On yesterday's MSNBC Hardball, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)called out President Obama and the Democrats on the Stimulus bill claiming that they weren't being fair, aren't negotiating in good faith, and even accused President Obama of being AWOL during the process. And then he looked straight into the camera and flat out lied when he claimed that he DID NOT want a plan with all tax cuts, but a mixture of spending and tax cuts...yadda, yadda.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
But just the night before, Senator Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina was one of 36 votes, ALL Republicans who voted for the DeMint Amendment #168 that called for ALL TAX CUTS AND NO SPENDING!!!
http://www.senate.gov/...
Graham has once again shown himself and many of his fellow Republicans for the dishonest brokers responsible for the state the country now finds itself in. And if he wants to know what being truly AWOL is, he should look at all the Republican Senators and Congressmen who seem to have lots of time to spend in front of the cameras and very little time to do the actual hard work and negotiating necessary to get us out of the mess they put us in.
We have heard nothing over the past few days from Republicans of all stripes but negativity, complaints, and criticism. We have not heard one new idea nor even original thought. If they had anything positive to contribute, I would expect that they would be offering it. But their silence in that area, at least, is deafening.
And the Traditional Media is once again doing a bang up job of reporting what is NEWS. We have has-been Bush man Andy Card railing against President Obama desecrating the holy office of President by not wearing a jacket! (See HuffPo for pics of other Presidents, including Card's boss and savior, sans jacket in the oval Office). And then they resurrected the Old Cryptkeeper, Dick Cheney, for more of his saber-rattling and fear-mongering because eight years of that crap wasn't enough. And, oh yeah, President Obama wants the terrorists to win because he supports the Constitution.
The TradMed is once again being beaten to the real story by those pesky Internets and the YouTubes that provide The Daily Show and other outlets with facts to call out the phony outrage and grandiose bellowing of Senator Graham and his cohorts. And The Google is making it harder for talking heads and panel parrots to get away with making false claims about polls or CBO reports that they twist and turn to fit the tale they want to foist on the public.
President Obama is right, Senator Graham, the people of this country spoke loud and clear on November 4th in rejecting the policies of YOUR failed Republican administration. Get over it.