Lindsay Graham

Jason Linkins

Mitt Romney Gets Key Endorsements Long After It Matters, So, Thanks For Nothing, Guys!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: 2012 Speculation, 2012 Speculatron, Lindsay Graham, 2012 Election, Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney 2012, Brian Sandoval, Mitt Romney Endorsements, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Pat Toomey, Slidepollajax, Dean Heller, 2012, Politics News

From early on in the campaign, one of the key advantages that Mitt Romney claimed in his march to the nomination was the portfolio of endorsements he ...

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War-Weary Republicans Rebuke Romney On Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Rand Paul, Military Spending, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Iraq, Jeff Merkley, Afghanistan, Newt Gingrich, Senate, Politics News
Robert Naiman

On Iraq, Afghanistan, and military spending, Romney, Gingrich and most of the other candidates have mostly sung from the old-time Republican hymnal. Meanwhile, the great sea of Republicans has been doing Vatican II.

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GOP Senator Weighs Military Action Against Pakistan

AP | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Terrorism, Video, Lindsay Graham, Pakistan, Bin Laden Pakistan, Pakistan War, Lindsay Graham Pakistan, Pakistan Terrorists, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action agains...

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Couple Indicted For Making Illegal Contributions To GOP Senator

Mount Pleasant Patch | Adam Crisp | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Graham Donations, Lindsay Graham, Lindsey Graham Donations, Danher Wang, Jian-Yuhn Dong, Genphar, Politics News

A Mount Pleasant business owner faces a multi-count federal indictment for a scheme to donate thousands of dollars in illegal campaign money to the re...

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Zach Carter

GOP Demands Constitutional Debt Ban As Price Of Debt Ceiling Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Deficit, Video, Jim Jordan, Lindsay Graham, Chris Van Hollen, Debt Ceiling, Economy, Budget, Fox, Stimulus, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Archconservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-S.C.) on Sunday dismissed warnings from financial professionals that failing to raise the debt ceili...

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Peak Stuff?

Carl Pope | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Nissan Leaf, Lindsay Graham, Tesla Motors, Peak Oil, Riversimple, Green News
Carl Pope

The real issue is not peak oil -- it's peak stuff. The world doesn't contain enough coal, copper, steel, or wood to enable Asia and Africa to develop even European standards of consumption and waste.

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Republicans: Announce Already! You Can't Beat Somebody with Nobody!

Robert Guttman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Huntsman, Lindsay Graham, Mike Huckabee, Jim Demint, George Pataki, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Condi Rice, Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann, Politics News
Robert Guttman

Every day that passes without an announced GOP presidential candidate debating the issues with the president makes Barack Obama look like a two term president. You can't beat somebody with nobody!

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New Congress Begins with GOP Charades and Debt Threats

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Austan Goolsbee, Adam Green, Lindsay Graham, Charles Krauthammer, Healthcare-Repeal, Politics News
Ari Melber

The new GOP's strategy in the 112th Congress is apparently to shut down the entire economy and undermine the U.S.'s global credibility to agitate for policies that even their new majority could not otherwise enact.

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The G.O.P. Naughty List

Elizabeth Bisbee Silber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Dadt, Lindsay Graham, DREAM Act, Tax Cuts, Lame Duck Session, 9/11 Health Care Bill, Zadroga Bill, Filibuster, Senate, Jim De Mint, John Kyl, Politics News
Elizabeth Bisbee Silber

As Santa is making his list this year, he need not check it twice when deciding which U.S. Senators have been naughty, and which have been nice.

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China's Free Rider Syndrome

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, North Korean Aggression, Seoul, Beijing, Sunshine Policy, China, Kim Jong-Il, Pyongyang, Crime Against Humanity, Nuclear Weapons, The Cheonan, South Korea, Khartoum, Lindsay Graham, Tehran, Lee Myung Bak, Non-Interference, United Sates, Republicans, World News
Will Marshall

There is no method to North Korea's madness. And as long as China keeps enabling Pyongyang's belligerent behavior, the world's response will remain dangerous.

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Toxic Ballet

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Baucus, Alberta Tar Sands, Lindsay Graham, Lisa Jackson EPA, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News
Michael Brune

Senator Graham, after visiting the tar sand pits in Alberta, Canada, hailed the toxic mines, the source of the world's dirtiest fuel, as "an industrial ballet," adding that the project "really blends with the natural habitat." Huh?

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Let's Stop Torturing Facts and Start Working Together

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Jobs, Lindsay Graham Meet the Press, Unemployment, Lindsay Graham, President Obama Jobs, Job Growth, Lindsay Graham Stimulus, Lindsay Graham Jobs, Recovery Act, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

Lindsay Graham has often shown that he's fully capable of being reasonable and bipartisan. Which made it particularly disappointing to see his misleading use of numbers yesterday.

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Have Republicans Lost the White House for a Generation?

Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Birthright Citizenship, Jon Kyl, Lindsay Graham, Lindsey Graham Immigration, Arizona Immigration, 2010 Elections, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Immigration Debate, Elections 2010, Politics News
Dylan Loewe

During the 2008 campaign, it didn't seem that the Republican party could move further to the right on immigration. What it doesn't seem to understand is that the stakes on this issue are, politically, far greater than most.

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Conservative too good a word for Tea Party, Fox News and Newt Gingrich

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Ross Douthat, Lindsay Graham, Naacp, David Brooks, Politics News
Jamie Stiehm

"Conservative" is way too good a word for the Tea Party and Fox News. This war of words is the first battle that the rest of us must fight, because "conservative" in truth has an honorable ring.

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It's Pretty Simple: Terrorists Have No Right To Bear Arms

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Terrorist Watch List, Obama Administration, Taliban, Lindsay Graham, Terror Gap, Rahm Emanuel, Faisal Shahzad, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News
Cliff Schecter

There is not much courage these days in the Halls of Congress. While faux-moderates worry that someone could accidentally lose their right to buy a gun, they call for stripping citizenship for the very same potentially accidental terrorists.

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Make Oil Obsolete by Turning It into Salt

Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Graham, Oil Drilling, Fuel Efficiency, Hybrid Cars, Offshore Oil Drilling, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

Nations were built on access to salt and wars waged for it. Sound familiar? We still buy and enjoy salt, even for industrial purposes, but we don't build foreign policy around it. And that's where we need to get with oil.

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Lindsey Graham Gay? Conservative Group ALIPAC Demands Senator 'Admit Homosexuality'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Immigration Reform, Alipac, Immigration Rights, Gay Rights, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham Gay, Graham, Immigration Policy, Sen. Graham, Lindsay Graham, Lindsey Graham Homosexual, William Gheen, Lindsay Graham Gay, Video, Politics News

William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Green...

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Climate and Energy Politics and the Mid-Term Elections

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Climate Legislation, Mid-Term Elections, Epa, Greenhouse Gasses, Clean Air Act, John Kerry, Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, Waxman-Markey, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Green News
Steven Cohen

Because President Obama will be focusing on jobs and the economy between now and November, climate and energy legislation will only gain traction as part of an economic initiative to create jobs.

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Beijing, Washington and Currency Manipulation

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Graham, Beijing, Chinese Yuan, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Currency Exchange, China Currency, China Economy, Charles Schumer, Business News
Eric C. Anderson

This is no time for a new Smoot-Hawley or a squabble with the Chinese. We need to get Congress back to work on substantive issues and save the off-shore finger pointing for more appropriate targets.

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Immigration and Our Military

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Politics, Immigration Reform, US Military, Lindsay Graham, Military, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Overextension, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Jon Soltz

By offering a path to citizenship for the many undocumented immigrants that are in our country right now, we are giving them a path to become more active in American life -- including military service.

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Climate & Energy: Congress Stalls, California Threatens

Donnie Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, John Kerry, Congress, Lindsay Graham, Barack Obama, Clean Tech, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Joe Lieberman, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Politics News
Donnie Fowler

On climate & energy policy this Spring, California and Washington, DC, are both running hot. The last two weeks in Congress have seen optimism, retr...

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On Climate: Congress Restarts, California Threatens

Donnie Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Technology, Clean Energy, Congress, Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, Clean Tech, John Kerry, Green News
Donnie Fowler

Even though the Golden State is among the greenest of them all, this will be a close election that could shut things down in DC and in about 49 other state capitols. So pay attention and get engaged.

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How Many Non Sequiturs Does It Take to Arm Terrorists?

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Lindsay Graham, Raymond Kelly, Rahm Emanuel, Terrorism, Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, Times Square Bomb, Gun Control, Senator Lieberman, Nra, New York City, Eric Holder, Guns, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

As I understand it, Lindsey Graham's argument goes like this: Some people who support closing the terror gap also support banning handguns. I don't support banning handguns. Therefore, I don't support closing the terror gap.

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Why We Need the Guantanamo Lawyers

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Graham, Andrew McCarthy, War on Terror, Rule of Law, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Boumediene v. Bush, Dick Cheney, Boston-Massacre, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, John Adams, William Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Jesse Larner

Without the rule of law, without fair trials even for the despised, there is nothing else that can be called civilization, nothing else that civilized people can live, fight, or die for.

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Lindsay Graham Is Absolutely Right

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, Unemployment, Lindsay Graham, Green, Chamber of Commerce, World War II, China, Recession, Senate, Green News
James Boyce

An America that isn't dependent on foreign oil from unstable reigions and unfriendly nations is what we want to be.

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