Walter Shaub & others file ethics complaint against Lindsey Graham

[Nevilledog]

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Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
I have joined Professors Claire Finkelstein (@COFinkelstein) and Richard Painter (@RWPUSA) in filing a complaint against Senator Lindsey Graham with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. https://law.upenn.edu/live/files/11121-ethics-complaint-against-senator-lindsey-o-graham…
11:21 AM · Nov 18, 2020

[sandensea]

1. You can imagine what Bitchy Mitchy will do with said complaint

"If I let this through - why, you realize - next thing you know they'll be investigating one's in-laws!"

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I think they should change Senate rules to force a vote on certain issues.

It's obvious that one asshole can shut down the entire Congressional body.

[sandensea]

5. But you need that double-chinned narco-enriched smarmy bastard to approve that too

2020 was our big chance to flip the Senate - and as you know, we came close but no cigar.

Yes, there are the two Georgia races - but given what happened in '08 (amid an epic collapse under a widely-hated GOP president, no less), they're a longshot at best.

[central scrutinizer]

6. The 2009 Senate was 60-40 Democratic control

??

[sandensea]

7. But only briefly - from 9/09 to 1/10

While Massachusetts' Paul Kirk was in office, basically.

Got a lot done in those brief 4 months (ACA, Dodd/Frank) - but not enough, naturally.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. If only we could go back to those days.

I think many of us realized that Democrats like Lieberman were not really Democrats. And Democrats that are afraid to upset the applecart, once they are in leadership positions, don't really understand that time is fleeting to make the necessary changes.

From what I have seen, there is so much disinformation spread by the other side that sometimes you have to ram something in so people can actually see the benefit it provides them. Only then will there be public support.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Good. It's not likely to go anywhere, considering who's in charge,

but fuck Lindsey Graham anyhow. Sideways.

[crickets]

10. +1000000

[efhmc]

3. Thaks for the info.

[Pepsidog]

9. Better than a stick in the but these ethics complaints go nowhere. It's sad and shameful.

[Sherman A1]

11. True, but it is what can be done

and it is better than nothing. At least there will be a record of the complaint.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Yeah its too bad this complaint will only be comical entertainment

And laughing fodder for Lindsey and his cohorts over some tax payer funded lunch.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Oh for a 3-prong approach -- ethics complaint, FBI investigation, indictment by state and fed