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Home Front: Politix

Trump Should Help 'Kick Russia's Ass', Says Lindsey Graham

2017-02-20

[An Nahar] U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
should come clean and back moves to "kick Russia's ass" for its alleged meddling in last year's U.S. election, senior Republican Senator

Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
said on Sunday.

Trump has been embroiled in questions over his ties with Russia and this week his national security adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign over contacts with Moscow's ambassador in Washington.

The president has repeatedly said he wants to improve relations with Russia but Graham said Trump should be much more focused on hitting back at Russia over its alleged hacking of the Democratic Party's network to discredit candidate

Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
in his favor.

"My goal is to put it on Trump's desk and I hope he'll embrace the idea that as the leader of the free world he should be working with us to punish Russia," Lindsey told a Munich Security Conference panel.

"2017 is going to be a year of kicking Russia in the ass in Congress," he said.

Graham said the president needed to be completely open. "My biggest concern with President Trump ... is that he's never really looked the camera in the eye."

The president should do that and say: "'Even though it was the Democratic Party that suffered from Russian interference, I am now the leader of the free world and I can assure you they're going to pay a price on my watch for trying to interfere in our election,'" Graham said.

Posted by:Fred

#14 Lindsey Graham should shut his mouth while the grownups handle things.

Posted by: Chantry 2017-02-20 19:09

#13 Rather see him kick Lindsey Graham's ass.

Posted by: Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 2017-02-20 17:57

#12 Lindsey Graham is acting like the old Hearst newspapers drumming up war fever. Thank goodness the McCain never became president. What a maroon.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-02-20 12:56

#11 Does Lindsay kiss McCain with that alligator mouth?

Fracking will do more damage to Russia than any limp dick waving.

Posted by: charger 2017-02-20 12:39

#10 Given Miss Lindsay's proclivities I think he meant "lick Russia's ass"

Posted by: Frank G 2017-02-20 12:27

#9 “Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.”
Lord Palmerston quotes (English Statesman, 1784-1865)

Graham needs to take a chill pill with his Ensure.

Posted by: magpie 2017-02-20 11:19

#8 U.S. President Donald Trump should come clean and back moves to "kick Russia's ass" for its alleged meddling in last year's U.S. election, senior Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Lindsey the Bellicose seems eager to go to war. In that way, he and McCain are much like Hillary. Graham and McCain come across as bitter losers who got their feathers ruffled and feelings hurt. Trump's voters did not sign on for a war with Russia. We have been in about 20 years of war with the Islamicists and it has cost us a lot in money and lives. Trump wants to finish off ISIS and get on with building the economy and strengthening the country. He seems to have a lot of push back to this endeavor.

There has not been any proof provided that Russia meddled with our election or that people on Trump's team were busy meeting clandestinely with Russian officials in violation of the law--so far it has been all accusations and no proof. Show us the proof or STFU.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-02-20 11:06

#7 I live in SC and would like to be rid of Graham. He faced fairly weak and divided primary opposition in 2014 and so won the Republican nomination. Which is tantamount to election here. But he should definitely watch out for Nikki Haley or Mick Mulvaney in 2020.

Posted by: Tom 2017-02-20 11:05

#6 Ahhhh... the limp wristed wimp wants to sound tough.

How... pathetic.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-20 09:45

#5 Rudolf Abel: Do many foreign agents register?

ValJar to the courtesy phone.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-20 09:31

#4 I watched one of my Cold War favorites last evening. Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies (Francis Gary Powers incident). In discussions on it, an old friend and Russian military expert remarked:

"I actually miss the Cold War compared to today’s Islamic threat. We face an unholy enemy alliance now – the Islamic right and the Western left. They work together because they have the same enemies: Western civilization, Christianity, and the United States of America. Notice all the tears the left sheds over the plight of Muslims here and how they want to increase Muslim immigration."

If you've never watched Bridge of Spies, don't expect validation of intelligence community ethics or handiwork. They had no luck in 'turning' Rudolf Abel (Рудольф Иванович Абель), brilliantly played by Sir David Mark Rylance Waters. Little wonder so many remain skeptical of the Bergdahl exchange, or the long-running events at GITMO.

Occasionally, Hollywood gets it right.

Leaving you with a memorable movie quote:

James Donovan: You have been charged with three counts and nineteen overt acts. Conspiracy to transmit United States defence and atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, conspiracy to gather secrets, and failing to register as a foreign agent.
Rudolf Abel: Do many foreign agents register?

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-20 07:59

#3 Right on #2. China and Dems and their assorted crackpots are the ones to watch. Dems think they can tag along with China but China only thinks for their own interests. Dems are useful idiots.

Posted by: Dale 2017-02-20 06:40

#2 IMO, anon1, it's not so much Islam --- I expect the "Power of Islam" to disappear once anti-fracking regulations are removed --- as the fact that Trump sees Russia as a natural ally against the growing power and belligerence of China.

As to John and Lindsey (who is a man - male anyway), I'm not sure what motivates them. Possibly they believe that Trump voters can be incited by anti-Russian rhetorics (after all it was true in their youth when Russia was Soviet Union). Or, they receive funds from China (look up who funded Demosthenes' Philippics)

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-20 03:23

#1 Why would we not join with russia to wipe these Islamotards from the face of the earth

here is Islamic State, funded by Saudi, Qatar and UAE.

Sunni Islamists invading syria. Supported by Hillary and Obama, John Brennan

here they train their kids and film them cutting the heads off adult prisoners, shooting them

a three-year-old given a loaded gun to shoot a prisoner then shouting allahu akhbar. he is three.

http://m.clarionproject.org/news/warning-graphic-video-isis-children

watch it. watch the horrible gruesome video and then ask the question - what are we going to do about this?

they will come returning to our countries as refugees when ISIS are beaten

what are we going to do about it? they will be muslim refugees.

Posted by: anon1 2017-02-20 00:53

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