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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like Lindsey Rat may be looking for an escape route off the sinking Trump ship.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/lindsey-graham-pushes-back-on-trumps-antifa-bashing-rhetoric-and-praises-obamas-police-reforms/During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) acknowledged that George Floyds death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers was a wake up call for the country, adding that he wants to get to the root cause of police violence against African American men.
Graham said that hes sure antifa has a role to play in the rioting and looting, but Im old enough to remember 1968, like many of you.
The overwhelming issue for us is after you stop the rioting, which we will, what are you going to do about the problem that led to the protest? Graham said.
I think this committee has a unique opportunity to build on some things that the Obama administration did, and ask ourselves some hard questions.
Ouch. That Obama reference is going to leave a mark.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)You've got trump all over you Lindsay.
lame54
(35,292 posts)And trying to hide in a rose garden
dalton99a
(81,512 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a future position just in case.
Graham is in deep doo doo with his reelection. Graham is just a Opportunist always has been and always will be.
sop
(10,190 posts)Lindsey could be in trouble in South Carolina.
Bucky
(54,013 posts)I'm gonna start calling Jaime Harrison "the Ratcatcher"
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the Prof's at the University of South Carolina,as of yesterday,have become more than active in support of Harrison. This comes from my Neighbor who's Son is a Prof at the U.
Desert grandma
(804 posts)Maybe, just maybe, some of these Republican enablers of the orange Liar in Chief are beginning to grasp their own vulnerabilities in November. Lindsey is a two faced hypocrite that cannot be trusted IMO.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Which was is the wind blowing todaaaaayyyyy????
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)before the convention.
That would be absolutely amazing if they all met for their convention and nominated Romney to be the candidate behind Trump's back.
I know it won't happen but am holding out hope and would probably be one of the best things I've ever seen.
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)to make it so.
The current plan for the convention is as a pep-rally for Trump and those who sail in him. Along with meet-and-greet events for the money to connect in person with GOP candidates and co-ordinators.
lame54
(35,292 posts)How many times has he hit the snooze button?
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)The overwhelming issue for us is after you stop the rioting, which we will, what are you going to do about the problem that led to the protest? Graham said.
The police have had decades, DECADES to clean house going back to Rodney King and even further going back to civil rights protests in the 60s. The police have had DECADES to clean house and at every turn have poo pooed any meaningful reform and in fact have grown more brazen after getting their precious qualified immunity to run wholesale ruff-shod over anyone they want to. So poo poo to you Lindsey Graham. Any one with two functioning eyes can identify the problem that led to the unrest.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)Sure, he'll likely win, but he has some legit competition.
Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)common thread.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)NNadir
(33,523 posts)...doesn't even like dogs, except when he's cowering in his bunker, hoping vicious dogs will rip people to pieces.
Lindsey should just get out of the way. It's clear he's a racist.
SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)enough.
gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)He spent 1942 through 1945 bucking wing rivets in the bombers that helped stop the Nazis. Prouder of that than anything else he did.
Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)My dad spent 1942 through 1945 in a tank with the 1st Armored Division in North Africa and Italy. I guess our dads were Antifa before Antifa was cool.
MurrayDelph
(5,297 posts)Mopar151
(9,983 posts)My Dad - bronze star, purple heart, wounded in action in the Vosges Mountains of France. 100th division, 3rd Army. He had PTSD, back when it was "That's just how Dad is!" OTOH, I grew up an a neighborhood of "veteran dad's" - You never so much as pointed a stick "gun" around any of them.
Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)He spent it in England getting Ordnance unpacked And put together to go across the channel on dday. After dday more of the same, plus guarding Nazi POWs in transit to pow camps.
TheBlackAdder
(28,203 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Or if his selective memory stores 1968, but not J. Edgar Hoover's secret program to disrupt, intimidate, and kill activists for reform.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Fuck him and the orange ass he rode in on.
Bucky
(54,013 posts)They drown
LAS14
(13,783 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,814 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)irisblue
(32,975 posts)Send Jamie Harrison some green to pay for Graham's passage
His website-https://jaimeharrison.com/
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Make room for Lindsey under the bus.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Where have your lips been?
Just askkkin.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)ancianita
(36,058 posts)crickets
(25,980 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Mickju
(1,803 posts)He's afraid of losing his Senate seat.