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alwaysinasnit

(5,072 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:25 PM Oct 2018

Lindsey Graham demands Sen. Amy Klobuchar apologize to Brett Kavanaugh during Fox News appearance

Source: Rawstory

Graham said that he felt sorry for Dr. Christine Beasley Ford.
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“I think [Dr. Ford has] been used and abused. My beef is with the Democratic Party who laid in wait, betrayed her trust, and didn’t tell her we would go to California. My beef is with the fact that they’ve done everything they can do to destroy her life,” Graham said.

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Kavanaugh rudely attacked Klobuchar after she questioned him about his drinking habits.

“This is the one that bothers me the most. He apologized to Amy Klobuchar for snapping at her,” Graham said. “What would you do if you were accused of all these things? Here’s what I think, Amy Klobuchar should apologize to Judge Kavanaugh and his family for being part of a smear campaign I haven’t seen in over 20 years in politics.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/lindsey-graham-demands-sen-amy-klobuchar-apologize-to-brett-kavanaugh-during-fox-news-appearance/



Is this M*ther F*cker for real???
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Lindsey Graham demands Sen. Amy Klobuchar apologize to Brett Kavanaugh during Fox News appearance (Original Post) alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 OP
WTF is wrong with this guy? crazytown Oct 2018 #1
Audition. SergeStorms Oct 2018 #52
Lindsey is off his fucking rocker. MontanaMama Oct 2018 #2
A smear campaign like he hasn't seen in 20 years ? Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #25
He's applying to be the next AG after Sessions gets the boot. nt DesertRat Oct 2018 #3
Has to be bigger than that JenniferJuniper Oct 2018 #13
This Asshole is an embaressment to the country still_one Oct 2018 #4
She kinda did. They apologized to each other... Kajun Gal Oct 2018 #5
Exactly. I thought she was being way too nice to him. SunSeeker Oct 2018 #14
She had nothing to apologize for! Meadowoak Oct 2018 #20
He is auditioning for his new "Daddy figure" lapfog_1 Oct 2018 #6
Looks like when McCain died, he took Lindsey's soul with him. SunSeeker Oct 2018 #7
That's laughable. What a joker Lindsey is! Forget the AG job... InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2018 #8
When Trump does not pick him, because of what Trump has always been about, retribution, rusty quoin Oct 2018 #49
I think Graham has repaired all that by smoozing moonscape Oct 2018 #50
You're absolutely right... zero chance tRump picks him. InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2018 #51
Maybe having a woman watoos Oct 2018 #9
They all hear Lady Justice drawing her sword and lifting her veil, and theirs. Fred Sanders Oct 2018 #10
Why is Graham acting like a cornered rat? C_U_L8R Oct 2018 #11
Sounds like it. I found this article on Graham... alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #15
Dana Milbank hit the nail on the head with that one! BumRushDaShow Oct 2018 #60
being a practicing drunk... BlueIdaho Oct 2018 #18
Pressure From the Russians? dlk Oct 2018 #12
Maybe, especially as he seems to have gone off the deep end. alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #17
Post removed Post removed Oct 2018 #16
I'm beginning to think one of the two popular rumors/hypotheses about his recent behavior is true: RockRaven Oct 2018 #19
Your post sent me looking and I found this... alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #24
He has gone totally off the rails meadowlark5 Oct 2018 #21
I don't really care (what Lindsey demands), do u? Freethinker65 Oct 2018 #22
Not really, but in a crowd of vile Republicons, he sure stands out. alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #26
i think L.G. should be brought up on charges ...... french revolution time Lindy Hop trueblue2007 Oct 2018 #23
Its hardly surprising he is calling Dr. Ford a liar after all he and his party are focused only on cstanleytech Oct 2018 #27
Totally agree. F*cking Mitch McConnell. alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #28
It honestly makes no political sense for them to risk this though which is why I suspect cstanleytech Oct 2018 #30
Quid pro quo... and then KavaNut will provide even more once on the SC bench? alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #31
Well that is a given if he had already been doing things for them the question is what things did he cstanleytech Oct 2018 #46
Well, KavaNut (and others) have been groomed, so to speak, to keep this sort of power alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #48
So many WTFs in one day! PatSeg Oct 2018 #29
Eat shit and die cupcake. NoMoreRepugs Oct 2018 #32
So basically Graham wants her to apoligize to Kav for making him be Doreen Oct 2018 #33
Russian money burned holes in more than just his pocket. dchill Oct 2018 #34
Dear Senator Graham, People in Hell want ice water. Algernon Moncrieff Oct 2018 #35
Hysterical. No, seriously, he's completely hysterical. truthisfreedom Oct 2018 #36
Brothers from a different mother??? I like the "hysterical" part. alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #37
Gaslighting gasbag. Standard rethug tactic to bend the truth 180 degrees. diva77 Oct 2018 #38
Senator John McCain would be ashamed of Lindsey Graham Gothmog Oct 2018 #39
I'm not so sure. Scruffy1 Oct 2018 #40
CNN: Graham says Trump-Sessions relationship is 'beyond repair' TomCADem Oct 2018 #41
Nah. Forget subtlety, too much work. These toxic Republicons are just going for the naked alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #42
just another politician that Putin has the goods on. Fuck him olddad56 Oct 2018 #43
FWIW alwaysinasnit Oct 2018 #44
Dear Senator Graham, your temperament to sit in judgement on laws that effect the American Public turbinetree Oct 2018 #45
Senator Graham? Go fuck yourself. Still In Wisconsin Oct 2018 #47
The only pleasure this piece of shit will ever get. Racerdog1 Oct 2018 #57
Lindsey Graham needs to be in a treatment facility. YOHABLO Oct 2018 #53
Lindsey Graham is a real gaslighting MF. Cha Oct 2018 #54
I think lil' lindsey should ask Dr Ford. Once he stops being so hormonal. truthisfreedom Oct 2018 #55
I will state the obvious: Kavanaugh needs to apologize to her raccoon Oct 2018 #56
Ever notice throughout his whole overwrought "rant" he was looking at notes? Snellius Oct 2018 #58
A definitive answer to the question ResistantAmerican17 Oct 2018 #59
He wants that Yankee Gal to be deferential to him. no_hypocrisy Oct 2018 #61
Graham can't carry Klobuchar's lunch jcgoldie Oct 2018 #62
Lindsey pamdb Oct 2018 #63
Fuck, no! It is Kavanaugh who should be apologizing to every Democratic Senator he insulted and Nitram Oct 2018 #64
Hold your breath until it happens, Lindsey. Paladin Oct 2018 #65

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
52. Audition.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 02:54 AM
Oct 2018

He's auditioning for Trump's next Attorney General after Trump fires Sessions. Putting up such a strenuous defense of Kavanaugh will only endear him to the mango colored monster.

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
2. Lindsey is off his fucking rocker.
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:28 PM
Oct 2018

Either he has lost his damned mind or he is so compromised that he can’t see straight. Never seen anything like it.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
25. A smear campaign like he hasn't seen in 20 years ?
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:49 PM
Oct 2018

Where the fuck were you during EIGHT years of President Obama being crucified by the republicans every goddam minute ?

Graham - what is your individual malfunction ?

SunSeeker

(51,698 posts)
14. Exactly. I thought she was being way too nice to him.
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:37 PM
Oct 2018

She had every right, indeed a duty, to ask that question, since it directly related to the allegations about which the hearing was being condected. And she asked the question in the most professional way possible.

If it was me, I would have ripped his head off after he became petulant. I would have asked what he would do if a person responded to him in court the way he just did to me.

lapfog_1

(29,223 posts)
6. He is auditioning for his new "Daddy figure"
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:30 PM
Oct 2018

Since McCain died... he is lost without a "leader" so Trump is it.

He wants Sessions job.

You can guess what that would mean for the DOJ and the FBI... Hillary would be arrested within a month or so.

 

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)
49. When Trump does not pick him, because of what Trump has always been about, retribution,
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 01:41 AM
Oct 2018

where does that leave him. He came down too hard on Trump, and Trump does not forgive. He likes what Lindsey is doing. But I don’t think Trump will ever forgive him. I think Trump gets more satisfaction in destroying people. That is a good feeling for him.

And that leaves Lindsey as a joke, because he would be really bad at stand-up.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
50. I think Graham has repaired all that by smoozing
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 02:41 AM
Oct 2018

with him on the links, by going balls-out for him, etc.

45 has no friends and very few he can turn to. His choices are limited and Graham would be confirmed by the Senate easily.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. They all hear Lady Justice drawing her sword and lifting her veil, and theirs.
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:32 PM
Oct 2018

On a related Graham note, I think folks discovered The Goblin this week right here in America...more than one.

https://www.statesman.com/zz/news/20181002/scrawny-dwarf-planet-named-goblin-found-well-beyond-pluto

Response to alwaysinasnit (Original post)

RockRaven

(14,998 posts)
19. I'm beginning to think one of the two popular rumors/hypotheses about his recent behavior is true:
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:43 PM
Oct 2018

The First is that there is damning, dangerous, dirty kompromat on him in the possession of Putin and/or Trump.

The Second is that he is done, done, done with the fundraising/campaigning treadmill and is desperate for an off-ramp which enhances his position instead the ignominious, tail-between-the-legs, running-away position of Flake and Corker; so he is angling for a Trump administration position which in title at least will buff up his bona fides beyond Senator (AG, SecState, SecDef, etc) for purposes of later lobbying, punditry, consulting, or corporate boards.

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
21. He has gone totally off the rails
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:44 PM
Oct 2018

Has he always been like this deep inside but kept it in for appearances and now he's been liberated by the slob in chief? Or is he so damned afraid or mad that he's been caught in possibly illegal dealings that he's just flipping out? He's got nothing to lose, so might as well go down swinging?

I hate him almost more than McConnell. Sniveling little whiner.

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
27. Its hardly surprising he is calling Dr. Ford a liar after all he and his party are focused only on
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:50 PM
Oct 2018

one thing and its not justice nor is it making sure that the next SCOTUS judge is a good pick rather their focus is on ramming Kavanaugh through at all costs.

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
30. It honestly makes no political sense for them to risk this though which is why I suspect
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:55 PM
Oct 2018

this is payment to Kavanaugh for services rendered from a few years ago and its why he refuses to withdraw because he expects to be paid what he feels he is owed for whatever he did.

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
46. Well that is a given if he had already been doing things for them the question is what things did he
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 01:14 AM
Oct 2018

do for them that gave him the clout to demand this appointment not just from Trump but from the entire Senate Repugnants?

alwaysinasnit

(5,072 posts)
48. Well, KavaNut (and others) have been groomed, so to speak, to keep this sort of power
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 01:23 AM
Oct 2018

structure in place. I imagine this is how they operate within their "network."

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
33. So basically Graham wants her to apoligize to Kav for making him be
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 12:04 AM
Oct 2018

verbally abusive to her. You know it is always the woman who makes the man do it.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
35. Dear Senator Graham, People in Hell want ice water.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 12:10 AM
Oct 2018

You've got about the same odds on getting this apology you want.

Best Regards,

The rest of America

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
41. CNN: Graham says Trump-Sessions relationship is 'beyond repair'
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 12:45 AM
Oct 2018

Wow, I Am Giving Lindsey a 90 Percent Chance of Being Our Next Attorney General. You would think that Jeff Sessions would just be a wee bit more subtle.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/lindsey-graham-jeff-sessions-trump/index.html

Washington (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's relationship with Jeff Sessions is "beyond repair" and suggested that the attorney general be replaced.

"The President has lost confidence in Jeff Sessions. I'm telling you what everybody in the country knows, this is a dysfunctional relationship, we need a better one," the South Carolina Republican said in an interview on NBC News' "Today" show.

"This relationship is beyond repair, I think," Graham said. "I'm not asking him to be fired, but the relationship is not working."

The President's latest criticism of Sessions last Wednesday came the same week his former campaign chair Paul Manafort and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen were convicted and pleaded guilty, respectively, to various crimes, including bank fraud and tax fraud.


alwaysinasnit

(5,072 posts)
42. Nah. Forget subtlety, too much work. These toxic Republicons are just going for the naked
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 12:51 AM
Oct 2018

power grabs (and raiding the US Treasury).

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
45. Dear Senator Graham, your temperament to sit in judgement on laws that effect the American Public
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 12:54 AM
Oct 2018

attacking the committee that you are Judicatory and then threatening "Democrats " the your pointy little finger waving around and threaten my representatives, is a threat on me..............................your has dangerous as the orange hair sexual predator admitted one, and now the country sees a federal,judge that was probably three sheet to wind went into his rant of the demons out trying come out under the beds to get him, while He was LYING.........................AND his temperament was just like what you did. did you get the same scrip from the trumpester lawyers...............................and with the NYT reporting that your leader ifs fraud, and the rush to get him confirmed is because of a law and double jeopardy cases if someone is convicted on a federal law, and the pardon, and if it the same case on state, if the person can get pardon from there in the executive office........................................so Leni................your boy drunk is toast........................ in my opinion....................because he lied................and he has attack record of getting drunk and molesting woman in his belligerent state of drunkenness.........................

truthisfreedom

(23,155 posts)
55. I think lil' lindsey should ask Dr Ford. Once he stops being so hormonal.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 05:35 AM
Oct 2018

I mean, just ask Dr Ford how she actually feels about Democrats at this moment.

raccoon

(31,120 posts)
56. I will state the obvious: Kavanaugh needs to apologize to her
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 05:58 AM
Oct 2018

I will state the obvious: Kavanaugh need to apologize to herFor being such a rude asshole.

Lindsey, Didn’t your mama and daddy teach you better than that?

Nitram

(22,879 posts)
64. Fuck, no! It is Kavanaugh who should be apologizing to every Democratic Senator he insulted and
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 09:39 AM
Oct 2018

disrespected during their very reasonable questioning. He also owes Ms. Ford an apology. He behaved like an angry, entitled spoiled brat.

Paladin

(28,272 posts)
65. Hold your breath until it happens, Lindsey.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 10:09 AM
Oct 2018

It's increasingly obvious that the only decent character traits Graham possessed, died with John McCain.

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