Lindsey, Honey, Calm the Heck Down
Lindsey Graham is upset, no, not upset – furious! that cuts have been made in defense spending.
He’s all a’quiver, y’all.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vowed that, if elected president, he would use the military to force Congress to reverse cuts to federal defense spending, Vox reported.
“I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to,” Graham said at an event in New Hamphsire over the weekend. “
I think he’s serious. I mean, little spittle things were forming at the corners of his mouth so he had to be serious.
I think that’s called a coup. I could be wrong. It could be called a Freekin’ Damn Ayatollah Move but I’ll probably have to look that up.
Thanks to Ralph and Mark for the heads up.
Oh the visuals that Senator “I Declare” evokes! Imagine Goober Gaylord rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue in a tank with his torso peeking up through the turret.
1Is there anybody in the Republican party, in any part of the country, that knows how to work and play with others? Or has read the Constitution? Or is more mature than a six-year-old?
2And I thought the Repugnican’ts were against big government.
3Silly me. Using the army to force congressional action doesn’t sound teeny weeny to me. I sounds like a dick-tatorship, Ms. Lindsey.
Come on back to Tayuksis and see how bait and switch is playing out in the Capitol. Now all of a sudden the Tayuksis gummint is for big government. How about South Carolina? Is it also joining the Bait and Switch Club, officers having name of Koch, who gets a ton of money from the govt at all levels? Hmmm?
4The Republican dictionary defines “dictatorship” as any action which meets the disapproval of a majority of the Republican Party’s base – regardless of how many of their fellow citizens approved of the action.
5“If elected President…” of what? The Daughters of the Confederacy?
But, just to be thorough, here is Lindsey Graham’s to-do list, to save military spending.
1) Convince enough of the right wing nutjobs in America to vote for him in the primaries that he becomes the Republican nominee
2) Convince enough of the non-rightwing non-nutjobs in America to vote for him in the general
3) Exercise his powers under the Constitution to call Congress into session, if they aren’t there already
4) Violate the posse comitatus act
5) Violate the Constitutional separation of powers
6) Force Congress, at bayonet-point, to give our taxpayer money to the guys holding the guns attached to the bayonets.
I don’t think this sounds like a coup, I think it sounds like Grand Theft Autocrat.
6Ah, that’s just Lindsey blowing smoke … or something …
7“If I were President…”
That phrase is almost guaranteed to be completed by an idiotic comment. It starts with the premise that a group of people are unable to get a specific action accomplished, so one person, the President, is required to take action without interference or consequences.
Now here’s an example of how to properly complete that phrase.
“If I were President…”
8I’d cut off health care to all senators, congressmen, and governors, until they get the problems in the health care system sorted out. (This should also take less time than Lindsey Grahams’s proposal.) (One way or the other)
You know spring is in the air when Miz Lindsey starts struttin’ around and flapping his jaws hard enough to make words fall out. Lindsey, honey, you just gotta watch that bourbon and branch water!
9He has finally completely lost his marble.
10Clutch the pearls!
11Corinne – you made me laugh out loud!
12I do declare, Jon Stewart will be having a field day with Ms. Lindsay over this one!! Pull up the swooning couch and grab a fan … oh, deah, oh, deah!!
13How funny republicans always claim freedom yet they are the first ones who want to take away our freedoms. Really ironic.
14Corrine you win the internets or something.
15I read that Lindsay wants to be Sec. of Defense. Now that is a scary thought. However, name one Rep. who is not a scary thought.
16I love human beings, each of who has no chance of being that which they are second guessing.
“If I were President…”
“If I were Prime Minister…”
“If I was duh coach…”
“If I were you…”
I betcha every candidate who ultimately won election to POTUS would look back and say, “I said ‘If I were President…’ and then I won. And after the dust settled and I started to work I discovered that to be President is to see another way.”
I feel pretty comfortable saying that this Lindsey Graham will never take the oath of office of POTUS. And if he does, then as a nation we have undergone such a catastrophe that whomever sits as POTUS is irrelevant. Which BTW is Senator Graham’s strong point, his irrelevance.
17I’ve said before that the Republicans finally have enough rope to hang themselves. I had no idea that they would form their own lynch mob and compete to see who gets hung first.
18So if he were President the first thing he’d do would be to carry out a coup.
Does he actually know what the word means in a political context?
19Lindsey Graham: treasonous AND stupid.
20Corinne: APPLAUSE!!!!
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