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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Quote of the day, so far

Hot air or frank talk? Some politicians, like Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, know how to speak the latter.

Graham, one of John McCain's two closest friends in the U.S. Senate (the other being tonight's scheduled speaker, independent Joe Lieberman), said this to the New York Times at a lunchtime gathering.

“We got fired in 2006,’’ Mr. Graham said, referring to the party’s loss of its congressional majority during the mid-term elections that year, but that Democrats were doing no better.

“The Congress has transcended party for the first time in my lifetime,’’ said Graham who served in the House for four terms before being elected to the Senate in 2002. “People think we all suck.”
Posted by Karen Heller @ 2:51 PM  Permalink | 3 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:57 PM, 09/02/2008
    man whos gravy train did this guy get off of? He is hard to listen to and even harder to look at. Graham hopefully will be off to South Carolina where he can be a loggyist for thin lipped liars!
    — hejira33312
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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

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