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Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 6, 2018 | Frank Bruni

Posted on 10/07/2018 5:52:11 AM PDT by Trump20162020

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.

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TOPICS: Government; US: District of Columbia; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 115th; brettkavanaugh; bruni; donaldtrump; frankbruni; frankyouignorantslut; gop; graham; kavanaugh; lindseygraham; senate; tds; trump
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To: Drew68

I hope you are right.

I was really referring to the doofus-clown that you are going to see on TV every other night for years to come. The “Press” knows an idiotic, preening parakeet when they see one, and just like they went to McCain all those years for pithy pearls of wisdom, they’re going to go to Romney.

As obviously stupid as McCain was, Romney may actually be more.


41 posted on 10/07/2018 6:32:39 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Trump20162020

Frank Bruni’s next cookbook will be entitled “The Art of Knob-Gobbling with the Bitchy & Fatuous’.


42 posted on 10/07/2018 6:34:24 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Trump20162020

“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.”


The Slimes seems to have mistaken gram for Schumer. This is quite surprising, as Schumer has been a skeezy NY politician for several decades...you’d think that they would have noticed.


43 posted on 10/07/2018 6:36:03 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Trump20162020

Frank Bruni sounds like a bullying make-fun. These traits are very unseemly and ill mannered in a grown man.


44 posted on 10/07/2018 6:36:13 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Trump20162020
Actually, that author, Brunei is the saddest individual in Washington

This is one butt hurt shemale. I doubt if he sleeps much at night.
Look at another of his crazy headlines a few weeks back.

45 posted on 10/07/2018 6:37:39 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: oldbill

I agree with you. Graham could not have made me more proud during this entire Kavanaugh confirmation but I’m still skeptical of Lindsey. Time and legislative votes will tell.


46 posted on 10/07/2018 6:38:44 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Trump20162020

They pushed him in that direction, It is the press who transformed him.


47 posted on 10/07/2018 6:42:08 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Trump20162020
The Slimes, precisely.

             

48 posted on 10/07/2018 6:43:34 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: dila813

That and John McCain cant blackmail him into submission any more.


49 posted on 10/07/2018 6:46:30 AM PDT by Delta 21 (.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
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To: Trump20162020
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.

McCain died you idiot.

"sad" yeah. The sadness you and your clown car buddies feel because Lindsey walked away from your illogical unreasoned minds.

50 posted on 10/07/2018 6:47:11 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Trump20162020

There has been, at least for now, a transformation for Graham since McCain died. I have to admit that Graham’s support for Kavanaugh was tremendous compared to the cowering that most republicans engaged in.


51 posted on 10/07/2018 6:48:24 AM PDT by euram
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To: Drew68

That’s the face of someone who, at least for the moment, is comfortable with himself.

Funny how no longer being the gopher to an evil megalomaniacal bastard can do that to a guy.


52 posted on 10/07/2018 6:49:26 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Trump20162020; All

A thoroughly asinine article.
Graham has stood in the breach and fired upon the enemy.
There is no greater bravery than this, that a man scorned and mocked stands firm and tall with righteous fervor to protect and support the very souls who have been his greatest detractors.


53 posted on 10/07/2018 6:50:35 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: All

“...Washington is lousy with lackeys...”

At least that flaming gay writer got this right...Mostly democrats....


54 posted on 10/07/2018 6:50:39 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Trump20162020
his transformation into Donald Trump’s slobbering manservant

Something the faggot loser Bruni knows all about. Is this HIS fantasy?

55 posted on 10/07/2018 6:52:37 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Trump20162020

It is beyond encouraging to see that Trump has taught Republicans it’s okay to fight back...


56 posted on 10/07/2018 6:53:02 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: NKP_Vet

Trump nominated a Bushie. Stuck by K during his darkest hours and pushed him over the finish line.

He healed the party’s fracture with that move and has won over the never Trump crowd.

The mid term momentum is a thing of beauty.....


57 posted on 10/07/2018 6:53:21 AM PDT by blackberry1
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To: Vision

OMG!!! That picture of the author just flat out busted my Gaydar. It just started smoking, sparking and sizzling, then there was a loud bang and it just exploded.


58 posted on 10/07/2018 6:53:23 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: Trump20162020
Lindsey Graham needed friends and so did what he had to do

In my opinion, someone's been holding something over his head for a very long time.
I wondered if John McCain was holding some of the strings being tugged.
Whatever it is, didn't die and go away with John.
Although there have always been rumors about Lindsey being gay, I don't believe that's it.
Pretty sure he'd end up re-elected anyway.

Anyone who got slapped in the face by what went down between him and Huma, but continue to lie to themselves about him, are being laughed at.

Lindsey really wants to head up the Judiciary committee.
Or any position more powerful than that.
59 posted on 10/07/2018 6:54:50 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Trump20162020; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Califreak; ColdOne; ...
Lindsey Graham ping!

Want on or off this ping list? Just FReepmail me.


60 posted on 10/07/2018 6:57:52 AM PDT by upchuck (... if we didn't have to spend time raising campaign money, things would be different ~ CongressmanX)
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