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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsfuck this guy: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Silencing Sen Elizabeth Warren 'was long overdue'
The South Carolina senator appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show Wednesday, where he said Warren reading the letter from Coretta Scott King -- in which she expressed opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination to the federal bench in 1986 -- was defamatory to Sessions, now an Alabama senator. The Massachusetts Democrat was ruled to be in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator.
"The bottom line is, it was long overdue with her," he said. "I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020."
"The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community, and they just don't know how to handle it," he added. "If they
empower her, then I think the Democratic Party is gonna lose way with the vast majority of the American people."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/kfile-graham-on-warren/index.html
riversedge
(70,299 posts)was really demeaning.
elleng
(131,102 posts)Of course if he said that on the 'floor,' he'd be silenced too, right???
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Senator Warren for ambitions not in evidence.
Does he still live with his mother? It that why he has female issues?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)According to Graham, she shouldn't even be in the Senate, she should be at home baking cookies for hubby.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Dog.
apnu
(8,758 posts)He's McCain's right hand tool, on occasion, he tries to be reasonable. But he's a pig all the same, just like McCain.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)cracker attitude, he thinks she's an uppity woman who is showing she has more je ne sais quoi than he has ever aspired to have. Lindsey Graham, a Senator that's all talk and then walks it back like hermit crab that has the momentary boldness of spirit to peek outside its hovel/shell only to be spooked back inside when the slightest movement nearby is detected. A closeted wannabe person with a spine.
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)"Heavens to Murgatatroyd. A woman has insulted Sen. Jeffery Beauregard Sessions! What's next? A darkie in the White House?"
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)Painfully true!
whathehell
(29,090 posts)raging moderate
(4,308 posts)It was crying out to the universe, begging to be said.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)to earn his bona-fides in the He-Man Women-Haters Club.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)I thought it was posted on DU about that.
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)His moments of sanity do not compensate for the fact that he is a conservative republican from the south. His attitudes are ingrained.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)For giving her an even stronger platform by telling her to essentially "sit down and shut up" over a rule that's obviously bullpucky since you later allowed MALE Senators to read the exact same letter later with NO issue.
Apparently you fools haven't figured out yet that every time you self-righteous sexist morons try to put her down or suppress her she just gets stronger, more respected and even more well known.
Thank goodness #ShePersisted.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yes indeed!
Mira
(22,380 posts)envy stinks.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)His true colors outed
KG
(28,752 posts)lpbk2713
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They are all a ridiculous anachronism. They don't have enough
sense to be ashamed or embarrassed over what they do.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Well thanks Lindsey, I for one, appreciate being reminded of the basic, eternal truth about you===CONservative, anti-woman, anti-human, anti-democracy Hypocrite.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Guess his opinion changes when dealing with a Nasty Woman.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Nuh-Uh, Senator. WRONG!!!!
Initech
(100,102 posts)Fuck these people. They are so anti-constitutional. Time to vote every god damn one of them out of office.
arithia
(455 posts)I suspect he is showing us the republican's Hand here via projection. Silencing her wasn't about Sessions. It wasn't about Coretta Scott King. It was sexist, but I don't think that was the reason for this censure.
No, I suspect they see Warren as a threat and a viable candidate for 2020 given the liberal pushback going on. If I'm right, they will continue to attempt to reduce her power and platform over other issues. Warren is someone the GOP hasn't spent decades trying to bury in false news stories and scandals like Clinton. I would not be surprised if they try and manufacture more incidents like this in order to have something to attack her over if she does run.
She's too big a threat for the reason The Turtle gave- she persisted. She is not cowed by the bullying endemic to the current Republican party and administration. She is a witch they cannot burn and that terrifies them.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)Ted Kennedy was effective and much needed there. He ran for President half-heartedly and reluctantly.
Warren is better placed as a twenty-first century version of Teddy. We need as many Democrats in the Senate as possible, or they will keep steam-rolling us.
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)We need new, fresh, YOUNG faces for 2020.
CitizenZero
(538 posts)We do need to maintain as many Democratic Senators as possible. We should maybe be looking at Democratic Governors to run in 2020. Anyone have any ideas?
I am from New York, so I see Andrew Cuomo in action. He is a bit of a Centrist, but he is a street fighter who knows how to counter-punch the enemy.
He also has been picking up on some of Bernie's Policies. For example, he is proposing free tuition at the State University.
I would like to see Trump get beaten by a real New York Democrat.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)I like O'Malley, too.
Kaine is another one we should keep in the Senate. Is there someone from California? It is early times yet.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)emmadoggy
(2,142 posts)They are starting early with trying to discredit and "scandalize" her, so they can do to her what they did to Hillary. Just in case she runs.
They are such maggots.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)He knows Fuckface is going to get us all killed and he doesnt know what to do about it.
McCain also knows this.
benld74
(9,909 posts)They are afraid of her
They are thinking 2020
They are doing everything they can to cast doubt on her
Senator Warren is the ONLY Senator to be rebuked in the past umpeen years!
Why is that?
THat is what they will say
JHan
(10,173 posts)They've been swiftboating her as "crazy", "Crackpot" "unhinged" for sometime now.
starshine00
(531 posts)they are cutting their nose off to spite their faces though...
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)Are you referring the American people Senator Lindsay???? Senator Warren Believes in Country over Party you twit.
Republicans always like to have a scapegoat huh???
suffragette
(12,232 posts)she cuts through their lies with the truth and truly represents her constituents with her actions.
She stands for courage, a courage in strong contrast to the cowardice Graham and his cronies clearly have.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Has an atom of common sense he speaks...............
SylviaD
(721 posts)Graham is a phoney. His "principled" stand against Trump was mere opportunism and personal grudge. He is a total sham. In fact at least Trump is honest about his idiotic and crazy positions. Graham is a wolf in sheeps clothing which is much more dangerous. He is at the top of my list of scary Pugs
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)and they should be.
renate
(13,776 posts)Is that not, like, allowed?
Did (please, sweet baby Jesus) future candidate Elizabeth Warren forget to ask permission to run from past candidate Lindsay Graham? Fetch the smelling salts!
Iggo
(47,565 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)And, just as ashamed that Tim Scott also represents me.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Graham, McCain, Collins, and Murkowski are supposed to be "checks" on Trump.
They are all shit.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Now, before I begin, let me be very clear about certain things. And I angry at many of the things my party has done, and worse, refuses to do, absolutely. Do I think that a range of people from Bill Clinton to Nancy Pelosi to Barack Obama made a crucial mistake in not being as aggressive in selling leftist policy, policy that in 1980 was to the right of Ronald Reagan? Absolutely. Do I think that there are a bunch of disgusting Vipers who use the excuse of being from "red states" to act as active agents of the enemy, getting themselves in the best position to backstab us? I live in the South, so if there was any degree above absolutely, I would say it. If I was half the radical/Stalinist that some centrist far I was, I would do a part of our party that would make Stalin himself defecate in his pants. I will not apologize for my anger and distrust of people that actively work to screw me over and screw my working class folks over and then immediately stick their hand in my face demanding I give them the choicest bits of what little I have! Florida Democratic Party, I do not need to name names, and I've already gotten a hide for it!
However, issues like this remind me of why the best Republican will always, repeat always be worse than the very worst Democrat. Now now, I know that we're sick and tired of seeing blue dogs stab us in the back! But keep in mind, even though bluest of blue dogs knows that they have to come home sooner or later, that even if they picked off of the snacks, the dog bones of the overfed GOP frat buddies, they know they have to come home here, and they also know that if even if they tried to go well to the right of her GOP friends, something think tank/crack of nuts would nominate somebody to their right.
Heck, part of the reason why these former cheerleaders and would be storm troopers like Ryan and McConnell are so subservient now is because they know either Steve Bannon or the Koch brothers will gladly defecate several hundred million dollars to find someone that makes them look like Bernie Sanders to run against them. It's no accident that our current head of our education system is someone who would not be qualified to teach kindergarten, but who is openly honest about buying political influence as if it were an Amway product. So even the nicest, most genuine Republican knows they have to be accountable to, and worse, their leaders do not have to pretend anything but Masters looking for good slaves on the market .
As far as the Republican Party is concerned, I do not hear if they present people in 1000 colors of skin, 10,000 accents, or even some LGBT, it does not matter, because regardless of whether they are sincere or not they will serve the Masters of Republican Party: the billionaires, and the churches that serve them. Of course there are times I can see a John McCain say something that, well, let's be fair is common sense. We know that when the time comes, John will serve his GOP Masters.
In addition to this, I have to ask you this: we have such low self-respect that when the GOP acknowledges what we know to be true, what is not merely self-evident, but has been proven again and again and again and again for the past 35 years, that we want to go ahead and admire them? Congratulations centrist Republican you have proven that you know 2+2 = 4; do we give you the Nobel Prize for mathematics? Congratulations centrist Republican, You realize that Trump will stain your party even worse than the Bush family did, and you have some regrets; we see you kissing Trump's ass , we see you kissing Bannon's ass, and oh yes, go ahead and grumble about Russian influence, because Vladimir Rasputin knows that he has Trump, he has you, you the former diehard Russian haters were given Moscow the sort of glory and influence Stalin never could have dreamed of.
Again, I hate blue dogs, and I know that one of the questions we will have to answer is how to keep these blue dogs on the porch so that they stop wondering into the GOP yards, so that they stop biting our hands as we feed them, so that they can go ahead and nuzzle up to the same GOP good old boy farmer but plans to shoot them anyway. That being said, I will always regard anything, and I do mean anything the GOP offers is garbage at best, poison at worst, and I always lean towards the worst.
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)Warren could eat him for breakfast.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...and a standing invite to the highest level of the National Security Council.
Speaking of "being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices", just sayin'.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)She can wear a dress in public, and he has to do it in sleazy motels.
DFW
(54,436 posts)And it has affected his judgement.....
LenaBaby61
(6,977 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Your hubris is long overdue to be held in check:
https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-senator-graham
alarimer
(16,245 posts)I mean, really, essentially telling a woman she's too mouthy?
So, Sen. Graham, get a spine and oppose the asshole in the WH and I MIGHT let this go.
They are afraid she will run in 2020 because she will wipe the floor with Trump.
chade
(103 posts)Says the guy whose party elected Donald Trump.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)SylviaD
(721 posts)...his current behavior has shown his "principles" to be nothing but a shallow sham
The man is a FRAUD
Initech
(100,102 posts)And that is that good people like Prince and David Bowie die young. And assholes like Hatch, Graham, and McConnell live forever!
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)says one thing that is OK. But he really cannot stay reasonable.