Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/11/13

Cantor: Children of Illegal Immigrants Should Get U.S. Citizenship

How One Obama Lawn Sign Tore This Community Apart 

Chris Christie's Waistline, Marco Rubio's Hairline, and Our Raging Obsession with Superficiality 

Obama Demands Unquestioning Acceptance of his Ability to Kill 

Pelosi: Gov't Doesn't Have 'Spending Problem'

GAO: 35% of Major Federal Regulations Were Issued Without Public Notice

Sen. Graham Vows to Block Confirmation of Brennan, Hagel

MSNBC's Now With Alex Wagner Slams Obama From The Left On Drones

The Truth About Dorner: Leftism Is Violence 

Tina Brown To Bill Maher: Obama ‘Would Be Impeached By Now On Drones’ If He Were Bush

Report: Obama’s SOTU Will Have “Heavy Economic Focus”

Film Critic Rex Reed Takes Heat for Calling Melissa McCarthy a 'Hippo'

Lindsey Graham Quote of the Day!

"I think we're going over the cliff. It's pretty clear to me they've made a political calculation. This offer doesn't remotely deal with entitlement reform in a way to save Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security from imminent bankruptcy." 

- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on President Obama's call for more spending as part of fiscal deal

Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls Barack Obama "Tone Deaf"

Politico.com:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday called President Barack Obama "tone deaf" to the voices of the American people, slamming the president for putting forth the "most liberal agenda of modern times."


"The only way the president could possibly survive is [by coming] back to the middle," Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "He's tone deaf — putting [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] on trial in New York City ... interjecting himself in the mosque debate, made no sense."


"He's tone deaf on terrorism issues and he's certainly tone deaf on the economy."


Graham accused Obama of running as a centrist but governing "from the left," acquiescing to the politics and agenda of the House. The senator added that if the elections "were held tomorrow," the GOP would make substantial gains.

Lindsey Graham: 9/11 Civilian Trial Plans 'Nightmare'

Newsmax.com:

A key US senator urged Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday to swiftly try the accused 9/11 co-plotters in military tribunals, decrying plans for a civilian trial as a "logistical nightmare."

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who co-authored a draft bill to block any public funding to try the alleged mastermind of the 2001 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his four co-accused within the US federal court system, said it was "unacceptable" that Holder had yet to decide where to hold the trial.

President Barack Obama's administration initially announced plans to prosecute the men in New York, just steps from Ground Zero, site of the World Trade Center destroyed in the attacks which killed almost 3,000 people.

But the plans were met with howls of protest from lawmakers and New York residents, prompting the federal government to backtrack, saying its decision was under review.

Graham recalled that Holder said in April that "New York is not off the table" as a trial venue for the group of five accused plotters just steps from where the World Trade Center and its world-renowned Twin Towers once stood, with a decision expected "in a number of weeks."

Lindsey Graham Takes Down Eric Holder

The irony here is that most on the Far-Right consider Senator Graham to be a RINO, the kind that the Limbaugh Right claims that it doesn't want. Show me a Republican who'd rather win none of the time over some of the time and I'll show you an idiot.