Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is facing potential censure from the republican party in Aiken County, South Carolina because he didn’t object to the Electoral College votes from Pennsylvania and Arizona on January 6.
Along with Graham, Senator Tim Scott is facing potential censure. Both men voted against the objections raised by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
The county GOP is discussing the censure at its Thursday meeting, though nothing has been decided, Newsweek reports. Several local republican parties have recently passed motions of censure against elected officials.
“This is on the agenda. That’s the first step,” said Aiken County Republican Party chair Bob Brookshire.
“Doesn’t mean it’s going to be passed,” he added. “I think a lot of Republicans felt like we never got our day in court.”
President of Aiken Republican Club John Massie told the Aiken Standard that the potential censure demonstrates a sign of “the frustrations that many, many people have.”
“My nature is that when people suppress investigations of things that should be open and transparent, it just raises a big red flag.”
Graham seems to be all over the place.
Graham, a Trump ally, said last year he was open to a path to citizenship for dreamers, which Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said is a main priority now that democrats are in control.
“I’ve always felt that comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is one of the most important things a democratic Congress can do,” Schumer said.
In a Sunday interview regarding the impeachment, he said that the outcome of the trial is “really not in doubt” as many Republicans believe the Senate lacks the authority to try a president who is no longer in office and will likely vote to acquit him.
“It’s not a question of how the trial ends, it’s a question of when it ends,” Graham said in an interview with Face the Nation. “Republicans are going to view this as an unconstitutional exercise, and the only question is, will they call witnesses, how long does the trial take? But the outcome is really not in doubt.”
Graham added that the longer a trial takes, the worse it will be for the country.
“I’m ready to move on. I’m ready to end the impeachment trial because I think it’s blatantly unconstitutional. I’m ready to get on with trying to solve the nation’s problems,” Graham said. “And as to Donald Trump, he is the most popular figure in the Republican Party, he had a consequential presidency. January the 6th was a very bad day for America, and he’ll get his share of blame in history.”
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Lindsey Graham is a RINO personified! Graham is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens, he was in favor of the Mueller probe of Trump, he was in favor of sending money to Pakistan for “gender studies” (He stated this on Fox News). Anyone who thinks the Pakistani’s will use this money for “gender studies” is a fool. The Generals in Pakistan will line their pockets, with our taxpayer money. Graham promised hearings on the Russia collusion hoax for a year and a half and did nothing. Graham is nothing more than a deep state, open borders RINO. It makes me sick that Hannity is in love with having Graham on his show. Was Graham really an ally of Trump? The answer is no!!! Graham is a snake!
“January the 6th was a very bad day for America, and he’ll get his share of blame in history.”?????
Trump Blame or Trump Credit. Gramps used to say that if you don’t stir the poop it will usually crust over in 3 days. Graham just wants the Jan 6th poop to crust over so THE PEOPLE will stop smelling Congress’s and his own share of the blame for the division that is Disuniting the former UNITED States of America. This entire Coverup Congress is incased in a crust to Congressional excrement and by Trump stirring the poop to the point where THE PEOPLE grab the scoopers, he has patriotically forced the changes needed that Lindsey in his collegiality seeks to just let remain under crust to cover the stench of the crusty old Senators who only seek business as usual. Breaking Hillary’s glass ceiling will prove way less important than Trump’s cracking the crust that cowardly Democrat Congressmen use to create their chicken pot pork pies, where when you compromise with the Devil, you are half way to hell.
There is no way things are just going to “crust over”. I have already informed our local “Republican” Congresscritter that she gets no more votes from me even if that means a Democrat wins next time. We really need that third party, though. I wish people would get off their buts, stop listening to charlatans like Graham and get things started already! There’s way too much to do to sit around listening to the siren song of the RINOS.
Eagle cry, it is better to elect a cameleon than a snake. Cameleons change colors from time to time but snake will eat you alive. The time not to vote for the traitors is in the primary to cull out the lizards before they can shed their skins. Trumpers have already taken over the majority of the party which once completed will prove more deadly to secular socialists than a third party divided for decades while the Democrats laugh up their sleeves. Dividing and conquering is a Democrat quality. Let them do it to themselves, not us.
Our Republican Congresscritter IS a snake. The Republican establishment HAS BEEN eating the American people alive for DECADES!!! You think they aren’t in on the kickbacks and money laundering? ANYONE who voted for voter fraud is a traitor to America and all that is just. This is no time for ostriches. So pull your head out!
And if you don’t think Republicans steal primaries, you don’t know ANYTHING about the Republican party! Murkowski WAS primaried and managed to steal a WRITE IN election! They are snakes pretending to be chameleons.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Go ahead and start your 3rd party, to split the conservative vote and the Democrats will rule for the next 30 years. Better to have head in sand than up some democrat’s backside.In East Texas in Sand is where we hunt snakes. Like I said, We Trumpers have already taken over 55-65% of the Republican establishment and in 2 years can clean out the rest in primaries. Start a third party and It will be Ross Perot Trump all over again. Can you hear that Giant sucking sound yet? Come to Texaas and we will show you how to have rattlesnake roundups. It aint pretty for the snakes, many of whom end up on our tables, and their skins on our walls, boots and belts.
Ya, in East Texas, you THINK you’ve taken over the Republican party. And you THINK the Democrats have a lock on their voters when what YOU guys want is just to leave the US altogether. You don’t know what’s happening in other states. Ya, the voters managed to put a good Chairperson in in Wyoming FOR NOW. But it won’t be long until the establishment locks down Wyoming again. The whole party system needs to be changed in order for Americans to win anywhere besides Texas. And there are plenty of Democrats who would vote for conservative candidates as long as they DON’T have an “R” after their name. The generation of Ross Perot is over. You act like generations don’t change and that everything in the world just goes on the same trajectory it always has. Well, you’re not as smart and not as great a spokesman for “We Trumpers” as you think. You act like anyone who disagrees with you is beneath you. We YOU are the one who is wrong.
Oh. excuse me, so it is so much easier to build a whole new house than just clean up the old one? Even a builder like Trump would disagree with that concept that is as unrealistic as what Biden now proposes, to socially and Progressively change America. Trump has already pronounced the game plan to accomplish the takeover by quickest result., which is to primary “Why Own Me” people like Liz Cheney. We are currently experiencing 8 degree Wyoming weather in Texas and many a Texan in both parties see it as a time to panic. Frankly to me it is God’s way to freeze out the COVID for most of America and keep the illegals from coming up which Wyoming has not much experience handling the type of immigration problems that unlike the rest of the Country Texas is doing quite well with handling both and making good Conservatives out of. We also are rather good at freezing out Democrat Socialists in East Texas, and keeping RINOs from poisoning our political wells. Seceding from the party rather than cleaning up the party will end up as well for the Republicans in Texas and elsewhere as seceding from the Union did for Republicans back in 1862. Ask my good Friend Louis Gohmert, Trump agrees with us.
I’m with eaglecry. If you want to stay with the Republican Party, what are you trying to save? The reputation of being the party of the rich and privileged? The lack of any coherent message? The total lack of strategy? The history of rolling over, caving in, and refusing to fight? All the backstabbing and disloyalty from the never-Trumpers and RINOs? Are you attracted to the fact that the Republican Party has already lost the educational system, the culture, Hollywood, sports, and all major American institutions? Or do you just not want to put in the work to create something fresh and new and energetic? Just remember the adage: If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
Well said GJCavenaugh… WHAT is it about the ‘Republican party” that is worth saving?
IMO, not a damn thing.
Here is how we clean out the barns in East Texas during October Fest. Start a new party and you will just substitute new people of human greed for the old guard people of greed. If we had time like 10-20 years to build a new party I might agree, but we are running out of time and MUST win back the Congress in 2 years or get permanently buried. It cannot be done in two years and we are already so close to doing it, would be a shame to throw it away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S_mGdkqQsU
My point is that the house has already burned down. Maybe your corner in East Texas is still standing, but one corner can’t stand long by itself. Maybe you have large voting precincts in Texas with term limits for anyone trying to run for office from the Republican party. A Cornell study suggests (although I’m sure there needs to be more study) that small voting precincts swing voting to the Democrats. I know from experience of trying to change the Republican party in my state that there are too many PCO’s so that the establishment can find people to flatter and buy off to manipulate the strings of the Republican party. And if you don’t know what a PCO is, you don’t really know anything about how the Republican party works. Or perhaps you could explain how Xi Jinping’s best bud became the Republican Governor of Idaho. I know it’s not because the Idaho voters want Communism forced on them! Trump’s done some good things, but he doesn’t know everything. I know he’s been tossing the idea of a new party around. But I’m telling you in many parts of the country just “cleaning up” the Republican party isn’t a viable option.
\SO your solution, is to KEEP VOTING BACK IN the same bloody rinos, that’s LED US HERE??
What is it about taking them out in the primary you do not understand? What is it about getting quicker results by CLEANING the house than trying to build a new one from ground ZERO? Politics and even national existence sometimes means dealing with people who will align with you on the most issues. If FDR and Churchill took your attitudes regarding Stalin, we would all be speaking German today.
What part of “They steal primaries” do you not understand? And if they get primaried, they steal the general election. This has been tried and has failed over and over in this area. When a true American is elected as a candidate in the primary, the Republican party simply refuses to fund their campaign and even runs disinformation campaigns against them. They are totally fine with the Democrat winning over a true American. The desire for more seats in the House is just a minor turf war between the Democrats and the Republicans, not anything substantial that would help the American people. Step one is to get true American candidates campaigns fully funded and supported, but there is no way you can do that through the Republican party.
This is where the “Too many PCO’s” comes in. PCO’s are how the establishment keeps their hands on the purse strings of the Republican party and on who is considered the sort of personality that can be a surrogate for the candidates and the Republican party’s position. Usually the platform the candidates and surrogates run on diverges greatly from the platform voted on by the PCO’s (who voted those same establishment Republicans in to the position to have power over the purse). A new party could avoid this by refusing to have PCO’s until the states can be made to reduce the number of voting precincts. I believe a direct vote from party voters would help true Americans be elected to power in the party as well (which is actually more needed than them being voted into office). But to try to get the Republican party get rid of PCO’s would be as difficult as making a primary challenge stick.
And if FDR and Churchill are your heroes…man, you are in the wrong party! They were globalist to the max.
Exactly. HOW can we “just primary them out’, when THEY CONTROL HOW THE PRIMARY process works!
I guess Trump who brought back CHurchill’st statue to the Oval Office that Obama sent back to England belongs to the wrong party also? FDR had his faults but unlike the Democrat traitors today, at least put America first, and knew how to take back half the world that Tojo and Hitler had conquered in just 4 years, unlike the incompetents today who cannot defeat a villiage of camel jockeys in 20 years.
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. :
Winston Churchill
You act like that old women Pelosi on insisting on getting in the last word,,,,so good luck with that one Nancy,,,or are you Ross Perot in disguise?
I don’t think Trump requested the Churchill statue back from Great Britain because he had a great love of Churchill. I think he did it because it was terribly rude of Obama to return a gift from an ally whether you like it or not. And I doubt that FDR was really into putting anyone first besides himself. That’s who the Globalists are at heart…terribly self centered. I have my suspicions of what WWII was really about. But that’s neither here nor there. From what I’ve heard, the art piece most important to Trump in the White House was the one of Andrew Jackson. Of course, I’ve never been to the White House, so I wouldn’t know whether or not that is true.
If he pleasing anyone? Maybe the leftists, who he’s bowing down to.. CERTAINLY NOT we the people.
the only thing this human garbage debris is pleasing is his own bank account.
Which is most likely hidden off shore, to avoid all taxes..
His knee pads are wearing out
He will do or say ANYTHING to get you to vote for him so he can keep his JOB. He would not have to worry about getting re-elected if he did what the American Voters wanted. He is out of touch with the ordinary man and woman.
On the contrary … this useless waste of air and space is lying and saying anything the communist occupiers want him to say… so they’ll use their fraudulent voting machines and fraudulent mail in system to keep his seat and all the money they’re getting from selling out our country to the rest of the world for their own personal gain. Just another day in the cesspool/swamp … there’s only one option left people.
As i often remark, it would be AWESOME< if we the people, could SUE politicians like him, for LYING to us to get our vote… For "False advertising"!
Filthy, you KEEP saying “There is only one option left” but SO FAR, that’s all you say. What is that option? Where is YOUR call to get folks to help do that option?
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Lindsey Grahamnesty is for Lindsey Grahamnesty. He is not to be trusted.
The one and only time I liked him was when he stood up during the Kavanaugh hearings.
Other than that he talks a good fight and then never enters the ring.
Lots of flowery words with no real action.
As they say in Texas, He’s all hat and no cattle.
What has he done for South Carolina or America, constantly riding the wave
of public opinion that is usually so temporary that he has to jump over
himself often. He is possibly the very epitome of political poison waiting
to keep alive in politics no matter how sick the nation gets. Pray we get
President Trump back and a purge of political hacks…………William
Trump stuck his foot in his mouth, when he BACKED Graham, in his race…
Sadly, there wasn’t much to choose from. Looks like close to half the people Trump supported tried to stab him in the back.
Of course the gold medal for this goes to Mitt Romney. We don’t need Mitt. For anything.
Which makes ME wonder, who the hell advised trump, to BACK All those rinos?
Dems really got a case of stupid today when McConnell had announced he’d vote to acquit, which the Dems realized they could not convict, so they panicked and went for a question of witnesses. Originally I was surprised when Graham changed his vote this morning to allow witnesses. Then I realized he was going back to his statements for the Dems “to bring it” and call witnesses, he’d lay all the scum out there for the world to see. Once one heard “Collins” voted to hear witnesses, it was doomed, didn’t even need Murkie and Mittens, which they did vote for witnesses, so Graham changed his vote to flag the Dems he was going to screw them and going for the gold. Schumer must be dirtying his britches.
Graham has always been a RINO, someone who goes with the political wind, he is an establishment deep state goon, he does not fool anyone.
Plus he’s LONG been for amnesty for illegals..
Me, myself, personally, I’ve HAD IT with these squishy RINO Republicans!
There are only a TINY FEW of them who are proudly Conservative and willing to put their reputation (and offices) on the line to support President Trump (and WE, THE PEOPLE who voted for him)!
The rest of the GOP can go to hell!
There are not just the ones who are obvious RINOs, consider, on Jan 6th, 100% should have been demanding an investigation, what is to lose, either it proves fraud, or it does not. There are at least 75 Million people who are convinced there was fraud. This will not go away, the failure by the powers that be, to satisfy the concerns of 75 Million people, speaks volumes, and it screams form the rooftops that the gop traitors failed to answer the call, the gop is dead.
AND they DESERVE being seen as dead to us voters.
“…as many Republicans have read The United States Constitution and so they understand that the Senate lacks the authority to try a president who is no longer in office and will likely vote to acquit him.”
Fixed it for ya’.
In the best case, Graham is just trying to play both ends (parties) against the middle. It seems more likely that he is just another Democrat posing as a Republican. Diablo. Democrat In All But Label Only.
It’s way beyond republican and democrat… these …ARE… communist occupiers… make no mistake.
Pity it seems, we no longer have a military, who will HONOR their oath to defend our constitution, against foreign and DOMESTIC enemies.. WHICH all of those commucrats in charge, certainly qualify as.
ooooo, censure… that’s just like getting sent to the principal’s office and you getting off with a warning.. “Now don’t do it again!”
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