Will this dog hunt? (Lindsey Graham statement)

[LAS14]

Lindsey Graham has already sparked another thread from his town hall today, but
what caught my attention was that he said (words to the effect) "we have to work with the Democrats. What we've been doing hasn't been working."

[mercuryblues]

1. Now they want to work

with Democrats. After 8 years of outright obstruction.

[forgotmylogin]

8. Well, it would be smart of them to stop doing what they've been doing.

Graham has moments of lucidity - he clocks a tick further forward on the Progressive scale.

[Achilleaze]

2. That. And republicans should also stop working with Russia against America

We don't need no more steenkin Russian mob payola passing through Pee45's casinos, no stanky immoral unethical illegal laundering of scuzzball crime money, no filthy stinking polluting climate-destroying under-the-table oil leases, or no freakin rank treasonous toxic interference in the elections of the USA.

Take care of that, republicans, and then you can get honest Americans in general and well-intentioned Democrats in particular to work with you.

rant over.

[JHB]

3. Not anytime soon. That dog is going to have to lose about half...

...its weight, maybe two-thirds (it's a chubby mutt) before it sinks in that bRking and snarling will not fill its belly.

[marybourg]

4. Amazing. I read it off the screen of a muted tv

and started shrieking. Very embarrassing.

[GoCubsGo]

5. He might be sincere about that.

But, he is only one person. All one has to do is remember who are the other Republicans in Congress, realize that any working with Democrats is probably a pipe dream on his part. It has been over 20 years since his party has showed any willingness to work with the other side, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

[Hoyt]

6. For a GOPer, he's been pretty reasonable since Trump elected. Don't fully trust him, but he's right

Gridlock hasn't been working and thousands of people are going to get hurt if something isn't done shortly. The ACA really is on a death spiral now, pushed off the tracks by Republicans. And that is just one issue.

[lame54]

7. He wants bipartisanship to repeal the ACA...

Fuck that

Unless he wants to work on tweeks to make it better he can keep his damn hands off of it

[MineralMan]

9. I do not trust that man one bit.

What he means is he wants Democrats to help him ruin things. No thanks, you scumbag. No thanks.

[frogmarch]

10. I effing hate Lindsey Graham

and don't trust him.

[SaschaHM]

11. He is McCain's protege

All this talk about bipartisanship and working together... until it's time to take a vote. Then he's back in McConnell's pocket.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. always loathed this creep; always will. why

Graham got his start in politics in the South Carolina Legislature in 1992 before winning an open U.S. House seat in 1994, campaigning on his conservative record. He was part of the failed 1997 push to oust then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But it was his role in the House impeachment and Senate trial of President Bill Clinton that put him on the map.

"Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" Graham notably asked fellow lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee in October 1998 as the committee moved toward a formal impeachment inquiry by Congress against then-President Clinton.

While Republicans lost that case and the Senate later acquitted Clinton, the impeachment process catapulted Graham onto the national stage. His role became a staple of his campaign stump speeches soon after and he was immediately a darling of cable news channels fascinated by the ordeal.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/31/410358726/5-things-you-should-know-about-lindsey-graham

he was one of the most obnoxious impeachment advocates, along with morning joe. hard to forget those two pompous hypocrites bloviating over and over and over about NOTHING!

[old guy]

13. I've seen the other thread too.

Graham deserves nothing from me. He is part and parcel of whats wrong with repubs and as I stated before that a gun or a club will do great harm but the silent ice pick will do as much. Graham carries an ice pick.