{"id":4305,"date":"2015-10-06T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2015-10-06T23:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:59:41","slug":"not-so-golden-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"Not So Golden Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented before about the hypocrisy of right wing congressmen and senators, especially when it comes to federal aid for victims of natural disasters, so it should come as no surprise that South Carolina senator and GOP presidential hopeful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/05\/politics\/lindsey-graham-flooding-federal-aid\/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&amp;iref=obinsite\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Graham, has pleaded for federal aid for his home state after torrential rain and horrific flooding, despite voting against aid for residents of New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy in 2013<\/a>. <em><strong>Graham&#8217;s response: &#8220;I&#8217;m all for helping the people in New Jersey. I don&#8217;t really remember me voting that way.\u00a0 Anyway, I don&#8217;t really recall that, but I&#8217;d be glad to look and tell you why I did vote no, if I did.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Typical compassionate conservative Republican: deny, deny deny. The beat goes on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4309\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindseygrahamhypocritefederalaid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindseygrahamhypocritefederalaid.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsey Graham explains why he supports federal aid for South Carolina and not New Jersey before finally calling attention to Benghazi.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindseygrahamhypocritefederalaid.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lindseygrahamhypocritefederalaid-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP Presidential candidate, Senator and compassionate conservative hypocrite, Lindsey Graham, explains why he supports federal aid for South Carolina and not New Jersey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented before about the hypocrisy of right wing congressmen and senators, especially when it comes to federal aid for victims of natural disasters, so it should come as no surprise that South Carolina senator and GOP presidential hopeful, Lindsey Graham, has pleaded for federal aid for his home state after torrential rain and horrific &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not So Golden Graham&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1126,8,3],"tags":[947,237,22,684,147,1124,1177,9,1144,762,1178,21,98,596,19,785,1132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}