Lindsey Graham on NY-23 fallout: Leave the RINOs alone!
posted at 9:00 pm on November 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
How RINO is too RINO for Graham? It’s unclear. Even he’s sour on Scozzafava, but apparently only because she was too far left for the “mainstream” in NY-23, not because she was too far left, period. Like Ace, I’m happy to help build a bridge between centrists and conservatives, but a bridge has to end somewhere. Where does this one end? Or should we simply ask all Democrats to declare themselves Republicans and have a one-party system that encompasses everyone from DeMint to Pelosi according to whatever’s “mainstream” in their district?
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”
Graham, who has sparred with his party’s right wing on issues ranging from climate change to Guantanamo Bay to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warned that those concerned about the state of the GOP should help find candidates who are electable — not ones who adhere to a particular type of ideology. And he said that both the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava and the conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman were both out of the mainstream of the upstate New York district – which lead to the victory of Democrat Bill Owens Tuesday night.
“If your goal is to make everybody just like you in terms of ideology, that’s a self-centered approach to politics,” Graham said.
If you believe your ideology is the best course for America, why wouldn’t you want everyone to be just like you? Does this guy think Obama sits around the White House at night, musing, “Gee, it’d be terrible if everybody thought just like I did”? Compromise when you must but win when you can. Sometimes I think Graham has it the other way around.
Follow the link for more, including kind words about Carly Fiorina. DeMint’s backing Chuck DeVore out there, which means we’re possibly staring at another Crist/Rubio-type nuclear war in the making. Meanwhile, via Think Progress, here’s Graham touting his deal with the left on cap and trade. The takeaway: “The green economy is coming. We can either follow or lead.”
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When you assume, you make an ass out of u but not me.
You don’t know anything about my education so STFU!
Norman Blizter on November 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM
If the Dems force the issue and take away free speech, talk radio, attempt the civilian defense force and start taking guns and closing down the internet,
“there will be blood.”
And yes, I’m fantasizing about that sexy AK-101 I held in my hands last week.
OK, back to reality and what looks like another Yankees win in the Series. I have to get out of this state VERY early in the morning.
Sapwolf on November 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Your input is noted RINO. You’re on list. Let the purge continue!
jwp1964 on November 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Stalin would be proud of you!
Norman Blizter on November 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM
au contraire, it has succeeded mightily at doing what it is designed to do.
neuquenguy on November 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM
In my 53 years the only Lindsey’s I’ve known wear skirts……
dmann on November 4, 2009 at 9:40 PM
If I remember correctly, Graham had held a townhall meeting about a month ago at which, according to one caller into Glenn Beck, Graham had been confronted by angry constituents regarding his positions and RINOism, to which he responded that he had been re-elected for another six years and that there was nothing they, his constituents, could do about it.
When we march in the streets with our torches and pitchforks, we’ll have a list of RINOs to hunt, and sure as the sun shines, his name will be on it.
madmonkphotog on November 4, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I wonder if Lindsey has any appreciation whatsoever for the irony of him lecturing others on “self-centered politics”?
BD57 on November 4, 2009 at 9:42 PM
No Comrade, he would be proud of those like you who have wet dreams about him
bill30097 on November 4, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Term limits, folks, term limits.
Robert17 on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I don’t think that last word means what you think it means.
BadgerHawk on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I don’t think you know the meaning of the word ‘irony’.
Norman Blizter on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Actually, the goal is to make nobody like you.
rrpjr on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Hear! Hear!
This might explain why Graham is gnashing his teeth against our kind:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Kerry-and-Graham-whip-up-compromise-on-global-warming-8485606-69184852.html
TheAlamos on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I’m afraid you are right, which is why I said secession is coming if Grahams’s wet dream comes true. I’m not for it. And I’m certainly not for violence. But if the statists keep pushing, others who are much stronger than they are will push back. If the push back is unsuccessful, some red states will look for the door. There are limits to the tyranny freedom lovers can tolerate.
flyfisher on November 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
“If your goal is to make everybody just like you in terms of ideology, that’s a self-centered approach to politics,” Graham said.
Our goal a$$wipe is to not bankrupt the nation, knock ourselves back to the stone age and redistribute 230+yrs of political and economic gains in the name of phantasmal fiction to fatten the purses of Al Gore, Goldman Sachs & UN deadbeats!
Graham has just got to go, and the sooner the better!
Archimedes on November 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I take it Pee Wee Herman is your debate coach?
Norman Blizter on November 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Idiot. Go to CPUSA and DSA to know the difference.
TheAlamos on November 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Last time I looked, the first lemming over the cliff was the leader.
bartonbulletin on November 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Why would Stalin be proud of those who would purge him? Wouldn’t you want to purge the Stalins?
Buddahpundit on November 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM
This would be like mixing crude oil with pancake batter and trying to eat it! I’d rather eat a live porcupine.
Rovin on November 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Learn how to read you illiterate twit.
Norman Blizter on November 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Um, Lindsey, there was no reason to say this… you’re already on the list.
mankai on November 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Lindsay Gimpham. What the hell should we expect from a guy named Lindsay? Boy named Sue.
Griz on November 4, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Soon to be followed by the “Great Green Bubble Burst”
neuquenguy on November 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM
The Kneecap-N-Treadupon/”green (as in all the money that Al Gore and other thieves will make) economy” is a dead economy and the proper action is to fight it on the land, on the sea and in the air.
No real American wants a Lindsey Graham dead economy, and will never want a Lindsey Graham dead economy because the very thought of a Lindsey Graham dead economy is hateful to real Americans. In fact, the very thought of Lindsey Graham
herselfhimself is pretty God Damned hateful to real Americans.MB4 on November 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM
whatadork
bperiwinkle on November 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Sigh….
Funny part? I’m a Conservative, not a Republican… and I, like many many voters, see Grahams type of politics as a large part of the problem…
If you will not stand for your own groups philosophy, why claim to be part of that group? It aint like the GOP platform is a big secret…
Romeo13 on November 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM
CYA, negating the obvious with BS.
Talk about BS, if the green economy were coming it would be here already, if green businesses were so great they’d flourish on their own without stealing the public’s money and using it to force a lower quality of life on its victims.
Most of the country doesn’t have the sky high gang green liberal policies that Californians pay for every day and in every way. Yet.
Guess the rest of the poor schmucks in America might get to experience the real HopenChange of liberalism.
Standing in a soup line we can all think about how much better off the world will be without us.
Speakup on November 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Thanks South Carolina!
Theworldisnotenough on November 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Far better than cursing Shamnesty.
platypus on November 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Ironically, Graham is a follower. A follower of whatever pop culture trends blow through his office. He’s just like Scozzafava in that his party affiliation is something picked up for the sake of convenience, not conviction.
“Oh, the district usually votes Republican? Well heck, I guess I’ll run as a Republican then.” And, once elected, it’s just a matter of obeying the loudest pop culture voices and letting them set your agenda. To Graham, conservative principles are as irrelevant as 2005′s top television program.
Django on November 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I think we can be flexible and accommodating on social issues but must demand strict conservatism on fiscal issues. We simply cannot support politicians that help grow government and increase taxes.
As a conservative I just want government out of my life, out of my wallet, and to leave me the HELL alone so I can take care of myself with the money I earn.
DerKrieger on November 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM
What escapes me is how these “green” morons are are going to save mother gaia by asphixiating all plant life on earth.
Carbon is a building block of life, at 384 parts per million currently this is one of two of the most carbon deprived (Carboniferous & Quaternly)ages in the history of the planet.
What is heralded as the “Cambriam Explosion”, the greatest eruption of life ever, is pegged at having 6500 parts per million!
These freaking nihlists are bent upon actions entirely at odds with their misbegotten stated goals.
Archimedes on November 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Someone really needs to stand up on the National stage and say”
Seven Percent Solution on November 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
He’s really a woman, isn’t he?
ErinF on November 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Yeah, interesting how the Greenest State with the Greenest Economy, has to Raise Income Tax Witholding for all workers by 10%, creating a forced interest free loan, from its workers… and with no way to pay that money back when it comes due…
Romeo13 on November 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Thats Cambrian Explosion!
Archimedes on November 4, 2009 at 10:08 PM
He looks like he’s melting.
Diane on November 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Someone really needs to stand up on the National stage and say”
“Man Made Global Warming, Climate Change, Green Economy….???
…. YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!!”
Seven Percent Solution on November 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Someone is! His name is Senator Inhofe.
Archimedes on November 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM
I must admit I couldn’t make it past 20 seconds of this mindless drivel. I won’t waste another minute of my life listening to an abject idiot lecture those he deems beneath him.
It may take six years to get rid of this fool but Arizona you can do something about his mentor this next year. DUMP JOHN MCCAIN!
dhunter on November 4, 2009 at 10:10 PM
To me it seems RINO’s need us (conservatives) more than Conservaties need RINO’s. No wonder they are all a bit nervous today.
I have a fever and the only cure is more ‘CCCCUUUUDDDDAAA!
Rndguy on November 4, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Isn’t South Carolina where the good Senator is from? Jim DeMint I mean. Time to remove this malignant cancer known as Lindsey Graham and cast him into the outer darkness. So many traitorous RINOs to cull.
Jerricho68 on November 4, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Somebody needs to challenge Lindsey in a primary… They don’t have to win, just to make him cry during the debate…
phreshone on November 4, 2009 at 10:12 PM
At about 500 times the speed of light, that’s a pretty fast ship you got there.
MB4 on November 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Leave Lindsey alone; he was menstruating and acted stupidly.
I still say he is Pee Wee Herman’s dad.
Geochelone on November 4, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Lindsey you are out of touch and out of step! Although you have 5 more years before you can be challenged I hope you will drift off into the insignificance you deserve.
You have become useless fodder for the TV talking heads . Please go away, be quiet, theres a good chap!
Sandybourne on November 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM
AllahPundit: Like Ace, I’m happy to help build a bridge between centrists and conservatives, but a bridge has to end somewhere. Where does this one end?
You are asking a very important question that is very but difficult to answer. I like the marketplace of ideas. I want a diversity of choices. I don’t want a Soviet system, one size fits all, you can get any color as long as it’s gray.
We not only have differences between moderates and conservatives in our party, there are also differences between them and libertarian-conservatives, then lots of differences among conservative factions. Instead of the RNC or bloggers, I prefer having voters define in primaries who is and is not a good representative of our party.
Loxodonta on November 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM
The really scary thing is that many of these rat bastard political traitors are sincere. They honestly think that you can work with these people. They are morons because it is always one-sided whining.
Never does Graham or McCain or other RINO go out to Schumer or Boxer and tell THEM that in the spirit of bipartisanship they need to abandon their ideology and do what is best for the nation. Until this is a two-way debate people like Graham are nothing but worthless tools and there is some village in South Carolina that is deprived of its idiot.
highhopes on November 4, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I’d rather have a club than a party. Who needs all the thoughtless morons who crash a party and piss in the punch bowl?
Conservativism is a principled ideology, not a geographic one. The Constitution doesn’t change from one area to another, you git.
You’re out of the club, moron. The centrally managed “green economy” is a leftist delusion that will do nothing but make society sick. A vibrant and free economy will generate all of the needed tools. If you are for calling CO2 “pollution” then you should be barred from ever expelling any more of it.
This is the Lady Lindsay who is now so SHOCKED that The Precedent is screwing him over on Gitmo … Thanks to sticking the knife in America’s back, a$$wipe.
progressoverpeace on November 4, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Here’s what he really means: We are going to push this green economy sham down your throats whether you like it or not!
Oh yeah,,, we’ll create some jobs because we’re going to force some mandates down your sorry throats just like we did with ethanol! The rest of the country will pay a big price for the few sham jobs we create in RINO districts, so just shut up, yer all just a bunch a stupid tea baggers who don’t know nothin bout bipartisanship!
I am telling you,, McCain is going to run again, mark my words!
JellyToast on November 4, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Somebody please get rid of him!
ohiobabe on November 4, 2009 at 10:27 PM
With all due respect, the Senator from the great State of South Carolina, and my home state, needs to just pipe down. If only a good, viable Repub would challenge him. All I can say for him is he probably than having a total Reid lacky sitting in that chair.
I agree that the party can’t be simply a bunch of fierce right-wingers. A few RINOs have their place on the field, but only a very few. We already have Collins & Snowe from Maine. I think that’s an ample number. Maybe a reasonable Republican will knock off this RINO’s horn as a primary trophy next time.
PalmettoPatriot on November 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Gomer Graham reporting for duty Andy. Better move ny holster around before I shoot my testicles off. Oh, too late, I already did that.
gunter on November 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM
California liberals are in la la tax and enviro whackadoo land, just like NJ.
Californian’s have been screwed over for so long they’ve lost how much more they pay due to corruption, fees, taxes and oppressive regulation in every aspect of the lives.
The gerrymandering is very onerous, they probably think what happened on NJ can’t happen to them, Right?
Speakup on November 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I read somewhere the regular light bulb will be banned in 2012.
Jerricho68 on November 4, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Norman Blizter,
What world are you living in? If you can keep your bright ideas to yourself, you will be better off. Otherwise you are really standing out as a fool. I mean REALLY.
Get out of Barney’s basement and put that pipe away.
PS: If you want to comment on something be coherent.
antisocial on November 4, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Yeah, and it was done on the sly. I never heard a word about it until after the fact.
Stock up now. We have hundreds.
JellyToast on November 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Dhunter, all of us out here in AZ have been trying for years to get rid of him. He is bleeding support and that is why he has hit upon amnesty …. a new way to get voters. We refer to Gramnesty as McCain’s son.
Ghostbuster on November 4, 2009 at 10:37 PM
An idiot and no longer useful. The idea he replaced Strom Thrumond is beginning to look surreal.
Rocks on November 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM
The Green Economy is coming…What a fool. I’ve been hearing about windmills and solar panels since the 1970s…If green energy is so damn good, why isn’t it here already??? It has been subsidized for decades now Lindsey…You had better spend your energies clearing the legal and regulatory hurdles that have strangled our ability to source our own energy needs. You are another in a long line of fools who are crippling these United States…China and India will be tomorrow’s superpowers while fools like you hasten our becoming a bankrupt has been power.
Nozzle on November 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM
To Lindsay Graham:
The “Green Economy” should come organically (let the free market bring it) — not be forced down our throats by a bunch of lawmakers on a drunken tax-and-spend binge, eager to grind this economy into the ground on a barge-load of half-baked, untested, unproven ideas — all so that these same lawmakers can puff up themselves publicly.
Edouard on November 4, 2009 at 10:46 PM
The Green Economy is like the Easter Bunny only it isn’t real.
Jerricho68 on November 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM
“The Green Economy is coming…What a fool. I’ve been hearing about windmills and solar panels since the 1970s…If green energy is so damn good, why isn’t it here already??? It has been subsidized for decades now Lindsey…You had better spend your energies clearing the legal and regulatory hurdles that have strangled our ability to source our own energy needs. You are another in a long line of fools who are crippling these United States…China and India will be tomorrow’s superpowers while fools like you hasten our becoming a bankrupt has been power.
Nozzle on November 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM”
Graham is horrible, isn’t he? How long do we have to wait until a conservative takes this RINO out to the electoral woodshed?
Edouard on November 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Graham, your time is coming, reserve the moving van now.
GarandFan on November 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Aviator on November 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM
The problem with the so called Green Economy… it doesn’t work without large government subsidies. Maybe that is why the liberals are in love with it. Somehow the ‘green’ economy seems awfully ‘red’ to me.
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Wind power, solar power, smart grid (just meters with a clock) all designed to tax you more, and to dictate your behavior. CONTROL = NO LIBERITY
Dasher on November 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Don’t worry Lindsey, when the red states start to detach themselves from the drowning man in Washington as an act of preserving what is left of our founding fathers ideals, I’m sure you will have a job giving blow-jobs for quarters in Barney Fwanks House of Gay-Lords.
Nozzle on November 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I agree with term limits, Two years in office, and two years in jail.
Travis1 on November 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
All while China and India are leading in economic growth and aggressively pursuing their own interests. Graham and others want to lead the US straight down the crapper with approval-seeking bulls— meant to pander to Europeans and transnational organizations like the UN that undercut the US economically and strategically.
Django on November 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Hey Lindsey, how are all those green cars working out for GM…Maybe another 50 billion taxpayer dollars can keep them around for another year or two until their green-revolution in carmaking saves the world. What a Chump! I think the best part of you ran down the crack of your mama’s a$$ and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress…
Nozzle on November 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Your hero?
Johan Klaus on November 4, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Those folks think that humans are the problem.
Johan Klaus on November 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Mr. Graham = P*nis wrinkle
Go away Lindsey. We will steamroll over you and your ilk!
Flyboy on November 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Lindsey wants to be one of the cool kids. He tries to fit in, but the minute he turns his back they all laugh at him.
Jim Treacher on November 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I wish the South Carolina electorate would put this assclown’s career “in peril”……
JeffinOrlando on November 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM
LOL, the “Green Economy” is about as unicorn as it gets.
ddrintn on November 4, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Hey Lindsey, you are safe for the moment…But, when gas is ten bucks a gallon because we have to pay Saudi sheiks and third world dictators two hundred bucks a barrel for oil we will be coming for you with pitchforks and tar and feathers and maybe a rope…
Nozzle on November 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Graham had better turn more Catholic than the Pope if he wishes to remain an elected Conservative office holder.
Yes, Virginia, RINO’s are in large part what has led us to this brink. Graham either has to have a come to Jesus moment, and soon, or he will find himself out on the street. Playing nice to the Left, trying to reach across the aisle when the other side has no desire to compromise is a fool’s errand. Thus far, Graham has proven himself the fool.
coldwarrior on November 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM
What are the odds that Graham is gone in his next election?
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Also, if it is so “detrimental” to be a conservative republican, then how it that the extreme left of the democrat party is in power and not the moderate democrats?
JeffVader on November 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Memo to Doofus (Rino-SC): India currently has the most robust economy in the world and is still booming. Guess what India’s response is to the environmentalist bleating about “global
warmingclimate change?”India says: “Count us out (of Kyoto, or whatever).”
sanantonian on November 5, 2009 at 12:03 AM
He is the worst kind of politician, the kind that follows and plays on trends for votes, with zero to back up his words. Absolutely nothing, like the contents between his ears. This greentard needs to be replaced.
ray on November 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Playing
nice toball with the Left, trying to reach across the aislewhen the other side has no desire to compromise is a fool’s errandmeans bending over and letting the left shove the bat up your ass. Thus far, Graham has proven himself the fool.FIFY!
belad on November 5, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Didn’t I hear that Diane Sawyer (maybe or some other MSMer) made Algore squirm today in an interview? Played a clip of Mr. Beck suggesting he become a vegan because of methane produced by animals. Algore, King of Carbon Credits, assure her that Carbon, not methane was the danger. Imagine. Always follow the money.
Cindy Munford on November 5, 2009 at 12:16 AM
The green movement bs is only designed to enslave us. Good Lord, I can’t believe I’m starting to sound like Alex Jones. If (and thats probably a teeny weeny if) Obama signs the Climate Change Treaty in Copenhagen, the US is supposed to pay a ton of money to other less developed countries. And its being backed up by a ton of propaganda about how climate change is causing big typhoons and bad weather that are killing all the children in 3rd world countries (of course). Read about it here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/03/the-copenhagen-treaty-draft-wealth-transfer-defined-now-with-dignity-penalty/
So if he signs it they would need 67 votes to make it law? Someone correct me if I’m wrong. Hey I’m not smart about politics so I’m asking you.. any chance it will be ratified? My God I hope not. How can LG be such a dope? So, what? did they pay this schmuck to get on board the green train and convince us that its ok?
Cindy, yes it was Diane Sawyer – Beck showed it yesterday. She played a clip of Beck challenging Algore to stop eating the cheeseburgers. Algore kind of had a look on his face like he was trying to squish a fart, hemmed and hawed that now he doesn’t eat as much meat as he used to. Would have been funny if I didn’t feel so much revulsion at the sight of him. BTW, Beck has appendicitis!
fullogas on November 5, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Take a good look at the Rust Belt, America. Thats what the “Green Economy” will look like, but worse. Closed down industry; locations with lots of potential going to waste. People trying to cling to whats left of what they have while Goldman Sachs makes a killing selling them Carbon Credits.
What a wonderful Green Economy we’ll have though.
Revenant on November 5, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Al Gore cares so much about Mother Earth that he farts in reverse to cash in on methane credits. He is a human vending machine. Money goes in and un-farts come out.
Geochelone on November 5, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Yeah … it’s funny how they can’t thank us for creating a world in which they can support such gigantic populations. There are billions alive today who have the US and the West to thank as the only reason for their existence. If it were up to their peoples and countries, they would not be around. I think they all us far more than they could ever pay. But if they aren’t happy, we should just stop any food, aid, or technology transfer to them. Let them go on their own. And let any of the guilt-ridden European morons – whose own existence and freedom is due to our work and they, too, owe us far more than they could ever pay back – do whatever they want and stop bugging us. I’m sick and tired of these ungrateful sh!theads.
In a normal US, “No.” In this utterly insane America, being run by a bunch of retards, criminals and suicide bombers, “Yes.” Nothing is beyond the slime in Washington.
Lady Lindsay is just stupid. He thought McShame was “the cool kid” and latched onto him. Anyone who believes global warming is beyond rationality. It’s a mental disease and a huge personality flaw exposed.
progressoverpeace on November 5, 2009 at 1:14 AM
So are the unicorns.
Your defeat is coming, Lindsey, and not soon enough.
xblade on November 5, 2009 at 1:25 AM
They let him in on the deal. He’s going green alright – all the way to the bank.
Annie on November 5, 2009 at 1:26 AM
Well, I stopped donating to Christian Childrens Fund after finding out this and considering they changed their name to Child Fund International. The USA gives away soo much of our taxpayer $$ every year in aid to other countries. Do you and I get asked about it? We have many people in our own country (especially now) that need food. Figured I was better off donating right here in the good ol USA.
fullogas on November 5, 2009 at 1:40 AM
There was a day when I liked Senator Graham.
What the HE!! has happened to this guy?
Sorry gang … I am perplexed. The time has come … kick these sorry a-holes out of office, they do NOT speak for the majority of Americans. They have their own agenda and it is not in our best interest. Let’s get some real people in DC.
ORrighty on November 5, 2009 at 1:59 AM
BS. You do nothing but ridicule and tear down conservative leaders of the party like Sarah Palin and push the mealy mouthed conservatism of Meghan McCain.
You are a piece of $#!%.
Mr Purple on November 5, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Three things Grahamnesty needs to do;
1. Dig a hole.
2. Crawl in that hole.
3. Pull the hole in after you.
Grahamnesty, you and your kind are DONE!
nelsonknows on November 5, 2009 at 2:39 AM
I would have to agree with you.
nelsonknows on November 5, 2009 at 2:40 AM
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Graham has spent his Senate years under the, er, “tutelage” of John McCain, doyen of Republican squishes. Grasshopper has learned well . . .
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My previous “Greatest LG comments” for your consideration:
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“We need Lindsey Graham in the Senate. If not for him, WHO would lay out McCain’s clothes in the morning, get his tea all day, and fetch his robe and slippers at night?”
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“If Lindsey Graham were any fuller of himself, he would explode.”
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“With Lindsey Graham as my Senator, I thank God every day – for Jim DeMint!”
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Adjoran on November 5, 2009 at 2:53 AM
I just want to know when I can punch Grahamnesty in his doughy face.
nelsonknows on November 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM
Algore should be made to eat his own vomit lies. Climate change legislation has nothing to do with improving the environment, it is about wealth transfer on a global basis. The Free market would give a green economy anyway. LED technology soon will make it uneconomical for incandescent light bulbs. This ban on incandescences is foolish and dangerous. Florescent lights contain mercury, and are a biological hazard. They also have interference problems with Microwave motion detectors for security systems, cannot dim them and other.
Lack of good legislation is not the problem, too much legislation is the problem. Many of us are thinking, do we stay in RNC or do we third party it. I will vote on issues, not party line. I will never vote Democrat.
Conservative lose me when they legislate against personal liberties. Libertarians lose me when they forget the rights of the unborn over the mothers rights and unwaivering opposition to foreign intervention. in all cases. We need to return to the Constitution and dismantle the beast. Give power back to the States. Yes, we need to fix the health care problem, which is caused by bad legislation in first place. Cato has some great ideas for health care and other issues. We need to remove stupid legislation that is causing unintended consequences, that is restricting the free economy. We need to privatize SS, and Medicare and give vouchers, so that we can make choices, not the beast. I don’t think these panders have the stuff to do it. The Government cannot take care of all our needs, without taking all our freedoms.
Ed Laskie on November 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM
Not rocket science. 1 – Promote and defend SMALL Govt. 2 – Don’t spend what we don’t have 3 – Promote and defend the Free market. It’s amazing how many so called Republican centrists don’t support these. And Lindsey Graham is one of these. Get rid of the Extremists. That’s right, Graham and McCain are extremists. We are the moderate mainstream and the mess we’re in is because we let the extremists make deals with the radicals.
davecatbone on November 5, 2009 at 4:06 AM
Well thought out, concise, right to the point,…….. excellent!
Jeff from WI on November 5, 2009 at 5:27 AM
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