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Lindsey Graham: ‘All of Us Should Be Fired’ if Congress Can’t Establish Debt Reduction Plan

Jan. 6, 2013 9:30pm Erica Ritz

Lindsey Graham: Every Congressman Should Be Fired if Debt Ceiling Deal Doesnt Have Plan to Reduce Deficit

(Photo: CNN)

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley Sunday to discuss the national debt and upcoming debt ceiling negotiations.

After the down-to-the-wire drama of the “fiscal cliff” deal, Graham bluntly stated that if Congress cannot establish a responsible plan to reduce the deficit, every member of Congress should be “fired.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that the debt ceiling should not be raised. Graham simply argued that the two need to go hand-in-hand.

“I want to raise the debt ceiling, but I will not do it without a plan to get out of debt,” he declared.

One possible solution would be a “dollar for dollar offset,” where we cut spending by $1 for every $1 that we raise the debt ceiling, Graham added.

He continued:

“Our Democratic friends haven’t passed a budget in three years, contrary to the law of the land, and why raise money and spend it if you don’t have a budget? So a dollar for dollar offset and a budget I think are two conditions to raising the debt ceiling.”

The Huffington Post reminds, though, that President Obama has said he is unwilling to negotiate on the matter:

Graham’s comments came 24 hours after President Barack Obama used his weekly Saturday address to reiterate that he “will not compromise” on lifting the federal debt ceiling.

“If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic,” Obama said. “Our families and our businesses cannot afford that dangerous game again.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi offered a third option on Sunday. In her opinion, President Obama should just invoke the 14th Amendment and unilaterally raise the debt limit.

But as long as Congress has a say, Graham vowed: “I’m not going to borrow trillions more dollars without a plan to get out of debt.”

Mediaite has video of the interview:

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RAMJR
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:37pm
First thing I have agreed with Lindsey Graham on in years! Pull out the pink slips!

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- The-Real-Enrico
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 12:09am
  Yep we could start we with Lindsey regardless of the up coming debt ceiling.We should have a going out of business sell for our country and all congressmen has to go! All sells will be final, right?
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:14am
  Dare we dream? Yeah I say fire them all!!!
  
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- booger71
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:33am
  Lindsey, how many times have you cowered to the Libs by “reaching across the isle? Your fired.
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:47am
  Thought the same thing…the only time I’ve EVER agreed with grahamnesty. Yes jackass you SHOULD be fired. Immediately!
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 4:50am
  Relentless effort since 1883 regardless of who has been in office to change this culture and country in a way that it can never be changed back again…
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  
  Cloward and Piven destroy capitalism with “crisis strategy” overwhelm the system with the “weight of the poor” get everyone on welfare and government assistance and entitlement to collapse.
  
  Most powerful block in government “Congressional Progressive Caucus” has chairmanships on most committees and are tied to either Democratic Socialists of America or to Communist Party Usa.
  
  All part of the Agenda to create an America so corrupt it stinks; use public policy to subvert America from inside, infiltrate and influence our culture driving us in a direction designed to destroy us. . No conspiracy – just verifiable facts! If you don’t know all this you need to find out!
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. …give it 5 minutes and you won’t be able to walk away
  Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,
  It is free on line for the moment
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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- HumbleMan
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 7:51am
  Firing is not enough. Prison seems more like the right punishment. What you people swore an oath to do, you did the opposite.
  
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- Marine 1
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 10:43am
  Start with Orrin Hatch and work down. He’s the senior Senator now. He also voted for that “fiscal cliff” bill which is a joke especially with the riders it had attached.
  
  Fire the whole dang bunch – start over. Bring in folks from the “We, THE PEOPLE” who will really represent America and will do so with honesty and holding true to the oath they take. No lawyers allowed!
  
  Obama and his band of thieves could care less about the Constitution or GOD.
  
  An enemy hath done this – destroyed our choice land. Time to take it back and I believe that the people will because they have had it with all of the lies ( from both sides of the operation), stupidity, corruption, ignoring of the Constitution, and folks getting rich by serving their own interests in D.C. rather than U.S.
  
  Oh, and get U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.
  
  I’ll say it again…100 Senators…435 Representatives…1 Socialist/Communist President…1 Stupid Vice President…80+ Million Gun Owners. Who has the real power in this country?
  
  Semper Fidelis
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 11:11am
  Hell, Just quit you fools !
  
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lel2007
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:27pm
Awww Lindsey, all of you should be fired regardless of what you do at this point.

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- neverending
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 12:23am
  90% of them all need to go. Worthless bunch of self serving, power hungry, egotistical bums.
  
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- Modern_Cicero
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:28am
  Where is the “Like” button when you need it?
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 2:16am
  Exactly. Why don’t everyone of you impotent morons just hand in your resignations now and save the American People another around of useless and senseless voting.
  
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Advection
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:23pm
They’ve corrupted the system to assure that they hold onto power and they live under different laws than the rest of us. It’s not enough to fire them all. We have to restore the Constitution.

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ExLawman
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:57pm
We need term limits for congress. Preferably 2 terms. One in office and one in prison.

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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:00pm
  LMAO Good one
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:49am
  Hilarious and very true lawman, and the prison terms should be life
  
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Jake Dog2
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:54pm
Hey I’m with you Lindsey. Let us start all over again and with term linits.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:06pm
  Hey i’m glad the laser light focus is back on J.O.B.S. and Congress is no longer side tracked.
  
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My Two Cents
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:39pm
Lindsay Graham, among others, should have been fired a long time ago.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:54pm
  Not true Graham you all should be fired for multitudes of reasons.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:56pm
  Start at the top. A clueless, manipulating, lying, narcissistic, man-child choomer, a girl-grabby, gaffe machine, a Nevada Broke-back mountain poetry cowboy, a lying, cheating, San Francisco queen, and a boat-load of RINOS and Commies.
  
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OHN
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:33pm
Lets start with OBAMA. GOD PLEASE LET START WITH OBAM. JUST LOOK AT PEOPLE INS.

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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:27pm
Hey Lindsey…Why don’t you get everybody in D.C. to just resign and let us start over??? Put your money where your mouth is so to speak…

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AUsername
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:26pm
Obama and the dems don’t want to touch entitlements and neo cons like Graham and Mccain want to increase spending on defense, so nothing gets done about it.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:08pm
  No one wants to offend the lobbyist.
  
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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:00pm
Sorry Lindsey they cant fire you guys….they have to have the illusion remain that congress is still revelant.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:25pm
  when he starts a term limit bill and gets serious as well as flat tax bill and stops playing around i will take him serious………..until then zzzzzzzzzzz
  
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stopprintn
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:59pm
Lindsey is a good reason to amend the 17th amendment.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:06pm
  so true
  
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possom
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:58pm
They should all be fired from the king wannabe all the way down to the aldermen!

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:13pm
  Absolutely.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:57pm
he continued…”Our democratic friends”…blah, blah.
I know I’m not the only one that sees a weirdly different world in this guys head.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:37pm
  And these are the democrats friend’s.http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/06/video-syrians-in-rebel-held-area-of-damascus-rally-for-islamic-rule-return-of-the-caliphate/
  
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tonypro
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:50pm
Lindsey wears the tag of a republican (not that they are any better than the dumpacraps), but he is clearly of the progressive idiots.

Let’s not forget he was one of two calling for a national ID.

I have a better idea for him…….how about all of them should be fired if they so much as take another breath against the Constitution, with the 2nd amendment at the top of the list.

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randy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:48pm
Well, for once I fully agree with you Grahamnesty
ALL OF YOU SHOULD BE FIRED!

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:16pm
  Why put a stipulation on it you either do or don’t do your job and put the right to fire in the peoples hands. No pesky terms or contracts where your merits are your resume.
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:46pm
Just firing them is too risky. It’s their ideas that constantly contribute to the slow and deliberate destruction of this country. These people need to be locked away and the key thrown away.

Case in point: Van Jones – he’s more of a threat now than before he got fired.

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jd9215
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:45pm
How do the people fire the government? It sounds like a real good idea.

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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:49pm
  That’s why they are trying to restrict the 2nd Amendment.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:09pm
  @TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:49pm
  That’s why they are trying to restrict the 2nd Amendment.
  —————————————————
  Yup.
  Because the people cant just “fire” them [unfortunately].
  We’ll eventually end up routing them out physically.
  Imagine turning on your TV set and seeing these frauds DRAGGED from the halls
  of congress across the pavement by their **** to the nearest big tree by hordes of
  armed average taxpaying citizens.
  
  Let your imagination take it from there ——
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:03pm
  @ BODYBAG
  
  That would be a great TV sow for sure: titled “The real politicians of Washington DC”.
  
  The thing of it is, it’s them bringing it on to themselves.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:19pm
  And they wonder why they need security it’s not because everyone loves them.
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:41pm
I accept their resignations, when can they clear their desks out?

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m14guy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:41pm
Lets start with you….

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- OHN
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:29pm
  Let start with OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEM HIM.
  
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TRILO
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:39pm
Yeh, just like the Dictator in Chief said he should be fired if the economy was bad. That went real well. Graham should have been fired decades ago.

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freeberty
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:38pm
Republicans before the election, 10 dollars in spending cuts for 1 dollar in tax increase = bad plan.

Fiscal cliff negotiations, Republicans that CONTROL the government checkbook for some reason think that 1 dollar in spending cuts for 43 dollars in tax increases is something worth agreeing on.

Don’t wait for us to fire you, just quit.

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marine249
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:38pm
I could go for that.

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Bronx
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:38pm
Looks like the “RINOS” are setting the ground work to go along with President Obama and his tit suckers on the debt ceiling. This crap is never going to end. I’m going to have a nice cup of hot “TEA”. TEA anyone…?

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- marine249
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:51pm
  As I said in my post above,
  I could go for that.
  
  LIPTONS
  
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- marine249
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:02pm
  I have my cup of lipton’s tea with milk and sweetner,
  and 3 or 4 pumpkin cookies.
  
  bacon cookies would be very good,
  but after nearly 50 years the wife will
  still not make bacon cookies.
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:11am
  Gonna have some of that new fangled antioxidant tea & dream of them all getting the ax & we get a true clean slate of legislators. That would be a lovely dream. Not one of them has the moral turpitude to actually resign for not doing their job, ,but in theory it does sound so good.
  @marine249 never seen a recipe for those cookies. Who puts bacon in cookies?
  
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HollyRye
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:35pm
I say, let’s play it safe and fire all of them no matter what! Who’s with me?

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:39pm
  so you gonna vote for the democrat on the ballot then?
  
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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:39pm
  I was going to say, just fire’em all!!
  
  Months on end and they can’t avoid this “fiscal cliff” but within seconds Dear Leader can hike their pay????
  
  Yes, fire them all and impeach the Grifter In Chief. I find myself in a serious hatred for those that voted for Dear Leader. All they wanted was the Free Stuff and a “black man” in the Oval Office…of course, to these people, their world doesn’t extend past a couple blocks, the liquor store and check cashing place.
  
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- HollyRye
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:46pm
  Why would I vote for a democrat? There is such a thing a primary.
  
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Fubared
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:32pm
Don’t elaborate Grahamnesty, just stick with the fired part in general for the whole lot of you.

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