Dianne Feinstein, Lindsey Graham To Be Honored For Civility In Partisan-Prone D.C.

[Purveyor]

By James Rosen
McClatchy Newspapers
Posted: Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013

WASHINGTON Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are being honored for displaying civility in politics, a rare Washington commodity they’ll need plenty of in the coming months as they champion the divisive issues of gun control and immigration legislation.

The senior senators from one of the country’s bluest states and one of its reddest will be feted next week at a National Press Club reception, where they’ll receive the Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life.

“Our winners this year could not be more different,” James Mullen, the president of the private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pa., said in a news release Thursday. “Senator Feinstein is a proud Democrat from the heart of American liberalism in San Francisco. And Senator Graham is a proud Republican son of the conservative South.”

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“Senators Feinstein and Graham are proud partisans who battle vigorously on the most contentious issues of the day,” Mullen said in the release. “They fight the hard fights, take on the big issues and strive mightily to win. But they don’t seek to win at all costs. They each have long records of doing battle with deep respect for the political process and abiding civility toward those they engage.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/21/3869424/dianne-feinstein-lindsey-graham.html#storylink=cpy

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. There's so much wrong with that headline

And it only gets worse when you start reading the article.

[still_one]

2. What a joke the two senators who have helped destroy the democratic party

[TwilightGardener]

3. Graham? Is this a fucking JOKE?

[BeyondGeography]

4. Lindsey Fucking Graham?

[pkdu]

5. Baaaarfff!

Graham...." I'm about to be primaried !...oh Lordy ...where's my inner facist "

[leveymg]

6. Go ask Chuck Hagel about Lindsey Graham's civility in politics.

Terrible timing by a know-nothing college committee that picked this one.

[fujiyama]

7. Blech

Feinstein and Graham?

Both are an embodiment of everything that's wrong with the Senate - and D.C. itself - today.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Feinstein is civil. Lindsey Graham just says shit like

"Well, I NEVAH!" and "Oh my stars and garters!" so they think he's genteel.

[lonestarnot]

9. Good gawd.

[octoberlib]

10. Before I clicked on it, I thought this was an Onion article.

It's really almost impossible to distinguish between real news and satire anymore.

[Lugnut]

13. That's what I thought.

Graham? Really?

[BainsBane]

16. That's where it belongs. nt

[sarisataka]

11. I feel my inner teen coming out

O*M*G

[davidpdx]

12. Hold on...........

I feel better......oh shit

[Solly Mack]

14. Alrighty then.

[BainsBane]

15. After Graham's witch hunt against Rice

and Hegel, it boggles the mind how he could be considered civil. The main foams at the mouth when he talks about Susan Rice.

Though I haven't followed him closely, it seems that Tom Colburn would be a better choice for a Republican.