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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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1 posted on 10/07/2018 5:52:11 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Stop pandering to the Left, Lindsey! They will turn on you in a heartbeat.


2 posted on 10/07/2018 5:54:50 AM PDT by ThomasMore (ISLAM is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Trump20162020

So maybe Lindsey won’t be so hung up on amnesty now that he sees who he has been associating with


3 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:05 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Trump20162020

I would consider it a good thing to be hated by the NYT. BTW, the hate is strong with this one...


4 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:13 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Trump20162020

Lindsey should wear this article proudly, as if it were a piece of jewelry.


5 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:17 AM PDT by HChampagne (Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
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To: Trump20162020

Unlike the lefties who are soooo nuanced in their 24/7 attacks on President Trump.


6 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:27 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Trump20162020

Looks like the love affair between the progressives and Graham is over.


7 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:35 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Trump20162020

Lindsey Graham is no longer under the thumb of John McCain.

He seems to have grown a set, and is standing up to the leftist and media bullying.

So, of course, the NYT attempts to denigrate him.


8 posted on 10/07/2018 5:55:56 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Bruni is looney......and bitter....guess his “partner” left him in the lurch.


9 posted on 10/07/2018 5:56:32 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Trump20162020

Frank, you ignorant slut.


10 posted on 10/07/2018 5:58:32 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: jeffc

Keep on slobbering, Lindsey !


11 posted on 10/07/2018 5:58:46 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Trump20162020

The NYT is a demonstration that colleges are failing.
Big time.
If that writer were a science major equivalent, they’d be writing a support article for the Flat Earth Society.
And, of course, an article about the latest disaster which occurred due to human caused glow-bull warm....er...climate change.


12 posted on 10/07/2018 6:00:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Liz

Commie fags get ornery, especially when they forget to remove the gerbil from their rectum.


13 posted on 10/07/2018 6:00:15 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Trump20162020

Oh, darn! We lost Frank Bruni’s vote! Sad!!


14 posted on 10/07/2018 6:00:21 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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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. For the president he fought overtime, he fought nasty and he fought without nuance.

It is truly 1984, black is white, up is down, the nyslimes is beating up on linda and I'm defending him, WTF?

It's only 8:55 AM and after a Bloody Mary, I'm spiking my covefefe with cheap bourbon.

Since I'm not gonna watch any feetsball today, and I've been to early Mass, I'm too tired to do any real work, I think I'll just get mellow and ROTFLAMO.

What a wonderful life.

MAGGGGGGGGGGA. {sorry about the GGGGGs, but I stutter when I get excited:)}

15 posted on 10/07/2018 6:02:00 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: Trump20162020

The New York Times and Frank Bruni can rant and rave all they want. The Democrat Party has self-destructed internally led by the losers, Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton.

By the way has anyone seen the supposed saviors, Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc. of the Democrat Party on the political stump campaigning as POTUS, Donald J. Trump does every week? They are all absent on purpose!!!

Go, Trump, Go, GOP, Go, GOTV...Get Out The Vote, Go, MAGA......politically destroy the entire Democrat Party this coming election day, November 6, 2018 or earlier.


16 posted on 10/07/2018 6:02:08 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

Buttlicker Bruni strikes again; more crap.


17 posted on 10/07/2018 6:02:18 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: Trump20162020

Swallow Frankie! Swallow.


18 posted on 10/07/2018 6:02:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Trump20162020
Graham is now a stud.

And here's the face of this backwards, hateful propaganda piece.


19 posted on 10/07/2018 6:02:49 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: Trump20162020
For the president he fought overtime, he fought nasty and he fought without nuance.

I like the new Lindsey Graham. Can we keep him?

Did he really take a smiling selfie with a shrieking harpy standing behind him?

That's classic!


20 posted on 10/07/2018 6:03:11 AM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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