On Monday evening, the Fairfield County GOP in South Carolina formally censured Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his activities in the U.S. Senate. The official GOP body in the state passed its own version of a 29-point resolution shredding Graham’s record in Washington as “in contravention of” principles of the Republican Party as contained in the South Carolina GOP platform.
“While entrusted with the office of Senator by the voters of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham has committed a long series of actions that we strongly disapprove of and hold to be fundamentally inconsistent with the principles of the South Carolina Republican Party,” the resolution reads in part, before delving into a devastating breakdown of Graham’s record in the U.S. Senate.
Items highlighted in the resolution include:
- Graham’s support of providing weapons to “Al Quaeda / Muslim Brotherhood Revolutionaries in Syria”
- How Graham “[s]upported amnesty but not border control”
- How he supported “NSA spying on private American citizens”
- “abridging the First Amendment for those who criticize the government”
- “restrictions on the Second Amendment”
- “Obama's drone program against American citizens”
- “subordinating American sovereignty to the United Nations”
- “giving foreign aid to terrorist governments in the Middle East”
- “granting members of the Muslim Brotherhood high level positions in the US government”
- “giving taxpayer money to international organizations”
- “giving taxpayer money for excessive foreign aid generally, not just to terrorist governments in the Middle East”
- “restricting the First Amendment rights to criticize Islamic radicalism”
- “Obama's radical appointments to the Supreme Court”
- “liberal proposal to nationalize banks”
- “Obama's energy taxes and Cap and Trade”
- “bailouts for financial institutions (TARP)”
- “bailouts for independent mortgage institutions (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac)”
Other points include how Graham opposed: “principled application of free trade policies”; “making Bush tax cuts permanent”; “President Bush's conservative nominee from South Carolina to the Court of Appeals”; and “medical malpractice tort reform.”
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