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“There was a lot of drama,” the source said, according to the article. “Rahm had a good relationship with Graham, and believed Graham when he said that if you don’t prosecute these people in military commissions I won’t support the closing of Guantánamo. . . . Rahm said, ‘If we don’t have Graham, we can’t close Guantánamo, and it’s on Eric!’ ”

More evidence of Graham being an idiot lefty.  And we are supposed to support RINOs. hahahahahha

3 Sadly, Sir Lindsay does not have to run for re-election until 2014.

4 What, no idiot saying "first" on this thread?

5 Hey Joe,

How about we go for a couple of burgers. Just remember to get Dijon mustard on mine.

6

And Clown Franken lambasted Axelrod behind closed doors.

In today's politico.

7 "The bottom line is Emanuel is a better political strategist than either Obama or Holder " That's like saying Moe was the smartest Stooge.

8

So how many persons can back Holder on his decision? Show of hands.

ok...

How many people oppose it?

right...

Ok, the forest wins over the tree.

9 6  Ha that's like when Jean Francois was campaigning in Philly and wanted to put Swiss cheese on his steak sandwich.

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Meh.  The Little Ballerina wasn't against it because it endangers Americans, only because he knows how wildly unpopular and politically damaging this will be to Wee Wee.  It's not like he has morals or ethics, just a political weathervane.

It's frightening that Wee Wee and that c*cksucker Holder harbor so much hate for this country that they will try to do this. 

Lindsey Graham needs to be blinded, castrated, and banished.

11 First.

12 I predicted before Obama took office that Rahmbo would wind up under the bus and that his life would be ruined in the process.  I still believe this because in the end, he is a Jew.  And I don't believe, in the end, that Barry cares for Jooos all that much and if tossing Rahm to the wolves will advance an agenda, Rahm is toast.  How ironic would it be if Rahm were the next Bush?  Ouch.

13 Holder is going to be dumped soon.  Rahm thinks he can still cling-on.

14 "The bottom line is Emanuel is a better political strategist than either Obama or Holder and Lindsay Graham is still annoying a squishy cocksucker."

15 I favor the closing of gitmo too...those bastards are getting fat (literally) on our dime.  Just shoot 'em.

16 Holder is going to be dumped soon.  Rahm thinks he can still cling-on.

No way.  Jewish CoS does not trump AA AG in the liberal hierarchy.

17 Unless it turns out the Rahm is also gay.

18 Trouble in paradise? Can I borrow the bwaahahahaha from the guy that says bwaahahahaha?

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15 "The bottom line is Emanuel is a better political strategist than either Obama or Holder and Lindsay Graham is still annoying a squishy cocksucker."

Absolutely the truth.

20

Who woulda thunk we'd see Tiny Dancer's ass kicked to the curb before Bagdad Bobby Gibbs?

I'm in shock and awe over that one.

21

Graham (R-S.C.)...wants the 9/11 suspects tried by military commissions, but he favors the closure of Guantanamo and has indicated he is willing to break with many in his party to work with the administration on plans to move Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S.

That one there shows how wrong Graham is.  It is not as if Graham doesn't know the true nature of those still left in Gitmo.

22 corker, collins, chambliss, alexander, bennett, bond, graham, grassley, gregg, hatch, isakson, lugar, MCCAIN, voinovich, snowe, sessions ALL VOTED TO CONFIRM ERIC HOLDER AND ALL DESERVE TO LOSE THEIR SEATS AND SHOULD BE PUBLICLY SHAMED EVERY TIME THEY WHINE ABOUT KSA BEING TRIED IN NYC.......THEY ALL KNEW HOLDER'S POSITION BEFORE THEY CONFIRMED HIM

23 One does have to wonder about Lindsay Graham.  Seriously. 

24

#16 Tami

Just shoot 'em

Works for me.

25

The awful conclusion that I have reached:

Holder's decision resulted from the basest of bureaucratic impulses...turf.

This is the ONLY way to explain his complete inability to justify having the trial in Manhattan in a civilian court.

And the President was either a) not paying attention or b) okay with it.

Wow.

26 Holder's such a lightweight.

27 Oh my gawd.......  the Administration takes a hit.


CORPSE MAN UP!!!

28 All three of those stooges _ran for office_ on the idea of closing Guantanamo Bay and putting the idiots there in the civilian justice system. And the people of New York voted for them on this platform.

They really need to sit down and hold their mistrial (as per the Geneva Conventions) and let the idiots go.

They've already shit on the rug. We can try to pretend it's cute and clean it up, or we can rub their noses in the dogshit.

For a long while _WE_ were evil for wanting to avoid that choice. It's about time they went ahead and did it.

29 Speaking of global warming, anyone here in the D,C, area?

30

I know of one future Republican in New York City.  This one also happens to have a promising and wealthy future ahead of her.

Why?

Because lefties are over the top stupid.  And here is definitive proof!

http://tinyurl.com/yfvat2h

Nothing more need be said.

31 Lindsey Graham needs to be blinded, castrated, and banished.

You can castrate someone who never had any balls to begin with?

32

We must vote for Lindsey here in SC. After all, it IS a Blue State.......

Isn't it???

33

Drew Drew Drew...don't you know that this part of the Chosen One's Team of Rivals? You know...his Licolnesque Cabinet. That took five months to put together...

 

As if the One could stand anyone to be around him that disagreed with him...

34

Talk about missing the point.

We can't try them in Civilian courts NOT BECAUSE Military Tribunals are clearly the right path, but for POLITCAL REASONS.

Nothing Obama does is immune from politics.

35 O/T:  The Twilight Zone classic where the woman has plastic surgery so that she can look like the smushed pigface people is just starting.

36 drew.... you know what else looks good? some jello! it's not too late...

37 Watching Hannity replay the clip of Obama mispronouncing corpsman last night was hysterical.   He laughed every time he played it.  I can imagine Obama right now having a hissy fit over being made to look like the complete idiot that he is.  This guy is NOT smart.  Evil maybe, smart no.

38
So Rahm got beat down by that pussy,  Holder?

We're in worse shape than I thought.


Actually,  I'm thinkin' Holder is about to take a fall for dropping the New Black Panther investigation.

39 Pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical of this latest BS story>

40 Because lefties are over the top stupid.  And here is definitive proof!

Actually, they're very clever.  It's a lot easier to gain control of the masses when they're all convicted criminals...and in fear of the actual violent criminals roaming the streets while you prosecute the Lego guns and the homeowners who cut down trees on their property without commissioning an environmental impact study first.

41 graham is what's wrong with the GOP and the country.

42 32 Speaking of global warming, anyone here in the D,C, area?

Yep. The stores have been stripped bare of bread, milk, and eggs by panicked mobs. Now we're all just waiting for the wintry doom to descend. Me, I have all the supplies I need, some booze, and weaponry to fend off marauding yetis. Snowpocalypse Now!

43 The stores have been stripped bare of bread, milk, and eggs by panicked mobs.


Amateurs.  You want beer and chili fixin's (and TP and cat litter).

44 Rahm as the voice of reason, albeit for political calculations. What a ship of fools.

45 No question that Rahm is not among the fuck-tards...he's merely a cunning and slimy little shit.

I'd love to watch both he and Holder get thrown under the bus, and then see the bus itself flip end over end and burst into flames.

Popcorn!

46

And before any get's on Heathers' case about the cat litter...nothing better for tire traction when you are stuck in the snow.

Other than that...

Food, check.

Beer, check

Coffee, check.

Let it snow...

47 The inmates are running the asylum.

48 In Soviet America you don't hunt hobos, hobos hunt you.

49

I mentioned this to Vic the other day but since it's on topic I'll mention again. Somehow I ended up on a Joe Wilson telephone townhall the other night and it seemed like every fourth or fifth person complained about how much Miss Lindsey sucked and begged Joe to run against him.

A person I know who has been pretty dialed into SC politics for a long time thinks that Miss Lindsey is done and won't be reelected in 2014. I am more cynical and will wait to see what happens. Unfortunately it still leaves us with five more years of that POS.

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Rahm as the voice of reason, albeit for political calculations.
What a ship of fools.

I think it's not so much that Rahm is the voice of reason as it is that Rahm isn't the voice of treason. Eric "nation of cowards" Holder deep down hates this nation and would like to destroy it, as would his boss. Rahm isn't out for Marxism, he's out for Rahm.

51

More evidence of Graham being an idiot lefty.  And we are supposed to support RINOs. hahahahahha

You mean you haven't sent any money to Kirk's campaign?  PURIST!  YOU MADE OBAMA WIN!!!  11-T!

Another couple days' worth of Pro-RINO Justification Blogging in 3-2-1...

Not only is Graham a RINO, he's a real pig for playing politics with an issue as important as Gitmo.

52 I predict Eric Holder will be thrown under the bus only to rejoin his Terrorist Defending Lawfirm where his seditious ass belongs.

53 Lindsey Graham needs to be blinded, castrated, and banished.

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 05, 2010 10:41 AM (fx8sm)

Put Grahmnesty and that rodent-wearing Peter Orszag in a steel cage and throw whatever emerges into a wood-chipper.

54 Posted by: barbelle at February 05, 2010 11:09 AM (qF8q3)

I'll accept Scott Brown in MA, I'll accept Kirk in Illinois. But I will not accept a Lefty Republican in a conservative state. And RINOs should take marching orders from the Conservative side of the Party (you know, the majority!). That is how it should work.

55 57 Right!We have to fight where we can win people.In a blue state you might have no choice but a RINO,and I'll take that over a 100% liberal any day.

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You mean you haven't sent any money to Kirk's campaign?  PURIST!  YOU MADE OBAMA WIN!!!  11-T!

Another couple days' worth of Pro-RINO Justification Blogging in 3-2-1...

South Carolina is NOT Illinois, Barb. All of us here would be happy to have Lindsay Grahamnesty gone.

And you don't have to send money to Kirk's campaign, just vote for him, unless you really really think Commiecrats are better than RINOs. Not Blue Dogs, Commiecrats.

You wanted Patrick Hughes instead? So do I. But he didn't win the primary.

 

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I'll accept Scott Brown in MA, I'll accept Kirk in Illinois. But I will not accept a Lefty Republican in a conservative state. And RINOs should take marching orders from the Conservative side of the Party (you know, the majority!). That is how it should work.

Bit of a difference between "accepting" and "supporting."  And the problem with RINOs is that they bail when push comes to shove, either for ideological or spotlight reasons.

58 For the last time: "NO Drama Obama" is an adulatory phrase coined by the MSM during the campaign.  But, the reason Obama could even claim such a title was due SOLELY to the fact that he endured no real criticism or scrutiny from the MSM in the campaign.  When one doesn't draw such criticism and scrutiny, one can be "no drama" all day long and in their sleep, no?  So, let's all challenge people when they say this phrase.  It;s annoyin

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And you don't have to send money to Kirk's campaign, just vote for him, unless you really really think Commiecrats are better than RINOs. Not Blue Dogs, Commiecrats.

I'm not in IL and even if I were I wouldn't vote for a RINO, not even to keep the SuperScary Commiecrats away.  If a damaged candidate wins it won't be with my support.

Vote for RINOs, get more RINOs.  Pass.

60 OT: FireDogLake going after Jamie Gorelick again.  This time Gorelick is lobbying for Sallie Mae to stop the Obama Administration's plan to redistribute student loan profits back into more student loans.

61

I am more cynical and will wait to see what happens. Unfortunately it still leaves us with five more years of that POS.

He had two primary opponents in the last election. That is unheard of for an incumbent Republican in SC.  Of course he won because he controls the Republican Party in this State. There were a LOT of local elections for major offices in which the Republicans did not run a candidate.  If you wanted to vote in those elections you had to vote in the Dem primary.

One of the poll workers even questioned me when I asked for a Rep ballot.  The fix was in.

62 if the rino is honest about being a rino....i have no problem...but rino's that pretend they are conservative and then go out of their way to show how "independant" they are and how willing they are to "cross the isle" and shake hands with their "good friends" should be stripped of all GOP support

63 Slimy little shits don't go under the bus....they jump first.  If Rahm is half as bright as he's made out to be, he's gotta know that this train wreck of an administration is going to be light on political survivors.  Maybe he is looking for an exit strategy.  Picking fights with the real dullards in the Administration first might (in his calculations) give him a little semi-plausible deniability, or at least some juicy bits for the blockbuster exposé he's probably working on.

64 Didn't I read somewhere that the RAM wanted his seat back and the author was ruminating about this.  So to me, this looks an awful lot like the beginnings of moving toward that end.

65 RINO to me doesn't mean someone who is a little bit conservative. To me it means a political opportunist who is merely riding some coattails.

66 I wanted to stick them all in tutus and have a hot oil massage party in the basement at the Whitehouse.

67 Obama needs Rahm more than Rahm needs Obama. And that could make for some first-class drama (and second-class poetry).

68 Mary Landriue, isn't she part of a dynasty?   OMG...Beck is playing a tape of her making a Scarlet O'Hara speech. 

69 #66

Most White House Chiefs of Staff only serve 2-3 years anyway.

Its a very tough and stressful job.

Rahm gave up being in the House, and a good shot at Majority Whip, to go work for Obama.   Under the normal course of events, he'd probably be looking for a new job in about a year anyway.

70 Hmmm....Shall we make a list of the people from the administration who are starting to telegraph their intention to prematurely jump ship, perhaps rather than being thrown under that bus?

71

I'm not in IL and even if I were I wouldn't vote for a RINO, not even to keep the SuperScary Commiecrats away.  If a damaged candidate wins it won't be with my support.

Vote for RINOs, get more RINOs.  Pass.

 

AAHHHHHHSAAAAHHHHHHH. It's this crap that got Obama in the White House and a super majority in the House and Senate until yesterday. Fucking vote against communism if you can't vote for RINOs. If you do this crap, the bad guys win. Keep the bad guys out then beat up the rinos until they give. Collins, Snowe et al at least held steady during health care.

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Earth to morons.   Rahm gets THROWED under the bus.

Rahm is a calculating money grubbing prick.     So is Obama

Holder is a disaffected angry black marxist money grubbing prick. SO IS OBAMA.

The only caveat is that Emanuel will FUCK BACK if he gets FUCKED.

73 The term RINO is itself a bit misleading.

Remember, there are plenty of liberal districts in the country.

A Massachusetts Republican can't be expected to vote the same as a South Carolina Republican and keep his seat.   That doesn't make the MA guy a "RINO".

On South Carolina, Graham has been squishy on some issues, even annoyingly so, but overall he's still fairly conservative, and a lot more so than some of his Republican colleagues.

74

He had two primary opponents in the last election. That is unheard of for an incumbent Republican in SC.

That was part of the problem; no way can you knock off an incumbent in the primary when you have two challengers. Next time out he needs to be challenged from the right by one person.

75 Rahm is the only member of Obama's inner circle that knows the Beltway.

Jarrett, Axelrod, Gibbs, Burton: these people are all outsiders.

76

I'm not in IL and even if I were I wouldn't vote for a RINO, not even to keep the SuperScary Commiecrats away.  If a damaged candidate wins it won't be with my support.

Vote for RINOs, get more RINOs.  Pass.

How lucky you are to live in a state where you can be so pure. Most of the rest of us have to practice damage control.

In the general election, there is no grown up choice for purity where I live. Unless you want to tell me that flushing your vote for the American Independent / US Taxpayers / Constitution (Constipation?) Party is a choice. In which case I will tell you that you aren't grown up.

77

if the rino is honest about being a rino....i have no problem...but rino's that pretend they are conservative and then go out of their way to show how "independant" they are and how willing they are to "cross the isle" and shake hands with their "good friends" should be stripped of all GOP support

People who don't know that a RINO is a RINO are teh stupid, especially if the said RINO has held office before. It is too easy to look up their record on the nets. For example, people are saying Kirk may not be a conservative but he is no RINO and he is as good as we will get in Il.

I throw the BS flag on that. He does in fact have a voting record and he is a DIABLO. Hell, anyone who voted for crap and tax is by definition a DIABLO since even the damn ME sisters are against it.

78

That was part of the problem; no way can you knock off an incumbent in the primary when you have two challengers. Next time out he needs to be challenged from the right by one person.

The did do a run-off in the last primary where there were only RINO Lindsey and one other.  That was the one where the poll worker questioned me since they held the Dem primary and the Rep on the same day.

79 I'm in Greenville county SC, we were the only county in the state that Graham didn't win. Open primaries are a problem here, the Dems ran a candidate but were openly saying Graham was the best friend they had in DC.  That's the only explanation other than outright fraud I can come up with for why that turd won.

80 The thing that scared me most was thinking that Barry was a puppet for Rahm and his brother Ezekiel, which meant they would tack as far left as feasible...  Now to find out that Barry is too dumb to take his advice and instead make decisions with the likes of Holder and Valerie Jarrett....  The Good: the power will be snuffed out quicker as Barry will keep pushing healthcare reform hard enough to put the Senate within reach of being flipped in November. The Bad: They will make some big wrong decisions like the terror trials.   The Ugly:  Barry will get Nancy put the Senate Health care Bill up for a vote the day after election day.

81 8 "The bottom line is Emanuel is a better political strategist than either Obama or Holder "

That's like saying Moe was the smartest Stooge.     Ha!  That's too funny!  He was also the only one with a full head of hair (even though it was fake!)  Rahm does have the best head of hair amongst Axelrod and Obama.

82 Mary Landriue, isn't she part of a dynasty? 

Father was mayor of NOLA, brother is the lieutenant governor and is a candidate in the NOLA mayoral primary election tomorrow.  8 Dems and 1 R, go figure.

83

Speaking of SC;

From the Charleston newspaper (which is not quite as liberal as the Columbia rag):

 

Rex proposes rise in cigarette tax

COLUMBIA — Anti-tobacco and education groups have joined the state schools chief in calling on legislators to increase the state's cigarette tax to the national average.

State Superintendent Jim Rex said Thursday that the state's 7-cents-per-pack cigarette tax should be increased by $1.27 per pack. He wants half of the additional revenue to go toward education temporarily so the state can stop looming teacher furloughs.

The state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax has not changed since 1977. (misleading crap since SC jined the BS tobacco lawsuit wing resulting in a huge increase in cigarette prices in SC.  SC still has got no money from that settlement BTW and they have already spent the money.  Look for calls to “how we should spend the money” if they ever do get it).

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate said South Carolina's cigarette tax should be tied to the national average so that it automatically increases when other states raise theirs.

House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Cooper said lawmakers are unlikely to seriously consider the idea.

 

I just love this kind of shit from the commie weanies. Why is it you NEVER hear of one of them calling for a decrease in the tax when it is above the national average.  Hey cockholster Jim Rex! HereÂ’s an idea for youÂ…IÂ’ll be all for increasing the tax on cigarettes (sine I donÂ’t smoke any more) if at the same time you decrease the tax on beer to the national average.  Yes, SC has the second highest tax in the nation on beer (AK is the highest).

 

84 Nah Rahm Emanuel is not a complete effing retard.  He's only a half assed doofus--got to keep our terminology straight here.  And when somebody who belongs in a clown suit--Al Franken--can criticize Axelrod, well it's only a matter of time before we're all laughing at The Won--although laughing through our tears.

85 re: #8 "That's like saying Moe was the smartest Stooge." No way. Larry was the smartest. And to follow the money on this, doesn't Holder's law firm make big bucks defending terrorists?

86 Pfft.  Rahm is setting up his bailout on the admin.  Now he is going to say he is tough on national security, and try to make it look like he is making some big principled stand.

87

And to follow the money on this, doesn't Holder's law firm make big bucks defending terrorists?

Yep; it is all documented in MM's last book.  I am currently reading that book and I have to put it down a lot because it makes me so damn mad.

I just can not fathom why the MSM is not raising holy hell about all the crooks in the WH.  Well duh....I guess I can fathom, but where the hell is that fair and balanced outfit?

88

Heh!

This story reminds me of why, if I lived in S. Carolina, I would not only vote Lindsey Graham out of office, but I would also Fart in his general direction!

The McCain-Graham con-job on the Republican Party is what helped get us to this point....They both must be punished! 

89
"Rahm decides to leave the White House and run for Congress in 5, 4, 3, 2....."

If he decides to run for congress, it won't be in 2010 - at least, not in Illinois. Primary's over and done with, and Rahm's seat is filled with an incumbent who has no intention of stepping aside.

90

I highly doubt Rahm will run for his old seat again -- he probably has better opportunity working behind the scenes, and it suits his personality better.

I can see where this is going to turn into a Chitown vs. Washington showdown -- each wants its influence to hold sway.  Poor ol' Barry's got himself stuck right in the middle: between the mobsters and the marxists.  Damn, dude.

Ehem, just to keep the pot stirring: there was a certain politician from my state who was pretty pro-closing of Gitmo if I recall... (yeah, I'm vindictive like that).

91 This is bullshit. This in only being spun out there to give cred to Rahm. They are trying to rehabilitate him and they think this will make the ballerina look macho and shit. Yuck, makes me want to puke.  Nice shout out to Gramnesty tho.

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