fuck this guy: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Silencing Sen Elizabeth Warren 'was long overdue'

[spanone]

(CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was "long overdue."

The South Carolina senator appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show Wednesday, where he said Warren reading the letter from Coretta Scott King -- in which she expressed opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination to the federal bench in 1986 -- was defamatory to Sessions, now an Alabama senator. The Massachusetts Democrat was ruled to be in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator.

"The bottom line is, it was long overdue with her," he said. "I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020."

"The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community, and they just don't know how to handle it," he added. "If they
empower her, then I think the Democratic Party is gonna lose way with the vast majority of the American people."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/kfile-graham-on-warren/index.html

[riversedge]

1. Whow, just Whow. I really do not recall Senators doing this to other Senators in public. This

was really demeaning.

[elleng]

2. POf Crap!

Of course if he said that on the 'floor,' he'd be silenced too, right???

[DURHAM D]

3. Perpetual candidate for President is trashing

Senator Warren for ambitions not in evidence.

Does he still live with his mother? It that why he has female issues?

[NastyRiffraff]

42. She is not ALLOWED to have ambitions

According to Graham, she shouldn't even be in the Senate, she should be at home baking cookies for hubby.

[Me.]

4. Oh, Yes, Shut The Woman Up

Dog.

[apnu]

5. He's a pig.

He's McCain's right hand tool, on occasion, he tries to be reasonable. But he's a pig all the same, just like McCain.

[2naSalit]

6. Typical southern

cracker attitude, he thinks she's an uppity woman who is showing she has more je ne sais quoi than he has ever aspired to have. Lindsey Graham, a Senator that's all talk and then walks it back like hermit crab that has the momentary boldness of spirit to peek outside its hovel/shell only to be spooked back inside when the slightest movement nearby is detected. A closeted wannabe person with a spine.

[Freethinker65]

7. Time to "Hillary" her, huh, Lindsey?

[Va Lefty]

8. Lindsey has the vapors

"Heavens to Murgatatroyd. A woman has insulted Sen. Jeffery Beauregard Sessions! What's next? A darkie in the White House?"

[coco22]

13. Lmao!

[colorado_ufo]

33. ROFL!

Painfully true!

[whathehell]

50. Good one, lol.

[raging moderate]

55. Winner!

It was crying out to the universe, begging to be said.

[CTyankee]

9. Keep digging that ditch, pal. May you fall in it...

[Tanuki]

10. Translation: they're scared shitless of her. eom

[MurrayDelph]

11. Lindsey once-again trying

to earn his bona-fides in the He-Man Women-Haters Club.

[KewlKat]

12. but, but, but didn't the Oregon Senator read it later and nothing was done to him?

I thought it was posted on DU about that.

[madaboutharry]

14. Shame on him.

His moments of sanity do not compensate for the fact that he is a conservative republican from the south. His attitudes are ingrained.

[WePurrsevere]

15. "If they empower her..." She already IS empowered but thanks to the GOP Senators...

For giving her an even stronger platform by telling her to essentially "sit down and shut up" over a rule that's obviously bullpucky since you later allowed MALE Senators to read the exact same letter later with NO issue.

Apparently you fools haven't figured out yet that every time you self-righteous sexist morons try to put her down or suppress her she just gets stronger, more respected and even more well known.
Thank goodness #ShePersisted.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. :) ❤

Yes indeed!

[Mira]

16. Sometimes --- or almost all times

envy stinks.

[BSdetect]

17. Once a fuckwad always a fuckwad

His true colors outed

[KG]

18. a nasty little capon.

[lpbk2713]

19. "Ya gotta put these uppity women in their place."

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They are all a ridiculous anachronism. They don't have enough
sense to be ashamed or embarrassed over what they do.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. And to think we thought he had gone sane a couple of weeks ago.

Well thanks Lindsey, I for one, appreciate being reminded of the basic, eternal truth about you===CONservative, anti-woman, anti-human, anti-democracy Hypocrite.

[spiderpig]

23. I had thought the same thing

Guess his opinion changes when dealing with a Nasty Woman.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. oh, those little ladies..... they're so easily stepped on.

Nuh-Uh, Senator. WRONG!!!!

[Initech]

22. Well they already killed freedom of the press, not surprised theyre going after free speech now too.

Fuck these people. They are so anti-constitutional. Time to vote every god damn one of them out of office.

[arithia]

25. Anyone else think Lindsey Graham is a terrible poker player?

I suspect he is showing us the republican's Hand here via projection. Silencing her wasn't about Sessions. It wasn't about Coretta Scott King. It was sexist, but I don't think that was the reason for this censure.

No, I suspect they see Warren as a threat and a viable candidate for 2020 given the liberal pushback going on. If I'm right, they will continue to attempt to reduce her power and platform over other issues. Warren is someone the GOP hasn't spent decades trying to bury in false news stories and scandals like Clinton. I would not be surprised if they try and manufacture more incidents like this in order to have something to attack her over if she does run.

She's too big a threat for the reason The Turtle gave- she persisted. She is not cowed by the bullying endemic to the current Republican party and administration. She is a witch they cannot burn and that terrifies them.

[murielm99]

28. I'd rather keep her in the Senate.

Ted Kennedy was effective and much needed there. He ran for President half-heartedly and reluctantly.

Warren is better placed as a twenty-first century version of Teddy. We need as many Democrats in the Senate as possible, or they will keep steam-rolling us.

[Runningdawg]

36. This is my opinion also

We need new, fresh, YOUNG faces for 2020.

[CitizenZero]

52. Makes Sense

We do need to maintain as many Democratic Senators as possible. We should maybe be looking at Democratic Governors to run in 2020. Anyone have any ideas?

I am from New York, so I see Andrew Cuomo in action. He is a bit of a Centrist, but he is a street fighter who knows how to counter-punch the enemy.

He also has been picking up on some of Bernie's Policies. For example, he is proposing free tuition at the State University.

I would like to see Trump get beaten by a real New York Democrat.

[murielm99]

57. I like it.

I like O'Malley, too.

Kaine is another one we should keep in the Senate. Is there someone from California? It is early times yet.

[mr_lebowski]

64. Gavin Newsome, maybe?

[emmadoggy]

46. You make some good points.

They are starting early with trying to discredit and "scandalize" her, so they can do to her what they did to Hillary. Just in case she runs.

They are such maggots.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. He knows better, he sold his soul a long time ago.

He knows Fuckface is going to get us all killed and he doesnt know what to do about it.

McCain also knows this.

[benld74]

27. THIS is HOW GOP thinks ahead

They are afraid of her
They are thinking 2020
They are doing everything they can to cast doubt on her

Senator Warren is the ONLY Senator to be rebuked in the past umpeen years!
Why is that?

THat is what they will say

[JHan]

29. That's it in a nutshell...

They've been swiftboating her as "crazy", "Crackpot" "unhinged" for sometime now.

[starshine00]

53. good points.

they are cutting their nose off to spite their faces though...

[bdamomma]

30. Extreme Voices????

Are you referring the American people Senator Lindsay???? Senator Warren Believes in Country over Party you twit.

Republicans always like to have a scapegoat huh???

[suffragette]

31. She does not wait for other people to "empower her." She demonstrates her power every time

she cuts through their lies with the truth and truly represents her constituents with her actions.

She stands for courage, a courage in strong contrast to the cowardice Graham and his cronies clearly have.

[MFM008]

32. Just when you think he

Has an atom of common sense he speaks...............

[SylviaD]

61. Never think that.

Graham is a phoney. His "principled" stand against Trump was mere opportunism and personal grudge. He is a total sham. In fact at least Trump is honest about his idiotic and crazy positions. Graham is a wolf in sheeps clothing which is much more dangerous. He is at the top of my list of scary Pugs

[HopeAgain]

34. They are scared of her...

and they should be.

[renate]

35. "she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020"

Is that not, like, allowed?



Did (please, sweet baby Jesus) future candidate Elizabeth Warren forget to ask permission to run from past candidate Lindsay Graham? Fetch the smelling salts!

[Iggo]

37. You don't want to get into what's long overdue, Sen. Graham. (n/t)

[spanone]

38. 👍🏼

[GoCubsGo]

39. Once again, I am ashamed to have him as my Senator.

And, just as ashamed that Tim Scott also represents me.

[Dawson Leery]

40. Rethugs are fascists.

Graham, McCain, Collins, and Murkowski are supposed to be "checks" on Trump.



They are all shit.

[DonCoquixote]

41. here is why I am a yellow dog Democrat

Now, before I begin, let me be very clear about certain things. And I angry at many of the things my party has done, and worse, refuses to do, absolutely. Do I think that a range of people from Bill Clinton to Nancy Pelosi to Barack Obama made a crucial mistake in not being as aggressive in selling leftist policy, policy that in 1980 was to the right of Ronald Reagan? Absolutely. Do I think that there are a bunch of disgusting Vipers who use the excuse of being from "red states" to act as active agents of the enemy, getting themselves in the best position to backstab us? I live in the South, so if there was any degree above absolutely, I would say it. If I was half the radical/Stalinist that some centrist far I was, I would do a part of our party that would make Stalin himself defecate in his pants. I will not apologize for my anger and distrust of people that actively work to screw me over and screw my working class folks over and then immediately stick their hand in my face demanding I give them the choicest bits of what little I have! Florida Democratic Party, I do not need to name names, and I've already gotten a hide for it!

However, issues like this remind me of why the best Republican will always, repeat always be worse than the very worst Democrat. Now now, I know that we're sick and tired of seeing blue dogs stab us in the back! But keep in mind, even though bluest of blue dogs knows that they have to come home sooner or later, that even if they picked off of the snacks, the dog bones of the overfed GOP frat buddies, they know they have to come home here, and they also know that if even if they tried to go well to the right of her GOP friends, something think tank/crack of nuts would nominate somebody to their right.

Heck, part of the reason why these former cheerleaders and would be storm troopers like Ryan and McConnell are so subservient now is because they know either Steve Bannon or the Koch brothers will gladly defecate several hundred million dollars to find someone that makes them look like Bernie Sanders to run against them. It's no accident that our current head of our education system is someone who would not be qualified to teach kindergarten, but who is openly honest about buying political influence as if it were an Amway product. So even the nicest, most genuine Republican knows they have to be accountable to, and worse, their leaders do not have to pretend anything but Masters looking for good slaves on the market .

As far as the Republican Party is concerned, I do not hear if they present people in 1000 colors of skin, 10,000 accents, or even some LGBT, it does not matter, because regardless of whether they are sincere or not they will serve the Masters of Republican Party: the billionaires, and the churches that serve them. Of course there are times I can see a John McCain say something that, well, let's be fair is common sense. We know that when the time comes, John will serve his GOP Masters.

In addition to this, I have to ask you this: we have such low self-respect that when the GOP acknowledges what we know to be true, what is not merely self-evident, but has been proven again and again and again and again for the past 35 years, that we want to go ahead and admire them? Congratulations centrist Republican you have proven that you know 2+2 = 4; do we give you the Nobel Prize for mathematics? Congratulations centrist Republican, You realize that Trump will stain your party even worse than the Bush family did, and you have some regrets; we see you kissing Trump's ass , we see you kissing Bannon's ass, and oh yes, go ahead and grumble about Russian influence, because Vladimir Rasputin knows that he has Trump, he has you, you the former diehard Russian haters were given Moscow the sort of glory and influence Stalin never could have dreamed of.

Again, I hate blue dogs, and I know that one of the questions we will have to answer is how to keep these blue dogs on the porch so that they stop wondering into the GOP yards, so that they stop biting our hands as we feed them, so that they can go ahead and nuzzle up to the same GOP good old boy farmer but plans to shoot them anyway. That being said, I will always regard anything, and I do mean anything the GOP offers is garbage at best, poison at worst, and I always lean towards the worst.

[Greybnk48]

43. He's an "any way the wind blows" twat.

Warren could eat him for breakfast.

[muntrv]

44. Silence Joe "YOU LIE" Wilson! That's long overdue!

[maddiemom]

45. Now Graham should REALLY have that "rule" invoked.

[JHB]

47. You guys have a fan of Lenin's tactics with the ear of your president...

...and a standing invite to the highest level of the National Security Council.

Speaking of "being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices", just sayin'.

[The Wizard]

48. He's just pissed off because

She can wear a dress in public, and he has to do it in sleazy motels.

[DFW]

49. Poor guy must be suffering

And it has affected his judgement.....

[LenaBaby61]

59. He's just pissed off because ....

"She can wear a dress in public, and he has to do it in sleazy motels."

[Guilded Lilly]

51. Oh...Senator...

Your hubris is long overdue to be held in check:

https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-senator-graham

[alarimer]

54. And just when I was starting to (sort of) like the guy.

I mean, really, essentially telling a woman she's too mouthy?

So, Sen. Graham, get a spine and oppose the asshole in the WH and I MIGHT let this go.

They are afraid she will run in 2020 because she will wipe the floor with Trump.

[chade]

56. "The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community"

Says the guy whose party elected Donald Trump.

[zentrum]

58. Shame on you Lindsey.

[SylviaD]

60. I had some respect for his "Never Trump" stance, BUT

...his current behavior has shown his "principles" to be nothing but a shallow sham

The man is a FRAUD

[Initech]

62. So after all the celebrity deaths last year I learned one thing.

And that is that good people like Prince and David Bowie die young. And assholes like Hatch, Graham, and McConnell live forever!

[Nitram]

63. You're damn right, Lindsay, she is running in 2020. And she's going to win, you asshat!

[Crash2Parties]

65. New confirmation hearing ruled: open ended, "happy" questions ONLY.

[TNNurse]

66. Lindsey occasionally

says one thing that is OK. But he really cannot stay reasonable.