Did Lindsay Graham really say this?

[maxrandb]

Something like, "I can understand you not remembering certain things, hopefully if a bunch of us are in a court and tell you we 'don't remember Jack Ambrahamoff (sp)' you'll believe us".

It really is a "blanking" joke to these people.

We need to bring back tar and feathers. In fact, tar and feathers should be tax deductable.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Yes, here's the quote from the transcripts

GRAHAM: I guess there's no rule against beating a dead horse, or we'd all have quit a long time ago.

(LAUGHTER)

So in the next 30 minutes, I'm going to ask you the same questions you've been asked for a whole day.

(LAUGHTER)

And I hope you'll understand if any us come before a court and we can't remember Abramoff, you will tend to believe us.

(LAUGHTER)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/10/AR2006011001418.html


Nothing like trying to taint a future Supreme Court Justice.

[liveoaktx]

6. VIDEO

On CanOFun

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Some else says "Abramoff who?"

"The guy in the bible, right?" ha, ha, ha.....

[QuettaKid]

2. oh no he din-int ! ! !

did he?

[acmejack]

3. Isn't he funny?

He's so cute. ass

[maxrandb]

5. Yes He DID!!!

The poster above, I think, has the exact quote.

Yeah, bribery, organized crime, gambling, fraud, embezzlement...it's all a fucking joke.

But let some poor bastard steel a loaf of bread to feed his family, and Alito would let a police officer shove a broomstick up his ass.

Lovely what the Repukes have turned our country into "inin-it"?

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Didn't they try to say that it was business as usual in Washington

so they don't understand what the big deal is regarding Abramoff and Delay?

To think that these people got in office on a platform that claimed that public service should not be a career. Hell, no. Public service is just an opportunity to broaden their investment portfolios.

[gademocrat7]

4. He did say that disgusting remark.

I want to see what kind of jokes he cracks when his repug buddies are sent to prison.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Now add this quote to what Graham said during Mrs Alito's breakdown

and he is either drunk or very afraid about his own pending indictments.



ALITO: I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

GRAHAM: No, sir, you're not. And you know why I believe that? Not because you just said it -- but that's a good enough reason, because you seem to be a decent, honorable man. I have got reams of quotes from people who have worked with you, African American judges -- I've lost my quotes.

Judge Higginbotham -- I don't know where they're at. But glowing quotes about who you are, the way you've lived your life; law clerks, men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.

You know why I believe you when you say that you disavow those quotes? Because the way you have lived your life and the way you and your wife are raising your children.

Let me tell you this: Guilt by association is going to drive good men and women away from wanting to sit where you're sitting. And we're going to go through a bit of this ourselves as congressmen and senators.

People are going to take a fact that we got a campaign donation from somebody who's found out to be a little different than we thought they were -- and our political opponent's going to say, "Aha, I got you!"

And we're going to say, "Wait a minute. I didn't know that. I didn't take the money for that reason."

And you know what? I'm going to believe these senators and congressmen for the most part, because that's the way we do our business. We meet people here every day. We have photos taken with people -- and sometimes you wish you didn't have your photo taken.

But that doesn't mean that you're a bad person because of that association.

Judge Alito, I am sorry that you've had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this.

Now let's talk about another time not so long ago -- and another judge and some of her writings -- and see if the Senate is changing for the better or for the worse.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011101674.html?sub=AR


Sounds like he's worried about all those photos people took when they were Jack Abramoff's friends.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Wasn't that one of the most

appalling public diatribes you've ever heard? I was literally opened-mouthed at the sheer contempt, the baldfaced paranoia! Hollywood could never have scripted that one. What the hell were South Carolinians thinking by electing that sub-human to the Senate? :argh: SG

[Cooley Hurd]

9. It's frightening that he's able to laugh about Abramoff...

Is he laughing because he know the fix is in (that the prosecutor in the Abramoff investigation is a Bush admin ringer) and they're going to get off scot-free? :grr:

To quote the Happytones: I hate republicans, baby!:grr:

[Benhurst]

11. Graham should be tarred and feather boaed

[Cooley Hurd]

12. According to the rumors about Graham...

...I don't think a feather boa would be punishment (since he might have several in his closet already).;D