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Lindsey Graham: McCain and I are ‘hell-bent’ on pursuing Benghazi
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday declared that he and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were “hell-bent” on continuing to investigate the September 2012 attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi. In an appearance together on CBS News, both McCain and Graham suggested that they would hold up John…
Cop humiliates Sen. Graham at gun hearing: ‘You’re wrong’ on background checks
At a Senate hearing on gun violence Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was humiliated by a police chief who abruptly interrupted his talking points to insist that he’s “wrong” on how enhanced background checks for gun buyers would work. Echoing the National Rifle Association, Graham argued before the Senate Judiciary…
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham: Drone strikes have killed 4,700 people
A US senator has said an estimated 4,700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in bombing raids conducted under America’s secretive drone war, local media reported Wednesday. The toll from hundreds of drone-launched missile strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere has remained a mystery, as…
Lindsey Graham: Slash health care so sequester cuts won’t ‘destroy the military’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama’s health care programs for the middle class should be slashed to stop scheduled sequester cuts from “destroying the military.” During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace point out that the White House has said that if…
Graham says Obama ‘disengaged’ on 9/11 anniv., ignores Bush read ‘My Pet Goat’ in 2001
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama was “disengaged” and personally responsible for some of the deaths caused by a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11 of last year, but seemingly forgot that President George W. Bush read the book “My…
Sen. Graham on fiscal cliff: ‘Hats off to the president. He won’
After a year of deadlocked negotiations, at least one prominent Republican senator is willing to concede defeat. In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) acknowledged that President Obama had stuck to his guns and would emerge from the debt talks victorious. Predicting that tax rates would…
Sen. Graham: Marriage equality requires constitutional amendment, like ending slavery
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says that the United States Supreme Court should not rule that LGBT couples have the right to marry because it is like banning slavery and should require a constitutional amendment. “When is it proper for the government to set boundaries in terms of relationships?” Graham opined…
Watch live: Graham says goodbye to DeMint
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on the Senate floor regarding the departure of Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Dec. 6. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Jon Stewart exposes blatant hypocrisy of McCain and Graham
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart brutally mocked Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for their criticism of Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN. The two senators have pilloried Rice for saying the attack in Benghazi was the result of a…
Grover Norquist confident Republicans will abide by no tax pledge
Democrats have welcomed what they say are the first cracks in the Republican party’s long-standing opposition to any tax rises, which Barack Obama has insisted must be part of a deal to resolve the fiscal cliff crisis. But anti-tax campaigner Grover Norquist, a key figure in the negotiations, predicted that…
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