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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I think it is called “Seasonal Effective Disorder”. He gets it every 6 years or so...
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
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.
Putting on the big boy pants....must be election time....
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 ....
Don’t worry about it Lindsey - your successor can handle it.
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.
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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.
Primariphobia.
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.
Yawn. You aren’t fooling anyone, Grahmnesty.
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
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....
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?
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
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.
Graham is feeling the heat from his right flank which is why he’s waving his unit around on Benghazi.
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