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Showing Original Post only (View all)fuck this guy: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Silencing Sen Elizabeth Warren 'was long overdue' [View all]
(CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says the silencing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was "long overdue."
The South Carolina senator appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show Wednesday, where he said Warren reading the letter from Coretta Scott King -- in which she expressed opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination to the federal bench in 1986 -- was defamatory to Sessions, now an Alabama senator. The Massachusetts Democrat was ruled to be in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator.
"The bottom line is, it was long overdue with her," he said. "I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020."
"The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community, and they just don't know how to handle it," he added. "If they
empower her, then I think the Democratic Party is gonna lose way with the vast majority of the American people."
The South Carolina senator appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show Wednesday, where he said Warren reading the letter from Coretta Scott King -- in which she expressed opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination to the federal bench in 1986 -- was defamatory to Sessions, now an Alabama senator. The Massachusetts Democrat was ruled to be in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator.
"The bottom line is, it was long overdue with her," he said. "I mean, she is clearly running for the nomination in 2020."
"The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community, and they just don't know how to handle it," he added. "If they
empower her, then I think the Democratic Party is gonna lose way with the vast majority of the American people."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/kfile-graham-on-warren/index.html
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fuck this guy: Sen. Lindsey Graham: Silencing Sen Elizabeth Warren 'was long overdue' [View all]
spanone
Feb 2017
OP
Whow, just Whow. I really do not recall Senators doing this to other Senators in public. This
riversedge
Feb 2017
#1
but, but, but didn't the Oregon Senator read it later and nothing was done to him?
KewlKat
Feb 2017
#12
"If they empower her..." She already IS empowered but thanks to the GOP Senators...
WePurrsevere
Feb 2017
#15
Well they already killed freedom of the press, not surprised theyre going after free speech now too.
Initech
Feb 2017
#22
She does not wait for other people to "empower her." She demonstrates her power every time
suffragette
Feb 2017
#31
"The Democratic Party is being pushed really hard by the most extreme voices in their community"
chade
Feb 2017
#56