2016 Postmortem
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By Jonathan Karl, Richard Coolidge, Gregory Lemos & Sherisse Pham
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As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes. Like almost every other Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign, he signed the anti-tax pledge put forth by Grover Norquist's group Americans for Tax Reform.
But now Graham says the debt crisis is so severe that the tax pledge which says no tax loopholes can be eliminated unless every dollar raised by closing loopholes goes to tax cuts -- has got to go.
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This puts Graham at odds with his party's leadership. Just last August, when the eight Republican presidential candidates were asked if they would reject a deal with $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue, all eight said they would walk away. But Graham is now raising his hand for increased revenues he says he could support a plan that included $4 in spending cuts for every $1 in increased tax revenue.
"We're so far in debt, that if you don't give up some ideological ground, the country sinks," said Graham.
jpbollma
(552 posts)This will cause a huge fight with the Tea Party. It is also against their presidential nominees statements (however, we know he can always do another flip flop).
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)The last thing centrist repubs want is for the far right Tparty faction to tank the economy and credit rating of the US at year end. Also they know that they have to appear to be more moderate now, for the general election in Nov. Vote a straight Democratic ballot.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)davidwparker
(5,397 posts)He may be able to take out a congressman in some backwater hell hole, but not a red senator in a red southern state.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)he's gone.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)he's actually making noises about the country being more important than his idiot fucking ideology.
Kind of sad, really. He might get enough moderate/blue dog votes with comments like that to get re-elected and continue to carpet bomb the country.
Went all the way down to 4/1 for cuts/revenue, eh? I say we tell him to fuck off and go for 1/1.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)They know that their scams are no longer working on the electorate.
jpbollma
(552 posts)He probably wants the 4x in cuts to be all in social programs and all the 1x in revenue for the military. That is a deal breaker for me personally, however, they could probably get enough Democrats to push that through the Senate.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)South Carolina is an exceptionally large recipient of federal largesse. If Senator Lindsey wants so many cuts, he should start with the Sandlapper state, because it gets far more than its fair shgare from Washington.
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)What I would love is to see is such infighting that they really split. One the Republican party similar to the one of many years ago and one far to the right.
This would hopeful divide their vote and the money.
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)There will be so much navel gazing and self important posturing, and mainstream media hangin on every thought, I will puke.
To the almost irrelevance of Dems agenda. So as to smash any political capital he might possess.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)It is going to take more strong people standing up for the truth to get this country back on track. It will never happen with Boehner wimping out and crying and not facing the truth. If Grover is going to call all the shots he needs to pay the salaries and expenses of the wimps he has gotten to sign his pledge. He is only one and can not vote but the one time, forget about him.
liberalnationalist
(170 posts)don't think so....some polls show SC a toss up for Obama...unheard of in the South..Karl Rove's map has it as a toss up last time I looked...
the republican party is going to split...I just hope its before the election!
the left needs a landslide, a electoral shift for once!
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)North Carolina, after all, went for Obama in 2008.