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Lindsey Graham has already sparked another thread from his town hall today, but
what caught my attention was that he said (words to the effect) "we have to work with the Democrats. What we've been doing hasn't been working."
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)with Democrats. After 8 years of outright obstruction.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Graham has moments of lucidity - he clocks a tick further forward on the Progressive scale.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)We don't need no more steenkin Russian mob payola passing through Pee45's casinos, no stanky immoral unethical illegal laundering of scuzzball crime money, no filthy stinking polluting climate-destroying under-the-table oil leases, or no freakin rank treasonous toxic interference in the elections of the USA.
Take care of that, republicans, and then you can get honest Americans in general and well-intentioned Democrats in particular to work with you.
rant over.
JHB
(37,161 posts)...its weight, maybe two-thirds (it's a chubby mutt) before it sinks in that bRking and snarling will not fill its belly.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)and started shrieking. Very embarrassing.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)But, he is only one person. All one has to do is remember who are the other Republicans in Congress, realize that any working with Democrats is probably a pipe dream on his part. It has been over 20 years since his party has showed any willingness to work with the other side, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Gridlock hasn't been working and thousands of people are going to get hurt if something isn't done shortly. The ACA really is on a death spiral now, pushed off the tracks by Republicans. And that is just one issue.
lame54
(35,315 posts)Fuck that
Unless he wants to work on tweeks to make it better he can keep his damn hands off of it
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)What he means is he wants Democrats to help him ruin things. No thanks, you scumbag. No thanks.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)and don't trust him.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)All this talk about bipartisanship and working together... until it's time to take a vote. Then he's back in McConnell's pocket.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)"Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" Graham notably asked fellow lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee in October 1998 as the committee moved toward a formal impeachment inquiry by Congress against then-President Clinton.
While Republicans lost that case and the Senate later acquitted Clinton, the impeachment process catapulted Graham onto the national stage. His role became a staple of his campaign stump speeches soon after and he was immediately a darling of cable news channels fascinated by the ordeal.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/31/410358726/5-things-you-should-know-about-lindsey-graham
he was one of the most obnoxious impeachment advocates, along with morning joe. hard to forget those two pompous hypocrites bloviating over and over and over about NOTHING!
old guy
(3,283 posts)Graham deserves nothing from me. He is part and parcel of whats wrong with repubs and as I stated before that a gun or a club will do great harm but the silent ice pick will do as much. Graham carries an ice pick.