I think it’s safe to say they’re no longer supporting the nonsense in the White House. I commend them for finally waking up and joining us in trying to restore honesty and dignity to the Oval Office.
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There have been rumors and rumors and more rumors that Sidney… ah, Lindsey Graham is gay. And the rumors resurfaced again with a tweet from comedian, Cheslea Hunter.
Hunter tweeted that Republicans took a recent day off because it was #NationalComingOutDay , and she pointed the tweet in the direction of Lindsey Graham.
Enter TMZ. They have people all over the place, and at a local airport, TMZ found Graham and masterfully got him to answer Chelsea’s tweet.
Asked if he saw the tweet from Chelsea, Graham replied, “It’s a free country. She can say what she wants to say. I don’t care… She knows zero about me. To the extent that it matters, I’m not gay. These comments, I don’t think they reflect well on her.”
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South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is known for saying some crazy things. But in an atmosphere where just being crazy is not enough for Republicans, Graham couldn’t make the grade and wasn’t taken seriously in this year’s extremely crazy Republican nomination process. After languishing around zero percent for what seemed like an eternity, Graham finally called it quits.
In a YouTube announcement shared on his Instagram account, the South Carolina Republican said, “Thank you to everyone who honored me with their support. God bless our fighting men and women & God bless America.”
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Wow! That is a strong statement from Lindsey Graham regarding his fellow Republican.
My question is, if Trump is a “race-bating, xenophobic religious bigot” as Graham calls him, then is Graham calling the thousands of Republicans at Trump’s rallys racists and xenophobic, and religious bigots too? We all know they are, but hearing another Republican call them out is something to take note of. Is Graham is calling these people – the same people who wholeheartedly endorse Trump’s crazy positions – is Graham calling them racists too?
In a segment of the interview, Graham admitted that he’d “rather lose without Donald Trump than try to win with him. I wish he would leave the party. I don’t care if he wins the 2016 election.” He continued to say that Trump’s presence in the race now goes beyond the 2016 election, and that “this is about the country of the future and our party.”
After that, the interview shifted to how Ted Cruz declined to rebuke Trump as strongly as others have by only saying it was “not [his] policy,” to which Graham said that Cruz had a “moral imperative” to blast Trump’s proposal, going beyond a debate on policy. Graham assumed this was part of Cruz’s supposed plan to wait for Trump and Ben Carson to fall so he can absorb their numbers into his campaign.
“This is not a policy debate, Ted,” Graham said. “This is about you and us and our character as a party. Up your game. Condemn it because it needs to be condemned.”
Natural disasters don’t care who you are or where you live. And when they happen, we should all come together and help each other.
But back in 2013 when hurricane Sandy crippled the east coast, South Carolina Senator and current Republican presidential candidate, Lindsey Graham, voted to deny federal help for those in need.
My oh my how times have changed. In an interview on CNN, Graham was asked about his apparent hypocrisy and why federal help is necessary for South Carolina and not New Jersey.
He had no answer but knew 100 percent that his state needed all the federal help they can get no matter the cost.
“Let’s just get through this thing, and whatever it costs, it costs,” Graham told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room.
Then the amnesia set in when he was asked about his vote to not help the people of New Jersey.
“I’m all for helping the people in New Jersey. I don’t really remember me voting that way,” Graham said.
Pressed further, he said: “Anyway, I don’t really recall that, but I’d be glad to look and tell you why I did vote no, if I did.”
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In audio obtained by CNN, Republican Senator from South Carolina, Lindsay Graham said, that if he became president, “white men would do great!”
“If I get to be president, white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency,” Graham says in one audio as the audience laughs.
“I’ve tried to help you with your tax status,” the senator says in another recording. “I’m sorry the government’s so f*cked up.”
Graham later said that he was only joking when he made the statement, but I wonder…
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The data shows McCain to be the most frequent guest on sunday morning talk shows. The data did not show him to be the most popular.
Below is a list of gusts that has appeared on sunday morning talk shows since 2009. I already told you senator John McCain of Arizona was the most frequent guest. Guess who was the number 2? Senator Lindsey Graham. McCain right hand man.
Since the beginning of 2009, more than 1,500 people have appeared on five Sunday news and political talk shows: “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” “Fox News Sunday” and “State of the Union.”
Many are familiar faces in Washington, where lawmakers, consultants and pundits routinely sound off on the week’s news, while others come from the worlds of entertainment and sports.
Researchers at American University have collected more than 9,000 appearances. Below is a listing of those guests, excluding network employees or contracted regular guests.
Once again, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is leading the way, pointing out a simple fact that the rest of the so-called main stream media is missing – the same Iraq failures that lied us into war in Iraq, are the same ones beating the drums for more troops to re-invade Iraq, and they’re blaming Obama for withdrawing the troops in the first place.
Failures like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bill Krystal, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of the Republican caucus have piled on the president at a time of foreign conflict, and they are dragging the president through the mud because he chose to carry out Bush’s original plan in bringing all American troops out of Iraq.
Stewart pointed out their backwards thinking when he said, “four wrongs make a right.”
Stewart showed John McCain doing what he does best – lying, saying that “the decision was made by the Obama administration to not have a residual force in Iraq.”
Of course that was a lie and McCain knows it. But like the rest of his Republican buddies, blaming Obama is the way to go!
Asking “why did Obama snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” Stewart played a clip of Fred Kaplin explaining that the decision to bring the troops home was in fact, made by the Bush administration before Obama was even elected in 2008.
“President Bush signed a treaty at the end of 2008, The Status of Force Agreement,” Kaplin said in the clip, “which said that all US forces, not just combat forces, but all US forces would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011!”
So they are blaming Obama for a treaty that was already signed before Obama even took office. These liars are amazing!
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After going on CNN and proclaiming that the world “roll its eyes” when President Obama talks, Republican elected official Lindsey Graham jumped to the twitter machine today to try and hit the president some more. The method he used however, shows that nothing is off limits with these Republicans.
Tiday, Lindsey Graham somehow managed to tie the killing of four brave Americans in Libya to Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.
Not even the deaths of these four Americans in Benghazi could withstand being dragged into a foreign conflict by these Republicans, if it means they get the opportunity to talk bad about the president and his administration.
I never thought it possible, but this is a new low. And for a Republican party that dwells in the dungeon of morality, this new low speaks volumes.
May the fallen Americans I in Benghazi rest in peace.
Remember to saying, “politics stops at the water’s edge?” Well that saying only applies when theres a Republican sitting in the White House. It’s open season on the president if he’s a Democrat.
On Sunday, Lindsey Graham went on CNN’s State of the Union with Sandy Crowley and he did what Republicans are known for these days – Attacking Obama for things Obama can’t control.
CROWLEY: The president has come out and said very forcefully on Friday about consequences. The U.S. has made it clear that is disapproves of what Russia has done. You’ve been Tweeting about strong statements. What more do you want from President Obama at this point?
GRAHAM: Well, number one, stop going on television and trying to threaten thugs and dictators. It is not your strong suit. Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody’s eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression.
President Obama needs to do something. How about this — suspend Russian membership in the G-8 and the G-20 at least for a year starting right now. And for every day that they stay in Crimea, add to the suspension. Do something.
Someone should remind Lindsey that Osama bin Laden is not around to roll his eyes anymore, neither are the record number of terrorists killed on Obama’s orders.
The nationwide ban will be for abortions after 20 weeks. TalkingPointsMemo reports that Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday introduced legislation that would ban abortions nationwide for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, the senator’s office announced.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act draws on scientific evidence that says an unborn child can feel pain, according to Graham’s office. The legislation would make it illegal for any person to perform or attempt to perform an abortion after 20 weeks, or six months, of pregnancy and would mandate a determination of the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child prior to any abortion operation.
The legislation would make exceptions only in the case that an abortion is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman, or if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest against a minor.
(AP) — Two Republican foreign policy hawks say President Barack Obama must make a strong case for attacking Bashar Assad’s Syria if he wants to win congressional backing for the operation.
Sen. John McCain tells reporters at the White House that Obama’s intervention now will be more difficult because Assad “is moving his forces around.” Both McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned the wisdom of the administration publicly signaling in advance its intention to strike.
The GOP senators, who often speak with the same voice on foreign affairs, talked in the White House driveway Monday after a private meeting with Obama.
McCain said he believes lawmakers awaiting a critical vote on Syria “must be assured that this is different from the past two years of neglect” on the part of the administration.
