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Sam Stein

Lindsey Graham Contradicts Himself On Earmarks In Under A Minute

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics

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Moments after declaring that the country needs earmark reform, Sen. Lindsey Graham offered an arduous defense of his own, well, earmarking. Appearing...

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Burris Gets Support From Senate Republicans

The Hill | J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Richard Burr, Roland Burris Investigation, Roland Burris Resignation, Roland Burris, Roland Burris Resign, Lindsey Graham, Burris Support, Chicago News

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Burris should stay where he is. "He came nominated by a governor who was in office, he came with the paperwork, the S...

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Obama Faces Democratic Opposition To Social Security Cuts

New York Times | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Obama-Social-Security, Universal Healthcare, Lindsey Graham, Obama Social Security, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, House Democrats, John Podesta, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Senate Democrats, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but h...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Banks, Alan Greenspan, Lindsey Graham, Nationalization, Ayn Rand, Economy, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

In times as uncertain as ours, yesterday's heretical view can rapidly turn into today's conventional wisdom. Take the question of nationalizing America's insolvent banks. Just six months ago, raising the idea would have immediately branded you as an old school Marxist. Now, it's being suggested by none other than Alan Greenspan. Last Sunday, Lindsey Graham said he wouldn't take nationalizing the banks off the table. On Wednesday, Greenspan, the high priest of laissez-faire capitalism, said it "may be necessary." And on Friday, Chuck Schumer, who just five days earlier had said he "would not be for nationalizing," told HuffPost he was actually in favor of "good nationalization," wherein the government takes over zombie banks, cleans house, then resells them to the private sector. Who knows, by next week Ayn Rand might pop up from the grave and start speaking Swedish.

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Lindsey Graham Defends Bank Nationalization Statement

Charlotte Observer | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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Despite criticism from fellow Republicans, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Monday defended his statement that the U.S. should consider nati...

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Sam Stein

Dems Fed Up With McCain: "Angry Old Defeated Candidate"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

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Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with the brash political attacks Sen. John McCain has launched against Barack Obama in the weeks since t...

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Sam Stein

Graham: Nationalizing Banks Should Be On The Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Schumer Peter King, U.S. Banks, Nationalizing Banks, Bank Nationalization, Lindsey Graham, Graham Nationalization, Graham King, Obama Nationalization, Politics News

In a gloomy segment about the financial sector on ABC'S This Week, two self-avowed fiscal conservatives said that the U.S. Government should at least ...

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Jason Linkins

After Opposing Stimulus, Lindsey Graham Will Take The Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Lindsey Graham, Video, Economic Stimulus Package, Wolf Blitzer, Media News

Oh, Lindsey Graham, he is one of our favorites! The South Carolina Senator has, for weeks, cast himself as one of the stimulus package's most fervent...

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Republicans: Spare Me Your Newfound "Fiscal Responsibility"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, Joe the Plumber, Mitch McConnell, Ronald Reagan, Ann Coulter, Employee Free Choice Act, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John McCai, Npr, Lindsey Graham, Economic Stimulus Bill, Sarah Palin, Economic Stimulus Package, Mara Liasson, Fiscal Responsibility, Nancy Pelosi, Will Bunch, Washington Republicans, RNC Chair Michael Steele, Jean Baudrillard, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Grand Old Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The Republicans today are conforming to an ideology based on a myth that other Republicans created in 1997, a copy of a copy without an original.

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The Evil of Banality

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Obstructionism, Michael Steele, Tarp Bailout, Republican National Committee, John McCain, John Thain, National Right to Life Committee, Rush Limbaugh, Ben Stein, President Barack Obama, Republican Control of the Political Discourse, The New York Times, Economic Crisis, The Evil of Banality, "Joe the Plumber, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Lindsey Graham, Human Rights Campaign, " Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Palin, Economic Meltdown, Christian Coalition, The Wall Street Journal, Merrill Lynch, Economic Stimulus Package, Rnc, RNC Chair Michael Steele, Economic Stimulus, Senator Lindsey Graham, Stimulus Bill, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

It could be that our institutions are so corrupt, our political discourse so banal and polluted, that they are incapable of lifting us up from our national malaise.

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Jason Linkins

The Stimulus Coverage, In Microcosm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Stimulus Package, Media News

Even as the storyline draws to an understandable conclusion, the storytellers are getting more and more unhinged.

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Graham: Obama "Trying To Scare People"

Politico | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday that rather than showing leadership in steering the stimulus package through Congress, President Barack Oba...

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Sam Stein

McCain Praises Clinton, Draws On Obama's Inaugural Address

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Hillary Clinton's ascension to the post of Secretary of State has never really been in doubt, even after Sen. John Cornyn put a hold on a confirm...

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Biden Holds Talks With Pakistani Leaders

AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Biden, Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, Pakistan, Lindsey Graham, Asif Zadari, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Friday met with Pakistani leaders during an Asian trip meant to show the new administration's int...

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Lindsey Graham Serves Military Duty In Afghanistan

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 01.14.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The men around Lindsey Graham ignored his powerful political title _ U.S. senator _ and instead addressed him by rank _ col...

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McCain: Afghanistan Situation Will Get Harder

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 01.07.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier _ "just like t...

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Three Amigos: McCain, Lieberman And Graham Visit Bhutan

New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Bhutan, Lindsey Graham, Politics News

The election is behind them but the three amigos - Senators John McCain, Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham - are still jetting from place to plac...

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Sam Stein

Obama's Foreign Policy Team Earns High Praise, But Concern About Clintons

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

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With President-elect Barack Obama set to announce his foreign policy team on Monday, the names expected to fill out the squad were widely praised on t...

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Graham: Corrupted GOP Came Across As "Grumpy Old Men"

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday the GOP lost the White House because the party was tainted by corruption, overspen...

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"Bipartisan" Global Warming Denial?

A. Siegel | Posted 11.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Global Warming Denial, South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, Climate Change, Global Warming, Bob Conley, Sc-Sen, Green News
A. Siegel

Bob Conley is a "Democrat In Name Only" and thus represents, by himself, bipartisanship in the global warming denier wing of the know-nothing wing of the Flat Earth Society.

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Obama and Democrats Fighting Hard on GOP Turf

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?

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Jason Linkins

Lindsey Graham Too 'Tired' Sunday To Spin For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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[Via Crooks and Liars] How did things go for John McCain last week? Lindsey Graham, who usually flacks McCain with a psychopathic, operatic zeal, got...

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Hill Dems Blow It for Obama: McCain Allies Kill Gang-of-20 Compromise Energy Bill

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Congress, Lindsey Graham, Democrats, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
Joseph Romm

A bipartisan "gang" of 20 Senators will not introduce a compromise energy bill before the election, a huge triumph for McCain and major political blunder by Congressional Democrats.

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'08 earmarks

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Washington Times, Earmarks, Bellantoni, Taxpayers for Common Sense, 2009 Defense Authorization Bill, Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham, Politics News
Christina Bellantoni

First posted at WashingtonTimes.com at 3:45 p.m. Taxpayers for Common Sense is out with an analysis of earmark requests in the 2009 Defense Authoriza...

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John McCain Channels Reagan: Both the Good and the Troubling

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Billl Kristol, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, Harry Truman, Lindsey Graham, Republican National Convention, Barack Obama, Robert Kagan, Randy Scheunemann, Fred Kagan, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.

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