I have to agree with Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler. Sen. Lindsey Graham does sound like a petulant child for complaining about a $50,000 cut in the budget that eliminates funding for a study on deepening Charleston’s port.
“If it’s that important to his state, perhaps Senator Graham ought to pay the $50K out of his own pocket,” he wrote in an e-mail to TPM. “Or perhaps the citizens of his own state would like to volunteer to fund it. Or perhaps the companies who would benefit from the deepening of the port might want to fund it.”
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“While helping Charleston to become a competitive deep-water port may be an important project, Graham sounds like a petulant child intent on screaming loud enough to get his way,” he said. “I’m certain he could find alternatives to this. Heck, if he were willing to cut just one staffer from his personal office he could probably cover the cost of this project.
If the state of South Carolina is going to let the loss of $50,000 cost them thousands of jobs then they’re so stupid that they deserve what they get. I’d be perfectly fine with putting a blanket ban on the federal government spending any money on projects in South Carolina. I’ve had just about enough of their crap. I’m pretty sure spending federal money in the Palmetto State is the equivalent of pissing on every Union soldier’s grave. It’s also a communist plot.
Okay, I’m not serious. But it would be cool if South Carolina would just return all the federal money they get so that people who appreciate the help can have access to it. Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio are already following this strategy, so I don’t see why South Carolina can’t join the party.
So, Lindsey Graham says he’s going to hold up nominees until he gets his fifty grand back? He’s completely off-message. Only a carpetbagger begs for money from Washington DC.
Lindsey just got nailed on one of his own earmarks.
In last year’s Senate race, Jim DeMint got hammered by a third-party candidate on this issue, hoping to get some traction in a last-ditch effort to undo what Alvin Greene had done–provide some real opposition on issues to DeMint.
Lindsey is trying to cultivate his maverick status by being off-message. And he is caught between Republican ideology and the demand by his constituents to “bring home the bacon”.
As you probably are aware, the $50,000 is just the camel’s nose to get Army Corps of Engineers funding for dredging a deepwater harbor.
As a native South Carolinian, this news is hilarious.
I’m not for cutting off all federal funding for South Carolina, however. A better gesture of respect for their distaste of federal spending would be to close all of the military facilities that South Carolina Democrats worked so hard to get located in South Carolina. Think of what that would be: Fort Jackson; Shaw Air Force Base; Parris Island Marine Base; Charleston Naval Base. You could also throw in the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site, known affectionately to South Carolinians of my era as “the bumb plant”.
But keep Congaree National Park open, and keep available South Carolina’s high-speed rail funding just to see if Nikki Haley will refuse it. And remember the 862,000 of South Carolina’s 2.6 million registered voters who voted for Barack Obama and the 1.8 million registered voters who did not vote for Jim DeMint. There are a lot of folks who are just politically hunkered down in South Carolina. Don’t pay attention to the loudmouths.
And BTW, most South Carolinians do in fact know that the Civil War was about slavery and slavery alone. Even a good portion of the re-enactors. Only the Fergit Hell crew, neo-Confederates, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Bircher types (a substantial minority of whites) think otherwise. Remember that it was only a generation ago that Richard Riley was able to raise taxes to pay for education. And only a decade ago that a Democrat was governor of South Carolina.
But it does look like Lindsey Graham is coming to the end of his political career in 2014, doesn’t it.
Remember that it was only a generation ago that Richard Riley was able to raise taxes to pay for education. And only a decade ago that a Democrat was governor of South Carolina.
Granted, most Democrats in S.C. are going to be “pro-life” but how did the party fall so far, so fast?
The state Democratic Party establishment became so ingrown and cautious they stopped trying to compete. They’ve essentially written off the third of the state that during the New Deal was the most progressive part of the state and now is the most Tea Party part of the state. If you don’t put up candidates, you can’t win. And Democrats stopped building a farm team in the county and city councils and the state legislature.
When Howard Dean was chair of the DNC, there were efforts to resuscitate the capabilities of the party, but that disappeared with the arrival of Tim Kaine. With the embarrassing results last year.
Finally, one cannot understate the effects of the 24/7 talk radio campaign that the right has been waging. Lots of truckers and farmers in tractors and workshops and garages and the radio on while folks work.
Yeah .. people getting bombarded with corporate propaganda. Ugh!!
Ms. Lindsey is nothing but a punk ass bitch.