Lindsey Graham tries to blame Reid for GOP's record filibusters
Sen. Lindsey Graham isn't willing give Senate Republicans all of the blame for their record number of filibusters in the 110th Congress. Graham implied that Majority Leader Harry Reid deserved some of the blame by allowing so many bills and refusing Republican amendments.
When asked about the GOP's use of the filibuster, Graham said, "Harry Reid put more bills in -- into the hopper and filled up the tree, shedding out Republican amendments [more] than anybody I know of but we're all in this together."
Sen. Lindsey Graham isn't willing give Senate Republicans all of the blame for their record number of filibusters in the 110th Congress. Graham implied that Majority Leader Harry Reid deserved some of the blame by allowing so many bills and refusing Republican amendments.
When asked about the GOP's use of the filibuster, Graham said, "Harry Reid put more bills in -- into the hopper and filled up the tree, shedding out Republican amendments [more] than anybody I know of but we're all in this together."
The senior Senator from South Carolina quickly changed the subject to national security. "I will meet the president more than halfway and help him close Guantanamo Bay, only if he creates a legal system to make us safe and keep this enemy off the battlefield in a transparent way living within our values," Graham told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.
"So I think we need to stop all this fighting among ourselves and direct our fight toward our enemies," concluded Graham.
Liz Cheney: Civil terror trials led to 9/11
Liz Cheney seems to have forgotten about a presidential daily briefing that said Osama bin Laden was determined to strike within the U.S. The daughter of the former vice president believes that military tribunals for terrorists following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing would have resulted in important intelligence that could have prevented 9/11.
Liz Cheney seems to have forgotten about a presidential daily briefing that said Osama bin Laden was determined to strike within the U.S. The daughter of the former vice president believes that military tribunals for terrorists following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing would have resulted in important intelligence that could have prevented 9/11.
"What you have is a situation, unquestionably we went through a period in the nation's history we dealt with terrorism as law enforcement matter," Cheney explained to Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.
"As Attorney General Mukasey pointed out when we prosecuted and convicted people after the '93 World Trade Center bombing and East Africa bombing, what it got us was 9/11 and 3,000 dead Americans."
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Dick Cheney is going to talk himself right in jail. He has proven he was in charge of the Govenment for 8 years and with his talking so much he's proven he was the one who ordered the torture and secret prisons. Bush was just the puppet in the Oval Office.
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