Call Lindsey Graham's Office on Judicial Filibuster

Laura Ingraham Radio Show ^ | 20 May 05

[Alissa]

Per Laura Ingraham, Lindsey Graham may be teetering. She recommends South Carolinians get on the phone and start telling him he needs to stick with his party.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

"He was on the side of the angels during the impeachment".

Actually, while Lindsay was good for the most part, he voted against one of the articles on a terrible technicality -- the one that charged Clinton with committing purjury, because the judge in the Paula Jones affair didn't step forward before the Impeachment process and acknowledge Clinton's lying, but saved that (and Paula's big judgment) for AFTER impeachment. Lindsay said "you can't conclude that Clinton committed purjury unless the judge makes that ruling." It was like Lindsay was from another planet (Clinton had obviously lied in his denials of any involvement with Monica along with all the other lies).

[bray]

I called and asked which Pro-Life Judicial Nominees he was willing to throw down the Fire Escape??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Matchett-PI]

" Actually, while Lindsay was good for the most part, he voted against one of the articles on a terrible technicality -- the one that charged Clinton with committing purjury, because the judge in the Paula Jones affair didn't step forward before the Impeachment process and acknowledge Clinton's lying, but saved that (and Paula's big judgment) for AFTER impeachment. Lindsay said "you can't conclude that Clinton committed purjury unless the judge makes that ruling." It was like Lindsay was from another planet (Clinton had obviously lied in his denials of any involvement with Monica along with all the other lies)."

I have Hannity on audiotape making that exact point during the second half hour of his radio show today. He said, "We have had our problems with Graham in the past. Graham was the one that made it possible for Clinton to dodge the most important bullet during the impeachment process." bttt

[MinuteGal]

I can't stand Lindsay. He looks like a wet caterpillar.

I wouldn't want him in my garden because I couldn't trust him not to eat all the leaves.

Leni

[Kudsman]

Love your tagline MG. It was also probably uttered by many Japanese at Betio in the Tarawa Atoll as they mowed down wave after wave of the heroes on the coral reefs. God Bless all that have ever donned the uniform of the USMC.

I will call Mr. Graham now and ask him to please avoid betraying the confidence entrusted to him by the good people of South Carolina.

[Theodore R.]

Some months ago, Lindsey Graham began giggling like a schoolboy trying to flatter his colleague, Mrs. Rodham Clinton. From that moment on, I knew that NOMINATING Lindsey in 2002 was a big mistake. I guess he can say that he is doing what Strom would have done were Strom still around. One thing that won't happen: SC voters will not nominate another Republican for that seat in 2008.

[Piquaboy]

Juat as long as it is her boot it maybe is fine.

[elcid1970]

I called his Columbia, SC office yesterday. The snappish young man who answered interrupted my protest against Sen. Graham's dealmaking with a loud "The Senator supports the constitutional option!!" Then he demanded my name and address; this was clearly intended to intimidate, but I gave it anyway. Gave it again when I emailed his website that afternoon. So what?

He and his staff must have been pretty fed up with Rush and Hannity siccing their listeners (inc. me) on them. A while back Hannity succeeded in provoking the senator to call his show. Graham was finger-waving angry as he harrumph-harrumphed at the conservative gadfly.

But any, I mean any, Republican with no more than breath and a heartbeat going for him/her is better than decades of the gawdawful Fritz Hollings.

[Fudd Fan]

I can't stand Lindsay. He looks like a wet caterpillar. I wouldn't want him in my garden because I couldn't trust him not to eat all the leaves

He's a slip-n-fall lawyer!

[Meldrim]

Nobody is questioning Chafee's sexuality: Graham's is always in question. I believe SC conservatives are going to get an umpleasant surprise some day...

[af_vet_1981]

He and his staff must have been pretty fed up with Rush and Hannity siccing their listeners (inc. me) on them.

Then Graham should not meet with the Gang of Eleven.

[RightWinger]

SC resident here.

I've called his offices several times and have e-mailed him a few times over the past few days.

Lindsey is a big disappointment.

[AFPhys]

I will give Graham this one last chance.

If he votes with the Demodogs, or makes a deal with them, on President Bush's judicial nominees, I will be contributing to a primary opponent.

This is it - and I hope everyone of this mind (and anyone who is similarly fed up with him and have already had enough) phone his offices TODAY AND TOMORROW.

[elcid1970]

Any response?

[FROGTOWN CONSERVATIVE]

Sent mine in from CT. Asked him to keep in mind how he got into the senate in the first place..The Republican Party. I also pointed out his assured defeat and short career should he break ranks. We'll see how stupid he is....

[jonrick46]

Your radar has homed onto just what I have been thinking. The DemonRats may have some very compromising information on Lindsey Graham's very hidden personal life. I remember during the Clinton years the FBI Filegate. I wonder is Graham has a file on him that the DemonRats are using as blackmail against him. Something like being a closet homosexual would do it for Lindsey Graham.

[Gum Shoe]

"My personal opinion is FBI files."

Mr. Graham,

If you have private issues that preclude you from freely performing on your political obligations (i.e. personal baggage being used by political opponents to force your cooperation), then you need to resign. Or is the power so alluring that you cannot bear to separate yourself from it?

[sawdust]

We (libs and conservatives alike) are all so concerned about how appellate and Supreme Ct. justices will rule concerning legislation--legislation passed by freely elected US and state legislators. Yet, there is NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING in the US constitution giving federal judges the authority to overturn legislation passed by such legislators. The judiciary (under Chief Justice Marshall) essentially seized this power in a constitutional coup in the seminal case Marbury vs. Madison. What we conservatives should be debating is whether the institution of judicial review should even exist in this day and age. Most representative republics don't have it. A law passed by a freely elected parliament is assumed to be constitutional. That is how it is in Britain and most of Europe. American legislators and executives swear an oath to uphold and defend the US constitution. It is thus unthinkable that they would introuduce, let alone pass legislation violating our Constitution. I know this seems quixotic, but if we press our allies in the Federalist society and in Congress, we may, someday, be able to push through a constituional amendment eliminating the odious doctrine of judicial review.

[Iron Eagle]

My sources tell me the biggest obstacle on the nuke option is NOT Graham, but that good ol boy John Warner from Virginia. It seems Warner is back from the dead to bite conservatives in the butt again. I like Laura Ingram, but my source is a U.S. Senator.

If you want to get Warner on board -- I would contact Virginia friends and have them get word to his office immediately.

[ducks1944]

ALL OF NEED TO WRITE TO ALL OF THEM AND TELL THEM JUST BECAUSE WE CAN'T VOTE FOR THEM DOES NOT MEAN CAN'T BEAT THEM, WE CAN SEND MONEY TO ANYONE WHO RUNS AGAINST THEM. AND WE HAVE THE INTERNET TO INFORM THOSE IN HIS STATE. THEN TELL THEM WE WILL DO TO HIM (THEM) WHAT WE DID TO TOM DASCHLE AND TOM FOLEY AND ETC. SO WE CAN HELP THEM WITH ONE WAY TICKET HOME. I HAVE DONE THIS TO LOTS IN CONGRESS. AND THEY KNOW OUR MONEY HELP GET THE TOM'S OUT. SO WE DO HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT. I TOLD THEM IT MAY TAKE AWHILE BUT WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE. I TOLD THEM TO CALL TOM DASCHLE AND ASK HIM, HE KNOWS VERY WELL IT WAS OUR MONEY ALONG WITH VOTERS. SO WRITE AND CALL THEM ALL.