What’s knotting-up Lindsey Graham’s panties today?

Posted by Tengrain Sunday, February 17th, 2013

In the never-ending quest to prevent a primary challenge from his right, SC Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Closet) has been on a manly-man quest to tack hard-right to please the teabaggers (a constituency he should know very well, if you catch my drift and I think you do). When he puts on his hunting togs–we’re thinking jodhpurs and knee-high boots, red velvet coat, and yes, we believe he has them in his closet, probably on a houseboy–we will have a good laugh.

Anyway, today instead of screaming Benghazi at us, he’s found a new show tune:

“Here’s my belief: let’s take Obamacare and put it on the table. If you want to look at ways to find $1.2 trillion in savings over the next decade, let’s look at Obamacare. Let’s don’t destroy the military and just cut blindly across the board.”

Huckleberry hopes that screaming socialism will line up the rubes behind him. That boat done set sail, Senator.

(Think Progress has a non-snarky look at what cutting healthcare would mean in real terms. Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham ought to be ashamed.)

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Miss Lindsey still cannot decide between Rhett and Ashley

Posted by Tengrain Sunday, February 10th, 2013

Poor Senatorette, she’s just not sure about her dance card these days:

BOB SCHIEFFER (HOST): I’m not sure I understand. What do you plan to do if they don’t give you an answer? Are you going to put a hold on these two nominations?

GRAHAM: Yes…How could Susan Rice come on to your show and say there’s no evidence of a terrorist attack when the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said they knew that night? I think that was a misleading narrative three weeks before our election.

SCHIEFFER: Let me just make sure, because you’re about to make some news here, I think. You are saying that you are going to block the nominations — you’re going to block them from coming to a vote until you get an answer to this? Now, John McCain has already said he doesn’t think the Republicans ought to filibuster this. What will you do? You’re just going to put a hold on it? [...]

GRAHAM: I want to know who changed the talking points. Who took the references to Al Qaeda out of the talking points given to Susan Rice? We still don’t know…. I want to know what our president did. What did he do as commander in chief? Did he ever pick up the phone and call anybody? I think this is the stuff the country needs to know.

So there you have it. Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham, from the wingnuttiest state of South Carolina, who is facing a likely Teabagger primary challenge, is going all butch and is going to serve trouble to the uppity Kenyan Usurper.

(Think Progress)

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Huckleberry is having a hard time choosing between Rhett and Ashley

Posted by Tengrain Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

“I haven’t forgotten about Benghazi. Hillary Clinton got away with murder, in my view.”

–Senatorette Miss Huckleberry Closetcase

The ghost of Vince Foster seeks his revenge!

Huckleberry is going to be primaried. He’s acting all butch and macho for his base of mouth-breathing paste-eaters, but notice that Kerry got his confirmation vote.

UPDATE:

“The one thing I’m not going to do is vote on a new secretary of Defense until the old secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, who I like very much, testifies about what happened in Benghazi.”

(Think Progress)

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Lindsey Graham: You butch thing!

Posted by Tengrain Sunday, December 30th, 2012

I’m not going to raise the debt ceiling unless we get serious about keeping the country from becoming Greece, saving Social Security and Medicare [sic]. So here’s what i would like: meaningful entitlement reform — not to turn Social Security into private accounts, not to take a voucher approach to Medicare — but, adjust the age for Social Security, CPI changes and means testing and look beyond the ten-year window. I cannot in good conscience raise the debt ceiling without addressing the long term debt problems of this country and I will not.

Or the shorter version of Senatorette Huckleberry Closetcase: “As God is mah witness, Ah’ll never get primaried again.”

(Think Progress)

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The Evening Quote — and bonus track!

Posted by Tengrain Monday, December 10th, 2012

“Yes, we will play that game, Mr. President, because this is not a game.”

–Senatorette Huckleberry Closetcase, who hilariously followed it up with:

“How about manning up here, Mr. President?”

And you thought Lindsay Graham didn’t have a sense of humor?

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“Ah declare! No one has…”

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, September 20th, 2012

“…eyed mah seat in years, sir!”

The conservative Club for Growth may target South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s seat in 2014 by supporting a more conservative primary challenger, the group’s president said Thursday morning at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Chris Chocola, the group’s president, pointed to Graham for not being sufficiently pro-free market.

“If you’re looking to the horizon of 2014,” Chocola said, “the sun may rise over South Carolina.” He said that Graham “has not fared well on our score card.”

Club for Growth has helped unseat other moderate Republicans such as Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana and Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah.

Somewhere, Grandpa Walnuts realizes that his play dates with Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham and Traitor Joe are coming to an end.

(TPM)

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The Afternoon Quote

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

“Mitt Romney shouldn’t be criticized for using off-shore tax havens because it’s really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.”

–Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham

(Think Progress)

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Traitor Joe wants a 4th war?

Posted by Tengrain Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Two out of three stooges on Fox news wanna bomb Iraq. (Walnuts was on another channel.) So here’s Senatorette Miss Lindsey “Ham Biscuits” Graham and her prince consort Traitor Joe insisting we start a 4th, parallel war in the Mid-East, this time with Iran.

As we said way back in one of the earliest posts, the only winner in our war against Iraq is Iran.

(Think Progress)

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The Sunday Talkies…

Posted by Tengrain Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

It’s a trifecta:

–NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Pre-empted for Wimbledon coverage

–ABC’s “This Week”: Constitution panel with Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson, Harvard University’s Jill Lepore, TIME’s Richard Stengel and ABC’s George Will; immigration panel with Michelle Rhee, former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas

–CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Gov. John Kasich (R-OH); Gov. Deval Patrick (R-MA); Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI); Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-Los Angeles)

–”Fox News Sunday”: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); roundtable with The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, FORTUNE’s Nina Easton, Chris Stirewalt and New York Post columnist Kirsten Powers

–CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); roundtable with former AOL Chairman and CEO Steve Case, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Harlem Children’s Zone President and CEO Geoffrey Canada, personal finance expert Suze Orman and entrepreneur Russell Simmons

–CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS Live (Sun. 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. ET): National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; author Bruce Feiler (“Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World”)

–NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show”: HD Nets Dan Rather, BBC’s Katty Kay, POLITICO’s John F. Harris and CNNs Gloria Borger

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