Lindsey Graham: "We've had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions"

[kpete]

"Do we have the votes? I believe we do," said Reid, who expects a final vote on the package will be held on Thursday.

It could actually be that Reid is right, because Lindsey Graham, pearls firmly clutched, is about to hit the fainting couch.

"This process stinks," Graham told FOX News, before repeating a lot of his criticisms on the Senate floor. "We're making this up as we go and it is a waste of money. It is a broken process, and the president, as far as I'm concerned, has been AWOL on providing leadership on something as important as this."

(THIS IS RICH - HE SHOULD KNOW!!!!!!)

"Scaring people is not leadership. Writing an editorial that if you don't pass this bad bill we're going to have disaster -- we've had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions," Graham said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/05/graham-says-obama-awol-stimulus-debate/

No word on whether he said that last part with a straight face.
more at:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/05/harry-reid-says-hes-got-the-votes-for-stimulus-bill-lindsey-graham-throws-hissy-fit/

[BOSSHOG]

1. Actually Lindsey

bush wasn't AWOL, he deserted and he did so to avoid a drug test. Love those conservative values.

[stray cat]

2. So Graham still agrees with McCain that the foundations of the economy are strong?

[killbotfactory]

3. Amazing

These people have absolutely no shame.

[prolesunited]

4. These people live in bizarro world

[pacalo]

5. Care to name any names before you hit the fainting couch, Lindsey?

"Scaring people is not leadership...we've had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions."

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. I do declare...... nt

[Solly Mack]

6. That's rich

[dbackjon]

8. WARNING - FOX LINK HAS VIRUS

[dbackjon]

10. n/m

[Parker CA]

9. Plain and simple, if it isn't a benefit to their bank account balances by one means or another, they

won't pass it. Selfish, greedy, and completely out of touch bastardos.

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[bunnies]

12. huh?

:shrug:

[FiveGoodMen]

huh (squared)??

[Earth Bound Misfit]

16. I think he or she is referring to

"because Lindsey Graham, pearls firmly clutched...

[bunnies]

18. Since when did that phrase have anything to do with being gay?

Bizarre.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

19. Indeed..

:shrug:

[Ikonoklast]

23. This is what they meant, being overly emotional over little of substance.

But, some people see everything as a slight.

[dbackjon]

25. If you were denied equality

You would as well.

So until you are treated as a second class citizen, STFU.

[dbackjon]

26. If you were denied equality

You would as well.

So until you are treated as a second class citizen, STFU.

[dbackjon]

24. It does, but the homophobes here on DU are in denial

DU has turned into being only slightly more tolerant than Free Republic.

Very sad.


But it is apparent that most of DU doesn't give a crap about full equality.

[Bolo Boffin]

15. The Internet is that way.

Smearing all of DU for the actions of some (or the perceived actions of one in this case) isn't conducive to getting your point across.

[arcadian]

13. The National Irony Meter just broke.

The main one at the Naval Observatory in D.C. where they record official irony.

[Metta]

14. He said this with a straight face? Either he thinks Americans are short sighted or stupid. Mirror?

Has he been looking into a mirror?

[EOTE]

17. This type of fear mongering has gone on just long enough!

Said the Senator with a completely straight face.

[gratuitous]

20. Presidents scare people into making bad decisions, Lindsey?

That doesn't seem to have been any problem for during the last eight years. Surely you're not now saying that you and your Republican colleagues made any bad decisions while you were in the majority during that time or that you made those decisions motivated by fear? Are you? Maybe getting you under oath and having you recite some of those bad decisions you made under George W. Bush would be instructive for a war crimes tribunal, hmmmm?

Have I mentioned how much I hate these people?

[frylock]

21. ever the drama queen..

another case of the vapors, lindsay?

[benld74]

22. My daughter is named Lindsey, only 7, but already smarter than this ONE!