The Latest "Lindsey Must Go" Ad

The latest ad going after Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham (Rat-SC), one of the most reprehensible, despicable members of Donald "Cadet Bone Spurs" Trump's posse of treasonous sycophants:



A recent poll is showing Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison tied with Huckleberry. That same poll shows that 56 percent of South Carolina voters have an unfavorable view of Huckleberry. If you are able, you can help him defeat that cynical POS once and for all by donating here.

BONUS: Huckleberry pulled his head out of Trump's backside long enough to get a blonde dye job, in order to look more like his cult leader.

Tweets Of The Day -- Huckleberry Graham Unleashed

Lindsey Graham: “The Department of Justice is receiving information coming out of the Ukraine from Rudy to see -he told me -they created a process that Rudy can give information and they would see if it’s verified,” he said on CBS, adding he’s  a “crime fighter, “loyal” to Trump

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 9, 2020

From "acquit" to "aid and abet" in record time. https://t.co/JPKG5DnXlV

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 9, 2020

I’m sure the SDNY is loving this https://t.co/3FPshUv0QG

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 9, 2020

We still don't know who pays Giuliani's fees, but what we do know is this private attorney for the president is steering the investigative work of the United States Attorney General as they marshal the criminal investigative apparatus of the state to interfere in our election. https://t.co/93ZlSoFgG9

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 9, 2020

Would usually assume this is nonsense - Rudy is under criminal investigation by DOJ - but I make no assumptions about what is happening there anymore. https://t.co/6I0wujl4kU

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 9, 2020

This is bullshit. https://t.co/O7M2NOU9W8

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 9, 2020

Spineless lickspittle Huckleberry is running against Jaime Harrison.  Let's make life a little tough for Huckleberry, ok?

Monday Reading

As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.

Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs and their deserving head coach Andy Reid on winning the Super Bowl last night 31-24.  Among the true football fans offering congratulations was this "jenius:"



The Chiefs, of course, represent Kansas City, in the great state of Missouri. The "jenius" has since deleted the tweet and replaced it with one referring to the correct state.  But not in time to avoid some shade:

He’s not wrong, dammit. pic.twitter.com/z2ZO07GZjy

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) February 3, 2020

The looming acquittal of said "jenius" by Senate Republicans on Wednesday is the subject of several articles and op/ eds this morning.  Here's E.J. Dionne, Jr.'s take on the "Trump 51" who voted against hearing witnesses:

This was no ordinary roll call. It was a direct assault on American democracy and our core freedoms. Whatever the flaws of our system, we could once believe that a president who tried to bring down a political opponent by conspiring with a foreign government — and using American taxpayer dollars in the process — would be punished. The Trump 51 told us that such faith is for suckers.

The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of a party that once crusaded against slavery and led the fight to amend our Constitution to guarantee equal protection under the law was exposed by the tortured rationalizations offered for its capitulation to absolutism. [snip]

There is one thing we need not fear: that the Republican apostles of surrender to Trump (and to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, his coverup sidekick) have set a precedent for their future behavior. On the contrary, we know that they will do exactly the opposite if a Democrat is president.

The editorial board of the Washington Post takes direct aim at one of the most vile, treacherous members of the "Trump 51," Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham:

Mr. Graham’s behavior has been particularly shabby as he has threatened to misuse his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the former vice president. He has announced a formal probe and asked the State Department for documents. “We’re not going to live in a world where only Republicans get looked at,” he said in December, indulging in a toxic (and unwarranted) display of grievance and implying that Mr. Biden’s demonstrably benign activities in Ukraine are equivalent to Mr. Trump’s corruption.

But there is no moral equivalence. There is no reasonable case against Mr. Biden. The case against Mr. Trump, on the other hand, is just as definitive in the opposite direction. Mr. Trump had no good reason to press Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden, an American citizen whom U.S. authorities were not themselves investigating. He did so anyway, to no conceivable benefit to the United States. That Mr. Graham would suggest that the two belong in the same universe shows that he is so poisoned by partisanship, he either does not understand or has lost all moral direction.

Mr. Trump’s corrupt scheme to persuade the president of Ukraine to slander a political rival did not succeed. It is pathetic that U.S. senators would do the job instead.

Everyone is in the loop (surprise!):

A midnight court filing on Friday night revealed that the White House is refusing to release at least two dozen emails directly related to Donald Trump’s withholding of military assistance from Ukraine. The filing, authored by an attorney from the Office of Management and Budget, described the until now hidden documents as communications by Trump or his immediate advisers “regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine."

In other words, the idea that Trump withheld military assistance to Ukraine because of concerns over corruption, or the need for more “burden sharing” — as Trump’s defense team has stated throughout hearings in the House and the trial in the Senate — could be directly revealed by an examination of these documents. Which they will not share.

As CNN reports, the Department of Justice withheld the existence of these emails until just hours after the Senate had made it’s vote to not subpoena any further witnesses or documents in Trump’s impeachment trial. This appears to be another staggering example of how Trump has used the full power of the executive branch to paper over his actions, block access to key information, and simply prevent the release of the truth.(our emphasis)

Kerry Eleveld has a silver lining and a call to active engagement:

But here's the silver lining: During a time when Washington commanded the attention of most Americans and when polling consistently showed that voters overwhelmingly craved resolution, Senate Republicans exposed themselves a nothing short of tools of Trump's regime. They no longer serve the people, they serve him and him only.

Pundits across spectrum smelled trouble for Senate Republicans. "I think (McConnell) underestimates the backlash to this vote," conservative radio host Charlie Sykes told MSNBC. "I think people are going to be a lot more angry about this vote on the witnesses than folks in Washington really understand. And it really does put the Senate in play."

Former GOP operative Nicolle Wallace called the vote “political suicide,” adding, “I hope they take it." They did.

So as we enter the start of the Democratic nomination contest in earnest on Monday, bundle up all that rage and take it to the polls. Let it drive your engagement and participation throughout the rest of the year until Election Day.

Of course, tonight are the Iowa caucuses, which (for better or worse) may produce multiple "winners" and potentially end some campaigns for candidates deemed non- viable.  HuffPo has a "things to watch for tonight."  (November can't come soon enough.)

Finally, do yourself a favor and check out Infidel 753's link round- up for the most comprehensive selection of interesting finds across the internet.  It's so much more than just politics -- more like a digest of life happening around us.

QOTD -- The Lindsey Fish

"Shortly after Graham’s office requested documents pertaining to the Biden investigation, a 2016 video surfaced in which Graham paid heartfelt tribute to the former vice president, calling him “as good a man as God ever created” and saying, “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person . . . you need to do some self-evaluation.” It felt like a taped confession to a future crime, as if the old Graham, the Graham who knew better, had put his soul in a time capsule in order to shame his craven Trump-era self. Here was video evidence of Graham’s willingness to protect a man he knows to be corrupt by falsely accusing a friend of corruption. By that point, though, Graham’s debasement had been so thoroughly realized, the hypocrisy on display barely made an impact. [snip]

“'People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things that he used to believe and what he’s doing now,” [former Republican consultant Steve] Schmidt says. “The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump’s the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he’s found it unattainable on his own merits.'” -- Mark Binelli, in his Rolling Stone profile of Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham, "How Lindsey Graham Lost His Way."

Tweets Of The Day -- Lynching

I’ve studied lynching for decades. Read hundreds of lynching accounts.Viewed almost scores of photographs. Wrote a book about lynching. Mr. Trump’s actions & words are consistent w/those who incited lynching, not its victims. And that fact makes this tweet particularly grotesque. pic.twitter.com/90P1kQL2ya

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 22, 2019

Graham tried to remove a president from office for covering up an affair. https://t.co/3BUMOwFftT

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) October 22, 2019

Historians everywhere: this is a lynching in absolutely NO sense. https://t.co/zGMwPi97h6

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) October 22, 2019

No sir!  No, @realdonaldtrump: this is NOT a lynching, and shame on you for invoking such a horrific act that was used as a weapon to terrorize and murder African Americans.

If you want to know what lynching actually looks like, go to @eji_org in Montgomery, Alabama https://t.co/hqlYI0MyaQ

— Doug Jones (@DougJones) October 22, 2019

Lynching is trending so here are some facts: From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the U.S., according to the NAACP.  Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black.

Also facts: President Trump deeply wants to change the subject away from the G7, Ukraine and Syria.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 22, 2019

More comments here.