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2022-09-15 Home Front: Politix

[Townhall] Let me say at the outset that I’d rather have Lindsey Graham in the United States Senate than any Democrat, especially the clown he beat last time who is now the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (liberals fail up). Jamie Harrison is a racist pile of garbage on top of being a moron who would do everything he was told by the White House. Graham is a lot of things, and one of them is significantly better than Harrison is in every way. But he’s far from perfect and getting farther away from it every day.

When John McCain was alive Lindsey Graham followed him around like a puppy and did all he could to imitate him. When McCain died, Graham was kind of lost and latched on to President Donald Trump. Since Trump left office, Graham has been kind of lost — desperate to matter and get media attention while trying to placate his progressive instincts to "do something" about whatever the domestic issue is and embracing every prospect for war because that’s been the only constant in his career.

In that attempt to "matter" and "do something," Senator Graham proposed this week to create a "new regulatory agency" to license companies like Twitter. As awful at these tech companies are and can be, the idea of a new regulatory agency is worse. Is there nothing that exists that could be repurposed? Graham isn’t even floating the idea of eliminating one or several existing agencies that have outlived their usefulness and reforming them to handle this, putting aside the idea of the feds licensing these companies. I might look favorably on it if there was a 3 to 1 elimination of existing jobs for the creation of new ones, something to shrink government at least a little. But it’s not part of this.

Graham’s proclamation on this new agency involves "teaming up" with Senator Elizabeth Warren, and there is no way she will ever allow for the shrinking of government or anything remotely good. How lost do you have to be to think Warren is an ally?

But working with a Massachusetts liberal is hardly the biggest problem Graham created this week. For reasons unknown, as he is not up this cycle, Graham decided to undercut the conservative argument against Roe v Wade being overturned and introduce a federal abortion ban after 15 weeks.

You might agree with the sentiment, but the execution is a horrible idea. First, it gives the left something to badger Republican candidates coast to coast on the issue. While that might play well in Georgia’s Senate race, it could be a different result in Pennsylvania or Ohio. Every campaign needs to be free to run however it deems best, they don’t needs some jackass in DC dictating terms and arming their opponents. Now they’ll all have to answer about Graham’s proposal repeatedly.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-15 02:13|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 ...Graham - one of my two Senators, sadly - is a silly, stupid, wet-brained idiot. I have voted for him in the past, but not any more.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-09-15 04:43|| 2022-09-15 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Graham is a Grade A scum bag. I think SC (and we) have four more years of that twerp.

"...Graham decided to undercut the conservative argument against Roe v Wade being overturned and introduce a federal abortion ban after 15 weeks."

Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this? WTF, over?

Graham and others are definitely a big reason to not donate one thin dime to the RNC.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-15 05:44|| 2022-09-15 05:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this? WTF, over?

DDM,

Two reasons for that -

1) Nobody on either side of the argument EVER wanted to have their names on a vote for something like that. Screaming for or against for those 50 years is one thing - VOTING ON THE RECORD is something else entirely.

2) There's a real good chance that such a law would be blown out of the water by SCOTUS. There's a bit of inside baseball involved, but the short version is that FEDERAL abortion legislation is not something that comes under Congress' enumerated powers in the Constitution. Not that this possibility stops anyone; Congress is not known for it's assessment, understanding, or even awareness of the Constitution. But it's there, and no one on either side seems to be cognizant thereof.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-15 07:23|| 2022-09-15 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4

Until we have a constitutional amendment dictating Term Limits, campaign donation limits and the prohibition of back-door "offers" for Family members (eg. Hunter). We will continue to see a bought and paid for DC Swamp like LG.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-15 08:19|| 2022-09-15 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 When McCain died, Graham was kind of lost and latched on to President Donald Trump.

When did that happen? Please, stop that shit.

Posted by Raj 2022-09-15 10:31|| 2022-09-15 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Lindsey hung out with Kushner and subverted everything good Trump was trying to do.

The Dems were trying to stir up their base against a GOP federal effort to ban abortion. No such effort existed so the Dem base was not energized. No one in the Pro-Life side wants this issue decided with federal legislation that will be toggled on an off like the Mexico City Policy.

The GOP has a chance to take the Senate with a wave of MAGA candidates. There are two groups of Senators that oppose the wave: Dems and RINOs. Lindsey has made common cause with Schumer through Mitch. This abortion effort is in conjunction with the mass spending by the GOP against true conservative candidates,

Posted by Super Hose 2022-09-15 12:59|| 2022-09-15 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 #1 I sympthize. He's my Senator, too. Our problem was that no one that anyone had ever heard of ran against him in the primary (Mick Mulvaney--or even Nikki Haley--where were you???) And the general election featured Lindsey or Jaime Harrison, now the head of the DNC. I voted against Lindsey in the primary but for him in the general election.

Posted by Tom 2022-09-15 14:46|| 2022-09-15 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 To all those pushing the term limits button...That has been my wish since I started college 50+ years ago. There was one prof I had that pointed out that the problem in DC is that the unelected bureaucrats (aka the Deep State or Swamp) have a lot of power over what the pols do.

If you term limit the pols that gives even more power (aka seniority) to the swamp.

It's a hard argument to rebut. The best way is to vote the bastards and bitches out. Soros makes that even harder.

Posted by AlanC 2022-09-15 15:52|| 2022-09-15 15:52|| Front Page Top

#9 #3 Funny, nothing from either side of the aisle in Congress was attempted legislatively on the abortion matter in the 50 years since Roe v Wade, and now this?
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Not true

Just a few months or so ago, the House passed and the Senate voted on (but did not pass) a bill to allow abortion until birth. It was called the "Women's Health Protection Act".

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-09-15 16:02|| 2022-09-15 16:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Anybody who would go around with his nose up John McCain's ass must be an idiot.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-09-15 16:04|| 2022-09-15 16:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, the media looooved Johnny Wardrums.

Except when they didn't...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-15 16:16|| 2022-09-15 16:16|| Front Page Top

#12 He was on Jessie Waters last night. Talked in circles. When Jessie said bringing up an anti-abortion bill the same day as the President's Victory Lap and party about the Inflation non-reduction act was probly not a good idea Graham kept saying he wasn't going to stand around and do nothing. Bugwit.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-09-15 16:22|| 2022-09-15 16:22|| Front Page Top

#13 @#9 - I meant before the SCOTUS reversed Roe v Wade. Anything after that doesn't really matter, but the 50 years prior was nothing buy legislative crickets and the ability by both parties to use the issue as a political football to stir up their adherents.

Mike @#3 addresses this. And, for sure, no Congressperson would want to put his/her name on such legislation (funny, and a failure by the GOP in a sense).

The Constitution? What's that? It gets trampled on every minute.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-15 17:55|| 2022-09-15 17:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Lindsey Graham Is an Idiot

Was that meant to insult idiots?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-15 18:52|| 2022-09-15 18:52|| Front Page Top

#15 When I saw the headline, the first words in my mind were, "No Sh&&&t!!!!

Posted by Jise Elmeang4932 2022-09-15 20:56|| 2022-09-15 20:56|| Front Page Top

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