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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thinks Vice President Joe Biden should "shut up."
Graham said on Fox News today that in order to win in Afghanistan, there needs to be a "unity of effort we've never had before" among civilian leaders, and that the firing of General Stanley McChrystal represents a chance to "get a new group in there."
Of course, Graham suggested, that doesn't mean President Obama is likely to fire Vice President Joe Biden. But "he can tell him to shut up."
On Fox and Friends this morning, Graham said that he agrees with the President's decision to oust McChrystal. He also took a couple of shots at civilian leaders there, saying that Karl Eikenberry, "the current Ambassador to Afghanistan, has a broken relationship with President Karzai" and that "Ambassador Holbrooke is a fine man who has got some friction between him and President Karzai."
This is "a chance to start over," said Graham.
Host Gretchen Carlson argued that the President "can change those guys, but he can't change Vice President Joe Biden. I mean, he could, but he's not going to."
Graham responded: "He can tell him to shut up."
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agio
June 24, 2010 11:23 AM
I can think of someone else I wish the President would ask to STFU...
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expat46
June 24, 2010 12:33 PM in reply to agio
I think you just wrote Gibbs response when he's asked about it in the daily press brief.
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biff diggerence
June 24, 2010 11:45 AM
Dixie Poof doesn't know shit about Afghanistan.
Biden does.
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Clarance Vine
June 25, 2010 2:49 PM in reply to biff diggerence
Exactly. When did this uphill gardener decide to get tough, all spiffy in his summer linens and white bucks?
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LiberalRedneck
June 24, 2010 11:46 AM
Two questions:
1) Why should Biden "shut the hell up" in the first place?
2) What would the Fox News talking cleavage have said if someone suggested Cheney "shut the hell up"?
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Powkat
June 24, 2010 12:18 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
Did you hear the cleavage compare being a TV anchor to the presidency? It's a classic.
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Chris
June 24, 2010 2:33 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
They would have said go fuck yourself.
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It's Pat
June 24, 2010 12:04 PM
Must be the new talking point --- similar to them trying to get the health care bill scrapped and to "start over".
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AnnieW
June 24, 2010 12:13 PM
I don't get it. Now, to be considered reasonable you HAVE to get alone with Karzai? If you don't just sign off on everything his government does you are part of the problem? When did this happen?
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It's Pat
June 24, 2010 12:21 PM in reply to AnnieW
"If you don't just sign off on everything his government does you are part of the problem? When did this happen?"
Jan 20, 2009
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Clarance Vine
June 25, 2010 2:51 PM in reply to It's Pat
When did what happen?
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Early Out
June 24, 2010 12:22 PM
Is she under the impression that the President has the power to fire and replace the V.P.? Which Amendment to the Constitution made the V.P. an at-will employee? I must have been out that day.
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slb
June 24, 2010 12:39 PM in reply to Early Out
Lindsey Graham appears to be under the same impression. I'd love to know who taught him Constitutional law.
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It's Pat
June 24, 2010 12:44 PM in reply to Early Out
"Is she under the impression that the President has the power to fire and replace the V.P.?"
This is a woman that compared her Fox news anchor job to that of the President's. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006230002
What do you think?
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Dorn76
June 24, 2010 12:27 PM
A chickenhawk like Lindsey never doubts a man in uniform.
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Schmed
June 24, 2010 3:31 PM in reply to Dorn76
Isn't Graham a JAG?
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American_Idle
June 24, 2010 5:40 PM in reply to Schmed
More like a JAG-OFF (what? that's short for JAG OFFicer, isn't it? ) Are you trying to say he's a Federal Adjutant General? Spell it out.
Lindthay, time to skip away, butt plug and all. and STFU, Dixie Poof (love that name, can 't wait to see it on Stewart or Colbert ... or CNN).
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Schmed
June 25, 2010 11:48 AM in reply to American_Idle
Just wondering why this man would be called a "chickenhawk," that's all.
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Clarance Vine
June 25, 2010 2:55 PM in reply to American_Idle
LOL! with the lispe too. Oh God, still laughing!
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jonez
June 24, 2010 12:36 PM
why should Biden shut up, he knows more than most of those people in congress.
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aq
June 24, 2010 1:00 PM in reply to jonez
Considering he was like, the only senator for quite some time who had kids in the military? Yeah.
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MyMy
June 24, 2010 12:42 PM
Republicans keep fantasizing about a super-all powerful Executive--but only if it does their bidding.
Biden was more right about Afghanistan than McChrystal was -- so why should HE be the one to shut up?
I pray that big Oil executive of Afghanistan [Unocal's own Karzai] gets the boot finally, oce the program there isn't run by a snake in the grass
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Leftflank
June 24, 2010 12:58 PM
And Lindsey is going to cheer that?
This pansy is heading right down mccains path. Talk tough, change your positions, pander to anyone that will listen, become irrelevant.
Lindsey will be back begging soon, let's call it a Jindal.
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toomuchpr
June 24, 2010 1:05 PM
There's a big reason that Eikenberry and Holbrooke are having friction with Karzai - and Graham seems to be giving the benefit of the doubt to amoral Karzai, rather than our own Executive branch. I have a big problem with this and seriously question Graham's patriotism.
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Perm Dude
June 24, 2010 1:19 PM
I didn't see anything in the clip about firing. Perhaps "change" is being used as a stand-in for "fire"? "Change" is far too slippery of a word to be narrowly used in this way, I think, and Graham demonstrates it by talking about change in a different way than firing.
All this to say: The President can't fire Biden in any case, even Rayfield is making the case that this is what the talk was about.
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vasu
June 24, 2010 1:29 PM
This coming from a man who threw a tantrum when he was told that the Climate Bill would be put on the back burner for immigration reform. Now he will filibuster it. Right back into the partisan party of no.
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DwH
June 24, 2010 1:51 PM
Lindsay, shut your shriveled little lips, you assw*pe.
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Lono65
June 24, 2010 2:51 PM
"In the name of unity, shut the fuck up." Yea, that sounds like Republican sensibility. Just do it my way, so we can have unity.
Anybody else notice that after claiming to agree with ousting McChrystal, Huckleberry began reiterating McChrystal's complaints about the civilian leadership in Afghanistan?
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Scientific
June 24, 2010 3:20 PM
Not worthy of our attention. We knew Republicans were children yesterday, and nothing's changed.
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Prof Wagstaff
June 24, 2010 4:08 PM
Hey closet case, STFU!
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