Posted on 07/17/2010 5:26:26 AM PDT by ConservativeGadfly
In a tiny little Hill blog piece yesterday, there was a blurb on an under-the-radar meeting, one-on-one, between Senator Lindsey Graham and Vice President Joe Biden. This is worrisome on so....many....fronts.
Joe Biden, for all of his gaffes and foibles, is still one smart political operative. He rode the train home to Delaware with Arlen Specter on his way home to Pennsylvania every single weekend for years and is the one that most folks believe orchestrated Arlen's party switch. Interesting piece here on the possibility for a White House job for Specter after his career as a Senator comes to an end this fall. Must be nice.
Biden served on the Judiciary Committee, even as its chairman, for many crucial years and knows the significance of judicial nominations among other important pieces of business that go through that committee. Gang of 14? Remember them? Well, Graham was a key player in that little smoke-filled room and so was Biden.
A great deal can happen in a meeting like this, particularly when no one is watching terribly closely. Knowing that both Biden and Graham really dig the media spotlight, a quiet meeting with no press screams that something terribly political is about to go down.
Rumor has it that Lindsey Graham may announce....
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
Maybe the Kagan vote isn’t the bag just yet. Is it possible that some Dems are secretly hinting that they may vote no? Maybe Obama wants some more Republican votes on the confirmation.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
He won’t jump on a sinking ship.
LOL!
“If...the GOP takes back the Senate, Graham is going to jump ship.”
You just pushed my “that makes too much sense” button.
They have something on Graham. Maybe pictures. He does not act like a man who depends on the good will of South Carolina.
A party switch by Graham would serve the GOP primary voters of SC right, as Thurmond’s breach did for the Demos in 1964. I really have little faith in voters, and particularly SC voters. Graham is one of the four or five worst senators because he sells out for media attention.
NO, not at all. Graham’s vote is required to move the nomination out of the Judiciary Committee. Without at least one GOP vote, the nomination dies in committee. Graham loves betraying the dumb SC voters who back him.
The only way to kill the Kagan nomination would be for McC to replace Graham on the Judiciary Committee. And McC never makes waves.
If he switches parties he’ll finally come out of the closet. Watch.
Interesting that Kagan is no more popular than Harriet Miers. Bush pulled back because many in his own party opposed Miers. But there are few among the Democrats who will oppose her.
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