOP have chosen to spend over 7 months avoiding hosting confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland as a ninth Supreme Court Justice.
Not surprisingly, Johnny Isakson’s voting record has continued to be wholly regressive in nature.
- September 22nd, 2015: Isakson votes for HR 36, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Act, which would ban abortion at 20 weeks.
- December 3rd, 2015: Democrats produce some common sense gun legislation, that anyone who is found to be on a terror watch list during a background check should not be allowed to purchase a firearm or explosives (which they could use to carry out a terror attack). Well, Johnny Isakson loves the Second Amendment way more than he hates terrorism, as he voted against it.
- December 3rd, 2015: Isakson votes for the GOP’s 62nd attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act, in spite of the fact that it’s still working better than expected.
- January 20th, 2016: Johnny Isakson votes for the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, reacting to the terror attacks in Paris by jihadists from France and Belgium by trying to create greater restrictions to keep out Syrian refugees, of whom exactly zero were involved in those attacks.
- June 20th, 2016: Sen. Isakson votes against Senate Amendment 4720, to prohibit the transfer of firearms to suspected terrorists… because kowtowing to the NRA is more important to her than preventing terrorism.
Isakson is comfortably ahead in polls in his re-election bid against Democrat Jason Barksdale and Libertarian Allen Buckley, so much so that it seems unlikely he’ll even be hampered enough to require a run-off election should he fail to get 50% of the vote. Isakson, now 72 and suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, looks to continue a political career that has spanned four decades for at least another six years. If Georgia’s turning blue, supposedly, well, Isakson coasting back into office would be a sure sign they’re not just there yet.
One Year Ago, November 6th, 2015: Johnny Isakson (GA)… Original Profile
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