Lindsey Graham threatens President Obama on upcoming economic problems like the Housing and Banking sectors
On FOX News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) attacked President Obama for not being bipartisan and a bad leader and threatened to obstruct further bills that might come up as we move forward to try and dig ourselves out of the destruction the party of Ronald Reagan have brought down on all of our heads.
Graham, who was a big supporter of John McCain's run at the presidency, has been almost as vocal and vehement in his opposition to the stimulus bill. Do these conservatives have any shame at all?
Graham said this:
Graham: What we've lost is a young president's promise to change things. Please don't say this is change I can believe in. And please don't underestimate how the public is pulling for you, but they don't like this bill.
President Obama is only fulfilling promises he made on the campaign trail. He reached out in an unprecedented way to congressional Republicans as soon as he took the oath of office. He reached out his hand like no other president has done in many, many years, but Republicans took a huge chunk of flesh out of his hand.
John McCain has acted as badly as Sean Hannity and refused to negotiate in good faith after Obama called him directly for his bipartisan help. He has been trying to block this stimulus package from the beginning, but he knows more than anyone else that President Obama ran on his economic principles and won the election handily, helping the Democratic Party picked up a huge chunk of Congress along the way.
Instead of being part of the solution that America voted to bring, McCain and Graham have only brought bitterness from their resounding defeat. Graham complained to Shepard Smith and blamed the usual Republican targets:
Smith: How did this happen?
Graham: It started with the attitude, we won, we write the bill. Dave Obey, Democratic appropriater in the House, created a monster of a bill that really stunk up the place and the public saw right through it and it came to the Senate and the compromise is actually more expensive then the original House bill. You've rearranged the puzzle a bit....
The public does like this president, he's a very likeable guy, but his leadership here I think has been unacceptable and his partisan rhetoric is going to make it harder for us to work together on banking and housing and if we don't solve the banking crisis and the housing problems, no stimulus package will jump start the economy.
So Lindsey Graham is threatening President Obama that he and his fellow Republicans will not work with him and basically hold the country hostage unless he bows down to their will. Graham doesn't tell you that the Republican obstructionism started from the get-go -- and as the media focused its entire attention on their message these past few weeks, they threw cold water on the entire process.
That forced President Obama to start speaking out publicly to help push his agenda through. He never wanted to give prime-time speeches about this plan, but he underestimated the Republican hostility, and should have understood that his good will would never be reciprocated by a party that is struggling to find themselves. Obama's popularity does have then a little nervous, but not enough, and they will pay for it in the long run.
In the latest Gallup poll, Americans once again show huge support for President Obama as he tries to solve the problems that BushCo. has created.
But they underestimate the power of his bully pulpit. If he goes on air and tells the country he tried to work with the Republicans but they refused to do the things he deems necessary to kick start this economy, it will resonate and they will pay another huge price. So, keep at it boys and girls. Obstruct away.
Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered their Democratic counterparts by a ratio of 2 to 1. The analysis tallied interview segments about the stimulus on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during a three-day period, finding that the networks had hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 26 times.
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In a new analysis, ThinkProgress has found that Republican lawmakers outnumbered Democratic lawmakers 75 to 41 on cable news interviews by members of Congress (from 6am on Monday 2/2 through 11pm on Thursday 2/5.
This imbalance of coverage created the need for President Obama to take to the airwaves and and tell the American people what he wants to do for them. And that happened last night.
I don't think Republicans will want to look at many polls coming out this week, but I guess they will adopt the Bush administration attitude that "they don't govern by the polls" ... until they need to.
Graham: What we've lost is a young president's promise to change things. Please don't say this is change I can believe in.
Since you didn't support or vote for him, the fact that you don't think he's doing the right thing is a good sign.
Why doesn't he just move to Iraq and live in one of those mud huts and line it with those area rugs he got for $5.00 each. What a croc of green monkey poop...
(just a tad bit PO'ed
This from a clown that backed a trillion dollar mirage in the sands of the middle east and all he can show for it is a couple of $5 carpets?
A leader he's not other than getting great deals on a carpet.
Time to get a national "unseating campaign" against all of these conjobs/whackjobs. Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Vitter, et al.
why does south carolina keep giving this turd burglar a seat at the table?!
a turd burglar is someone so addicted to thievery, he will break into your home and steal the $#!+ out of your cat box.
just to steal something, anything.
Sounds like something my 88 year old granny would say.
My mom went to school with this idiot.
The voters of South Carolina need to do what they should have done a long time ago and that is give this fruitcake fairy her walking papers!
LOL!!
Mealymouthed fuckhead.
Whatsamatter, Lindsey, looks like John McCain gave you all those blowjobs for your support and your hero flamed out and lost. And now all you're left with is just your own bitchy whining.
Loser.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
he's right on one thing, "no stimulus package will jump start the economy."
there has been a GIGANTIC shift of the US GDP off shore and no amount of federal "stimulus" is bring that back. There is no motivation for industry to foster production in the states until the economy and wages are FAR more depressed.
Until then the Fed will borrow and the states will go further into to debt in an attempt to soften the blow that is the collapse.
the real unemployment rate is now somewhere around 18%.
its way worse than you think.
by creating new jobs here, that can't be done oversees, it could work.
have thought that it was higher than 2-to-1, it seems like every time I turned on the TV during that there was always some conservative on their railing against the stimulus. They need to call this thing the "Help America Act" or something so that these guys look like even bigger bastards for being against it.
The Public, even in conservative states, understand pretty well who is obstructing and refusing to be bipartisan. Gra ham is really stupid. They all are. Gingrich's IQ may be in the double-digits, which makes him king of the blind, but he's an idiot too.
Limpdick Lindsey needs to get his female hormones balanced. They're megadosing him and he's perpetually "on the rag".
He's become a national embarrassment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCBT_VHnUk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
By at least trying to work with these black hearted fuckers, clearly "dope sick" because of their loss of power, Obama now has the high ground. Coupled with the fact that America told the old angry white man's party to fuck off last November, it's time for Obama to tell the GOP to kiss his black ass!
Since these Rep-scum are human fecal material, it would be a case of either cannibalism or self-ingestion.
And John McCain's become the national a$$clown! McCain's nothing but a sore loser and a addled-brain sycophant of the reich. He's also become a national embarrassment and laughingstock. McSleazy, McImpotent McCain.
The GOP is going to get slaughtered in 2010. They think they're being smart by obstructing the Obama plan and trying to characterize it as "pork laden" but the people understand that what this economy needs is spending, not more tax cuts for the top 5%.
Opponents are licking their chops as we type. These a$$clowns have just slit their own throats. If they think that their rabid reich base will put them into office, they're seriously deluded. Just because some of their states narrowly went Rep doesn't mean that the Dems will not come out in numbers to vote against them.
With 44 states (recent polling) having a clear Dem majority, anyone who is a republican sleazebag needs to begin looking for another job by 2010.
Who died and made Lindsey the republican sheriff? So he is saying if he doesn't get his way this time, he will cause all of President Obama's future bills to fail, no matter how good they might be for the American people? The country has had enough of that sort of BS and he had better watch his political back. Americans are at the point where they don't give a damn about party, they are about recovery.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The Obama people, the Democrats, the blogs need to do what has been happening in the past few days. Point out that the Republican tanning bed freaks are obstructing what needs to be done. These tanned assholes got us into this mess and their plan for getting us out is the same as what got us into the mess. Others of their ilk just say everything is alright and will be fine.
It blows my mind that the ones with the high paying jobs are the ones who say there is nothing wrong. Hannity was on last night pushing this crap. I heard O'Shithead with Bernie Goldberg(?) saying the same crap. No, no, no. O'Shithead was bitching about Obama answering questions. It was funny. He was actually complaining about Obama answering the questions he was asked.
Hell, the other night Chris Matthews asked why President Obama could not give a speech without a teleprompter. I mean jesus christ, after eight years of having a fu*king president who couldn't even read a teleprompter, give me a break.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Matthews is freaking crazy.
Now check him out :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/matt...
Obama just needs to ask the people in the states who are really losing a lot of jobs - hell, everywhere - what the Republicans are doing to save their jobs. Tax breaks. That's all they got. Tax breaks. Well assholes, that is only one part of the solution. People who are laid off do not pay taxes. They won't give a damn about tax breaks.
So, we have approx. 39 (vs. 59) Republican scumbags still hanging on the teat of the american public's payroll?
Soon these sleazy skags will be voted out of office. It can't come a moment too soon.
McCain's deluding himself since his major competitor for re-election was tapped by Obama - but I hear there's someone just as popular planning to give McCain a run for his money ...oops...."run for Cindy's money" that is.
This is primo and was on the news yesterday. And, why not? If a known womanizer and whoremonger still holds his seat in the sleazy GOP side of congress, then why shouldn't any porn star believe that they have what it takes? I hope this moves forward. Vitter is a disgraced and disgraceful pol who should have had the decency to step down voluntarily; instead, he's constantly reminding americans about just how disreputable and disgusting he is by showing off his ugly mug.
before the press. Porn star....politician, why not? I just wish she knew what she was doing instead of participating in some 'painted pony' show (like Palin).
I keep wondering how long it will be before Lieberman jumps ship and goes to the republican side on this bill. Right now he supports Obama's version but with Lieberman, you never know. Two of the three stooges (Lindsey and McCain) are sticking together and I must wonder when the third one will join them.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Lieberman is the "Shemp" of the group!
Ugh! That's an insult to Shemp! I'd go with Joe Besser - a pale imitation of the real thing and completely unfunny.
I expect that Holy Joe knows precisely where his bread is buttered. He very narrowly won his reelection and sees the handwriting on the wall. His constituency is totally appalled by his a$$-sucking of McCain during the campaign and ready to pitch him out of office.
Regardless of what LiverLips Lieberman does right now, he's gone during the next election.
Lieberman's time is definite.
What we are seeing plain and simple is an ideology that has fractured and lost it's power. Natural selection if you will.
However, this ideology is not going to go quietly and they are doing the only thing that a dying animal can do: lash out at anything that dares threaten it while it is in this vulnerable condtion.
The one difference of course is that this is the human animal, it has a consciousness, it is irrational and possesses certitude about unknowns. The GOP will not go quietly.
Get the sheer genius of Obama's approach: He makes them show their a$$es to the american people and comes out smelling like a rose.
Even in last night's presser, he continued to repeat the bipartisan mantra and the fact that he will continue to solicit Rep. support. As he extends his arm, they slap it and look like schoolyard bullies. It's masterful. Obama knows precisely what they all are - a gang of thugs and he's providing the arena for them to show themselves to all of us.
Certainly, the people here who are involved in the daily political dramas know this about the Republicans but by doing it on national television, Obama has now reached middle america and landed his shots across the bow of every american's living room last night. Masterful! Truly masterful!
Obama looks presidential, polished, articulate, and calm while highlighting the ridiculous, petty, juvenile antics of the GOP. Only someone as gifted as Obama could pull this off.
In one fell swoop, he's just made it nearly impossible for any Republican to become re-elected in 2010. Hoorah! Hoorah!
I agree and said almost the same thing yesterday. He let them show how childish they are and then stepped up and showed the country who the adult is that is running the show. I don't think they forced him to make that speech, I think he wanted to make the speech. Remember when race came up during the campaign? He took it upon himself to write and give a speech regarding race. His timing is perfect when shit hits the fan. He didn't halt his campaign when the economic crisis hit, he walked and chewed gum at the same time. He knows exactly what he is doing and that's how he became president.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
If the President was pleasing this asswipe, I would be asking for my vote back. The President was elected because we are sick and tired of the politics the goppers are whining about.
I don't know about you all, but I think we found the real people that hate America.
I'm surprised more people aren't realizing this. These guys do hate America. The America of regular working people who weren't born rich. They hate the America that has has non-christian non-white people.
I say "Love it or leave it". "If you are not with us, you are against us". "Don't question the commander in chief in a time of war" (remember that one???)
etc..
they are chest puffing, like they did for terry schaivo, social security, and the border issue.
it means s. h. i. t.
nothing to look at here, move along.
While busy puffing their chests, they've just been screwed to the wall. Sadly, it will take them days to realize what's just transpired.
Psychology 101 - and every Gop sleazebag has just fallen into the obvious trap.
fox is their b.s. and propaganda broadcast station.
I'd say that most of us out here in what they figure is their devoted audience understands that.
I never watch the crap myself.
Hopefully, since you can't not include their stinking channel in your local cable package, people will soon only tune in when there is a significant sporting event that only they carry.
You can block Fox Noise! Google "Fox Blocker" and buy one today to make a statement and to rid your home of their sulphuric aroma.
Obama has just placed every Republican into the corner and into his own trap....and has done so with a master's stroke.
If the economic stimulus (the GOP edited version) now fails, people will blame the Republicans. If it works (what's left of it), Obama will be raised to king status and STILL the GOP loses because people will remember their obstructionism and recognize that if it does work, it could have worked even better had the Republicans cooperated.
Republicans are hoist on their own pitard any way you view it.
Here's the link to filter out Fox News. It's taking the country by storm.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment...
Is lindseed calling out President Obama for a thithy slap-fight?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Simply too funny!! ;)
After 8 years of rubber stamp and turning a blind eye to Bush's fiscal stupidity they now suddenly got responsible? They deserve pitch forks and torches for that. None of the neo-cons could explain where the money was going to come from to pay for the wars, avoided that point it like the plague they did.
But now the Democrats are either forgetting their talking points to the Republicans or becoming hypocritical too.
Anyone remember Rep. Pete Stark's sturring speach to the Republicans?
"Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xa5A5yW21I
What happened to that question on this stimulus which costs even more?
I've asked this question here on the stimulus probably a thousand times now and no one answers, because the truth is terrible. We're going to borrow moeny we don't have.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
It is a bit intellectually disingenuous trying to compare the value proposition of borrowing money to bomb the shit out of an innocent country vs. borrowing money to build infrastructure.
At least with infrastructure there is a return in the investment, plus with a decent taxing structure, a significant chunk of the stimulus plan could be covered off the bat.
I agree Tyler.
I also want to make a point that needs be kept made every time someone objects to the stimulus: Where the fuck was their objection to the (might I add FAILED) Trillion dollar tax cuts that had NO method of paying for itself?
And what I meant by failed is these Tax cuts were supposed to solve an economic issue. Can anyone tell me what it didn't do?
but no one was listening then either. Damned if you Damned if you do. I was bitching about this since 2006, no one here had a problem with it then because I was bitching about Bush.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
I'm not comparing reasons, the point is this.
We didn't have the money then, we still don't have the money today.
I don't know how so many can miss the obviousness of this, you don't fix a debt problem with more debt. You don't need to be an economist to understand. Everyone keeps pointing back to FDR's infrastructure building as the road to recovery and almost everyone here doesn't stop to think.
When FDR put people to work the US held the debt of nations, we had gold in the vault, we had assets to fall back on. That's gone now, today we are a debt ridden nation. This stimulus is suicide and now the Dem's have forgotten their own points they rattled the Republicans with, please take off the partisan blinders before it's too late.
Just ask yourself, if you are broke, your credit cards are maxed out and you can barely make the payments. What do you do? Do you tighten the belt, cut the cards up and pay down the mess OR do you go get more cards and max them out?
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
His point is overshadowed by the needs of this country. As with FDR's aggressive legislation, BHO's is an aggressive democratic attempt needed to make a real difference in this failed economy that fell once again under republican leadership.
LimpBalls
Millions have already lost their jobs, income and homes. Should we just tell them to suck it up? Let the US children starve and the buildings crumble? Money is basically a figment of our collective imagination - numbers on paper or a computer screen. We could pass a law tomorrow and declare spit to be the legal tender for all business transactions.
Possibly, you didn't know that every dollar that is spent in the US is Borrowed at Interest from the Federal Reserve.
And, you should get some help for your rage.....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I have posted this a number of times
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread...
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
One does anything necessary to save the people of a country from the pestilence that the movers and shakers have placed on their backs. Once the big wheels have stolen the money and world trust through deception and 'constructive' financial manipulation there is the job of re-instilling confidence. If it costs 5 trillion dollars that we don't have, blame those that waged war, dirivatived their way to wealth, and those that have increased the debt of America over the last 25 years. 99% of those politicians spent more than they (we) had. NASA squandered billions on intersteller exploration. NOW, you don't want to help the people that make less than $100,000 a year because we're in a hole? Too bad......suffer the inlation, the failure of the dollar...whatever...until the deleveraging has settled down to after the depression and THEN you can become fiscally responsible again. Meanwhile, we need shelter, medical care, eat, work and to educate our children.
Take action now now now!! But what action? Are you sure we aren't throwing fuel on the fire? FDR did and it took 7 years longer to come out of the depression.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
So, just like in 1933, we borrow it. But unlike tax cuts for the rich or trillions for war profiteers - we'll get a return on our investment and grow the middle class.
Read up on the New Deal. It was borrowed money too, and it worked.
Everyone keeps referencing FDR's infrastructure building, people forget we held the debt of nations then, we had gold in the vault, we had assets to fall back on. That's gone now, today we are a debt ridden nation owing everyone.
That is a big difference
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
It may have been a 2:1 ratio REP to DEM, but if it was a DEM talking, chances are good he was a blue talking shit. The ratio should reflect pro vs. con instead. That number would be around 10:1 against.
Graham has no credibility. The only purpose he serves is to tote the party line, no matter the cost. President Obama put it very well when he said, "what I won't do is return to the failed policies of the last eight years". Policies which were rubber stamped time and time again by him and his sugar daddies McCain and Lieberman. They have had their chance. President Obama even gave them another chance by looking for any suggestions from the other side of the aisle, well they don't seem have any good answers either. Dick and George's out of control spending and borrowing was OK, it's a different story when it's the other party that's doing the spending and borrowing. Obama has admitted this Bill isn't perfect and just one Bill isn't going to be the magic bullet. It's obstructionism pure and simple. In the mean time while the Republicans kick and scream like the spoiled children they have become, our country continues to hemorrhage jobs and it's infrastructure crumbles. Something has to be done. I say screw them and leave them eating his dust. It isn't real money anyway.
So Graham get out of the road. The are adults are driving the train now. You're liable to get your worthless ass run over.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
It's laughable watching Howdy Doody crying on Faux Noise with absolutely no credibility, just more Reslug bullshit, lies and obstructionism.
Well, hit me with a flower!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIdc0NGumVc
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Don't you just love Lindsay Graham's fits of theatrical outrage? They are entertainingly revealing to say the least. I wonder if he can sing and dance as well... Lindsay was right there by McCain's side, like a loyal lap dog, while McCain was licking his wounds and making nice to Obama. Now that the Mavericky Maverick, McCain, is working his way back into the good graces of the GOP, support "responsible fiscal conservative" GOP tax cuts and obstructionism, Lindsay is having tizzy fits over the spending in the stimulus package. They are working the same old ploy of accusing the Dems of the very partisanship that the GOP is so good at! The bill will pass. They are wasting their time, betting on Obama's failure to help them win back seats in 2010. It is fun to watch these guys make such fools of themselves. How pathetic!
The people in general need to be shown that Obama is doing what he is doing because he is trying to fix this nightmare whereas the obstructionists are doing what they are doing just to be obstructionists. Just to be the opposite. They have no plan. Obama said it well when he said the they were complaining about greening government buildings and fixing/building schools. Obama explained it very well. You heard it. Say that about ten times on Wolfie, Anderson, Tweety, Olbermann, Rachel, Shuster and anywhere they can. Just point out that this is what the obstructionists are drawing the line. On school building and keeping firefighters employed.
Actually I love seeing the GOP continue to isolate themselves from logical mainstream America. Soon, all that will be left of the republican party are members from the far-right fringe: Ditto-Heads, KKK apologists, and Christian conservative cult-like fundamentalists.
I predict the GOP will become a mere choice out of three minority parties for so-called conservatives amongst self-proclaimed libertarians and constitutionalists. The Democratic Party will indeed become the dominate party for decades to come, especially after the success of the (new) New Deal under BHO.
Reagan ideologues like Graham and are finally falling from the graces of Logical America.
LimpBalls
Graham gets too much media and Senate time to talk.
2/5 of the U.S. Senate is Republican. Yet in every debate, equal time is given to both side of the aisle? Why?
A 5 hour debate should allow Republicans 2 hours of time and Democrats 3 hours.
If we had a 3rd party that made up 5% of the Senate, should they be allowed 33% of the debate time or 5%?
Oh Lindsey, be a good boy now -- sit down and STFU. Your buddy, McNasty, LOST the election.
That's the problem with GOP. They think, despite the fact that they did LOSE, that they still have a certain point of relevancy.
I really hope Americans are smart and see these punks for who they are.
if anyone would know anything about an Orgy, it would be Miss Lindsay.
If he's so concerned about the misspending of the taxpayer's money on silly things like infrastructure, education and health care, I wonder why he's not been railing against the continual dumping of a $trillion$ of our hard-earned cash into the pit that is Iraq!!??
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
"As President-elect Bush has made very clear, he ran on a particular platform that was very carefully developed. It's his program, it's his agenda, and we have no intention at all of backing off of it. It's why we got elected.
So we're going to aggressively pursue [our agenda] because it's important to do so. [...] The suggestion that somehow, because this was a close election, we should fundamentally change our beliefs, I just think is silly."
babessociopaths! Who'd have thunk it?Thanks for that.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
My mouth dropped open this morning when I heard Kyran Chetry (blrgh!) announce that CNN was going to "Fact Check the President".
How many times in the last 8 years have we heard those words? Maybe I missed it, but I'm thinking it was a big goose egg.. someone correct me if I'm wrong..
To top it off, they also depended solely (I think) on Ed Rollins (R) for comment on the President's address.
Again, I could've missed the balanced parts of this since I was getting ready for work (and thank Dog I have work to get ready for -- for now!)
David
Let them Dave. If they want to be hypocrites, they are well in their rights to do it.
Besides, unlike the last President, Barack actually acknowledges when he makes a mistake. You wouldn't find that with Bush.
You say "tomahto", I say "tomayto", you say "not acknowledging mistakes", I say "adhering to conservative principles".
Tomahto, tomayto, not acknowledging mistakes, adhering to conservative principles, let's call the whole thing etc.
Lincoln was right when he said about South Carolina: "It's too small to be a nation, and too large to be an insane asylum."
Attorney General James L. Petigru, who was South Carolina AG prior to the Civil War and was in favor of keeping the Union together.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
That's great. I hadn't heard that before.
the dems need a better marketing slogan to call out repubic tactics...
Block and Blame republicans. sort of rolls off the tongue easier than tax and spend liberals and has the added advantage of being true. Block and Blame, this has been the repubes plan since 06, time for a repeated calling out so the public will see them for what they are.
Limpseed Graham is one ofthe biggest offenders.
As much as he dislikes Obama( my wifes sister secretly likes Obama) They both have lost confidence in the GOPers party.
He's a neocon. She doesn't argue with him about it. She's a moderate (R) He gets all his info from drudge. That should tell ya somethin right there. But my point is, They've both lost confidence in the gop.
So Lyndsey Graham can feck off. Short memories. They need to be reminded.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Count yourself lucky anyone even pays attention to you, you insipid, pathetic, yapping little runt.
screw the Rebulicans. We don't need em and only a small portion of America wants em. Ignore them and move on.
"Graham: It started with the attitude, we won, we write the bill."
No sh!t, Sherlock. That's the way it works. You had zero interest in bipartisanship when you controlled the White House and both houses of congress. Now you reject every overture from Obama and claim he's failed to fulfill his promise because he can't get you to stop acting like a whiney little baby. Fvck you Senator.
Last November the voters sent your dysfunctional party a clear message that they have had quite enough of you Neocon morons and your voodoo philosophy. Obviously, you don't get it and don't want to get it, instead preferring to bleat on about how things are so unfair that you asinine clods are no longer particularly powerful or important.
Get your head out of your ass and get with the program, Lindsey. The VOTERS are the deciders, not you. And you better hurry up or you will get another ass kicking in 2010 that will assure a veto proof majority that will steamroll your party into oblivion.
But I'm sure you won't do anything because in your supreme arrogance, you and your party have decided that you are the last word on the subject, you are never wrong, and public sentiment be damned.
Have fun on your journey to the junkpile of history--a distinction you richly deserve.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Since When do 'News' Commentators completely side with the guest speaker? 'How did this happen?' the Weather Girl said basically, I was going to write 'Only on Fox', but that is probably not true.
And who the F*ck got us into the 'Banking and Housing Crisis'? both were caused by Republicans deregulating the systems put in place since the Great Depression!
Nasty Little B*tch.
Clinton helped by signing the repeal of Glass-Steagal Act but the real action happened with the Bush-Cheney's 'Gambling party'-de-regulators! and it still hasn't been fixed! Expect an 8 year depression!
I was depressed the last eight years.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Commodities deregulation in the 2000 omnibus spending bill was as big a problem as the Glass Steagal Act. The bigger banks already had work-arounds to Glass Steagal.
But your point still holds - the problem has not been fixed.
A capitalist market needs regulation.
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was going to suck whos dick first. I think lindsey would like to go first. this dick sucker is all about the money and jobs and tax cuts for the rich. what a fucktard.
maybe if Lindsay came out of the closet...he wouldn't be so tense and mean spirited.
You have to love yourself, Lindsay. Embrace who you are...don't be afraid.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
before that happens. Could be worth watching.
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I love it when he stomps his feet and holds his breath! She I mean he is so cute when he does that.
It continues to amaze how tone deaf some politicians are...Even though evidence appears every hour...Graham and by association McSame and Lierberwocky, appears to have lost his mind..It will be interesting to actually watch Graham's head explode due to exposure to a second fact on any subject...
Another hack that really keeps exposing himself, is the self-inserted 'grandfather of the news' Tom Brokaw. He made a snippet appearance on NBC news on the Today show this morning (with Ann Curry - another news reader that has less brains than a common kitchen appliance) whining about how McSame (Graham) was all upset by the 'lack of bi-partisan effort on Obama's part' regarding the stimulus package. He went on to site Rove's (yes, turdblossom) weekly column in the Murdoch-Rag Wall Street Journal warning Republicans that they may be on the wrong side of this issue a year down the line...
How did Brokaw get on NBC with this kind of attitude?? He belongs in a line-up with the rest of his asshat buds a Fox !!
Hopefully, people with IQ's higher than a pecan can figure out that the NeoCons have been strategically placed everywhere (look at the 'last day' appointments by chimpy reported today) and that they are there to spew their hate/propaganda at any turn and will use any tactic to make lies - truth!!
Brokaw should be denounced as the hack he is..AND if he keeps it up, maybe get a seat on the one-way plane waiting for these jerks to the Hague !!
Then they'll stop calling him "not bipartisan." Is that about it?
Hmm, let me think about that.
How about fuck you, Lindsay Graham?
Obama's got them snookered.
Rope-a-Dope, baby. Kid's old school.
If Huckleberry Graham cannot bring himself to work with our new President because of his management style, then Lindsey Graham should go ahead and resign, and let someone take the seat who can do the job.
Because that is when we will see that. And NO I don't mean Hell, Alaska!
Myself and some of the others reading here belong to the half of the population that some of you seem to feel is the default insult for the other half.
We think you are every bit as much of an asshat as Graham is.
huh?
look at that pic of Lindsay...I think he would so much more effective if he was wearing a pointy hat, a clown nose and makeup and carrying a teeny tiny umbrella.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Lindsey Graham: "The public doesn't support this bill because I said so."
Maybe he means the 16% of the public that thinks the stimulus bill is not important.
that would be one thing
yes, health care stuff may not belong in this bill....but hes wrong, they do create jobs, and lower costs
all prevention programs are better for the economy
what a dick
South Carolina, your ass is showing!
As a resident of South Carolina, I am ashamed to tell you that a big chunk of the population here just wants to obstruct against the brown person in the white house. My fellow South Carolinians know exactly what they are doing... electing douche bag moron senators who are just as deluded as they are.
There are too many angry white people around here to make any progress. The sad thing is, these yokels are still standing around in the WalMart parking lot wondering what happened to all the textile jobs. they are too busy hating brown people to realize that the crackers politicians whom they so blindly support are the same ones who sold their jobs across the ocean.
Graham is safe for now... at least until he comes out of the closet.
Just wrote to Coburn while he was on Washington Journal this morning. As you know from experience, you cannot get through to these people, even your own Senators/Congressmen sometimes, and get - if at all -crappy, 'non' answers...
they make me sick.
I am so damn tired of these assholes acting like they 'know' us...and think they 'know' what we need. For cryin' out loud, they have NO CLUE as to what it is like out here...Nada, zilch, ....
Not to mention those bank executives. Piss on them..sorry, folks, I'm tired of being nice - good for those protesters...however, I don't want their houses, cars, or even clothes.
I just want to be able to keep what we DO have at the moment. aaarrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Typical Republicanism 'opposite from reality' strategy - Obama bends over backwards to include the republicans, and they cry about not being included. The only 'inclusion' they would consider is 100% abdication to their failed policies. And the media is buying it! in the press conference there were questions about 'not including the repubs enough' - it just shows all the media cares about is drama. I hope Obama is learning a valuable lesson for the rest of his presidency.
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Lindsey Graham is a cracker, a poor man's Howdy Doody, nothing but a puppet of corporate interests.
This soft prick is the biggest wussy I can think of in Congress. All he does is whine and moan. Tough game when you don't monopolize Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, eh lindsay?? What an ass hole.
Do these repugs do anything but cry like a baby and yell "foul" when President Obama doesn't cave to their "bipartisan dream"? It means "working with the opposing party", NOT rolling over and dropping your shorts for them.
Idiot....representative of IDIOTS!!
The Repugs have shown their hand... attack attack attack, the same way they went after Clinton. Now's the time for Obama to tell them to fuck off.
Any more attempts for bi-partisian cooperation is a total waste. It's too bad the Democrats don't have any balls, they will roll over and be on the defense if they don't take control.
I think that Obama knew very well what the Republicans would do when they lost.
He knew they would be even more insufferable than when they win. He is very smart and he knows/hears/sees what we do and he is not naive. I believe him when he says that getting bipartisan support is going to take time and I think he is thinking about Republican voters more than Republican congresscritters at this point.
He gave them his hand and offered them as much rope as they needed to hang themselves which they did with the help of the media. Now he is on his bully pulpit and he will pulverize them slowly but surely. Just as he rolled over the other 10 Dems. who were running for the nomination last year; he picked them off one by one until there was only Hillary left standing and we all know how that worked out.
The real decision makers on the Hill are not Rush or Hanitty who don't have to vote on the bill and then go home and face their constituents. Look where he is and with whom he is speaking - people who voted against him but who are turning out to hear him now. Even though he won Florida and Indiana he is not here in West Palm Beach with his base. He is in Ft. Myers, Republican territory, with Charlie Christ for Christ sake. (little pun - sorry).
Yeah so the guy who on several occasions went to the hill to include republicans in the stimulus process, had republicans over for cocktails, had republicans to the white house for official stimulus business, put 3 republicans in his cabinet, and included failed republicans ideas into the stimulus bill just to get it passed is the one not being bipartisan. Lindsey Graham is a reprehensible ingrate and a desperate drama queen
For all those who recognize Senator Lindsey Grahmam as the idiot he is, let me just say that you should get to know his counterpart Senator Jim DeMint. For that matter, try listening to Governor Mark Sanford blow on about not wanting any money from the stimulus package . Please feel free to assume these wing nuts represent the views of the voting majority of South Carolina.
Enjoy, Bud
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