Absolute must read

[oldtime dfl_er]

from the NY Times.

Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington
His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump’s slobbering manservant.

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........

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/lindsey-graham-brett-kavanaugh.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Opinion

[dalton99a]

1. Donald Trump's slobbering manservant - and a Russian whore

See
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211250547

[bdamomma]

2. He is truly an

ass.

[malaise]

3. He is playing golf with the Con today

[dalton99a]

4. "What beautiful fairways you have, Mr. President. What a virile tee shot."

[malaise]

6. What a vile subservient fool

[dalton99a]

12. He is a fool - Trump despises weak people

[lunatica]

32. Trump has nothing but contempt for everyone

Everyone. I’d be willing to bet his kids know they only have his “love” as long as they do exactly what he wants.

[elleng]

5. Too bad the weather is good today.

[dalton99a]

9. Zeus is taking a break - maybe he's at church

[malaise]

11. I once watched lightning hit two cricketers

under clear blue skies. They were both lucky to survive. Apparently the transformer on the post took the worst of the strike. There were cloudy skies east of the ground. It was scary I tell you.

Just saying.

[Separation]

8. The job interview

For Attorney General isnt over yet.

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. I especially like this paragraph

"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."

But what annoys me about it is that, while the author effectively uses innuendo and great language to imply Graham is gay, NO ONE in the MSM ever comes out and says it. And it's relevant not because anyone gives a damn about Lindsey Graham's sexuality (I sure don't, in fact, I wish he would come out and be happy), but because it's very likely he's subject to blackmail and kompromat because of it.

[lindysalsagal]

10. "very likely" ?? Nah. He's compromised with dirty russian oligarch money. They all are.

The whole GOP leadership.

The GOP have become criminals like donald because NONE of them can win by playing fairly.

The only way they survive now is to intimidate, lie and cheat. That's why this can't last forever.

[oldtime dfl_er]

14. hopefully

now that they have all the power, they'll start eating their own.

[Duppers]

30. But...

If no one "gives a damn about Lindsey Graham's sexuality," how is it that he can be blackmailed over it?

We don't give a ff, but is it his constituents or TRE45ON who gives the damn? Who is Lindsey afraid of?

[Achilleaze]

13. Dirty Donny*s "slobbering manservant" is no way to be remembered in history

* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

[oldtime dfl_er]

15. what a great turn of phrase

slobbering manservant. yes.

[duforsure]

16. putin and trump uncovered his corruption, and corrupted him more

And now they have him in the palm of their hands , and he's so scared he'll become exposed he'll do anything for them now. If he took any money from russians that was really from putin he will be looking at hard time, and he knows it if its exposed, and it will be if he did. He's hoping they'll save him, but they won't. they won't be able too.

[pazzyanne]

17. Lindsay is just another Giuliani.

A has-been trying to act relevant.

[jmbar2]

18. Auditioning to be Trumputin's poodle

I suspect that even the lowly Blotus can't stand him.

[rickyhall]

19. Is he on his feet or on his knees?

[sandensea]

21. Must you ask!

[DesertRat]

20. And after Dirty Don repeatedly trashed his best friend, Sen. McCain

Truly deplorable.

[lindysalsagal]

24. McCain's family must be quite hurt by that. He's not welcome at family gatherings anymore

we could assume.

[DesertRat]

27. Meghan McCain is returning to The View tomorrow

It will be interesting to see if she mentions Graham.

[mercuryblues]

26. I'm guessing after their breakup

he wasn't welcome anymore.

[Scurrilous]

22. K&R

[Lunabell]

23. They have evidence of his penchant for teen age boys.

Mark my words when all the shit finally comes out.

[lindysalsagal]

33. Who has what evidence? I'd like that link.

IF it exists....

[No Vested Interest]

25. At first I thought Lindsey was angling for Attorney General spot. Now, I believe he's going after

the next Supreme Court vacancy.
Could that be?

[DemoTex]

28. In the words of Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier)

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

[SayItLoud]

29. This kind of transition seems to happen to people who are

being blackmailed. Shown a picture or two, a document or so or a compromising video and suddenly they see things in a perfect harmony of the people with the material.

[Hamlette]

31. One thing pisses me off

further in the article Bruni says Graham "distilled our rotten politics". It is not OUR rotten politics, it is the rotten politics of the GOP. Did any Dem act like the rotten Republicans? No!

Until the press calls it, Americans won't.