Posted on 03/25/2015 11:00:16 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Ted Cruz vows to repeal “every word” of Obamacare and Common Core if he becomes president. He would “abolish” the IRS, flatten the Tax Code so Americans can fill out their taxes on a postcard, and “finally, finally, finally” secure the border.
To which Lindsey Graham says: not going to happen.
As he prepares his own likely 2016 bid, Graham is positioning himself as the realist in the GOP field, a battle-tested pol who knows what it takes to cut a deal and isn’t afraid to pour cold water on the lofty promises of his would-be rivals. In an interview with POLITICO, the South Carolina senator made clear that he plans to talk in sober detail about the need to overhaul the social safety net and reform the immigration system to allow foreign workers into the United States. He’s intending to look Republican primary voters in the eye and tell them the GOP needs to — yes — cut deals with Democrats if it wants to survive as a party.
“I’m not going to tell people things that they emotionally want to hear that I don’t think are going to happen,” Graham said in the Capitol on Tuesday.
He added: “People are picking up on anger and frustration with the president, which I get. They are turning that anger and frustration into an emotional response to try to get people to vote for them,” he said. “What I’m trying to do is talk about the anger and frustration but also try to get realistic assessments of how we solve these problems.”
“You can’t govern the country based on being angry,” Graham asserted.
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Abolish the IRS, you say? Throw in the EPA and the Dept of Ed and I’m all yours!
Where has Graham been for the last six years?
Again, I ask - why does the country need to be “governed”. Our country was founded on the concept of a self-governing people.
And even more, if such “governing” is needed, why from 536 tyrants 2500 miles away?
Graham is only in this to disrupt the SC primary. He’s out after that. The Cheap Labor Express is paying him to make sure we don’t nominate anyone who will stop the importation of cheap labor.
Says the man who ANGRILY told us all to “shut up, just shut up!” back in 2005 when we forced Harriet Miers to withdraw her nomination.
Damn, looks like that Declaration of Independence / Constitution thing will never fly.....
You also can’t govern the country by being spineless, but RINOs try.
Graham is one of the most twisted, angry, and intolerant madams in the Senate.
Graham is McCain’s sock-puppet. If his lips are moving it’s because McCain has his hand up his ass moving his mouth. Nominating him would spell disaster for the party and the country. Even Biden could beat him.
The country rejected McCain what makes anyone think they would elect McCain’s puppet? One thing Graham can do that would be good for the country would be to run and dilute the establishment vote and help the condervative in the race; Cruz.
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