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Home Front: Politix
Lindsey Graham thinks you're stupid - proudly brags about his valiant effort to defund Obamacare
2013-09-30
[CANADAFREEPRESS] Yesterday, 25 Senate Republicans stood shoulder to shoulder with their Democrat counterparts and helped the Continuing Budget Resolution pass cloture. Despite Ted Cruz's efforts, and his warning that "a vote for cloture was a vote for Obamacare," Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
was eager to join hands and sing Cumbaya with his alleged Dem opponents.

With the help of people like Graham, the CR easily passed cloture, allowing Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
to introduce an amendment restoring funding for Obamacare. The amendment passed with a simple 51 vote majority. This time, since his vote was now a meaningless gesture, Graham tried to hide by oh-so-bravely voting against the Dems.

Clearly, Graham thinks you're either so dumb that you won't notice what he did, or he thinks you're just too stupid to understand it. There's simply no other explanation for the shameless, bald-faced, crock of manure he's been shoveling in the wake of his cloture vote.

Check out this reality-defying statement from his website:

"Today, I proudly voted to defund Obamacare, and I am proud that every Senate Republican has united in support of the House-passed defund Obamacare provision. I only wish that more Senate Democrats, many of whom were responsible for Obamacare's passage into law, would have voted with us.

With Democrats in control of the Senate, we needed Democrats to join with the American people who want Obamacare stopped in its tracks. Based upon the Democrats unanimous votes in support of funding Obamacare, they must not have gotten the message.

I fought and voted against Obamacare in 2010. Since then, I have tried to stop the law's implementation any way I can"

No. He's not kidding. He's really trying to pretend that he's been a leader in the effort to defund the ACA since the beginning. After his initial statement, he took to Twitter, where he continued to outline his valiant effort to defund this train wreck of a law.

His feed reads like the fever-dream ramblings of someone who's either completely lost hold of reality, or is deeply frightened by the forthcoming consequences of his actions...
Posted by:Fred

#5  Graham already has 3 primary challengers.

Will be an interesting election. The Tame Republicans figure they have all but eliminated these upstart Tea Party types. Would love to send a few more of them packing in '14 -- to be replaced with Cruz and Rand types. Swapping a McCain for a Cruz is in many ways a bigger win than swapping a generic D for a generic R.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-09-30 14:41  

#4  You are probably right, P2K. But Graham is up for reelection in 2014. Obviously he will have the advantages of incumbency and a healthy war chest. But we can still hope he will have an opponent in the primary who will remember this charade and effectively remind the voters. I even have a campaign slogan: Dump the RINO. Kinda catchy, huh?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-09-30 11:22  

#3  The republic is over. They're just keeping up the facade as long as possible to keep the masses from going full Greek/Spanish/etc who hide wealth and business from the tax farmers. Of course, those in the oligarchy already own their representatives in the government to grant them ways to protect their 'piece of the action'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-09-30 10:31  

#2   “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-09-30 10:10  

#1  Lindsay Graham is correct (this time) - we are (statistically) stupid; what more proof is needed than the election of the whole crowd in DC?
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-09-30 08:02  

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