How stupid do they think we are?

The stupidity of McCain’s surrogates keeps getting better and better…

Today it’s Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. He appeared on ABC This Week this past Sunday and had the balls to take Sen. Obama to task for being absent on so many Senate votes, saying; “Sen. Obama’s been gone more than he’s been here.”

Apparently either someone forgot to tell Graham or he’s too narrow-minded to see the truth… which is that McCain remains THE MOST absent member of the senate… missing 63.8% of senate in the 110th Congress compared to Obama missing 45.5%.

So either Graham didn’t read up on his facts or he’s simply making them up… as conservatives are prone to do as this is hardly the first time that McCain or his surrogates have tried to paint a picture that Obama is ignoring his senate duties… and each time it’s mentioned that McCain is ignoring his senate duties as well, just at a higher level because he’s missed MORE.

McCain slammed Obama for missing a vote that HE ALSO MISSED…

McCain said he hasn’t missed any votes on energy legislation…EVEN THOUGH HE HAS…

McCain said he supports Sen. Webb’s GI Bill (he didn’t) and to show how much he supports it, HE SKIPPED THE VOTE…

So once again Lindsey is employing the gop’s tactic of not letting facts get in the way of a good talking point.

And McCain surrogates with the last name of Graham weren’t finished as senator Phil Gramm has talked his way into trouble yet again.

(Yes, I know they spell them differently, but they both pronounce them the same and both share a tendency to say incredibly stupid things… a feat in and of itself)

After saying in July that the US has “become a nation of whiners” the McCain campaign allegedly stopped soliciting assistance from Gramm…well, that didn’t happen, and now Gramm’s stepped in it once again.

Speaking to McCain supporters are a Financial Services Roundtable during the convention, Gramm said; “If you’re sitting here today, you’re not economically illiterate and you’re not a whiner, so I’m not worried about who you’re going to vote for.”

He’s right… McCain supporters aren’t whining… because they’re going to get tax breaks up the wazoo if McCain is elected why the Middle Class gets screwed with their pants on.

Again.

No way. No how. No McCain. No Quayle Palin.

conservative lie #43,219

“This is a defining moment for the Senate, for the Republicans, and this war. I can tell you if we leave the generals alone and support our troops, they will win this war. And to my Republican colleagues, if we’ll stand firm for a fair procedure and a sensible solution to the veterans’ problems, we will get rewarded in the next election, not punished. If we give into this, we don’t deserve to be here.”

That’s a quote from Sen. Lindsey Graham (r-SC) before the Senate voted, 75-22, to overwhelmingly approve Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) 21st Century GI Bill, which would expand educational benefits for veterans who joined the service after Sept. 11, 2001.

Graham, who introduced his own version of the GI bill recently (stripped of anything that matters) urged “President” Bush to wield his veto crayon again and, not surprisingly, Bush has already indicated he will.

Graham’s insistence that his republican colleagues would “get rewarded in the next election” if they vote against GI benefits is staggeringly stupid. Recent polling shows that more than 8 of 10 support the 21st Century GI Bill, 83% believe the new bill will benefit the US and 81% of Americans believe that that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting enough support in transitioning back to civilian life… something this bill will help decrease drastically.

And apparently Graham hadn’t heard that 9 of the 15 republican senators that are running for reelection this November voted for the bill… which proves they must have actually listened to their constituents… how dare they use their own brain.

Yes Virginia, that was sarcasm.

As if Graham didn’t sound dense enough, the “If we just leave the generals alone and support the troops, they will win this war” line is bizarre. What does allowing the generals to do their job have to do with a bill aimed at helping GI's after they leave the service?

The republican party’s lack of empathy for our military is showing, brazenly, once again… and they need to be called on it every chance we get by reminding people that the party that supposedly cares more about the military (lie #43,219) is the one preventing them from not only getting the medical attention they need and deserve, but improving their prospects after their tours are up as well.

Let’s make them pay and vote them OUT in November. It’s the right thing to do.