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Lindsey Graham Sadly Abdicated His Elected Responsibility

Posted on | August 6, 2010 | 17 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Doug at Malkin)

Per CNSNews:

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that Jesus’s Golden Rule inspired him to vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court and suggested it would be a good thing for his Senate colleagues to also ponder Jesus’s words as they prepared to vote on Kagan.

What an insufferable twit! By the standard of the Golden Rule, we’re all theologically equivalent. Lindsey should, by this logic, be proud to confirm Lyndon LaRouche, should the POTUS, in some pique, see fit to nominate the gentleman.

“It is divine in its orientation, and it is probably something that would serve us all well if we thought about it at moments such as this,” Sen. Graham said on the Senate floor, as he pointed his colleagues to the Golden Rule and counseled them to look to the wisdom of “somebody far wiser than I am” as they cast their votes on Kagan.

You see, Senator Graham, the confirmation process is about getting people in place who understand and support the Federal Constitution. Starting from the document and its ideals, and moving on a path towards Elena Kagan, you should have realized that there was a “Bridge Out” sign on the road.
Maybe the people of your state hold you in some regard, but some asbestos knickers might be a good investment before you’re up for re-election.

More at:
The Lonely Conservative
Hot Air
Dan Riehl, an anti-bow tie bigot.

Update: Still more Graham affection at:
Carol’s Closet

Category: South Carolina

Comments

17 Responses to “Lindsey Graham Sadly Abdicated His Elected Responsibility”

  1. Lindsey Graham Invoked Jesus to Justify His Vote for Kagan :: The Lonely Conservative
    August 6th, 2010 @ 8:32 pm

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  2. Lonely Conservative
    August 7th, 2010 @ 12:33 am

    Thanks for the link. Sorry it’s under such a sad circumstance.

  3. Lonely Conservative
    August 6th, 2010 @ 8:33 pm

    Thanks for the link. Sorry it’s under such a sad circumstance.

  4. just a conservative girl
    August 7th, 2010 @ 1:01 am

    umm, he did this a long time ago. Why the surprise now?

  5. just a conservative girl
    August 6th, 2010 @ 9:01 pm

    umm, he did this a long time ago. Why the surprise now?

  6. smitty
    August 7th, 2010 @ 1:10 am

    @jacg,
    Trotting out the Sermon on the Mount to justify his idiocy was particularly irritating.

  7. smitty
    August 6th, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

    @jacg,
    Trotting out the Sermon on the Mount to justify his idiocy was particularly irritating.

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  9. Estragon
    August 7th, 2010 @ 5:43 am

    Lindsey’s obviously got some issues. All those years as John McCain’s personal valet left him in the shadows and now he thinks it is his time to shine. Yuck.

    However, no matter how twisted his logic, he is hardly responsible for Kagan’s confirmation. There were five GOP votes for her, and his wouldn’t have mattered either way. He has at least set himself up to block a future nominee, since he can point to his slavish devotion to Kagan and eventual acceptance of the “wise Latina” as evidence he’s not just out to block Obama’s every choice.

    Of course, it’s up to him to follow through.

  10. Estragon
    August 7th, 2010 @ 1:43 am

    Lindsey’s obviously got some issues. All those years as John McCain’s personal valet left him in the shadows and now he thinks it is his time to shine. Yuck.

    However, no matter how twisted his logic, he is hardly responsible for Kagan’s confirmation. There were five GOP votes for her, and his wouldn’t have mattered either way. He has at least set himself up to block a future nominee, since he can point to his slavish devotion to Kagan and eventual acceptance of the “wise Latina” as evidence he’s not just out to block Obama’s every choice.

    Of course, it’s up to him to follow through.

  11. daveinboca
    August 7th, 2010 @ 8:37 am

    Graham is starting to ponder the path taken by turncoats Jeffords VT & Specter PA, it appears, and as a consummate opportunist, will always go for the cameras to give the MSM their “bi-partisan” schlock-line. At least Snowe, Collins, and Scott Brown are in evenly-divided states. As Estragon notes, he’s outing himself as the new-McCain…. a maverick undependable flibbertigibbet.

    This silly specimen of whatever is starting to give “bi” a bad name!

  12. daveinboca
    August 7th, 2010 @ 4:37 am

    Graham is starting to ponder the path taken by turncoats Jeffords VT & Specter PA, it appears, and as a consummate opportunist, will always go for the cameras to give the MSM their “bi-partisan” schlock-line. At least Snowe, Collins, and Scott Brown are in evenly-divided states. As Estragon notes, he’s outing himself as the new-McCain…. a maverick undependable flibbertigibbet.

    This silly specimen of whatever is starting to give “bi” a bad name!

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  14. Oxbay
    August 7th, 2010 @ 5:09 pm

    This guy was re-elected in 2008. He had already offered proof beyond any doubt that he should not be an elected official, especially a Republican. What the heck were the people of South Carolina thinking, electing this guy?

    Wake up all y’all over there in South Carolina.

  15. Oxbay
    August 7th, 2010 @ 1:09 pm

    This guy was re-elected in 2008. He had already offered proof beyond any doubt that he should not be an elected official, especially a Republican. What the heck were the people of South Carolina thinking, electing this guy?

    Wake up all y’all over there in South Carolina.

  16. Mr.G
    August 8th, 2010 @ 2:57 am

    We were awake, at least us up here in Grahamnesty’s home town of Seneca, SC. But Lindsey moved down to Columbia where his rhetoric is more palatable. We’re sparsely populated up here in the “Golden Corner” of SC. Graham got his votes from the “Midlands” and “Low Country”, where the “elite” live. But I’m thinking his tenure as Senator from South Carolina is almost over. Unfortunately, we have four more years before we can turn him out.

    Mike

  17. Mr.G
    August 7th, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

    We were awake, at least us up here in Grahamnesty’s home town of Seneca, SC. But Lindsey moved down to Columbia where his rhetoric is more palatable. We’re sparsely populated up here in the “Golden Corner” of SC. Graham got his votes from the “Midlands” and “Low Country”, where the “elite” live. But I’m thinking his tenure as Senator from South Carolina is almost over. Unfortunately, we have four more years before we can turn him out.

    Mike