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Sen. Graham Goes Ballistic: President AWOL, Stimulus Process a Joke, "Count me Out!"
Lindsey Graham ^

Posted on 02/05/2009 1:22:33 PM PST by quesney

starting at 4:00

Fox: You say the president has been AWOL...He's been writing editorials, he's been all over the media, you don't think that's an approach that's been work-...

Graham: No, no, no, no. Scaring people is not leadership. Writing an editorial that if you don't pass this bad bill, we're going to have disaster....We've had enough presidents trying to scare people into making bad decisions...[Obama] is not leading. Having lunch is not leading. Getting people in a room like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill did to solve Social Security has not happened here. Doing TV interviews is not leading.

We need a bunch of Republicans and Democrats in a room with the White House to find out how to smartly spend money to create jobs and if it doesn't create a job in the near-term, we shouldn't spend the money.

Fox: Do you fear the risk of being labeled a partisan with that kind of talk...?

Graham: If this is bipartisanship, count me out...this process stinks. It's been a partisan exercise in the House and the Senate...I am very disappointed.

...This is not the way you spend $800 billion...$1 trillion with interest!...16 senators behind closed doors trying to figure out how to do it by tonight. That's CRAZY!!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; obama
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To: billorites

This bill is even giving “the buckwheats” to the MSM....!


21 posted on 02/05/2009 1:28:56 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: quesney
Pardon me while I pick my jaw up off of the floor..
looks the the R's ( even the RINOS) may be figuring out that going along with Crock Obama may not be the way to go after all. Better late than never...
22 posted on 02/05/2009 1:30:34 PM PST by dixiedarlindownsouth (I love my country, but I fear my government)
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To: quesney
Isn't this guy a RINO? Color me shocked.

I guess we now have living proof it's possible to borrow a pair of them.

23 posted on 02/05/2009 1:31:02 PM PST by org.whodat (Conservatives don't vote for Bailouts for Super-Rich Bankers! Republicans do!)
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To: quesney

Must’ve seen the internal polling.


24 posted on 02/05/2009 1:31:07 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: quesney

I don’t care what exactly got Lindsey’s undies in a twist about this—because it’s good news whatever the cause. Let’s hope the gals in the Northeast and the stray RINOs across the plain are just as incensed.


25 posted on 02/05/2009 1:31:47 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: quesney
Light in the Loafers is just posturing for face time in front of the media cameras. Just wait.......CNN or MSNBC will put him up, he will offer up some half baked solution, and then he'll cave to Obama.

Wait, second alternative......McCain runs over, dragging Joe Scarborough and cams, for a “Bailout” acceptance speech, and there's L in L Lindsey saying it is the best for the country that we all just get along.

26 posted on 02/05/2009 1:32:53 PM PST by PeaRidge
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To: quesney
I couldn't agree more with Sen. Graham.

The president is running all over town warning that the world as we know it will come to an end if this mountain of pork doesn't pass immediately. I don't buy it one bit, and neither should the U.S. Senate.

Kill the Porkulus Bill and start over with a real stimulus which should focus on massive personal and business tax cuts.

27 posted on 02/05/2009 1:33:01 PM PST by Deo volente (High Noon, January 20, 2009: Our long national nightmare begins.)
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To: quesney
Hussein can't sell it to the 'people'--because even he can't defend all of the CRAP that Pelosi put in it!!

He offered nothing in specifics--and let Pelosi virtually write the whole thing.

Not only is that NOT leadership,,,,that is NOT EVEN BEING IN THE GAME.

AWOL was a good choice of words.

28 posted on 02/05/2009 1:33:06 PM PST by stockstrader (Joe Biden is now officially our first "CLASS WARFARE CZAR".)
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To: quesney

wow! could it be Graham has regenerated part of his anatomy?. ..like a starfish or something?


29 posted on 02/05/2009 1:34:45 PM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: quesney

Did this little nancy boy find his own set for a change, rather than someone else’s?


30 posted on 02/05/2009 1:45:50 PM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: quesney

Yup, the stimulus project is indeed a joke.

....that originated from a clown.

.....backed by his clown club.


31 posted on 02/05/2009 1:46:46 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: quesney
"Isn't this guy a RINO? Color me shocked."

Its amazing what receiving tens of thousands of voice and emails from constituents will do to a career politician. Like Ronald Reagan said: "If you can't make them see the light make them feel the heat."

32 posted on 02/05/2009 1:48:59 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: MathDoc

He is a grandstanding moron that is trying to get reelected. That is the only thing he has ever accomplished.


33 posted on 02/05/2009 1:51:05 PM PST by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: quesney
In the end, Graham will follow McCain's lead, count on it!

If only the GOP would filibuster this POS bill!!!

34 posted on 02/05/2009 1:51:12 PM PST by PISANO
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To: Deo volente
The president is running all over town warning that the world as we know it will come to an end if this mountain of pork doesn't pass immediately.

EXACTLY WHAT does Hussein know about economics?

Has he ever run business? Does he have any sort of degree in economics?

Has he ever met a payroll?

AGAIN, what is his economic background?

I'd listen to the manager of the nearest 7/11 before I would listen to Hussein--after all, the manager of the 7/11 DOES have some economic experience to base his opinions on!!

35 posted on 02/05/2009 1:51:26 PM PST by stockstrader (Joe Biden is now officially our first "CLASS WARFARE CZAR".)
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To: quesney
"Ballistic"

Watch the vid. Ballistic, yeah, if ballistic means kissing lib butt.


36 posted on 02/05/2009 1:51:42 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: quesney

Oh, my GOD! Miss Lindsey Grahamnesty is blowing a gasket! Well, it’s about time! Welcome aboard, Miss Grahamnesty!


37 posted on 02/05/2009 1:52:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
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To: quesney

Yowzer, Lindsey get’s his thong in a wad?!


38 posted on 02/05/2009 1:52:44 PM PST by maggief
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To: quesney

This is no way for a RINO to act.


39 posted on 02/05/2009 1:54:07 PM PST by Cedric
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To: quesney

Wow, this might mean that the scientific and medical communities have finally perfected human brain transplants... or, his head meds are starting to work.

Actually, I was very impressed with his words, but will never be so inclined with the man.


40 posted on 02/05/2009 1:55:38 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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