Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/27/2010 9:27:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The Republican lawmaker, under attack from both parties, backs off from efforts to work with Democrats on immigration, energy and Guantanamo Bay.
BY JIM TANKERSLEY
For months, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was one of the few Republicans willing to cross the aisle to work with the Obama administration on controversial issues. Now, he may be the showcase example of why bipartisanship is all but dead in Washington.
In the beginning, Graham's attempts to find compromises with Obama and Senate Democrats on immigration, energy and closing Guantanamo Bay looked like the best chance for a thaw in Washington's icy partisan environment. But now, under attack from colleagues and activists in both parties, Graham is threatening to chuck the whole effort.
That potentially dooms prospects for congressional action this year on energy and immigration, as well as the likelihood of widespread cooperation across party lines on most other issues.
From the right, Republican activists in Graham's home state have heaped scorn and censure on him. Fellow Senate Republicans, including party leaders, have left him to deal with Democrats on his own.
Meanwhile, from the other side, White House officials have criticized Graham's push to include what would have amounted to a new gasoline tax in the energy bill. Liberals have griped that Graham packed the bill with giveaways to industry; moderates say he hasn't delivered Republican support for the bill anyway.
Perhaps most important, Graham suddenly finds himself wrestling with the Senate's top Democrat, Harry Reid of Nevada, over a plan to fast-track the immigration bill. Graham says that by pushing immigration when it isn't ready and can't pass, Reid has jeopardized good-faith negotiations on immigration and energy in hopes of scoring cheap political points against Republicans.
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If Grahmnesty’s ineptitude causes cap and tax and amnesty to be derailed, he will have been a very useful idiot.
GOOD!
It will if South Carolina Conservatives gave him a chance on it. I don't live there so I don't know the mood. All I know is he capitulated and learned about being bi the hard way.
Smokemeister! How the heck ARE ya??
This is already out of date. Now they’re talking about fast tracking Cap & Trade.
His constituents is why he is still in office at all. They WANT him and his type in the office or could have put him out a couple of years back.
His stance on everything is NO surprise to any of the voters. They put him in office and have kept him there.
It's saying something that Graham was the only GOP senator to think that he could work with the Dems and not get his hands dirty. That makes him dumber or more naive or more opportunistic than Snowe or Collins.
No doubt.
Willing to cross the aisle and bend over backwards to stab Conservatives in the back.
Don’t you mean bend over forwards?
Later, he added: “I enjoy my job. The only reason I enjoy it — the lifestyle of a senator sucks — is the wonderful opportunity for a conservative, right now, to have a say on big issues.… As long as you’re willing to let the other side get something, you can have a real say.”
He’s delusional.
“Later, he added: “I enjoy my job. The only reason I enjoy it — the lifestyle of a senator sucks — is the wonderful opportunity for a conservative, right now, to have a say on big issues.…”
You are no conservative, you frigging rino cockroach.
I don't think so. I think his addled brain believes the crap he spews.
as God is my witness, I'll never be bipartisan again....(I'll be a Dhimmicrat)
Aw, the little poofter is having twuble....
We all need to chip in and buy Lady Lindsey a hankie so she can daintily dab at her eyes. Poor baby.
Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
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2014 as rabs said. And, unfortunately, SC does not have a recall law. We are stuck with this POS until 2014. But it will be such a joy to toss his ass out on the sidewalk.
Go over the top and you'll get machine gunned.
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