Posted on 06/28/2007 8:50:34 AM PDT by DesScorp
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is one of the architects of the immigration overhaul, said he also had received threats in telephone calls and letters to his office. Mr. Graham said several other senators had told him privately that they also received similar messages.
Theres racism in this debate, Mr. Graham said. Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks. The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally"...
As Mr. Graham walked back to his office on Wednesday, he said he doubted that senators would be deterred by any threats. Im sure a lot of the people who have taken a high-profile position on this have been threatened, but what are you going to do? he said. You saw what happened to Senator Daschle.
Mr. Graham was referring to Tom Daschle, the former Democratic majority leader from South Dakota, whose office received a mailing of anthrax in 2001. The case remains unsolved.
One of the requirements of public service in modern America is dealing with a few voices that are full of hate, Mr. Graham said. And our discourse and the way we politic, the way we engage each other, brings that out.
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I guess that the McLame/Grahmnesty 2008 bumper stickers are headed to the recycling bin. LOL!
ping
There are about 6 good ones that worked endlessly to stop this. They deserve another shot until they turn rogue. Dole, Sessions, Inhofe, DeMint, Vitters and another or two I can't remember right now.
Coburne and Cornyn
This boy has a short memory. Anonymous threats are meaningless. When this boy was a House Manager, his boss Henry Hyde was threatened on national television by Alec Baldwin. No racism there just a criminal gesture to serve the Clinton crime family.
Prove it Goober!
LOG said that he can get anybody a DL and a SS for whatever numbers or names for the asking.
A US Senator that knows where and from whom to get fradulant documents and takes no action to to enforce the law SHOULD BE IN JAIL!!!!
Don’t worry, we’ll fire his ass all right, you can take that to the bank.
Racism is the charge a person makes when they know they are losing the debate.
IMO, he is more reprehensible than Ted Kennedy, whom we expect to launch a diatribe of namecalling and racial accusations, but not against his own party.
Graham has shown himself to be a turncoat and a quisling. If he thinks his South Park-like temper tantrums will make him "a character", he's wrong.
I saw that he was sent packing by the voters!
Graham: Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks”
This should be good news. Only a “very small percentage” is a sign of progress and that objections may actully be based on logic and not emotion.
Can we get a list of senators that voted for and against? Will call/write to thank them and encourage them to start enforcement.
vaudine
Who? I don't remember him.
That leaves me deeply saddened . . .
It should be noted that the following Republicans switched their vote for Yea to Na from the bill earlier in the week. They include: Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO), Brownback (R-KS), Burr (R-NC), Coleman (R-MN), Collins (R-ME), Craig (R-ID), Domenici (R-NM), Ensign (R-NV), McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski (R-AK), Stevens (R-AK), Voinovich (R-OH) and Warner (R-VA)
I notice that not even Gramnesty or the New York Times have the nerve to complain about “death threats.” It’s just “threats.”
That’s a loaded headline, and a lot of people will no doubt misread it. But what it clearly refers to is thousands of phone calls that THREATEN that Lindsey Boy is going to lose his cushy job.
I have publicly threatened to send a donation to his primary opponent in the next election, and I hope to follow through on this threat.
The MSM is totally silent about the failure of this bill. It is all about Paris and other social/entertainment/crime news!
They are scurrying about trying how to spin this on the evening talk shows, LOL!
The MSM is totally silent about the failure of this bill. It is all about Paris and other social/entertainment/crime news!
They are scurrying about trying how to spin this on the evening talk shows, LOL!
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