Posted on 02/05/2009 1:22:33 PM PST by quesney
starting at 4:00
Fox: You say the president has been AWOL...He's been writing editorials, he's been all over the media, you don't think that's an approach that's been work-...
Graham: No, no, no, no. Scaring people is not leadership. Writing an editorial that if you don't pass this bad bill, we're going to have disaster....We've had enough presidents trying to scare people into making bad decisions...[Obama] is not leading. Having lunch is not leading. Getting people in a room like Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill did to solve Social Security has not happened here. Doing TV interviews is not leading.
We need a bunch of Republicans and Democrats in a room with the White House to find out how to smartly spend money to create jobs and if it doesn't create a job in the near-term, we shouldn't spend the money.
Fox: Do you fear the risk of being labeled a partisan with that kind of talk...?
Graham: If this is bipartisanship, count me out...this process stinks. It's been a partisan exercise in the House and the Senate...I am very disappointed.
...This is not the way you spend $800 billion...$1 trillion with interest!...16 senators behind closed doors trying to figure out how to do it by tonight. That's CRAZY!!
Now you’ve gone too far.
Hopefully, Graham is coming back to the fold. He was very good during Clinton’s impeachment proceedings.
yes he is a RINO....he is pitching a fit because he is not getting a say so in how the money is spent....
notice- he doesn’t have a problem with spending 800 billion...just that HE IS NO AT THE TABLE OF PROK!!!
Did Lindsey Graham suddenly develop a spine.Damn I’m impressed.Now lets see how long he can keep this up or is it just a charade?
"Isn't this guy a RINO? Color me shocked."
Methinks Senator Graham is pissed because he's not one of those sixteen Senators...
This is true--he has gone a lot farther than DeMint! Well, we have to applaud if he actually fights for our side. And he's taking a risk. What do you bet he'll be on Jon Stewart tonight, being mocked and outed?
At this point I don’t care if he is or was a “Rino”. He stood up and said what needed to be said and with force. For that, I thank him. We need more of our Reps and Senators to take a forceful stand against this shamulus bill.
We keep saying we want our Republican leadership to listen to us and do what we’re asking them to do. So when they finally start saying and doing what we want them to do, it would seem to me that we ought to be praising them for it.
Yeahhhhh- go Lindsay go! This is the type of Republican leadership that I want to see!
“Either way, we have a Nancy Pelosi stimulus more than an Obama stimulus.”
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I don’t buy that for a second. I firmly believe that this is a joint, calculated liberal/communist effort. Obama and most of the Lefty’s are playing games with us - hopefully the GOP is not.
Who at Fox did that interview?
No, no spine, but I do think that even RINO's like Graham have a conscience.
I mean, how can anyone,,,
AND I MEAN ANYONE (even a RINO) with a conscience,,,,
vote for a Porkulus Bill that contains,,
FIVE BILLION DOLLARS FOR GROUPS LIKE ACORN????
Don't blame us, we didn't vote for the inexperienced empty suit.
“Senator John McCain calling for Senator Graham to restrain himself.”
Have we a rebellion underway?
God I hope so! Funny how when our Senators act like Republicans we think they are rebelling.
As a Chicago area inmate, I've had my fill of Blago and his antics so I didn't tune him in on Letterman. I'm waiting for Obama to display a R. M. Daley-style arrogance to the nation. Then the gutless centrists who "hope" for nonpartisan civility in Washington will see the mistake they have made at the polls. Independents might not accept having airports bulldozed at midnight. LOL
Amen to that one
He just got reelected for another 6 year term. Sounds more like he is practicing for a presidential run... then he can make lord McCain his veep running mate.
Should be fun to watch but I don’t think the South and Texas will find it amusing! Hey, Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is under the tarmac!!!
The GOP can’t filibuster it, they’re in the minority.
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