Senator Lindsay Graham on the real health care problem - 'African American population'

[murdoch]

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Senator Graham:

"Your state is going to be required to cover more people under Medicaid because the eligibility goes up to 133% above poverty....my state's on its knees. I have a 31% African-American population in South Carolina. How did they get the 60th vote?"

When Graham talks about the African-American population that he "has" he does some weird thing with his hand. If I was paranoid I'd think he was giving some kind of Masonic or CCC type-signal.

Well, at least Graham is looking out for the interests of richer white people, and how all this coverage to poor blacks is going to take something out of those richer white people's pockets.

I think the reason this rhetoric isn't working politically any more is when people look at their bank account, wages and job prospects, they don't see much difference between themselves and some working poor black South Carolinian who is 33% over the poverty level. Just ask a factory worker in Michigan.

Thanks for keeping it classy, Senator Graham.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. That is really what this is all about. Protecting the ultra wealthy WASP.

And anyone who doesn't fit into that narrow category? To hell with them.

[sasquuatch55]

15. I knew before long his true colors would show.

nt

[JDPriestly]

28. No. Here is what it is really about.

The entire country was blackmailed by two senators, one from Nebraska and the other from Connecticut. I wish that the California delegation would get a bail-out for California at the cost of the rest of the country and filibuster any bill that was up for legislation until the blackmail threats were satisfied. Our dear senator from Nebraska should be shunned by legislators on both sides of the aisle. And Nebraska should be specifically omitted from any funding such as for highways and schools. The conduct of the senator from Nebraska is shockingly crass.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Should make a good campaign ad next time. Should work in other states too.

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[LiberalFighter]

18. Just tell the voters that he lives in North Carolina

and they can't vote for him.

[sasquatch]

19. It actually might work

:D

[LiberalFighter]

20. If that might work then this might too

Tell the voters they actually live in North Carolina and therefore can't vote in South Carolina.

[thunder rising]

3. but instead of representing his state he represented his party ... tuf beans Graham

[TheEuclideanOne]

11. EXACTLY!

You nailed it on the head!

I remember how the house got that one vote, somebody actually voted based on who he represents and not based on his party. The rest are all still in the mode to do anything that it takes to make Obama fail, America be damned!

[willing dwarf]

4. Bleah, how do I clean off the grease?

Yes the nose rub suggests some sort of self-protective gesture, but I'd say it was unconscious self-defense, not a secret signal between cheesy white guys.

What a slime ball though.

[murdoch]

6. Yes

Yaa, I was just joking about the secret signal. It is weird though. Some psychiatrist would probably have to watch the video to figure out what in his unconscious made him touch his face. He did it right as he was saying "31% African-American population", he points his index finger at his left eye for no apparent reason. Probably some weird unconscious thing.

[pundaint]

10. perhaps he was channeling Strom Thurmond

[eugeneliberal]

14. The gesture looked like

he was thumbing his nose.

[Uncle Joe]

30. I agree, it was unconscious self-defense because he was committing an evil act and he knew it. n/t

[silverweb]

5. Disgusting.

What a slimebag.

[Farzan]

13. Could he mean that...

the African Americans are also among the 12% unemployment and therefore my heart bleeds?

[silverweb]

25. Graham? Heart?

I'll drop 20 years and 30 pounds overnight before he grows a heart or it bleeds for anyone not connected to him by money or power.

[Farzan]

31. " I'll drop 20 years and 30 pounds overnight"...

LOL. That IS my new year's resolution!

[silverweb]

32. LOL.

Good luck with that! :D

[CherokeeDem]

7. I thought I was as ashamed as I could be by my home state...

then this idiot goes and makes this despicable statement. I am going to have to find a state to adopt me.

To quote Mike Malloy,"Have I told you how much I hate these people?"

[Joe Bacon]

8. Mike Rogers, will you hurry up and open this clown's closet!

South Carolina is a basket case.

[DuckyCase]

27. Has it not been already...

Isn't it pretty much general knowledge?

[Bitwit1234]

9. Take a good look at the bunch who

call themselves Tea Bags, I said and will say it again. This is only a new name for the KKK.

[Mrdie]

12. Will anyone in the GOP call Graham out on this?

Probably not, but it's one of the things they, well, should.

[newmac]

16. Lindsay wants the rich whites to have expensive dentalwork; blacks can go toothless

Thats how they suppress the other half of the population.

[AlbertCat]

21. My state's on its knees.

Who's fault is that?

12% unemployment. Is that because of 8 years of GOP government? Because of politicians from your state who think it's OK to do things like sleep around internationally (on the state's dime)? Or maybe because you had a 90-something senile bigot for a senator for 49 years in a row?

Maybe if SC wasn't the Twilight Zone of stupid politics you'd be better off. SC's been nothing but trouble since 1776.

[ellenfl]

22. omg, that was a totally racist reference! eom

[mzmolly]

23. One thing many of us lefties forget when we complain about the lack of a public option is the

fact that medicate is greatly expanded in this bill.

That said, Graham didn't do himself or his party any favors with his racist clap trap.

[burning rain]

24. What a despicable little man.

Seems he's trying to build opposition to healthcare reform on the basis of race hatred. That's one of the basics of Deep South politics, especially: appealing to poor-as-shit white voters who, however, have more desire to kick blacks down, than get ahead, themselves.

[Wizard777]

26. All I caught was devil horns hand gesture. Who cares if he's a Satanist?

:evilgrin: He couldn't possibly drag EVERYONE in South Carolina off to hell with him. I'm quite sure a couple will be able to escape.


:rofl:

[butterfly77]

29. Sunday,on John King..

he began by saying something about how the doctors'wouldn't except patients if they extend it to more medicaid patients and then began saying something about African Americans,and I was wondering what that had to do with it.

I wasn't paying that much attention but my ears perked up when I began to hear certain buzz words. Is this why the repubs are so upset..