‘If we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.’

[babylonsister]

:cry:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/06/graham-bloggers/

Lindsey Graham: ‘If we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.’

After it was announced earlier this week that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) would replace Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) as the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, bloggers, including ThinkProgress, noted that Sessions had a record of racial insensitivity that stopped his appointment to the federal bench in 1986. Now, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is hitting back at the blogs:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Republicans would fight back hard if Democrats or liberal groups try to make the Supreme Court confirmation process about Sessions’ record, rather than about Obama’s nominee to replace Justice David Souter.

“If people try to go down that road, it’ll blow up in their face, because Jeff is a good guy,” Graham said. “My hope is that our Democratic colleagues — if you start listening to the bloggers — if we’re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country’s best days are behind us.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=308018
Sen. Jeff Sessions' Racism (youtube)

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I'm sure that lots of despicable racists are "good guys". What a buffoon.

[Cha]

2. I just knew it had to be a whiny little pissant who

uttered those words.

Yeah, baby..blogger here and does it feel good to have the citizens speak for America instead of the party of freakin' NO.

[Eric J in MN]

3. If we let the Washington insiders who supported going to war in Iraq...

...and are now torture apologists run things, that would be worse than letting liberal bloggers run the country.

[louis-t]

4. Replace "bloggers" with "Republicans"

[Judi Lynn]

17. Or even, hate radio. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. .

:thumbsup:

[City Lights]

20. GMTA!

:thumbsup:

[Danger Mouse]

5. Yes, how DARE we find facts about his despicable actions in the past!

How DARE we!

[Solly Mack]

6. now see, some might say a torture program was evidence of the

"country’s best days" being behind us......but not Graham. It's bloggers.

[Dappleganger]

7. Facts be damned!

A republican wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ass.

[rvablue]

8. Yeah, Lindsey... sharing information, learning history and speaking truth is going to destroy us!?!

[mitchum]

9. Fuck you Gomer

[Echo In Light]

10. "Goddamn democracy and its cacophony of voices and views!"

[Journeyman]

13. Damn straight! No power to the people! . . .

Let 'em cheney themselves . . .

[ixion]

11. Bloggers could do a damn site better than the status quo fascists

that have corrupted our republic over the past 50 years.

The Bloggers are, in reality: We, the People.

Therefore, we DO run the country.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Bloggers couldn't be worse than politicians.

"When politics enter . . . government, nothing resulting there from in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."

"In . . . politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.  Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn’t be wise."

Mark Twain

[liberalmuse]

14. Sunlight:Vampires = Truth:Republicans

Those pesky bloggers have some nerve!

On edit: I suck at math

[DebbieCDC]

15. There goes Missy Lindsay again with another attack of the vapors

[blogslut]

16. Hear, hear Sir Graham!

How dare mere citizens speak out and accrue power! Someone bring me my fainting couch, my pearls need clutching!

[Mist]

18. "Best days" for you and your ilk, you pissant. For the rest of us, good times ahead! Bloggers are

what journalists and a free press used to be.

[Contrary1]

21. Bwahahahaha...he's right about some bloggers.

Especially this one:

The hypocrite's own blog

[Johonny]

22. because Jeff is a good guy

Maybe the nominee that has yet to be even named is a good guy too and it won't matter. It seems like Sen. Lindsey Graham has already suggested the nominee won't be a good guy and a integrity fight will break out. It seems odd to complain about someone that does not yet exist and a fight not currently going on.

[Liberal In Texas]

23. Accountablility for Repugs and THEIR best days are behind THEM. n/t

[kestrel91316]

24. Oh, yeah, ignore the bloggers. Smart move. They forget, we are more likely to vote.

[L0oniX]

25. No Lindsey. We will have better days when you are gone you f*cking asscarrot.