Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said President Barack Obama’s rhetoric about a deal to extend the Bush tax cuts hints at “political immaturity” that is leading Americans to “see weakness” in the president. “By using rhetoric that calls us ‘hostage-takers,’ he believes, somehow, that the left will give him some credit for hating us, or putting us in a bad light,” Graham said, referring to Obama’s remarks Tuesday that congressional Republicans had backed him into a corner on the tax deal. “It just lowers him. ... He is whining, and no one likes a whining president.”Click here to read the full story at Politico.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Graham: Don't Call GOP 'Hostage -Takers'
Politico is out with a story about Sen. Lindsay Graham's take on the way that President Obama is trying to sell the Bush tax rate extension. Here's part of what it says:
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