Boxer to Graham: There's No Business Like Show Business
By Susie Madrak Friday Feb 06, 2009 8:30am
(Broken links have been fixed)
Nobody does wounded indignation quite like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and this was quite entertaining. I saw it on Hardball right after Lindsey was all red and sputtering, saying Republicans had been "shut out of the process." (Didn't Obama offer you any cookies, Lindsey?)
Imagine. After six years of Democrats being shut out of conference committee meetings, Lindsey has the audacity to clasp his bosom and clutch his pearls. (Here's the smelling salts, Lindsey!)
On Hardball, he was also crying to Tweety that the American people were opposed to this bill - as if, you know, the right-wing talk radio demigods didn't whip people up into a frenzy for that specific purpose.
So I really enjoyed watching Barbara Boxer call him "theatrical" and remind him of how few objections he had when George Bush sent enormous bills to the Senate, calling for a same-day vote.
"I will put my ability to speak my mind to my party up against anybody," Lindsey retorted, "including you, Senator. I have been up on this floor many times about policies I disagreed with."
Well, here's the thing. Much like my own Senator, Arlen Specter (R-Self Interest), Graham is most famous for his posturing on the floor, his principled indignation in front of the TV cameras - and his very reliable vote for the very legislation that seemingly so troubled him.
Painting himself as a "moderate, reasonable" Republican is his schtick!
So yes, Barbara Boxer is right when she calls his tactics "theatrical." That's the Republican game. It's never because they're obstructionists, it's that the Democratic bills are always without merit. They're not opportunists, it just so happens that they'd love to work on legislation with the Democrats - as long as they don't include anything that isn't a tax cut.
No cojones, that Repug bunch. They're so afraid of the Club for Growth coming after them, they all practically wet themselves at the very thought of supporting anything a Democrat proposes.
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Please God, don't let Lindsey Graham publically pay with his schtick
and Broadway show tunes. Does Miss South Carolina know?
You can't hide your spending record like your sexual perference Lindsay.
please close that closet door!
something was amiss. They (ages 8 and 9) were helping me with some laundry while I was watching "Countdown" and saw Graham carrying on, and my youngest asked:
"Is that guy a girl?"
The oldest piped up: "I thought the same thing, but I didn't want to say anything."
was one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment when he was in the House.
Projection.
bent poor Lindsay's itty bitty wrist...
Her wrist was limp way before she got to the senate.
is one of McCain's Senate BFF. Funny, but I remember McCain pontificating some years back about how fine-tuned his "gaydar" was-he could spot a gay person right away. He might want to have a technician check out the receiver because it has probably been damaged by such strong signals at such close range to Lindsey.
Fabulous!
Just another perfect self hater in the GOP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrb99yKjCiw
will always be more of a woman than you...
I'm guessing Fred Phelps doesn't contribute to your campaign, eh?
[Deleted. Try using your self editing skills, and don't besmirch drag queens by tying them to the likes of Lindsey Graham. That's just nasty and mean-Sitemonitor]
do they share a walk-in closet?
This is theater but it is not a soliloquy.
I would say in Texas that's illegal
But in this cell phone age, everyone is doing it.
Members, in Texas there's just three guarantees. You git born.
You go die. And in between you can have a gun if you want one.
and responds abundantly here.
God bless her. She sure knows how to give those republicans verbal razor blades. Go get him girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr71H1nb3Q
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[Thanks for saying. We're looking into it-Sitemonitor]
How's this?
Not my first choice, though same singer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b-iQwkM2AE
You got the right song baby but the wrong yo-yo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYcGExumKs&fe...
I saw that, but didn't want it.
It was Ethel Merman's signature song.
However the link between Nathan Lang and Lindsey Graham is noted.
compared to the gap in talent, intellect, and contributions to social well being.
Your link to Ethel revealed a clip of her singing out for Reagan.
"I will put my ability to speak my mind to my party up against anybody" lindsey graham
tee hee hee
nice.
great.
thanks.
yet.... its not so much your "ability" that people doubt, its that you never demonstrated that ability... giving george bush a long, slow handjob for 8 years only highlighted your stroke technique.
and i think you know that, hence your back-peddling comment
And stop being such a crybaby. Hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs and all you can do is piss and moan about being powerless. Get a clue, schmucko. The voters sent you insipid assclowns a message last November---that we've had enough of your form of "prosperity.'
Being in public service is not an entitlement despite what you arrogant Neocons think. Either get on the solution making train or get the hell out of public service. We don't have time for you obstructionist complainers.
Lindsey is all about the drama. I just loved the way Boxer handled him. I bet she got cheaper rugs in Iraq than he did and it just keeps his panties in an awful knot.
He was probably looking over his shoulder all night afraid that she would sneak up behind him and kick him in his whining ass.
Ms Boxer is a short lady, but she is heads and shoulders above the rest of the senate. She makes this Californico happy!
the bigger point is that the stimulus bill has sunk into a bubbling stew of politics, and the smell coming from the pot is not very good, despite what Chef Obama says.
1-99% pork, depending on who's constituents are getting the borrowed cash. Seems it has just been discovered in Canada that *gasp* most of the Harper gov't borrowed stimulus bucks are going to conservative ridings! Oh the shock and awe of it all!
Politics---the art of screwing a majority, for the benefit of the minority, while getting the majority to cheer loudly for you.
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Very well put. Your analogy made me laugh, maybe because I used to be a chef.
Too many cooks spoil the broth?
too many crooks?
... only in this economy, nobody can afford to put in anything other than the damn stone.
There's more whining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdyPi4uo1Q
I can sum up the gop argument for the next 8 years with one word.
No.
Reminds me of the Monty Python sketch ...
"This isn't an argument!"
"Yes, it is!"
"No it's not! An argument is a set of propositions set against one another and debated on their merits!"
"No it isn't ..."
for not breaking out in a Boner style crying fit.
Feinting couch is over ------>, Lindsey.
I gotta see this. Please fix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdyPi4uo1Q
You!
Lindsey Grahama is a Drama Queen.
... he might be another kind of Queen too.
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Lindsey "Scarlett" Graham: Why I declare these heathen Democrats are giving me the vapors!
"That boy is slower than molasses in January."
One of my favorite lines from any movie.
these damn GOP nancyboys make me fuckin SICK to my stomach...
Not because they may or may not be homosexuals...though I'm bettin they MAY well be...it's because they're so fuckin fake.
Makes me want to read them the riot act.
I like Babs. She has a knack of being feisty and annoying to grumpy old white men.
To the effect..."if this is bipartisanship, America has seen its better days."
I say to hell with trying to be bipartisan. Let's get the ship righted and back on course without them. Then those Gay Old Paranoids will be glad to reach across the aisle.
Check the link.
Alrighty then Lindsay, You need to sit down and STFU, dude.
Giving tax cuts to the rich raising all high holly prices, destroying the global economy, selling the USA to china. You are an Ass wipe sir, I say that with respect. You little right wing faithful SOB's now give a shit? Oh you make me so mad, Why hasn't Lindsay been replaced by a democrat yet?
Block them from even speaking, do the same to them, make them right wingers go to the basement, Eye for an Eye, Do on to the others as they did on to you!!! Stop playing games with these empty minded uneducated unqualified jerk off retards.
It would be nice to see the link if it gets fixed.
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This could also be "There's no business like Snow Business" -- as the re-Thugs are trying to pull a massive snow job on us.
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By the way, 'Show Business' is a terrific picture.
Check out Marilyn Monroe singing 'After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It'.
Here it is - Love this woman ~
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Great job calling out Lindsey Graham for the showman/showoff he is. As one of his constituents, I can tell you he has trouble at home and is running a little scared. It's true that SC is firmly a red state at the moment, but the Republican-by-default libertarian faction is not happy with Graham. Neither are the Repubs who think he caved on immigration and was too close to McCain to be a real conservative. Senator DeMint is far more popular where I live. And the demographics of SC are a-changin'.
Whatevah! I love Barbara Boxer!
Why, Mizz Lindsey "Lohan" Graham is so ovahwhelmed by the absense of $750B in Rethug tax cuts that she thinks she's gittin' a case of the vapahs! Where is that red crushed velour fainting couch?! My, that just ain't fittin' for a fine Southern belle to do in the middle of the Senate chamber! Now take your laudenum, Mizz Lindsey, and sit yourself down for a spell.
Hey, I live in Paris, TN. and have been openly gay for the last 34 years. I'll make as much fun as I want of that mother-fucking queen. He's not only an embarassment to gay people, Americans, and small animals, but an embarassment to the human race.
you know, back to san fransisco. he is just pissed that DIFI gets to represent his ancestral homeland instead of him.
as usual, how bitchy.
That's Barbara Boxer not DiFi.
Boxer's right. I don't recall Lindsgay waving around a bill with a half-billion in American taxpayer money going to Iraq. These so called "fiscal conservatives" only become fiscally conservative when our tax dollars are going to help us out of all the damage the Rethuglicans have done to this country. When it's giving away our tax dollars to the super rich, defense contractors, big business and big oil at the expense of the nation where are they then?
I loathe these f*ckers. I really do.
...and clutch his pearls. (Here's the smelling salts, Lindsey!)"
FROM JEFF HUBER: “…a three-ring shopping spree [in Baghdad] for John McCain and his gal pal Lindsey Graham…”
F Lee Bailey during the first OJ trial. Same grandstanding.
Graham claimed that Reagan worked with Tip O'Neil and Congress to get things done, and criticized Obama for not doing the same. Baloney. Reagan did not work with Congress. He went straight to the American people, and had them call their Senators and Representatives. Graham is full of it.
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