Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington

[DonViejo]

His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump’s slobbering manservant.

By Frank Bruni
Opinion Columnist

Oct. 6, 2018

The battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was an especially ugly episode of a reality-show presidency that degrades almost everyone swept up in it, and many characters stagger away from it looking worse than ever.

That’s Senator Lindsey Graham you see at the head of the pack. That’s Graham you hear talking and talking and talking some more, in committee rooms and on stages and before the television cameras that he rushes to the way a toddler chases soap bubbles. His words are whichever ones guarantee a major role and a powerful patron, which means that these days he sounds like a more articulate echo of his golfing buddy: Donald Trump.

That wouldn’t, by itself, be cause to dwell on him. Washington is lousy with lackeys, and not even the maddest of kings thins their ranks. But Graham is special. He really is. I can’t think of another Republican whose journey from anti-Trump outrage to pro-Trump obsequiousness was quite so illogical or half as sad, and his conduct during the war over Kavanaugh completed it. For the president he fought overtime, he fought nasty and he fought without nuance.

In so doing, he distilled our rotten politics — its transactional nature, its tribal fury, its hysterical pitch — as neatly as anybody in the current Congress does.

Has a diva at La Scala ever delivered an aria as overwrought as the one that Graham performed on the day when both Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee? I doubt it.

“Boy, you all want power,” Graham, who serves on the committee, railed at his Democratic colleagues, accusing them of ginning up accusations against Kavanaugh. “God, I hope you never get it.” Because Graham and his fellow Republicans exercise it so much more responsibly? Because they’re so principled themselves? I guess that’s why they minimize Russian interference in our elections; indulge Trump’s bromances with Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duterte and Kim Jong-un; and smile upon his mendacity, misogyny, racism and unchecked greed. They’re modeling integrity in government.

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. I'm not generally for outing people. But, I would love for his Evangelical supporters to see

pictures of him being boofed.

[Socal31]

5. He will have a mural or statue in every Jesus Camp classroom after today.

His outburst in the BK hearing did far more than rally the R-wing troops to vote for confirmation. It even goes beyond Roe, unfortunately.

My point is that it seems all is forgiven by the born-agains, as long as the ends (stacked SCOTUS) justify the means (supporting the grabber and frat boy).

[Funtatlaguy]

7. But wouldn't you like for them to have to justify him receiving a big ole boffing.

[Socal31]

10. Actually....yes.

And also do live commentary on the pee-pee tape.

[dalton99a]

2. Little Lindsey is now 1,000% Trumpanzee. He even sounds like Trump

[peekaloo]

6. What's a Devil's Triangle without a third person.

speaking of Devils, sounds like Justice Boof shared a little Devil's Dandruff with him.

[pangaia]

11. My god, what a slobbering suck up.

banana peels, anyone?

[albacore]

3. Gotta be Russian kompromat...

[smirkymonkey]

4. Probably not just the Russians.

[Funtatlaguy]

8. I think teenage Thai boys are somewhere in the mix.

[Dave Starsky]

12. It's gotta be that bad, or even worse.

This goes way, WAY beyond the "secretly gay and doesn't want his Republican constituency to know it". The Republicans happily forgive everything that one of their own does. The evangelicals have zero problems with the Orange Molester or Judge Kavadrunk.

This has got to be something caught on Russian video that is so depraved and awful, ANYONE would be aghast.

[Funtatlaguy]

18. Devils Triangle of Graham and Donald and Ivanka?

[madinmaryland]

22. Ick. I need to bleach my brain after that thought.

[forgotmylogin]

9. Graham: Kavanaugh was the "slut whore drunk" of the story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kavanaugh-was-slut-whore-drunk-ford-story-sen-lindsey-graham-n917446

WASHINGTON — Brett Kavanugh is the "slut whore drunk" of the story in his Supreme Court nomination, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said moments after the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh.

Asked whether sexual assault survivors would be more reluctant to come forward because Kavanaugh was confirmed despite allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, Graham said he did not believe so because Ford was "treated well" by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I think the roles were reversed: The slut whore drunk was Kavanaugh," he said.

They are drinking the kool-aid.

[True Blue American]

13. This one really showed Lindsey for what he is.

John McCain would be ashamed he ever called him,Little jerk. He is a huge one.

Started when he invited Jared and Ivanka to the McCain funeral, knowing full well the family did not want Trumps there.

It is clear someone has something on him. He is much too hysterical.

[58Sunliner]

17. They are doing something much more insidious. We believed her, we didn't give a shit.

We know we voted in a rapist.

[zentrum]

14. That creepy, watery

....quality of Graham I think comes from his need to glom onto and form himself around a powerful male personality. The policies of McCain meant nothing to him. It was McCain's strength of character that filled Graham.

Now that that's gone, Graham has transferred over. He's a sick, slobbering specimen who is very dangerous.

[LoisB]

16. I think you are absolutely correct. He is the perpetually weak side-kick who needs

a male authority figure in order to justify his existence.

[JohnnyRingo]

15. "Trump's slobbering manservant"

There's a deserved kick in the nuts.

[sandensea]

20. Asskisser is more like it

Second nature to Lindsey, I would imagine.

[Volaris]

23. You mean LICK in the nuts, in Graham's particular case lol

And honestly I don't care what he does with his bits, it's not my damn bizness.
But REPUBLICANS care, or he wouldn't care, either.

[Scarsdale]

19. Graham was positively

snarling like a rabid possum. t was a disgusting display, when he called the Democratic committee members "disgusting". He wants to take Sessions place after tRump fires him. THIS is what is behind the whole fiasco. He must know he will not be re-elected, so he wants a permanent "job" in DC.

[Paladin]

21. "Saddest" is way too charitable a term for Graham's sinking into trump's shithole.

To everlasting hell with him. I hope he never has another easy political moment.

[COLGATE4]

24. Steve Schmidt put his finger on it.

In a series of 2 tweets, Schmidt said (a paraphrase here since I don't have them in front of me), "Lindsey is the type of small man who adores motorcycles but, lacking the upper body strength to be a motorcyclist must instead suck up to the man driving the motorcycle and consign himself to riding in the sidecar". Perfect description of Miss Lindsey and Numbnuts.

[Scurrilous]

25. K&R

[Doodley]

26. Amazing what Russian influence can do.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. How on earth can Democrats be expected to be civil to these Rs

who have proven themselves to have not a dash of ethics or morals? I couldn't. I guess that's one good reason I'm not ever going to be a senator.