Posted on 01/06/2019 3:26:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wondered Sunday how President Donald Trump can negotiate an end to the partial government shutdown “as long as the radical left is in charge.”
Graham told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he doesn’t hold out much hope for a quick resolution to the impasse as long as Republicans are dealing with Democrats who are acting like fringe politicians.
“We’re having to negotiate with people who want to abolish ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], not support ICE. We’re having to negotiate with people who see border patrol agents gassing children, rather than defending our borders as professional law enforcement officers,” Graham said.
“ICE is not the problem, it’s the solution,” Graham told CBS. “The goal is to repair a damaged, broken immigration system. It’s to implement policies Democrats have voted for in the past on President Trump’s watch.” (RELATED: Mother Of Son Killed By Illegal Immigrant Tells Democrats To Love Americans More Than You Hate The President) “And we’re negotiating with people who will … accuse all of us who support a wall as part of border security as racists. As long as the radical left is in charge, we’re not going to get anywhere,” he told the network.
Graham, who initially balked at supporting Trump’s candidacy to lead the Republican Party in the 2016 presidential election, has become one of the administration’s most loyal legislators. Graham defended Trump’s choice of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice and has even come around to Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, after some initial opposition.
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McCain dies and suddenly he BUTCHES UP to all hell..!
It’s like McCain had photos of Linda, uh...DOING SOMETHING.
Still glad for his change of heart, though...
Lindsey is in Full Panic Attack
Finally, a republican that doesn’t take blame for the shutdown and goes on the attack!
I’m really liking Lindsey 2.0!
Graham is up for re-election in 2020.
This is the McCain two-step.
Sound conservative for two years and act like an amnesty whore for four.
There is no “new” Grahamnesty.
Yep....Zebra can never change its stripes.
Lindsey, please shut up and pay attention to your duties as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. It’s BADLY IN NEED OF URGENT ATTENTION. Pay attention to the below and put your committee’s “foot on the accelerator”. IMHO, the current lack of progress on filling judicial vacancies is UNFORGIVABLE.
BOTH the Senate and President Trump need to get cracking to QUICKLY fill the MANY VACANCIES on US federal judgeships. There are over 140 vacancies of which around 70 had nominees pending in the last Congress. But there were around 70 for which Trump had not yet submitted nominees.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
And there are other judgeships where near-future vacancies are known. These also need nominations in the pipeline.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
I hope President Trump (and Lindsey Graham, the new Judiciary Committee Chairman) give this effort the URGENCY it needs.
McCain dies and suddenly he BUTCHES UP to all hell..!
It’s like McCain had photos of Linda, uh...DOING SOMETHING.
Getting closer to election time.
McCain dies and suddenly he BUTCHES UP to all hell..!
It’s like McCain had photos of Linda, uh...DOING SOMETHING.
Getting closer to election time.
Paul Ryan is responsible for the shutdown. He should’ve gotten the budget done and signed before the last session ended. I suspect strongly that he deliberately was sabotaging the Trump administration.
There is no “new” Grahamnesty.
Appearing on Face the Nation, Republican Senator Lindsey ‘Marcus Junius Brutus‘ Graham (U-DC) discusses his bold support for President Trump and the need for a physical border barrier.
Senator Brutus, a beneficiary of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee [think lobbying – example here], connects his support for President Trump’s border position with his concerns about a withdrawal of a U.S. military presence in Syria. Quote: …”the president is slowing down and he is reevaluating his policies”…
Graham on shutdown battle: "The goal is not to open up the government"
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ~ Cicero
Senator Durbin:
Durbin: "I can't say that we're close" on shutdown deal because Trump "doesn’t care"
Of course Paul Ryan was sabotaging the Trump administration.
They are trying to stop the Cheap Labor Express, the people Ryan serves.
The Democrats are the ones who say the shutdown is bad.
So, they can end it if it’s so bad.
The Left is responsible for not being able to open the rest of government up.
Definitely, the invasion is one of their tactics for destroying the USA!
Maybe. But he can deliver a lot of judges in 2 years and issue subpoenas to brennan and clapper. So im ok with it for now.
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