The "Isakson-Chambliss Project"

The "country's No. 1 caller to television talk shows," who also happens to be a Georgia resident, weighs in on Georgia's senatorial duo of Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss:

McCutchen calls congressional offices, C-SPAN, talkmeisters Sean Hannity and Larry King, and just about anyone else who will listen to his mach-speed rails against pork-barrel spending and rising federal deficits. He brings up the same issues on his local TV show, "Focus on Excellence," which airs in a five-county area of North Georgia. He has phoned some lawmakers' offices so often he's become known by his mantra: "Cut Spending, Put the Taxpayers First McCutchen."

Now the retired carpet-maker and Republican celebrity of sorts is training his tongue on two men he has long supported: GOP U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss.

McCutchen says Isakson and Chambliss have failed to live up to their "conservative" labels, voting for pork-laden spending plans that have produced bigger federal deficits. And he has started a one-man, two-year crusade to persuade them to change their voting ways.

McCutchen calls it the "Isakson-Chambliss Project." And if you're anywhere in North Georgia, a regular listener to talk radio or a viewer of TV news channels, you'll probably learn more about it.

McCutchen is nothing if not persistent.

"Personally, I like them both, but they're not doing a good job for the taxpayers," McCutchen, 65, said of the two Republican senators. "I don't see how anyone could call them conservative.

"Look, we pay 100 percent of their salary, and they're only voting with us 50 percent of the time. It's like my wife. I don't want to see her sleeping with somebody else 50 percent of the time."

Both the offices of Senators Isakson and Chambliss seem to be taking the criticism lightly. I don't really blame them though, since McCutchen's claim to fame seems to be his habit of being persistantly obnoxious when it comes to teh media. But then again, McCutchen's appearance in a full-length article in the largest newspaper in the state certainly doesn't bode well for their image. It really doesn't matter though. By 2008 (the next senatorial election in Georgia), even the intra-party detractors will succumb to the sea of partisanship expected of any statewide election.