Sen. Lindsey Graham: My first act as president would be sending the military after Congress

[babylonsister]

Sen. Lindsey Graham: My first act as president would be sending the military after Congress
Arturo Garcia
11 Mar 2015 at 19:42 ET


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vowed that, if elected president, he would use the military to force Congress to reverse cuts to federal defense spending, Vox reported.

“I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to,” Graham said at an event in New Hamphsire over the weekend. “We’re not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.”

The remark was first posted online by journalist Ben Noyes. Noyes wrote that, when reached for comment, a spokesperson from Graham’s office said via email, “Due to the large volume of mail I receive, I regret that I am only able to respond personally to inquiries from South Carolinians.”

Vox noted that, while Senate leadership is legally authorized to employ Capitol police to assure a quorum, Graham’s apparent idea stretches far beyond that.

“What Lindsey Graham is proposing is to physically force members of Congress to vote how he commands,” Amanda Taub wrote. “His plan violates constitutional separation of powers in just about the most extreme way imaginable, by forcing the executive branch’s will on the legislature. And it is a pretty safe bet that Senate rules do not grant the president authority to have the 101st Airborne Division occupy the Capitol until Congress votes the way he wants.”

Graham made the remarks at the first “Politics and Pie” forum hosted by the Concord City Republican Committee. He also chose not to attend this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and subsequntly gained just .1 percent of the vote in the conference’s annual straw poll.

Listen to Graham’s remarks, as posted by Noyes, below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/sen-lindsey-graham-my-first-act-as-president-would-be-sending-the-military-after-congress/

[valerief]

1. Why is this clown allowed to breathe? nt

[Takket]

2. +1

[Marie Marie]

15. Because he was chosen as the designated driver of the clown car?

[C_U_L8R]

3. I suggest Graham start with something less ambitious

[babylonsister]

13. Yes, we should also be calling him out on this

brag; made him sound as stoopid as he is.

[leveymg]

4. Lindsey would have loved the S.A. barracks before the Long Knives

There's a great Fassbinder film he should see. He would fit right in.

[Takket]

5. We ready outspend all the other top countries combined...

But hey, let's drop another trillion on tanks they don't even want!

[Ron Green]

6. Lost-cause Confederates are still jerking

this country around.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. So his first act woiuld be to overtrhow the goernment and create a military dictatorship.

That is called Sedition.

18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

[babylonsister]

8. I used to think he was a semi-normal rethug. Are any left? nt

[jaysunb]

9. Is he a drinker ??? n/t

[Man from Pickens]

10. that's our Lindsey

see, now this is why we normally keep him locked in the closet

[GoCubsGo]

11. Luckily for Congress, this douchebag will never be President.

I'm ashamed that this cretin is my Senator.

[onecaliberal]

12. He must be on some funky drugs.

[Zen Democrat]

14. Lindsey is a lawyer and knows better. The 47Traitors letter was a coming out for fascists.