Lindsey Graham: Silencing Elizabeth Warren Was Long Overdue

[Bayard]

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Source: Huffington Post

"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joined the chorus of Republicans backing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for cutting off Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during a speech criticizing Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week.

“The bottom line is it was long overdue with her, I mean she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020,” he told radio host Mike Gallagher on Wednesday in a clip obtained by CNN’s KFile."

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"Graham broadened his assault on Warren out to what he views as a fractious Democratic Party.

It “is really being pushed by the most extreme forces in their community and they just don’t know how to handle it,” he said. “If they empower her, I think the Democratic Party is going to lose its way.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-silencing-elizabeth-warren-long-overdue_us_589c42bce4b0c1284f2ac086

[Mira]

1. Envy does not look good on anyone.

He trashes her because he knows she is his better. By many "country miles"

[susanna]

5. Exactly! His poutrage is mostly because

he has never gotten a "nevertheless, he persisted" moment to work with.

But that is because he folds like a lawn chair every single time.

[Hortensis]

22. Suggests fear of the future to me. He knows

she appeals to both solid Democrats and the left-wing illiberals the right is hoping to win over.

[truthisfreedom]

2. There can only be one feminine Senator in the end...

Lindsey loves to talk about "bottom" lines.

[Marthe48]

3. He's sucked his entire life

go back to the farm, hay boy

[tenorly]

6. He certainly has.

And how.

[LovingA2andMI]

4. And he has run for President Twice....

And Lost Handily in both Republican Primaries Contests. So, who is Lindsey Graham to talk?

[Hortensis]

23. To be fair Lindsey lost by not being extreme enough

in a party that has become extremist or nasty enough to appeal to the armchair lynch mobs who decide the primaries.

[SylviaD]

7. This man is supposedly "Never Trump" is he not?

Apparently his opposition is to Trump alone, with pals like McConnell he is thick as thieves.

Lindsay Graham is a fraud and his "never Trump" posturing is a facade and a sham.

[47of74]

8. Shut the fuck up Lindsey

[Zorro]

9. She got uppity

[JudyM]

15. He can keep going, it's only going to make us that much more determined to fight like hell.

[msongs]

10. the coward doing his good german routine nt

[groundloop]

11. Sometimes a person says something and you just KNOW they royally fucked up....

I feel like Graham and Turtle have just done that. Their attacks on Senator Warren are going to galvanize the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party as well as solidify support from the moderates within our party.

[Zorro]

12. Dems need to harness that righteous anger

and use it to drive voters to the 2018 polls.

That's how the Repubs got to where they are now.

[JudyM]

13. Isn't he disparaging her in the same way he objected to her disparagement of Sessions?

[zentrum]

14. Creepy, smarmy guy.

[AKing]

16. Our newest concern troll:Blanche Dubois AKA Lindsey Graham

[Justice]

17. From a guy that lives the camera every chance he gets.

[spiderpig]

18. Had to Google this to confirm my memory, but in 2004

Dick Cheney was caught on mic in the Senate chamber telling Pat Leahy to f*** himself.

It wasn't in a formal statement from the podium, but the relentless kerfuffle from the Repuke hypocrites brought this to mind.

[pdxDem]

19. Warren talks issues...

Warren talks issues -- like Bernie, she sometimes gets mad but mostly stays focused on issues. That terrifies Republicans because when you poll most Americans they want progressive solutions so the GOP has to distract with name calling. When the debate gets down in the dirt GOPers excel and Dems get their butts' kicked. Dems just aren't built to behave like scumbags. Biden has found a pretty good balance but it just isn't a good look on serious people who actually care about policy.

[Ferretherder]

21. In 2020, I would love to see...

...Bernie/Warren, or Warren/Bernie - don't care which way, really.

[barbtries]

20. oh you wish you motherfucker

warren's not going away, and women aren't going back to being chattel.

[Cosmocat]

24. Hey Lindsey - DONALD TRUMP

About the being pushed by the most extreme forces and losing way - Shut the fuck up!

[McCamy Taylor]

25. Good grief.

[chelsea0011]

26. But did he say "it was about time" when the men got up and read the letter into the record?

[DonViejo]

27. Locking...

Over 12 hours old when posted. Published 02/09/2017 07:42 am ET; posted at DU Thu Feb 9, 2017, 10:03 PM

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