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Graham says he'll block (ALL) nominations over Benghazi ("Where are the #Benghazi survivors?)
Yahoo! News ^ | 10/28/13 | Pauline Jelinek - ap

Posted on 10/28/2013 12:48:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened Monday to hold up all nominations for federal government positions until survivors of last year's deadly attack on the diplomatic post in Libya appear before Congress.

"Where are the #Benghazi survivors?" the South Carolina Republican said on his official Twitter account. "I'm going to block every appointment in the US Senate until they are made available to Congress."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; block; gramnesty; lindseygraham; nominations; primarygraham
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To: DwFry

I think it is called “Seasonal Effective Disorder”. He gets it every 6 years or so...


21 posted on 10/28/2013 1:05:44 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: NormsRevenge

Benghazi is a bad deal. I was practically screaming on carline that day as I listened to the radio and learned that we were apologizing while our embassy was being attacked. Then to learn that our administration left people behind our finest, working in the service of our country and its security.

Our military is affected as well as the state dept, until this is rectified. Our standing in overseas relations and our character is seriously affected until this is rectified even if it takes fifty years. It won’t go away even if the leaders exhibit louder temper tantrums

And Hillary is out of a job. Probably related

But, Linsey G is grabbing this like a favorite toy, as he works toward amnesty and the ruins of obamacare


22 posted on 10/28/2013 1:10:47 PM PDT by stanne
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To: TroutGuy; onedoug; NormsRevenge
RE :”Last I heard this RINO was promising to bring up the Vitter amendment requiring Congress to get on Obamacare.
He sqwawked about that for a few days then finally dropped the subject.
Anyone fooled by this guy is pretty credulous”

I picked up on that ~ 2011 when he went on a Sunday talk show (CBS FTN I think) and suggested that ‘maybe’ we should change the US constitution to deny birthright citizenship.

He never raised it again and the MSM and Dems went bonkers citing it as a GOP idea, MSM and Dems never mentioning Grahamnesty specifically as saying that because they knew he was for amnesty. (Schiefer recently said ‘no Republican is more conservative than Graham is’)

I was and am convinced he only did it to stir opposition to those who are against amnesty by stirring up hispanics, when a constitutional amendment isnt needed anyway.

23 posted on 10/28/2013 1:12:37 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: NormsRevenge

Putting on the big boy pants....must be election time....


24 posted on 10/28/2013 1:15:35 PM PDT by wny
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To: NormsRevenge
Miss Lindsey sashaying to the right around election time.........Again.
25 posted on 10/28/2013 1:18:03 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: sickoflibs
Note that Grahamnesty always picks stuff that has little or no chance of success. Then he drops the idea doing nothing. He talks.

Yes, this is just 'talk' by Linda thinking that it will fool some of his constituents. He has no expectation of following through. Ted Cruz described him and his 'gay band of losers' well ....

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don't even talk about how to win a fight. There's no discussion. We talk about, "Hey, let's get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we're doing something." But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you'd be in therapy for a month ... but they've been here a long time, and they're beaten down, and they don't believe we can win. They don't believe it can happen, and the answer they say on every issue is, "No, we can't do it. We can't do it."

26 posted on 10/28/2013 1:18:44 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t worry about it Lindsey - your successor can handle it.


27 posted on 10/28/2013 1:25:37 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Show votes? Most times Grahamnesty votes with Reid.

He does talk a lot on Sunday shows TV, likes to give Obama advice.

Usually to attack other countries.


28 posted on 10/28/2013 1:26:59 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: NormsRevenge; All
"(Linda) Graham says he'll block
(ALL) nominations over Benghazi"


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29 posted on 10/28/2013 1:28:25 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: NormsRevenge

Fer Pete’s sake. Everybody on this thread is just doing their usual crotch-grabbing “he’s a nancy boy and not conservative “ stuff and completely ignoring the fact that he has realized that he’s got to be more conservative if he has any hope of being reelected. In other words, the usual purist circular firing squad.

If Graham knows he’s got to be more conservative, take that as a win....and encourage it.

The point is to win the war, not get the bubblegum card of your favorite politician.


30 posted on 10/28/2013 1:29:59 PM PDT by livius
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To: NormsRevenge

Primariphobia.


31 posted on 10/28/2013 1:34:32 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: livius

There must be something good about being a purported purist. If grtting rid of two-faced dishonest individuals who lack integrity takes being a “purist”...so be it.


32 posted on 10/28/2013 1:34:50 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yawn. You aren’t fooling anyone, Grahmnesty.


33 posted on 10/28/2013 1:40:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: livius
If Graham knows he’s got to be more conservative, take that as a win....and encourage it.

No. He has proven repeatedly that he will attack only conservatives and never attack Dems. He has no credibility.

He needs to be primaried.

/johnny

34 posted on 10/28/2013 1:40:32 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: hal ogen

The point is to get what you want, regardless of who gets it for you. If Graham is adopting some conservative positions and will fight for them (even simply in order to get reelected), that’s fine.

What’s done is done, and this means that conservatives have shown enough strength to get him to change his mind or at least his public position. This is a victory, and should be treated as one, regardless of his miserable past track record.

Encourage this now, and make it clear that if he backs down again, your vote is lost. Strangely enough, he’s pretty popular in some parts of SC (my daughter lives there and that’s what she tells me) so if he’s changing his position, that means the conservative influence has got him scared. And it’s a good thing to keep politicians scared....


35 posted on 10/28/2013 1:45:03 PM PDT by livius
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To: DwFry

36 posted on 10/28/2013 1:45:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yes, that’s fine....if you have a good candidate. In the meantime encourage what you have now.

The reason we never get anything done is that even when a politician tries to change or even appear to change - I don’t care about his inner soul, just his political stance and actions - everybody shoots him down. So why should he bother?


37 posted on 10/28/2013 1:53:18 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
There are several candidates that are going to try to primary him. Lee Bright is a great candidate.

When politicians 'appear to change' they are lying. Graham has proven this over and over.

What you are suggesting hasn't worked. It's time to stop doing the same thing and expecting different results.

/johnny

38 posted on 10/28/2013 1:57:37 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think the survivors are being imprisoned under the defense authorization act (can’t remember the exact name of the act).
This is pure speculation.


39 posted on 10/28/2013 2:21:49 PM PDT by axxmann (If McCain is conservative then I'm a freakin' anarchist.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Graham is feeling the heat from his right flank which is why he’s waving his unit around on Benghazi.


40 posted on 10/28/2013 2:23:59 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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