The worst Republican Senator?
Posted: 16 May 2008 11:45 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Quin Hillyer argues that this distinction belongs to Lindsey Graham.  <p

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Posted: 16 May 2008 01:18 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 1 ]  
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From the link:

The Worst Republican Senator

By Quin Hillyer
Published 5/15/2008 12:08:02 AM

South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham is a flop. He pretends to be a conservative, but sells out conservatives and insults them while doing so. He pretends to be effective at reaching across party lines, but the only thing he effectively does is help the other party. He inhabits the Senate seat of Strom Thurmond, legendary for great attention to his South Carolina constituents, but Graham spends most of his time trailing behind John McCain like a valet as McCain criss-crosses the country in pursuit of the presidency. He called Ted Kennedy “one of the most principled men I’ve ever met.” In sum, in the words of conservative movement stalwart Richard Viguerie, “Lindsey Graham is part of the problem.”

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GRAHAM’S WORST ACTIONS on this front, though, came when he led the fight against South Carolina native Jim Haynes for a Fourth Circuit spot, supposedly because Haynes advocated “torture” at Guantanamo Bay. That issue has been well covered here, here, and here. In just the past month, though, new releases of Justice Department documents show conclusively that the impetus for the enhanced “stress positions” at Guantanamo came from Justice, and in stronger fashion even than had previously been known, to Haynes; and fair consideration of those memos make it all the more clear that Haynes’ subsequent actions to make the interrogation methods more lenient should have earned him Graham’s praise, not his calumny.

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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13219

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You can add Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to that list.

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Posted: 16 May 2008 05:35 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 2 ]  
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In a Senate populated with the likes of RinoTwins Snowe and Collins,
Snarlin Arlen Spector, Chuck Ethanol Grassley, Larry WideStance Craig et al, it’s hard to picture poor ole Goober Graham as the worst Republican Senator.  Hillyer makes a pretty good case though.

 
 
Posted: 16 May 2008 05:46 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 3 ]

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Gee, pick a name and toss a dart. Few if any ought to be in charge of anything more demanding than a local gas station, or maybe the local dog catcher in a small town.

Course thats all so true of the demos.

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Posted: 18 May 2008 04:06 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 4 ]  
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the problem is what do you use to define worst?

Being a traitor on the war?  That goes to Hagel easily.

Being a bad majority leader?  That goes to Mcconnell.

Being bad on energy?  Any Senator who has played a role in prventing ANWAR from being drilled?

Being a liberal Democrat?  That is somebody like John Mccain.

The problem is the whole Republican cacus seems to be in the running.  Maybe that is why they are at just 49 seats and threatening 40 this year.

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Posted: 18 May 2008 06:04 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 5 ]

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Walter Hanson - 18 May 2008 04:06 AM

Being a traitor on the war?  That goes to Hagel easily.

Hagel I’ll give you.

Being a bad majority leader?  That goes to Mcconnell.

I think McConnell’s been pretty good.
And he’s the minority leader.

Being bad on energy?  Any Senator who has played a role in prventing ANWAR from being drilled?

Check your Senate records.
Whenever ANWR has come up for a vote (which has been about 3 times), most of the GOP Senators have voted for it.

Being a liberal Democrat?  That is somebody like John Mccain.

This is cute to say these days, but untrue.
McCain is a Conservative Republican whether you want to admit it or not.

The problem is the whole Republican cacus seems to be in the running.  Maybe that is why they are at just 49 seats and threatening 40 this year.

Disagree with strong prejudice.
Certainly my own GOP Senators have been pretty steadfast and I plan to help John Cornyn keep his seat.
Walter, while Norm Coleman has been a bit squishy, he’s been a pretty good GOP Senator for MN overall and he’s infinitely better than Al Franken would be.

 
 
Posted: 18 May 2008 08:35 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 6 ]  
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Graham had a rally in Beaufort this weekend with an attendance of about 30 when 126 were expected.  He IS among the many who conservatives believe are turncoats or just plain weak!  Too bad all our GOP members are behaving like ‘RATs; certainly that’s a sure way to lose one’s voters!

 
 
Posted: 18 May 2008 08:42 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 7 ]  
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No conservative leadership period.  Where’s a man like Goldwater?!

 
 
 

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