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Graham: Obama Speech A "Disaster," Public Option Dead (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker says it's clear to him that the White House is ready to abandon a government-run public health insurance opti...

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And The Runners-Up For The Republican Innapropriate Behavior Contest Are...

Julie Farby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Congress, Twitter, Lindsey Graham, Health Care, Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, Politics News
Julie Farby

After Joe Wilson, it's easy to forget the efforts of fellow conservative stars and statesmen Lindesy Graham and Eric Cantor, who earned distinguished honors of their own for less vocal protests against the evil Obama Empire.

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What It Might Look Like If the Bottom Drops Out on Afghanistan

Patrick Barry | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, John McCain, Obama, Afghanistan, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Hagel, John Boehner, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Patrick Barry

Why, amidst increasing calls for withdraw from the left, and the absence of progress on the battlefield, would opportunistic conservatives refrain from accusing Democrats of being weak on national security?

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Ode to the Purple Senator: Lindsey Graham, Republican, South Carolina

Lanny Davis | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Lanny Davis

Mr. Graham is truly a rare politician: someone who can maintain his conservative principles but still reach across the aisle to find common ground, even, at times, with liberals like me.

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Sonia and the Supremes

Shawn Healy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork, Mel Martinez, President Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Kennedy, Filibuster, David Souter, Samuel Alito, Lindsey Graham, C. Harrold Carswell, Clement Haynsworth, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Confirmation, Obama-Sotomayor-Pick, Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Obama Sotomayor, Politics News
Shawn Healy

Given the alignment of stars in Sotomayor's strive for the Supremes, her sterling resume made confirmation all but inevitable.

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GOP Sen.: Let's Not 'Rumsfeld' The War In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must no...

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Jon Stewart's Salute To South Carolina: Bestiality, Adultery, Racism, And Lindsey Graham (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy

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It's been a rough couple of years for South Carolinians: Their governor disappeared for a week then admitted to an affair that he wouldn't shut up abo...

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Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Tom Coburn, Ethnicities, Ethnicity, Identity Politics, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Racism, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Watching some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week was like a crash course in what I've often referred to as "self evasion of the mind."

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GOP Sen. Graham To Support Sotomayor

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party'...

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This Week in Blackness: "2009 is the New 1952"

Elon James White | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, Elon James White, Lindsey Graham, This Week in Blackness, Post Racial America, The Truth, Comedy News
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Bigotry and Racism in America: What Harvey Left Us

Dan Agin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

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Dan Agin

We need the past to inform us why we're the way we are. Without that we will never change. And without change our hatreds may eventually destroy us.

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Jon Stewart Hammers Lindsey Graham For Hypocrisy In The Sotomayor Hearings (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy

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In one of his funniest segments of the year, Jon Stewart took the Senate Judiciary Committee to task last night for their odd behaviors and hypocritic...

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Judiciary Committee: Sharp Minds -- and Empty Suits

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Dianne Feinstein, Herb Kohl, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Kyl, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin Cardin, Sonia Sotomayor, Orrin Hatch, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

These Senators spend their precious minutes before the cameras posturing, except for when they're pandering. Except for when they're plodding.

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Much Ado About So Little It Hurts

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Supreme Court Justices, Cnn, Sonia Sotomayor, Laermer.com, Cable News, Lindsey Graham, Constitution, Barack Obama, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Media News
Richard Laermer

The issue before the Senate is simple: Is the nominee qualified to sit on the Court? The answer: Yes. All the kvetching about how a nominee's race shaped her worldview is for the cameras, baby.

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Sam Stein

Graham To Sotomayor: Your Statements "Bug The Hell Out Of Me" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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Questioning Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the second time, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told the Supreme Court nominee that in the past, she has "said som...

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Sam Stein

Graham Decried Guilt By Association With Ginsburg, Alito But Not Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

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One of the most memorable moments from Judge Sonia Sotomayor's second day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday was the aggressi...

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Sam Stein

Graham To Sotomayor: Do You Have A Temperament Problem? (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), dove head-first into the personal when it was his turn to pepper Judge Sonia Sotomayor with questions, reading from anon...

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More Than Just a Show: History, the Sotomayor Hearings and the Future

Marcia D. Greenberger | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Lindsey Graham, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics, Politics News
Marcia D. Greenberger

Sotomayor's extraordinary intelligence, personal fortitude and integrity underscore what a terrible loss the nation suffers when it fails to take advantage of the talents and skills of women and people of color.

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Sam Stein

Whitehouse: Roberts Court Already Activist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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For the most part, Monday's hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor avoided political debate. But when it came time for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to ...

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Sam Stein

Graham To Sotomayor: Absent "Complete Meltdown" You'll Be Confirmed (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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In what had to be the most candid opening statement of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) acknowledged that P...

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Lindsey Graham: Sotomayor Could Get My Vote

Miami Herald | By MICHAEL DOYLE and DAVID LIGHTMAN | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

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The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to...

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The New Senate Global Warming Deniers

Bill Scher | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Robert Byrd, Lindsey Graham, Claire McCaskill, Climate Bill, Green News
Bill Scher

Some senators are acting as if Reps. Waxman and Markey hadn't painstakingly pieced a compromise with those sympathetic to coal companies, power companies and agribusiness.

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NPR Asks Viewers to Identify Health Care Lobbyists, But Misses the Real Point

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

NPR is diverting attention away from the real problem: centrist Democrats and Congress representatives that receive thousands of dollars from the private health care and insurance industries.

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Sanford Adviser: Resignation Not An Option

The Washington Post | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

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Although some in South Carolina -- and nationally -- are calling for Gov. Mark Sanford to resign his office in the wake of his six-day hiatus from the...

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I Just Don't Get It

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Right Wing Media, John McCain, Global Economy, Rush Limbaugh, Iran Election, Cnbc, Economy, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Bank of America, Right Wing, Iran, Obama Economy, Lindsey Graham, Iranian Election, Barack Obama, Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Economic Stimulus Package, Finance, Larry Kudlow, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Fox News, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus, Saxby Chambliss, Fox, Citigroup, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It seems pretty clear that Obama is actually insisting that we change the approach that led the economy off a cliff. I just don't get it.

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