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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:39 AM
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Sen Lindsay Graham is bending GWB over his knee and whopping his ass on
Face the Nation now. He says he was never told about the spying, that it is important that they be told, and that the administration can't be trusted to make these decisions.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:42 AM
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1. Yep! He also said "We cannot become a results only
democracy!"

"I reject ANY President can sit down with a hand full of congressmen and decide to avoid the laws."
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iamjoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:52 AM
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16. You Think He's Running For President? (eom)
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:55 AM
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18. I don't know, but Linsey is usually pretty straight when it comes to
legalities. I remember him being very tough when they held the hearings on Abu Garab.
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 02:36 PM
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27. I'll never forget that.
He was absolutely livid.
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 02:07 PM
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24. I think he is going to be McCain's running mate
in the next presidential election. I'm glad he's making a scene. But I don't trust him anymore than I can throw him.:tinfoilhat:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 02:35 PM
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26. And you are correct about that "maverick" ticket
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 04:26 PM
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29. And I would still never vote for them. They are repukes first & foremost.
In the end, they ALWAYS shove their heads back firmly up bunkerboy's butt.

NEVER TRUST A REPUKE - NEVER!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 05:30 PM
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30. Neither would I!
their "maverick" status is a carefully constructed canard
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:42 AM
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2. About damned time.
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mahatmakanejeeves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:43 AM
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3. Is he not...
Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 10:52 AM by mahatmakanejeeves
or was he not at one time a member of the Judge Advocate General corps in the Air Force Reserve?

Edit: Bob Schieffer just said that.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:45 AM
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7. something like that
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:47 AM
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9. He is.
A major I believe.
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:51 AM
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15. He was a JAG officer
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:44 AM
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4. I don't get it!
This is two weeks in a row that I've heard him agreeing with Biden more than he has disagreed! :shrug:
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:44 AM
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5. He could have stopped with "the administration can't be trusted." Period.
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:44 AM
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6. Don't buy his new-found respect for the rule of law
This was the guy who, not too long ago, introduced a bill in the Senate to deny Gitmo detainees the right of Habeus Corpus.
It passed with the help of 5 DINO's (Lieberman being one, naturally)
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:45 AM
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8. agreed
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:48 AM
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10. I really hate Joementum.
I really truly do.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:49 AM
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12. Lieberman has become a laughingstock
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:48 AM
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11. Wasn't he one of those involved with the Clinton impeachment?
I wonder how he and those others can even look at themselves in the mirror, if they aren't willing to question bush's actions.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:50 AM
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13. A president HAS to obey the law.
No one in this country is above the law. The president is a citizen, not a demi-god, and has to uphold the laws of this country no matter what. If the president does not obey the law, he should be removed from office and imprisoned.
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allisonthegreat Donating Member (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:51 AM
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14. oh no not the pride of South Carolina
Mr Graham is not well respected among democrats in SC...so he is probably just spinning what he knows "he's supposed to say". Whether he really believes that was wrong is a totally different ball game.:hippie:
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:54 AM
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17. Good show.
Very happy to hear that there are repub leaders out there who think it is important to follow the laws of the land. Of course, I haven't had my coffee yet, so I may still be asleep and dreaming all of this.
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Donna Zen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 10:58 AM
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19. Posturing be damned!
If Graham is serious about this, why is that "R" still after his name? People have become independents for less than this.
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:08 AM
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20. Graham must be running
in 08.He's in the news way too often lately.He's spinning himself as a moderate,I'm not so sure.Isn't he one of Reed's pal's?
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 11:19 AM
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21. Graham is one of the better ones.
I often don't agree with him but he has ethics and thinks for himself unlike way too many politicians. He is a maverick and generally not a partisan hack.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:21 PM
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22. As one of the only House Impeachment Managers to survive, he should speak
about the incredible abuse of power. He won't though, because his god is money, as it is for most Republicans. The stranglehold on workers and others who aren't VERY well off simply doesn't matter.

This guy is a Judge Advocate General; he should give a fuck about the law. Much as he should, though, he's just a functionary of the greedy, and he may huff and balk here and there, but he'll suck up to the iron fist of power when the day is done.

He's on the side of feudal dominance, and if he's annoyed that he wasn't consulted about the systematic fucking of the serfs, he really doesn't have anyone to blame but himself for deciding to ally himself with the monarchists. He's truly dirty, and his dudgeon is pathetic; who does he think he is, one of the aristocracy whose feet he kisses in hopes of being allowed to belong? Hahahahahha.

Mercifully, most of the House Impeachment Managers have seen their careers destroyed. Hyde survives as a vestigial Representative of a primitive enclave, and Graham got promoted into the Senate. The others were destroyed for their ugly witch hunt: Rogan, McCollum, Gekkas, Barr. This is as it should have been: an ugly revolution of the wealthy against the will of the people tore this country apart and we're still paying for it. Lest we forget, Clinton was an idiot and Gore laid down and let the world walk all over him as he pulled that Quisling Lieberman in to distance himself from Clinton. Truly, that was one of the saddest chapters in our history, and we'll pay for it for years.

Graham is an asshole. He's an opportunist, a monarchist and a prissy moralist who's deeply immoral. If he's disgusted by the people with whom he's chosen to go to bed, it's only his own fault.
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SunDrop23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:33 PM
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23. I guess he's tired of having his head up it, so he's whipping it instead
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 02:13 PM
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25. Ok Lindsay
call for Impeachment. This is so much bigger than a blowjob.

The Repubs can say what they want but until they actually DO something about this moron in the White HOuse it's just a bunch of empty words.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 02:57 PM
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28. Jesus. That's a mental picture I didn't need.
but I'm glad Graham is speaking out. Occasionally, he acts like a real conservative.
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