Translation for Lindsay Graham’s Republicanease

Re: Lindsey Graham On Obama Health Care ‘Spin’: Americans Are ‘Tired Of This Crap’, Sam Stein, stein@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting, 03-14-10 11:20 AM 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — energized and animated on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday — announced that the American public was tiring of the “crap” and “spin” offered by the Obama administration in an effort to get health care passed.

The South Carolina Republican appeared shortly after White House senior adviser David Axelrod suggested Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was being disingenuous for criticizing a health care bill that resembled the one he supported in Massachusetts.

So, it looks like the talking head shows are in full swing this morning. What kills me is that they will have the Democratic Party official on first, then the Republican so that the right wing echo machine can leave your head swimming with conservative talking points. They leave the last word to the right, always have.

Anyway, Senator Graham blurted out that Americans were tiring of the truth “crap” and “spin” as if he has in his pocket some kind of public sentiment device, or instant polling iphone app. What he is really saying, and what this bit of Republicanease translates to is, he is tired of Democrats with their stupid facts proving to the public how the right wing is so unabashedly hypocritical.

Senator Graham didn’t like David Axelrod reminding the nation that newly elected Senator Scott Brown was actually for the mandate that everyone have health insurance before he was against it.

Graham went on to rant (yawn) about President Obama. Of course.

Graham went on [to] whack the White House on a host of other health-care-related fronts. He accused the president of “arrogance” in pushing legislation in a non-bipartisan fashion. And he called the idea of using reconciliation to get a bill passed a “sleazy process” that would “open up Pandora’s box.”

“If they do this it is going to poison the well for anything else they would like to achieve this year or years after,” Graham warned.

Okay, reconciliation is a sleazy process now. If that is the case, the process should be a good fit for Republicans. Didn’t they use the reconciliation process to ram through tax cuts that weren’t paid for? Twice? When the Dems open Pandora’s box they will find find it empty. The Republicans were there first.

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