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Lindsey Graham Just Changed the Course of History
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 09/28/2018 4:38:44 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

He said, she said, Lindsey said. Game over. – I’ve said this several times over the last year, ever since John McCain took ill and was forced to pretty much remove himself from the scene in the nation’s capital, but it bears repeating here: It is absolutely amazing just how great Lindsey Graham has become now that he is free from the pernicious influence of John McCain.

It is not an overstatement to say that Lindsey Graham changed the course of history yesterday. Not an overstatement at all. Up to the point of his decimation of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and his laying bare of their despicable scheme against Judge Brett Kavanaugh for all the world to see, it is very likely that Judge Kavanaugh did not have a single Democrat vote in his favor for confirmation, and he probably would have lost several Republicans as well.

Yes, Judge Kavanaugh had acquitted himself extremely well. His passionate, emotional opening statement was perfect, a revelation of a man outraged at the coordinated assault the Democrats and their proxies like the Creepy Porn Lawyer had mounted on his character, his life and his family. The obvious contempt for those senators that oozed from his pores as he answered their idiotic questions about his high school yearbook was wholly justified and reflected the righteous indignation and anger being felt on his behalf by tens of millions of ordinary Americans out here in Flyover Country at the despicable spectacle the Democrats had organized against him.

But to that point, the day was probably a draw. Dr. Christine Ford had also done well enough in the morning to probably give cover for every Democrat senator – even those up for re-election in so-called “Red” states – to vote against this nomination, and had likely created enough doubt about Kavanaugh and his character to frighten wobbly-kneed Republicans like Susan Collins, Jeff Flake and Lisa Murkowski away. Ms. Ford was obviously lying about many things, but her job in all of this was only to create confusion and doubt, and she had successfully done that.

Everything changed when Senator Graham, upon returning from a 15-minute break in the proceedings, insisted on taking the questioning away from Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell and exercise his own senatorial privilege. Graham only asked a couple of questions of Judge Kavanaugh during his 5 minutes, spending the remainder of his time unleashing holy hell on his depraved Democrat “colleagues” and changing the tone of the entire afternoon.

Had a similar outburst come from any of the other GOP senators on the Committee, it would not have had much effect. But coming as it did from Lindsey Graham, who sadly had largely wasted the past dozen years following the execrable RINO McCain around like a little puppy dog on a leash, pretending that the Democrats were just well-intentioned “colleagues” and that such a thing as “collegiality” still existed in the U.S. Senate, and helping McCain and the Ds push open-borders and other globalist policies, it was a visible shock to the Democrat system and to their propaganda wing in the fake news media.

From that point forward, the Democrat senators were obviously cowed and never laid a glove on Judge Kavanaugh. Their focus on asking the Judge about the meaning of passages in his high school yearbook and endless calls for a man who has already been through no fewer than 6 FBI background checks to call for yet another one made them look like the silly, disengenuous jackasses they truly are.

Left at long last to his own devices, freed from the destructive influence of McCain, Lindsey Graham grew into his full potential as a leader, as a senator and as a man on Thursday. He abandoned the ranks of the RINO placeholders in the U.S. Senate and, just in the nick of time, achieved greatness.

As a result, Judge Kavanaugh will receive a “do confirm” recommendation out of the Judiciary Committee today, probably along party line votes. After the senate spends the following few days going through all its goofy Kabuki theater floor speeches and cloture nonsense, Kavanaugh will be confirmed on Tuesday to become the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the end of the day, he will probably receive right at the same number of total votes as did Neil Gorsuch, with several squeamish Red state Ds joining all 51 Rs to confirm.

But much more than that was at stake here. As I wrote last week and again earlier this week, our constitutional guarantees of the right to face our accusers and the presumption of innocence for the accused were under assault and on the line in this nomination, thanks to the the Democrat conspiracy to destroy this man’s life on the front pages of our nation’s fake newspapers.

I have been extremely critical of Senator Graham over the years, mainly due to his slavish devotion to John McCain, and I believe he deserved every bit of the criticism he received over those years. But today, he is my hero because, when the moment came when he and only he could summon the personal gumption to stand up and change the course of history for our country, he rose to the occasion and grew into his potential as a true statesman.

God bless him for doing that, God bless Judge Kavanaugh and his family and God bless America.

That is all.

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1 posted on 09/28/2018 4:38:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

Apparently Senator Graham was blinded by McCain sharing consultant data — consultants who believed every word their leftist professors told them in college.


2 posted on 09/28/2018 4:42:42 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: EyesOfTX

And yes, now Graham sees things like a normal person.

This is that a normal person sees:

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Democrats fund and organize riots that block ambulances.

They’re wearing ‘pussy cat’ hats. [Including Ford]

They oppose anesthesia during even the most brutal abortions.

They demand that young girls be exposed to male perverts in bathrooms.

They IGNORE James O’Keefe’s video evidence so compelling that it gets people fired from their jobs.

They ignore the Clinton Foundation scandals.

They ignore Wikipedia and only want to punish the whistle blowers.

They openly support Family Planning even after learning that it sells human body parts.

They openly support Bill Clinton, Mister Pedophile Island.

They boo at God at conventions.

They openly support slander.

They support the modern version of ‘book burning’ — partizan bans in social media.


3 posted on 09/28/2018 4:44:08 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Democrats supported Bill Clinton through thick and thin.

Democrats believe President Bill Clinton. And have always believed him. Democrats believed it when Clinton said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him later when Clinton said he had merely “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.

Democrats believed him when Clinton he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when Clinton reportedly said he did bed her down.

Democrats believed the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to celebrities, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.

Democrats believe that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.

Democrats believed President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans and believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.

Democrats believed Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. Democrats believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.

Democrats believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46.

Democrats devoutly believe in “no controlling legal authority”....but not for Nixon or Trump.

Democrats believed Bruce Babbitt when he said that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. Democrats believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.

Democrats believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. Democrats agreed with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.

Democrats firmly believe in the “Clinton Standard” of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.” Democrats noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely.” Democrats devoutly believe, as Clinton does, that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have”given the president money, as long as nobody can find “evidence” of this being the “sole” reason.

Democrats believe president Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses.

Democrats believe that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.

Democrats believe that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.

Democrats believe, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.

Democrats firmly believe Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship. Journos believe that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.

Democrats see nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.

Nor did Democrats read anything significant into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.

Democrat believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.

Democrats believe, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to malign the saintly Clintons.

SOURCE: The Democrats’ Creed -—what they really believe (hat tip Michael Kelly)


4 posted on 09/28/2018 4:51:32 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

If Republican Senators don’t start growing a pair and fighting for Americans, then I would say Graham will make an excellent Senate Minority Leader.


5 posted on 09/28/2018 4:53:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Pure satanism.


6 posted on 09/28/2018 4:55:15 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; Liz; EQAndyBuzz

I have been as down on Graham as anyone, but I give him kudos for his statement.

He may be wrong on a lot of important things, but I heartily applaud his heartfelt, scathing, and totally accurate statement he made.

I have to admit, I thought “Who invaded his body and took over his brain?”


7 posted on 09/28/2018 4:58:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: EyesOfTX

When Graham did his “reaching across the aisle” this time it was to strangle the democrats and not to embrace them. They crossed the line and Graham put them in their place. I think he now realizes that those people are not and have never been his friends.


8 posted on 09/28/2018 4:58:23 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: EyesOfTX
Ms. Ford was obviously lying about many things, but her job in all of this was only to create confusion and doubt, and she had successfully done that.

Only because the Republicans questioner Mitchell flubbed everything with her stupid questioning of Ford. Thank God Lindsey Graham interceded or all could have been lost?

9 posted on 09/28/2018 4:58:51 AM PDT by zbogwan2
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To: Liz

And hat tip to you, Liz.

You are one of the top researchers in this forum.

I went nuts when I tried to keep up. If people want to write a future book or series about the Clintons, you would be an excellent person for them to contact.


10 posted on 09/28/2018 5:02:03 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: EyesOfTX

A very powerful column.


11 posted on 09/28/2018 5:02:56 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rlmorel

I fully understand.

Someone thought he would make a great ‘minority leader’ if we lose the senate. [God forbid!]

I am glad he’s back. I’m glad the Bush family supports Kavanaugh too. But until he gets his mind right on the border, I still hope he becomes a back-bencher.


12 posted on 09/28/2018 5:06:47 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: EyesOfTX
MESSAGE TO GRAHAM:

You were spectacular!

What you said was EXCELLENT!

What you said is exactly what the Trump Revolution is all about.

Now get on the Trump Revolution Bandwagon and cut out all the foolishness!


13 posted on 09/28/2018 5:08:23 AM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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To: EyesOfTX

It’s amazing to watch. As soon as No Name left the scene, Lindsey became his own man.


14 posted on 09/28/2018 5:09:44 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: EQAndyBuzz

‘Graham will make an excellent Senate Minority Leader.’

Maybe in Mexico.

Graham deserves praise today, but he hasn’t given a rats’ rear about all of the victims of open-border crimes and the risk of WMD terrorism.


15 posted on 09/28/2018 5:09:48 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: EyesOfTX

btt


16 posted on 09/28/2018 5:10:46 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: EyesOfTX

It is a strange world indeed.

Congratulations, Senator Graham. I’ll be proud to move to South Carolina Spring of next year.


17 posted on 09/28/2018 5:11:13 AM PDT by moovova
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To: EyesOfTX

Thanks for the post and thanks to the author.
Amen on those words.


18 posted on 09/28/2018 5:12:49 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: EyesOfTX

If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us,” Graham says, looking at the Democratic member of the committee. He continues, “What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You’ve said that. Not me.”

Turning to Kavanaugh he added, “You’ve got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said hello, cause I voted for them.


 

19 posted on 09/28/2018 5:13:35 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: EyesOfTX

Also...the Democrats better hope Judge Kavanaugh is actually a fair and honest man (as they’ve claimed he isn’t)...because he’ll now be in a position to open a yuge can of whup-ass revenge on them.


20 posted on 09/28/2018 5:15:22 AM PDT by moovova
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