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Graham Says Obama Is ‘AWOL’ on Stimulus Debate
Sen Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says the president has not been providing leadership and criticizes him for giving TV interviews and writing an editorial touting the package rather than addressing the complaints of lawmakers.
President Obama has been “AWOL” in negotiations over the economic stimulus package, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday in a scathing rebuke of the new president.
The South Carolina Republican told FOX News that Obama has not been providing leadership, and he criticized the president for giving TV interviews and writing an editorial touting the package, rather than addressing the complaints of lawmakers.
“This process stinks,” Graham told FOX News, before repeating a lot of his criticisms on the Senate floor. “We’re making this up as we go and it is a waste of money. It is a broken process, and the president, as far as I’m concerned, has been AWOL on providing leadership on something as important as this.”
Republican senators and congressmen have been reluctant to direct any criticism at the president since his inauguration. They mostly have fired shots at Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, saying they have obstructed the bipartisan process Obama sought.
But Graham broke that practice after Obama granted a round of interviews defending his plan Tuesday and wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post Thursday in which he warned of disastrous consequences if Congress does not pass the stimulus bill.
“Scaring people is not leadership. Writing an editorial that if you don’t pass this bad bill we’re going to have disaster — we’ve had enough presidents trying to scare people to make bad decisions,” Graham said.
“I like President Obama, but he is not leading. Having lunch is not leading … and doing TV interviews is not leading.”
Obama renewed his plea for the bill at the Energy Department Thursday, shortly after Graham spoke.
“The time for talk is over. The time for action is now,” Obama said.
Obama, in his op-ed, wrote that inaction could lead the economy into an irreversible decline.
“Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes,” he wrote. “And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.”
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If it quacks and wobbles…
Sen. Graham’s expectations are too high to be met by someone who has never had a job.
Obambi is just doing what he knows how to do; going on TV and blaming it on someone else and saying it needs to be changed.
No surprises there.
The GOP needs to keep the pressure up. Follow Boehner’s lead…he did great. If it passes let that pile of junk have nothing but DONK votes on it.
Graham talks tough here. But its the same guy that will hold hands and sing kumbuia with the Amnesty for Illegal crowd next week. Graham and Mccain are the leading RINOS !!!!!
Barack Obama is the Yasser Arafat of the “black community”. One look into the community he supposedly organized shows he doesn’t give a rats ass about the black people living in that community, just like Arafat.
Welcome to reality Graham, you naive fool.
Bush tried to work with these jackals, why would anyone think it would be different now?
He actually thinks El Presidente 0 is going to do more than lip service.
Graham is a damn fool.
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Well, Graham is still saying the same line all the other politicians are using of there being “disastrous consequences” if the bill is not passed. That is the tactic of the high-pressure salesman to get you to sign on the dotted line to purchase something you have doubts about.
When I encounter those salesmen (and women), I walk away from the deal, because if I can’t have time to consider the deal before I commit, then I know there is something in it that will not favor me.
Grahmnesty sucks and he WILL pass this bill. He gets alot of phone calls and goes on TV to make a fuss to make his home state people happy but turns around and votes against us.
He voted for Geithner and when I asked why they said he said he was the only guy who could do the job
Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
The fact that Grahamnesty has stopped the Obamamessiahpalooza so suddenly is shocking to me I tell ya. What trouble in paradise?
My economic stimulus plan:
SUSPEND ALL TAXES ON PERSONAL INCOME
- PAYROLL
- CAPITAL GAINS
- ANY PENALTIES ON EARLY WITHDRAWALS ON 401Ks IRAs
- ABOLISH ESTATE TAX
CUT CORPORATE TAX RATES TO 12% UNDERNEATH IRELAND’S 12.5%
NO TARP, NO PORKULUS, NO MONEY TO LA RAZA, ACORN, AND OTHERS IN A POLITICAL PAYOFF. STOP THE CENTRALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY BY THE POLITBURO.
CRASH THE SWITCHBOARDS, JAM THE EMAIL, AND STOP THIS SHAM