Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) announced this morning that he will not seek re-election in 2014. Or as he put it in a call to supporters, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “Sitting on a back porch drinking whiskey with some of y’all is exciting to think about.”

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