Censuring Lindsey Graham
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From: Greenville County Republican Party
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:24 AM
Subject: Greenville GOP – Resolution of Rebuke of Senator Lindsey Graham
Greenville County Republican Party
Tuesday August 3rd 2010
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All,
Last night, the elected officers of the Greenville County Republican Party presented a “Resolution of Rebuke of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham” to the Greenville County GOP’s Executive Committee. By a vote of 61-2, the Executive Committee approved the Resolution.
The Greenville County GOP Executive Commitee is made up of individuals from across Greenville County who are elected at the precinct level. On the Executive Committee, every precinct has one vote.
Below is the Resolution as it was approved:
GREENVILLE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
“RESOLUTION OF REBUKE of SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM”
WHEREAS, United States Senator Lindsey Graham has cast votes in the United States Senate in favor of TARP, which all but guarantees an increase in the national debt and expansion of the federal government.
WHEREAS, Senator Graham has voted in favor of two of President Obama’s nominees to the United States Supreme Court, who possess questionable qualifications and very liberal beliefs that are contrary to the United States Constitution.
WHEREAS, Senator Graham has promoted amnesty for illegal aliens, and continues to promote this premise under the guise of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.
WHEREAS, by these and other votes, Senator Graham has abandoned the Republican platform:
. Limited Government;
. Capitalism and the Free Market System;
. Original Intent of the Constitution;
. The Appointment of Conservative Federal Judges and Justices to the United States Supreme Court; and
. Fiscal Responsibility.
AND, WHEREAS, both locally and nationally, Senator Graham has repeatedly demonstrated contempt and arrogance towards those members of the Republican Party who support these core Republican beliefs;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Greenville County Republican Party hereby issues this formal rebuke of Senator Graham for his cooperation and support of President Obama and the Democratic Party’s liberal agenda for the United States.
FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED that Senator Graham will no longer be invited to attend and participate in meetings or other events sponsored by the Greenville County Republican Party.
RESOLVED this 2nd day of August 2010 at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Greenville County Republican Party Executive Committee.
This resolution passed as proposed, without amendment, by a vote of 61-2.
This is the third such censure of Graham passed by South Carolina GOP organizations this year. GOP party committees in Lexington and Charleston counties have also passed similar resolutions.
The ultimate censure, of course, will take place at the ballot box.
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Well played SC!!!! RINO’s…the new white meat.
The ultimate vote for censure is when he is not the Republican nominee for senator from South Carolina the next time that seat is up for re-election.
It was just too bad Lindsey won two years ago. He’s got another 4 years. He started ‘going rogue’ right after his election because he knew where he was going to be working for the next 6 years no matter what.
I hate to say this because it’s so anti-tea party and all. Even though I agree with most of the tea party stuff, the TARP program was necessary and worked.
It should not have been done. Having said that, as it was intended it worked like a charm. It was not really an expense because they all paid it back.
If it had just gone to the banks to shore up their funds and paid back to the deficit, it would have been fine. But they did all the other things like GM that didn’t pay the money back.
Anyway, Graham should be censored for calling people who disagreed with his amnesty stance ‘bigots’. That was offensive and should have been beneath the office of senator. You shouldn’t call someone a name just because you disagree with them. Those ‘bigots’ probably want to make sure he knows that it’s the AMERICAN CITIZENS that he’s asking to foot the bill for citizenship benefits for new illegals.
30 year old Americans won’t even get SS. But Graham thinks it’s OK to add another 20 million illegals. If you don’t agree, it must be because you are a bigot.
Hopefully more counties in SC will do this.
Agreed. I hope that SC conservatives start vetting andg identifying solid challengers for 2014 to show Graham the door.
OOOOO Can we do this to john mccain in AZ!!! please tell me we can!!!
Highly unlikely anything of this nature will be done for McCain. McCain is not supporting Obama’s court nominees, etc.
And Graham does not have McCain’s military record.
See….if we could get the 17th amendment THROWN OUT and put the election of U.S. senators back into the hands of the state legislators, we wouldn’t be bothered by this elitist mentality of U.S. senators.
Pi$$ on mccain’s military record!! that fat little scumbag in IL had a military record too and he still voted like an elitest pig. mccain is a waffler and pro amnesty!! he’s grown way too comfortable in his senate chair ass grove and needs to be shoved out!!
Lindsey Graham deserves this censure as well as an early retirement by the good people of South Carolina. He sorely deserves The Golden RINO Award.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving tool of the left.
DUMP GOOBER.
’nuff said.
Will this make him see the light?
No, but he may lie about it as RINOs often do.
WHEREAS, Senator Graham has continued to preen like some New York Metro sexual ass clown, continued adherence to the FOP code and general stupidity wrapped in the guise of appealing to the young people.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Senator Graham will forever wear Chinese Clown Shoes.
Goober reminds me of Truman Capote, at least in the way he comports himself. He has none of the wit and intelligence
Mr. Capote displayed.
Grahmnesty was once a JAG attorney. It seems DADT worked for him!
Graham is not the only fraud conservative. If you are not registered to vote you are surrendering. If you are not telling your family and friends and making sure they are registered. You are surrendering. WE HAVE ONE SHOT IN NOVEMBER to put the brakes on. Miss it and God only knows where we end up by 2012.
Lindsey Grahmnesty probably took that to Juan McAmnesty, Jerry Brown, John Cornyn, et.al. and said, “Hey Guys! *Snort* Get load, *Chuckle* of THIS! *Bwahahahaha*! Yeah! Like I give a @#$%& what those dorks think!”
The RINO gang then slaps each other on the back while rolling on the floor laughing.
Censure and rebuke are great and all, but when are they gonna tie him up in the public square, pull his pants down and spank him unitl his cheeks are red with shame?! That what he and his ilk really need!
It’s a start.
“that fat little scumbag”
He’s fat now too?
Until he’s caught tapping feet in neighboring toilet stalls, I’d cut him some slack on this issue.
On August 4th, 2010 at 9:02 am, Rogue
RC, I have a gut feeling Lindsey would enjoy that a bit too much…
If Conservatives take majorities in state governments this November, they need to pass recall legislation if they don’t already have it. Senators like Grahamnesty need to know they won’t get a six year free ride if they frustrate the will of the people.
I saw Goober on Greta when I was flipping channels last night. He wants to amend the 14th amendment to stop anchor babies. All I can say to Goober is “too little too late”. Don’t try to show how conservative you are, we aren’t buying it. I hope the SC voters will oust this idiot in 4 years. I’m not holding my breath.
I tried to vote him out in the primary last time. Maybe I’ll have some more help next time. The idiot Dems are opening people’s eyes to a lot of things they’ve been blissfully sleeping through.
Never forget Grahamnestys’ speech before LaRaza where he slams Americans who believe in the rule of law….
And speaking of McCain and the rest of the aging dynasties….
If we can’t get term limits how about age limits?Byrd was a perfect example of someone who outlived his usefullness. Kennedy another and the list goes on and on…..Reminds one of the monarchies of old….There til death!
It all comes down to trust. Lindsey and others are changing their tunes because their jobs are on the line, not because they have truly changed. Why didn’t they think of this before they cast their votes. Now they have seen the light??? I don’t trust them not to switch back to what they have done all along if reelected. Enough of playing the electorate as fools.
No, no! Don’t encourage him!
Absolutely right, one more tool that shows who “WE the people…” are.
Arizona Republican’s need to talk with SC GOP. That is what McCain is like right after an election.
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Take no prisoners. Slash and burn–General Sherman style. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER–4 years from now–and send this dimocrat light into “Funemployment”.
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John Bibb
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McAmnesty hasn’t changed his position on comprehensive immigration since ’07, his just talking louder about closing the boarders since it’s re-election time and he’ll revert right back to his BS of Maverick.
Anyone with 1/2 a noodle knows full well they could have built an unpenetrable fence costing peanuts compared to the damages done by these illegals.
“Arizona Republican’s need to…”
JD having any kind of campaign and supporters says a great deal here in AZ.
Way more than some “censor” that carries no weight what-so-ever.
If they want to do something in SC that carries some weight, mount a recall for their senator.
“McAmnesty hasn’t changed his position”
Whether he actually has changed his position or not is up for debate. Certainly reasonable to be suspicious.
But he has in fact changed his words. He may have had a wake up call and has changed his priorities and the intensity or urgency of accomplishing those priorities. Maybe. Which is of course the problem.
But his words now are pretty clear about secure the border first and then tackle everything else separately.
If that’s the best we can do at this time I’ll take it. I’d rather have the border secured and then the dialog about what to do next can take place with the problem not growing even bigger.
No amnesty is not okay. But the bigger problem at the moment is a leaky border.
Let’s not get ourselves distracted off the number one issue needing to be addressed by arguing about what are the second, third, etc., issues.
“they could have built an unpenetrable fence”
Not as easy as it sounds. Some of the most frequently used land is part of the Native American land and falls under their control. The politics involved if we force the white man’s fence on sovereign native American land are not so simple as “just build a fence”.
“tie him up in the public square, pull his pants down and spank him unitl his cheeks are red with shame?!”
Could be quite an effective fund raiser as well.
I’ll bet that costs extra downtown. Cheese, I didn’t see you as an “adding to the deficit” kind of guy.
Indeed. Repeated expressions of “buyer’s remorse” by SC Republicans after electing the wrong guy (again) are meaningless — unless they lead to the voters wising up the next time Graham runs for re-election.
McAmnesty is the leader of the amnesty pack of Graham & Liberman and the other fakers in the Senate. NONE of them have changed their minds they are just manipulating the voters because of this election to back-up McCain.
If McShame is re-elected watch the spots change back in short order. In fact, I would not be surprised to see MR. McCain switch parties within six months. He started out as a Democrat– he’ll end as a Democrat! It will be the first honest thing he has done in 28 years in office!!!
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“If McShame is re-elected watch the spots change back in short order.”
I think we can make doing so very costly in the way the possibility of such is handled pre-election.
The old “If you once elected…then we get to….” on the record would be a nice line in the sand.
This is where the AZ Republican Party can do some good work for the AZ citizens it represents.
Someone needs to start asking McCain and JD both the kinds of questions about what do we get to do if after the election they change positions.
Then get their answers on record including what they agree to do about it if they get caught swapping pre-election stands post election.
SC Republicans are doing something. The censuring is a step in the right direction, at this point. It will help the person running against Graham in the primaries in 4 years. Meanwhile, AZ must take McLame out now! And we in TN need to do something about a “recall” method for our 2 RINOs.
In South Carolina, he is “the lesser of two evils” so Republicans vote for him anyway. Kind of like Arizona.
The unsaid thoughts from the “inner-self” of Senator Lindsay Graham: A fictional expose;
Judge NOT from his words, but from his actions. Whom does he best serve?
Well, if this is the 3rd one, then Graham obviously didn’t care about the 1st two. Why would he care about this one?
Doesn’t the Republican party there talk to Graham? How does he just blow them off? He must be or they wouldn’t have to do this. Its illogical.
I don’t know where you live but my experience being involved with the GOP is that they just don’t care. They are not a grassroots party but a country club. They are only interested in you if you can donate money otherwise, all they want is your vote.
Are you kidding? Announce this on local cable, charge $2 for adults, kids 15 and under free and you’d still make money. Enough to keep all the libraries and firehouses open for five years!
“AZ must take McLame out now!”
McCain’s shortcomings to not then make JD a good choice.
“They are not a grassroots party but a country club.”
Did they not let in you Phil?
Funny my RNC card didn’t come with that address.
You sound more and more like Obama one note song every day Phil.
Obama, “Its Bushes fault.”
Phil, “Its the RNC RINO’s fault.”
There are plenty of solid conservatives in the GOP. Baby with bath water Phil, baby with bath water….
Rush is spot on with is Conservative first, Republican second in terms of philosophy. But when the reality of voting hits and a Republican who may not be as conservative as I’d like is running against a Democrat, we adults understand the nature of the beast and will do what’s best in the bigger picture.
Keeping Democrats out of office is by far the bigger goal then making sure every Republican is as conservative as I prefer.
Or you can do as you seem to be hell bent on doing, holding your breath until you turn blue and in doing so allowing a non-vote for a Republican to be a vote for a Democrat.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time.”
Should be the GOP’s motto. But then, they be signaling to the jsms exactly what they think of you.
jsm: here is a quote from a very famous blogging Filipina “rage kewpie”. See if you can guess who she is:
“John McCain IS what’s wrong with the Republican Party.”
Three guesses. Still think it’s all about me?
“Why would he care about this one?”
He doesn’t. A recall is the only message with teeth.
I don’t think about you that much Phil to know what is or is not about you. I do know what you post. And based on what you post you are a grumpy libertarian who has an ax to grind with Republicans.
On August 4th, 2010 at 11:45 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
“they could have built an unpenetrable fence”
Not as easy as it sounds. Some of the most frequently used land is part of the Native American land and falls under their control. The politics involved if we force the white man’s fence on sovereign native American land are not so simple as “just build a fence”.
Oh, I think they would cooperate if the alternative was building the fence so it funneled the illegals right through their lands without a guarded exit. Besides, Native Americans have normally been supportive of our national policies. Especially when it is in their own best interests.
“Native Americans have normally been supportive of our national policies. Especially when it is in their own best interests.”
Not so much this time. And it is difficult to understand given what happens on “their” tribal land that extends across the border into Mexico. They have no assistance, no rights, etc., in Mexico. Mexico in general treats the native populations poorly. Have a good friend who works with the native people in Mexico and Mexico, as one would imagine, treats those folks very badly.
The stand that the Native American tribes in AZ have taken is favorable toward illegal immigration and unfavorable toward secure borders and enforcement because in their minds their land has no border. They do not recognize the American or Mexican border.
Its not just about border security in their minds. Its about what is and what is not “our” land vs. “their” land.
You talk about acting in a way that would funnel the traffic onto Native American land. That is essentially what is happening now.
Those who are able to stir up folks of color have convinced some in the tribal leadership that Native Americans will be discriminated against and picked up for being illegals because they aren’t white.
I’ve posted the links before but do not have them now. The national assembly of Native Americans stated position is against anything like secured borders. They do not want to limit traffic of their people as they travel on their tribal land.
The border is of our making, not theirs.
Yet he wins the primary because there was not a serious opponent and is in for another full term.
These RINOs do much more damage to the Constitution than Obama/Pelosi/Reid because they are enemies within the gates undermining any true opposition to liberalism.
It is imperative that McCain is voted out. A conservative in AZ could do the country a favor by voting for his Democrat opponent. Same with Graham next time around.
No. What we need is to have all statewide offices (including US Senators, Governor, etc., not including US Rep or state legislature) elected by county. Each county gets one vote. If you win the popular vote in the county, you get it’s vote.
This would keep the largest metro areas from being the ones that elect statewide offices. Since statewide offices represent the entire state, this would be the best way to do it. Kind of like a state version of the electoral college.
You can’t use representative districts because those are gerry-mandered up the wazoo.
Now will the Maine GOP PLEASE do the same for Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins?
And another biggie:
Whereas…Sen Graham speaking to Militant Latino Quasi-Terrorist group, called America Citizes..(Including South Carolinians) “Biggots” who will be told “To Shut Up” for wanting the immigration Laws enforced.
I seem to remember arguing with someone here, (and my son comtinued those arguments while I was hospitalized), though I can’t remember with whom it was. Don’t remember if it was you, but it really doesn’t matter.
The upshot I remember from reading the posts after I returned home was that McCan’tSnuffTheConstitutionFastEnough had “changed his tune” several times concerning National “Breaking-and-Entering USA Borders” artists.
It seems that each time was prior to an election. His actions after re-election bore no resemblence to his speeches.
Remember the parable about trees & fruits. McNutty’s fruit stinks enough to discomfort Gen. Geo. Washington.
Well then they may have to be given a choice: the fence can either go through their tribal land, or around it.
Lindsay Lohan Graham is a closet homosexual liberal who votes like a substance abuser. The guy throws Avon parties for himself and his mirror mirror on the wall. He wears a tupperware hat instead of a tin foil hat. I once saw him drive a pink floral ice cream truck. Instead of handing out ice cream, he gave away L’eggs Sheer Energy Pantyhose to bewildered children. He’s been spotted wearing a sombrero among the fancy hat ladies at the Kentucky Derby. There is talk he wants to renew and hijack the Whig Party by wearing Lady Gaga wigs in the Senate chambers. He once challenged Ricky Martin to a latino dance off.