Graham Accuses GOP Voters of Racism: ‘Visceral,’ ‘Irrational’ Hatred of Obama

[Ptarmigan]

Graham Accuses GOP Voters of Racism: ‘Visceral,’ ‘Irrational’ Hatred of Obama
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/12/graham-accuses-gop-voters-of-racism-viseral-irrational-hatred-of-obama/

From Caitlin Yilek writing at The Hill:

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)38% (R-S.C.) says GOP front-runner Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters think President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim.

Lindsey Graham is no better than a Democrat. He should just join the Democratic Party. Of course I do not expect he will be welcomed with open arms by the Democrats. Just look at Arlen Spector.

Here are some stupid comments.

Uncle Thom > Geeman • 4 hours ago 

Lol you mean the President who keeps shrinking our deficit? Graham is wrong the hate is not irrational it's just plain stupid!

Wrong! Try again! Debt went up big time!

Uncle Thom > Geeman • 4 hours ago 

Typical ignorant right wing response. No need to let facts get in the way. That would make your teeny weeny brain hurt lol. Sorry truth hurts! Unlike all of the republican presidents of the last 30 years President Obama has actually shrunk the size of the government and the deficit.

Try again!

Uncle Thom > Geeman • 4 hours ago 

Pretty dumb adults then! You do realize that the deficit and debt are two different things right? Do you also realize you have to close the deficit before you can pay down the debt? I wouldn't expect right wing adults to understand basic economics though lol.

Uncle Thom > dano • 4 hours ago 

President Obama is about as centrist as you can get! Elizabeth Warren is progressive! Huge difference. If his ways are the problem then why are the deficit and size of government shrinking. Of course you still haven't answered that. You guys should be singing praises to him for that yet you just ignore it and make up baseless accusations against him. Hmmm I wonder why???

Say what??????? Obama is a centrist?????????????? What is your DU name? 

Uncle Thom > Ikaros3 • 4 hours ago 

Lmao!!! You just showed how easily you are conned. Look at the article you posted. It says in 2009 the deficit was 1.4 trillion and now it is 483 billion. Then it says President Obamas smallest deficit is bigger the bushes largest lol. Uh the 2009 deficit belongs to guess who ? Dubya. The government budget runs from Oct to Oct. Meaning the 2009 budget was passed by Dubya in 2008. Stop reading laughable right wing rhetoric. It's so easy to see through its sad!

Spewing the leftist party line! 

Uncle Thom > squeaken • 3 hours ago 

Uh you would be wrong again!!! He shrank the government by getting rid of civilian and govt contractor positions. The IRS has been spending money for years now it's Obamas fault? Please. I am no fan of the IRS either though I realize the necessity of it. That doesn't mean I don't think the tax code should be simplified or they shouldn't have more oversight. Once again more right wing rhetoric.

[txradioguy]

I predict that in 2016 Goober Graham will reveal to the world two things the rest of us already know...1) He's gay and 2) He's a Democrat and is switching parties.

[Fourwinds]

I predict that in 2016 Goober Graham will reveal to the world two things the rest of us already know...1) He's gay and 2) He's a Democrat and is switching parties.

It wouldn't surprise me. Of all the underhanded things liberals are capable of doing. Pretending to be from the opposing party isnt really much of a stretch.

[SVPete]

As campaign strategies go, slamming as racists those you want to vote for you is probably not among the best.

[docstew]

As campaign strategies go, slamming as racists those you want to vote for you is probably not among the best.

That was my thinking too.

[obumazombie]

Uncle Thom > Geeman • 4 hours ago 

Lol you mean the President who keeps shrinking our deficit? Graham is wrong the hate is not irrational it's just plain stupid!

This same genius said we have to shrink our deficit before we can pay down debt.
Wrong again buffalo breath.
Eliminate the deficit, budget a surplus, and apply the surplus to the nearly impenetrably debt...

For a change, Martin Crutsinger's coverage at the Associated Press of the federal government's November Monthly Treasury Statement wasn't completely full of rose-colored baloney.
Crutsinger managed to note how auto-pilot entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are bankrupting the country (not in those words, of course).

That said, he somehow thought that highlighting a rare and small increase in year-over-year defense spending was worthwhile, while ignoring several other larger percentage increases in other areas.
Most importantly, he failed to note that the national debt has increased by far more than Uncle Sam's reported deficits. Excerpts follow the jump (bolds and numbered tags are mine):

US BUDGET DEFICIT WIDENED IN NOVEMBER





The federal budget deficit widened in November, driven by higher spending in areas as such as Social Security, Medicare and defense. [1]

The November deficit climbed to $64.6 billion, up 13.6 percent from a year ago, the Treasury Department reported Thursday.
For the first two months of the budget year that began on Oct. 1, the deficit totaled $201.1 billion, a 12.6 percent jump from a year ago. [2]

Total receipts are up 2.9 percent to $416 billion over the past two months compared to a year ago.
Tax revenues are growing as unemployment declines.
But spending grew an even larger 5.9 percent to $617.1 billion.

The latest numbers underscore the deepening impact of paying benefits to a growing number of retiring baby boomers. [3]

The report said Social Security spending expanded 4 percent, while Medicare spending increased 9 percent.
Spending on Medicaid, the government health care program for low-income individuals, rose 12 percent, partly due to an expansion authorized under the Affordable Care Act. [4]

Spending on defense military programs totaled $99 billion In October and November, a 2 percent increase over the same period last year. [1]

For the 2015 budget year that ended Sept. 30, the deficit fell to $438.9 billion, its lowest level in eight years.
The Congressional Budget Office in August forecast that the deficit for 2016 will decline further to $414 billion and then rise slightly to $416 billion in 2017. [2]

... The October deal did avert a looming crisis over raising the national debt.
Lawmakers approved suspending the debt ceiling until March 2017, allowing borrowing to rise with no cap until that time.
The national debt currently stands at $18.7 billion. [5]


Notes:

[1] (tagged twice) — The mention of defense spending, which actually increased by 2.5 percent, is really pathetic. Defense spending has declined sharply during the past four fiscal years:

Fiscal 2011 — $678.1 billion
Fiscal 2012 — $650.9 billion
Fiscal 2013 — $607.8 billion
Fiscal 2014 — $577.9 billion
Fiscal 2015 — $562.5 billion
That's 17 percent in real cuts, not the imagined "cuts" in projected spending the press typically falsely characterizes as "cuts" when favored programs are involved.
Given many recent events at home and around the world, it's reasonable to assert that the American people have lost a lot more than 17 percent of their confidence that this government can keep the nation safe from its foreign and domestic enemies.
(Update: Change that to "correct to assert.")

Of all the expense items Crutsinger chose to report, he picked on a relatively tiny $2.4 billion two-month year-over-year increase, which barely covers inflation, without disclosing that defense has seen almost $116 billion in real spending cuts during the past four years.
The AP reporter's agenda-driven mindset could hardly be more obvious.

Meanwhile, to name just one other item, he ignored an 11.2 percent spending increase amounting to almost $3.4 billion dollars at the Department of Agriculture — a department where annual spending zoomed from $90.8 billion in fiscal 2008 to $139.1 billion in 2015.

[2] (tagged twice) — Maybe the CBO's projections of smaller full-year 2016 and 2017 deficits will come to pass.
But so far, none of the projected $24.9 billion decrease (from $438.9 billion to $414 billion) predicted for fiscal 2016 has occurred.

Instead, the deficit during the first two months of fiscal 2015 came in almost $23 billion higher.
That does not bode well for the achievability of CBO's prediction.

[3] — In a rare admission, Crutsinger acknowledged that the nation's two core programs for the elderly are having a "deepening impact."
He could have, and should have, told readers just how deep.

Social Security's "trust fund," which became an accounting fiction decades ago once Congress raided it to enable continued spending on other programs, has been running annual cash deficits for at least the past five years.
Thanks to Obamacare-related accounting gimmickry Medicare's chief actuary denounced three years ago, that program will supposedly go broke on paper in 2026, but is likely on track to hit a wall which would mandate serious real benefit cuts much sooner.

[4] — Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, is predominantly to blame for the explosion in Medicaid costs.
The Obamacare exchanges have forced many thousands of people who "qualify" for Medicaid into the program whether they like it or not.

At least as of a short time ago, those enrolled cannot revoke their enrollment.
Additionally, states which have accepted the Obama administration's bribes to "expand Medicaid" have seen sharp enrollment increases which have resulted in "unexpectedly" higher spending, i.e., "treating enrollees in the states that expanded cost about $1,000 more than anticipated."

[5] — The AP must teach a course on "creative rounding" to its economics reporters.
Even though the national debt has been higher than $18.75 trillion every single business day since Thanksgiving and stood at $18.83 trillion at the end of November, Crutsinger "somehow" rounded the debt balance down to $18.7 trillion.

More seriously, the AP reporter failed to do what the vast majority of business reporters have failed to do for decades.
He didn't tell readers that, for a wide variety of "off-budget" reasons, the national debt is rising far more quickly than reported budget deficits would indicate:

From September 30, 2014 to November 30, 2015, the government's reported budget deficits totaled $640 billion (as seen above $438.9 billion for fiscal 2015 plus the current year's two-month deficit of $201.1 billion.
During that same period, the national debt increased from $17.834 trillion to $18.827 trillion.

The nationl debt increase of $993 billion is over $350 billion, or 55 percent, greater than the reported budget deficits during those 14 months (that time period was chosen to avoid periods during which the Treasury Department engaged in accounting maneuvers to keep the officially reported national debt at its leglislatively mandated ceiling).
Those who came up with the idea of conducting so many elements of the federal government's operations "off-budget" clearly hoped that doing so would keep attention away from their negative financial consequences.

Thanks to Marty Crutsinger and others in the business press, that tactic has worked quite effectively, perhaps even more than its "pioneers" could ever have imagined.

full article...



http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tom-blumer/2015/12/11/usual-ap-report-deficit-fails-note-far-larger-increase-national-debt#sthash.SVMuz4ms.dpuf

[DumbAss Tanker]

Graham Accuses GOP Voters of Racism: ‘Visceral,’ ‘Irrational’ Hatred of Obama
Here are some stupid comments.

As to Graham, just shut up, you lisping, snotty-sounding shithead.  Nobody cares what you think, you have proven yourself a complete fool with bad policy ideas and dictatorial tendencies, and we've just had seven years of that bullshit.

More generally, I see the Democrackheads still haven't figured out the difference between "Deficit" and "Debt."  Let alone understanding the difference between "Total Federal budget" and "Discretionary Federal budget."  It really ought to disqualify them from either holding office or voting, but the world isn't fair.

[kwCrazy]

What is irrational about hating policies that have resulted in dead Americans and dead innocents throughout the Middle East, that have made us less safe, that have emboldened our enemies, that have supplied weapons to our enemies and that have routinely violated our laws?  I would label "irrational" as anyone who could support this lawless pathetic excuse for a president.  As for the racism comment, it only proves that Graham is a moron.  America bent over backward to give the first dark skinned president every opportunity to do what is best for this country.  The problem is, nobody seems to have read his anti-American, west loathing book.  Obama is fulfilling the dreams of his father by tearing down the US and funneling assets to the unstable Middle East.

This is the 21st century.  We can despise people for their actions, not just their skin color.

[obumazombie]

^If I were writing that last sentence, I would proofread it once more...at least.