(R-SC.) Lindsey Graham too tired to vote ...

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... for START ...

The senator can't support the treaty because his good friend Joe Lieberman made the Senate vote on DADT.


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Lindsey Graham too tired to vote for START - War Room - Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/20/lindsey_graham_tired_start/)



Poor Lindsey Graham was so tired, Friday, from so much voting.
So, so much voting !

He's been forced to ignore START -- a treaty that was negotiated like, eight months ago? -- because of this voting, this week, on other things: "And I’ve had some time to think about START but not a lot and it's really wearing on the body."

Poor Lindsey Graham!

He was so tired that he could barely make it to a television studio the following Sunday to complain, some more, about how much voting he's had to do lately.


"If you want to have a chance of passing START, you better start over and do it in the next Congress, because this lame duck has been poisoned," Graham told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer.


Poisoned ! The lame duck has been poisoned. (Good thing the Senate passed that new food safety act, again, I guess!) (Wait, sorry -- duck isn't covered by the FDA.)



Who did the poisoning ?

Those awful Democrats, of course.

And their leader -- the man who forced a lame duck vote on "don't ask, don't tell" and even threatened to stay in session through Christmas to get it done -- was Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham's close friend, and the man Graham once called "a national treasure."

And because of Lieberman, Graham can no longer support the START Treaty, because it's just too much voting.



At the beginning of the month, Graham said he'd support START once the tax cut issue was taken care of.

Now that that's done, it's time to complain about how the GOP isn't going to be allowed to amend the treaty ... because amending treaties means they have to be renegotiated from scratch.

"We haven't had a serious debate on START," Graham said on CBS yesterday.

And he's right: We've had an incredibly silly debate on START, because of incredibly silly people like Lindsey Graham.


... damn jus'damn ... http://i51.tinypic.com/2mm6z4k.gif



YouTube - Graham whining about being tired

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[ChasC5]

Lindsey Graham is a waste of an R in the senate. Idiot. Among a bunch of other (R) idiots :D

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the best thing he ever did was own Beck's manic depressive ass with his "only in America can you get paid that much for crying" remark. :lol:

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Lindsey Graham ~ Senate owes Jon Kyl an apology for moving forward with New START

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The Plum Line - Lindsey Graham: Senate owes Jon Kyl an apology for moving forward with New START (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/lindsey_graham_senators_should.html)




Look, I get that being an elected member of the world's greatest deliberative body is a really awesome gig, with lots of perks -- secret holds, Senators-only elevators -- that encourage a rather outsized view of the importance of individual Senators.

But it seems particularly ludicrous that at a presser today, Senator Lindsey Graham actually apologized to Jon Kyl on behalf of the rest of the Senate, because it isn't doing his bidding and instead is ratifying New START:

Graham, who was signaling he might vote for the treat only a week ago, was the most indignant senator in complaining about the process Democrats have used to move the treaty during the lame duck session of Congress.

He also railed against his own party for the way they have handled the treaty and acted throughout the lame duck session.



"I stand here very disappointed in the fact that our lead negotiator on the Republican side ... basically is going to have his work product ignored and the treaty jammed through in the lame duck.
How as Republicans we justify that I do not know," Graham said.

"To Senator Kyl, I want to apologize to you for the way you've been treated by your colleagues."



Seriously?
Senators who have agreed to ratify New START before the end of the lame-duck session are doing this because they've been asked to by the President of the United States, the military leadership, all the living secretaries of state under Republican presidents, and a whole range of national security experts across the political spectrum.

They are doing this after more than a dozen public hearings and countless private briefings from military leaders and White House officials who did everything they could do address their concerns.
They are doing this because they are persuaded that it is in the national security interests of the United States and is necessary to maintain global stability.

Yet Senators who are voting to ratify New START because they believe it's the right thing to do should feel apologetic to Kyl for defying his wishes, even though the evidence is overwhelming that Kyl's objections have been thoroughly addressed?

Yeah, right: It's an absolute outrage that these Senators are prioritizing their own sense of what's right for the country and the world, over the influence, standing and fragile ego of a single fellow Senator.

Unreal.


... and the START is 17 pages long ... about 14 words per day since it's inception ..

Can I get a Bohner weepy face ?

http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/movieimages/2009/09/9876.jpg?key=1252858616

Sad.

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Source?

Lindsey Graham Hits Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly - Political Hotsheet - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5356087-503544.html)