Lindsey's Liberal Positions

 

 

Lindsey prides himself on having being rated as a 90% conservative. That makes him a 10% liberal, in fact over the last 2 congressional sessions Lindsey has voted with the liberal position 13% of the time. His Liberal posturing began back when he was in the House of Representatives and continues even today.

Lindsey insults the people of South Carolina by believing that they are not able to recognize his bait and switch tactics. For example he voted against Senator Isakson's amendment calling for securing the border first until he, John McCain, Ted Kennedy and the other sponsors of the Immigration Amnesty bill realized they had stirred up the American people, Lindsey runs ahead and proposes an amendment to tighten border security so he could play the politics game and claim to support border security first when he argued multiple times against it on the floor of the Senate. Folks, where I come from that's call being hypocritical or lack of truth in one's actions.

His record and His positions speak, yes he is a part time conservative and he is a part time liberal. When he is liberal he is Massachusetts type of liberal as he agrees with Ted Kennedy's position more often than not. In fact if you review these examples of Lindsey's betrayal to conservative values you will see multiple times when he is more than Massachusetts liberal because Lindsey has taken positions in favor of liberal policies where even Ted Kennedy has voted with the Republicans.

Why is this important ? Because the whole record of a Senator is not in his sound bites and in his political posturing but in the things he does and the values he supports all the time.

Here is a summary and you will progressively find more links of validation as time allows and you are encouraged to visit the Congressional record website and view the bills and amendments that are presented and the position that Lindsey takes .....

- Graham hosted a midnight meeting attempting to overthrow Newt Gingrich

 - Graham was the only republican on the judiciary to vote against an impeachment article and justified Clinton's lying under oath as something anybody might tend to do because it involved Clinton's sex life.

Democrats proclaimed that Graham's vote saved Clinton from a great deal of trouble

- Lindsey worked to the benefit of the Democrats when he introduced the idea of a Rumsfeld resignation, something at the time that even Democrats had not publicly mentioned but afterwards began to regularly call for the resignation of Rumsfeld.

- In March 2005, reported by Washington Monthly, Graham indicated he would not support extension of some of the president's tax cuts

- It was Graham himself who said of himself "Republican by day. Democrat by night," when he partnered with Democrat Tom Daschle and opposed his party in support of Daschle’s bill.

- Graham promoted a tax increase when he proposed raising the cap on the payroll taxes.

- Graham said He did not know of any legal basis for President Bush's program of protecting Americans while monitoring terrorists. Mr. Graham, the legal basis is to protect the people of this country, to protect South Carolinians.

- Lindsey was party to attacking our First Amendment rights with his support of McCain-Feingold

-  He was a chief architect in the Fiasco of the Gang of 14

- We do not want to work hard, pay our taxes and then provide tax amnesty to illegal immigrants as a reward for their behavior

- Graham's call to push a bio-metric Social Security, National Identity card on American citizens

 - Graham calls it the future globalized highway, softening our borders, taking American jobs and putting our people at greater risk.

 Mexican Domiciled Trucks – Security risk of terror and cargo, safety risks, and the loss of more American Jobs

- Graham voted against requiring the border to be secured first  (S2611 - Isakson Amdt. No. 3961) and of course he voted to provide Amnesty to over 30 million illegal immigrants. (S2611) (S1348)

- 2 separate amendments to provide a limit of 200,000 (Bingaman 3981) and then 650,000 (Bingaman 4131)  temp workers per year. Graham & Kennedy said no limits

- 3 occasions voted to allow you to pay for social security/medicare benefits,( Ensign 3985) health and education services expenses, (Cornyn 4038) lack of insurance coverage expenses for the proposed amnesty recipients (S1348 - DeMint 1197)

- No limit on the earned income tax credit payout of multiple billions of dollars for illegals (Sessions 4108) Graham voted against requiring back taxes be paid first before getting Earned Income Tax Credit Monies (Ensign 4136)

- Voted against information sharing between Federal & local law enforcement concerning immigration status (Coleman 1158)

- Graham voted against prohibiting gang members, murders and rapists, child molesters from becoming citizens,( Cornyn 1184) Against enforcing the US Visit law tightening our visa visitation (Vitter 1339)  and Against amendment to enforce all existing security and immigration laws. (Coburn 1311)Voted against enforcing existing laws.

- Voted against improving visa program to encourage awards of visa to aliens with advanced technical, science and mathematical degress. (Gregg 4114) Voted against greater transparency in legislative process (S.1)

- Lindsey is more liberal than even Ted Kennedy at times. Ted Kennedy voted to increase cargo inspections at the points of origin before reaching our ports, and voted to ensure full radiation inspection within 5 years (HR1),  Voted to increase visa security and Lindsey Graham voted against all of these protections

- When Kennedy voted to commend American citizens for being diligent by providing immunity against being sued for reporting in good faith suspicious activities…Ted Kennedy voted with the Republicans Lindsey Graham voted against these protections, more liberal than Kennedy.

- Kennedy voted to invest in innovation and education improving our competitiveness.(S761 As Amended) Kennedy voted for ensuring employers make efforts to hire American workers (S1348 - Durbin 1231) Both times Kennedy voted with the Republican party Lindsey took a more liberal position.

- Kennedy and the Republicans voted to express a concern to Iraq that they should not grant amnesty to persons who had attacked, killed or wounded American Soldiers.(S2766 - Nelson (FL)  4265)  Lindsey voted against that.

Now this was shocking to me that Lindsey go around and postures as a strong support the troops kind of Senator. He supports the war but when the Congress is expressing a concern and issuing a warning that the new Iraq government not provide amnesty, forgiveness to anyone who fought against our men and women, who were guilty of injuring or killing our troops.  Graham voted against the measure. How can he say he supports the troops when he is willing for their killers to get amnesty from the Iraq government ?

Here is the exact wording of the resolution that Lindsey voted against. This is taken directly from the Congressional Record. You decide.

Congress makes the following findings:

   (1) The Armed Forces of the United States and coalition military forces are serving heroically in Iraq to provide all the people of Iraq a better future.

   (2) The Armed Forces of the United States and coalition military forces have served bravely in Iraq since the beginning of military operations in March of 2003.

   (3) More than 2,500 members of the Armed Forces of the United States and members of the coalition forces have been killed and more than 18,000 injured in operations to bring peace and stability to all the people of Iraq.

   (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that

   (1) the Government of Iraq should not grant amnesty to persons known who have attacked, killed, or wounded members of the Armed forces of the United States; and

   (2) the President should immediately notify the Government of Iraq that the Government of the United States strongly opposes granting amnesty to persons who have attacked members of the Armed Forces of the United States.

   That is very clear. That is what we are going to be called to vote on.

Lindsey Voted NO.

 

- Soon after Abu Graib, many of Graham's positions assisted in restricting the hands of interrogators in legitimate methods of information retrieval and made it more difficult to interrogate the terrorists.

- It was Graham, as reported by Time magazine, who pushed and wanted to provide classified information to the terrorists at their trials. Classified information that once exposed would have made our fight against terrorism more difficult, would have put operatives in the field at greater risk and would have made our country less secure.

 

Lindsey spoke to the Richland County Executive Committee and said he is tired of those of us with him on Thursday and against him on Friday.  But Lindsey has it backwards…we don’t work for Lindsey. Lindsey works for us. Lindsey has betrayed our values over and over again. He has taken positions far more liberal than the people of South Carolina want or represent.

Just because he holds office, does not mean he deserves to stay in office.

Lindsey deserves to be a One Term Senator !

He can call us bigots when we oppose him, he can tell us to shut up but we are the voters of South Carolina. We demand consistent conservative representation.