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Lindsey Graham, evil bi-partisan

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I’m really not sure what to make of this:

Graham said Tuesday that the 13-7 vote for censure by the Lexington County GOP does not mesh with his conservative voting record.

The party censured Graham because of his work with Democrats on immigration and climate change. Graham says he’s proud of solving problems by working across the aisle.

According to the article, this is the second South Carolina county GOP to censure Graham.  Just bizarre.  

God forbid senators should work together to better the country…

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  1. …supporters of Senate candidate Marc Rubio managed to get pro-Charlie Crist Chair of the Florida GOP to resign.  The Chair was accused of, and vehemently denies, misuse of state party funds.

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    p>Lindsey Graham is the perfect example of someone I almost never agree with, but have a good bit of respect for.  He was on the House Judiciary Committee that recommended Clinton’s impeachment and was the only Republican to vote against one of the articles in committee.

    • Krugman made a similar point right before the holidays:

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      Some people will say that it has always been this way, and that we’ve managed so far. But it wasn’t always like this. Yes, there were filibusters in the past – most notably by segregationists trying to block civil rights legislation. But the modern system, in which the minority party uses the threat of a filibuster to block every bill it doesn’t like, is a recent creation.

      The political scientist Barbara Sinclair has done the math. In the 1960s, she finds, “extended-debate-related problems” – threatened or actual filibusters – affected only 8 percent of major legislation. By the 1980s, that had risen to 27 percent. But after Democrats retook control of Congress in 2006 and Republicans found themselves in the minority, it soared to 70 percent.

      Some conservatives argue that the Senate’s rules didn’t stop former President George W. Bush from getting things done. But this is misleading, on two levels.

      First, Bush-era Democrats weren’t nearly as determined to frustrate the majority party, at any cost, as Obama-era Republicans. Certainly, Democrats never did anything like what Republicans did last week: G.O.P. senators held up spending for the Defense Department – which was on the verge of running out of money – in an attempt to delay action on health care.

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      p>What the SC GOP is censuring Graham for is cooperating with the enemy.  It’s frightening.

  2. Who could forget this gem, from a letter to the editor of a local paper written by the fine fellows of the GOP gangs in Orangeburg and Bamberg counties?

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    There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves.

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    p>These county-level guys in SC are a joke.  They embarrass even very conservative but still sane folks like Graham every chance they get.

    • Jews didn’t have usury and were able to propel modern economies because they had financial leverage Christians at the time didn’t have.  Acting like Jews were traditionally not known as financial powerhouses is being PC for no reason.  Recognize they were and absorb the lessons on how they did it.

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      p>Frankly, taking care of the pennies so the dollars take care of themselves is a very wise saying.  

      • prominent leaders talking about “Jews and money” feeds the maw of ugly anti-Semites everywhere? This is one of the most damaging anti-Semitic slanders, exaggerations and conspiracy theory topics about Jews. To say that no responsible leader would start publicly proffering nuggets of wisdom about “Jews and money” is an understatement.

      • Can you really not see any kind of negative stereotyping going on with respect to “penny-pinching Jews”??  Are you that blind?

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        p>Furthermore, beyond what hubspoke accurately says, the actual saying in question appears to have originated with a 17th century British Treasury secretary who was almost certainly not Jewish and who simply said “take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.”  The saying works fine without working in anti-Jewish stereotyping.

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        p>Don’t apologize for these douchebags.  You’re only doing your party a disservice.

        • However, I think a good way to throw dirt in these people’s faces is to take their backhanded insult about Jews and turn it into a discussion about the merits of Jewish culture.

          • Why is such a discussion necessary?  There was a time when bankers were Jews in Europe because the Church forbade usury and it was one of a very limited number of things Jews were allowed to do.  However, it also led to jealousy which in turn led to resentment and anti-Semitic stereotypes, which as others have pointed out, need to be handled with some sensitivity.

            • They refused to use wells and water supplies the general populace did (due to their cleanliness religious laws) so when they didn’t die of the plague way back when in the numbers that Christians did, they got blamed, for another example.  

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              p>But its important to know these things so when ignorant people spout anti-semitism, you can combat them with facts rather than simply “you’re ignorant!”  

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              p>Anti-semitism is, to me, the most confusing type of hate.  Jews don’t do anything.  That’s why I also think it’s the hardest type to combat, because its built on such paranoia and baselessness, its like trying to prove to someone that ghosts don’t exist when they’re convinced they do.  

    • This reminds me of the Chinese market for books with titles like “How to make money like the Jews” and “The secret of Jews’ global success.” Apparently Chinese readers read these books the way an American businesman in the 1980s might have read a book on how to emulate Japanese management techniques–they simply missed what to Western eyes was Protocols of the Elders of Zion-style, good-old-fashioned anti-Semitism.

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      p>TedF

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