Posted on 07/21/2011 7:56:07 AM PDT by RummyChick
At a closed door meeting of U.S. Senators and limited government advocates in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, there was an unlikely attendee … and an unlikely champion for the adoption of an uncompromising position on the ongoing debt ceiling debate.
His name? Lindsey Graham.
“He was the most aggressive voice in the room,” one of the meeting’s attendees told FITS.
Wait … Lindsey Graham? The most liberal Republican in Washington, D.C.? The “third Senator from New York?”
That’s right … for the time being, Graham isn’t focused on his prior collaboration with U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) on energy tax hikes. Nor is he spending much time working on amnesty legislation with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York).
Instead, Graham is meeting regularly with Tea Party leaders like U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) – urging them to stand their ground against raising the debt ceiling from $14.3 to $16.7 trillion without concessions.
While our sources declined to elaborate on the specific debt ceiling strategy that Graham advocated at this meeting, they said that he gave an impassioned speech that in no uncertain terms recommended calling U.S. President Barack Obama’s bluff.
“Jaws were on the floor,” one of the meeting’s attendees told FITS.
(Excerpt) Read more at fitsnews.com ...
Dang..Graham getting on Iran’s case, too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fed5yB82cNQ&feature=share
Letting Iran get Nuclear weapons is emptying Pandora’s box.
and this:
“Our problem is we made a big deal about this for three months. How many Republicans have been on TV saying, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit.’ You know, Mitch [McConnell] says, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit unless we talk about Medicare.’ And I’ve said I’m not going to raise the debt limit until we do something about spending and entitlements.’ So we’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves.
“We shouldn’t have said that if we didn’t mean it.”
I think Little Boy Lindsey is worried about reelection..and it is still years away.
Hannity isn’t so bad. But the show Fox replaced Beck with — “5 at 5” — is unwatchable. Whenever Beckel opens his mouth, my cats start screaming. What was Fox thinking?
He’s just posing for sound-bite pics for re-election . . . no to worry!
And low the senator doth sleep and dream. and a vision appeared, in the shadows on the wall. And a voice was heard deeply and resonately speaking in the hollowed sanctuary. “ Senator, doest thou seeketh another term?”
then there was a light and there on the wall was revealed writing..... “cut....cap....balance “
You hit the nail on the head. Lindsey is taking a page out of the McCain playbook for re-election. Pretend to be a tea party conservative.
I applaud Sen Graham for getting this one right.
He said something last week that if we draw a line in the sand, we ought to mean it. Apparently, he has figured it out - we can stand up to Obama and get the deal we want, if we hold firm.
Call your Senators.
There will be a Saturday vote on Cut Cap and balance.
we need 50 votes in the Senate - every Republican and 3 Democrats...
http://action.freedomworks.org/email/view/1493/
HA!
Rush said something like all he needed to know was who was for the Gang of Six and that Demint was against it. He knew it wouldn’t pass.
Demint is tweeting about the Gang of 234
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-07-20-Dont-go-with-Gang-of-Six_n.htm
IT’S A TRAP.
A feminine, limp trap.
But a trap nonetheless.
Hmmm.
Hatch has been talking like a tea partier too.
What a shock—US Senators value their re-election over their, er, ah...principles?
“The Republicans now have their own compromising photos of Lindsey.”
My favorite photoset is “Lindsey + Larry (Sinclair).”
The tried and true is to record Cavuto at 4:00 and watch at 5.
Cavuto is the best there is and has really great guests.
The ignorati here, that is all the Fox bashers who are like the Rush bashers who never listen, have never watched Neil
Neil is the best of the best
Liberalsy Graham so destroyed his credibility with me that if he takes ANY position, I am instantly against the position.
Like any good suicide bomber he has to get up close to his targets before he pulls the pin...
LOL!!!
“Okay..what’s happened???”
He knows it won’t make it through the Senate and he’s posturing to look like a re-electable conservative.
Agreed.
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