Sen. Lindsey Graham-nesty weighs in on Obama’s deportation waivers
http://twitter.com/#!/GrahamBlog/status/213642612693934080
Oh, dear.
Senator Graham (R-S.C.) took to Twitter this morning to weigh in on the news that President Obama is providing deportation waivers. It is nice to see a Republican senator fighting back, but did this senator forget all about, you know, Graham-nesty?
This decision avoids dealing with Congress and the American people instead of fixing a broken immigration system once and for all.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 15, 2012
Pro tip, Senator Graham. Perhaps y’all should stop with the absurd “reach across the aisle” and bipartisanship nonsense. This is where that gets you. Lesson learned?
This is a classic Barack Obama move of choosing politics over leadership.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 15, 2012
President Obama’s attempt to go around Congress and the American people is at best unwise and possibly illegal.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 15, 2012
Oh, honey. This is not new. That is his standard operating procedure. His only “gutsy calls” are whether to serve fancy pants beef or seafood at his $40,000 per plate fundraising dinners. All. About. The One.
This type of policy proposal, regardless of motivation, will entice people to break our laws.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 15, 2012
Like, you know, amnesty? Remember this, Senator?
Here he goes again:
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have rekindled their alliance on immigration reform, taking some early steps to test the political will for addressing the contentious issue this year.
Their call list hasn’t focused so much on House and Senate members who’ve been reliable pro-immigration votes in the past. Instead, they’re looking to a strange-bedfellows mix of conservative and liberal constituencies that can provide a “safety net” of support, as Graham put it, once the issue heats up.
“It’s in the infant stage,” Graham told POLITICO. “I don’t know what the political appetite is to do something.”
Say it with me: God save us from “bipartisanship.”
Bingo.
President Obama avoids the hard work of fixing an immigration system which is broken and fractured along numerous fronts.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 15, 2012
When you've lost Lindsey Grahamnesty… http://t.co/aneeNkOg
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) June 15, 2012
A Leftist weighs in with some hilarity.
@GrahamBlog making an executive decision is LEADERSHIP Mr. Senator with all due regard to your position
— DennisM (@newsagg) June 15, 2012
Now executive orders are leadership. Got it. Also, dissent is no longer patriotic.
Conservative Twitter users aren’t taking to Senator Graham’s attempt to be tough now. They try to explain the real world to Senator Graham.
https://twitter.com/SiobhanKelly11/status/213666906211753986
Senator, catch up. He passed blatantly illegal long ago. FIGHT! #tcot @JasonBWhitman MT @grahamblog Obama’s attempt – possibly illegal
— Melvin Udall (@Melvin_Udall_) June 15, 2012
There's one of our spineless R Senators… RT @buszero: RT @cnsnews Lindsey Graham: Obama Immigration Move ‘Possibly Illegal’ #tcot
— Tish (@KamaainaInOC) June 15, 2012
Senator Graham has been part of the problem, not the solution. His fawning “bipartisanship” nonsense has been a big part of creating the mess in which we currently find ourselves.
We hope this new burst of toughness sticks, though. Time will tell.