Planet Wingnut News for Monday

"Sarah Palin? She's A Dope! Write A Book? She Can't Read A Book!" Don Imus

Graham: Beck 'Doesn't Represent The Republican Party'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took another shot at Fox Newsman Glenn Beck Sunday morning. "I'm not saying he's bad for America," Graham said. But "he doesn't represent the Republican Party."

Lindsey Graham implies Obama is against the troops if reinforcements for Afghanistan are not sent. Where has Graham been?
Lindsey Graham uses the news that eight American troops were just killed by the Taliban in a remote outpost to try and make it seem like President Obama doesn't support the troops if he doesn't bow down to Gen. McChrystal's request for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan on FOX News Sunday.

GRAHAM: Well, the one thing I can tell you for sure, without reinforcing our troops, you’re going to hear more of what happened today. General McChrystal said without reinforcements we cannot change the momentum that the Taliban has achieved, and the insurgency cannot be defeated in a year if something doesn’t change.

We had this very dilemma in Iraq. We didn’t have enough troops. Everybody thought Maliki was a sectarian prime minister. The country wasn’t governing itself. The security environment became terrible.

The one thing I can tell you, if we don’t add more troops, you’re going to see more of what happened yesterday. The security situation’s going to get worse. And any hope of better governance is lost, and the Taliban will re-emerge.

If you send troops in, we’ll have a second chance at governance. You need to put Karzai’s feet to the fire, or the next government’s feet to the fire, to do a better job. But it’s impossible to bring about better governance without security.