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Graham: GOP has no one 'to blame but ourselves' (RINO blames Tea Party, attacks GOP conservatives)
Politico ^ | 2011-07-13

Posted on 07/13/2011 9:46:37 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham conceded Wednesday that he and his fellow Republicans are now eating their own words as they try to convince the country they are working to stave off a federal default.

“Our problem is we made a big deal about this for three months. How many Republicans have been on TV saying, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit.’ You know, Mitch [McConnell] says, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit unless we talk about Medicare.’ And I’ve said I’m not going to raise the debt limit until we do something about spending and entitlements.’ So we’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves,” Graham told reporters after a GOP caucus lunch.

“We shouldn’t have said that if we didn’t mean it.”

Graham’s comments were in response to a question about comments McConnell, the Senate minority leader, made during a radio interview Wednesday in which he defended his plan that would have Congress cede power to President Barack Obama to hike the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without approving spending cuts first . McConnell told radio host Laura Ingraham that a default could hand President Obama and other Democrats “an opportunity to blame Republicans for a bad economy” and “destroys” the GOP’s brand.

Graham disputed that contention. “Most people who got elected in 2010 didn’t come up here worried about the brand, they came up here worried about the country,” he said. “You go explain to them why they’re wrong [when they] say that the country’s on an unsustainable path. I don’t think they are wrong.”

The South Carolina Republican said he hopes House Republicans can pass legislation that raises the debt limit while also structurally changing the way the government spends money. One proposal calls for deep spending cuts, statutory spending caps, and a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.

“If they can’t, then Mitch’s idea makes sense,” Graham said. “But if they can pass something out of the House that raises the debt limit that changes the reason we got in debt, that would be a fundamental new direction for the country, I think we should support that.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: graham4obama; grahamnasty; lindseygraham; rino
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To: rabscuttle385

Senator Lindsey, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!


21 posted on 07/13/2011 10:22:41 PM PDT by Havisham
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To: rabscuttle385
why doesn't twinkle toes just change his party affiliation? Second thought, why doesn't he just go away. He is precisely what's wrong with washington.
22 posted on 07/13/2011 10:22:49 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: rabscuttle385
"http://photobucket.com/images/lindsey%20graham" target="_blank">Elephonkey Lindsey Graham Pictures, Images and Photos
23 posted on 07/13/2011 10:23:36 PM PDT by GR_Jr.
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To: rabscuttle385
"So we’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves”

Being that the only "we" Graham belongs to is liberaldom, I'm in full agreement with that statement.

24 posted on 07/13/2011 10:24:16 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: rabscuttle385

Graham and McConnell sound like they took some bad acid and are freaking out. What is this ‘nobody to blame but ourselves’ horses#!+? Would they please STFU and stop undercutting Boehner and Cantor?


25 posted on 07/13/2011 10:56:29 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m surprised Boeing picked SC to put a new plant in (not move one as the lying libs tell it) with a liberal like Graham as their Senator.

He makes the Washington state libs look like moderates.


26 posted on 07/13/2011 11:00:36 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Mitt Romney makes Nelson Rockefeller look like Ronald Reagan. NO MITT 2012.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I think we need to fund a GOP challenger for Miss Graham next time he runs for re-election.


27 posted on 07/13/2011 11:49:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385
Hey Graham: Go eat some peas you goober.

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28 posted on 07/14/2011 12:06:06 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: rabscuttle385
Any time Lindsey Graham speaks…


29 posted on 07/14/2011 12:12:16 AM PDT by newzjunkey (If anyone needs to be "primaried" it's Lindsey Graham.)
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To: rabscuttle385

My read is that he actually agreed with, and was defending, the new conservative R’s that the tea party helped put there, especially when he said they don’t care about the Party brand, they care about the country, and he doesn’t think they’re wrong.


30 posted on 07/14/2011 12:13:33 AM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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To: screaminsunshine

Brilliant!!! Lindsey to a T.


31 posted on 07/14/2011 12:27:52 AM PDT by liberty or death
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To: llandres
Most people only read the title and commented on that. The title of the article really doesn't convey the actual content of the article.

Graham agrees with the fiscally conservative new republicans.

32 posted on 07/14/2011 1:19:14 AM PDT by NEPA (Give me liberty, not debt)
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To: NEPA

Right.


33 posted on 07/14/2011 2:26:27 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: rabscuttle385
“Our problem is we made a big deal about this for three months."

No, the real problem is that Lindsey and other republicans like him bear a great deal of the responsibility and blame for the country being in the economic toilet.

They spent like a boatload of drunken Obamas when they had the majority power. And when they fell into the minority they supported much of the outrageous democrat spending.

If they had governed as conservatives we would not be in these financial straits and Obama would never have been elected President.


34 posted on 07/14/2011 4:28:28 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: KamperKen
...I would make a contribution to a candidate to challenge and hopefully oust Graham in the primary next year.

It'll be a long wait, sadly. He's not up for reelection until 2014. I would guess that, round about 2013, he'll start pretending to be conservative again so he can once more fool the good people of South Carolina.

35 posted on 07/14/2011 4:33:55 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Wonder at what point in Lindsey Graham life he thought someone cared about what he said?.He’s like Obama his words are useless.


36 posted on 07/14/2011 4:35:46 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rabscuttle385
lindsey, go kiss your pal.


37 posted on 07/14/2011 5:23:10 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Federal default is a straw man, like global warming and the Y2K bug.


38 posted on 07/14/2011 5:23:10 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: rabscuttle385

The SC Tea Party needs to take out the trash.


39 posted on 07/14/2011 5:29:53 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't go wobbly on me now GOP)
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To: rabscuttle385

You can always tell when Lindsey has gotten another “night letter” from the DNC....


40 posted on 07/14/2011 6:10:05 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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