“If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country’s screwed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC’s “This Week.” “I know bipartisanship when I see it.”
“If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country’s screwed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC’s “This Week.” “I know bipartisanship when I see it.”
Was it Grover Norquist who said, “Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.”?
And isn’t that how Bush and the GOP practiced it?
The GOP equates the interests of the GOP with the interests of the country. That has been exposed as a delusion.
Translation of Graham: “If this is going to be bipartisanship, the GOP is screwed.”
Translation of Graham: “I know bipartisanship when I see it. If the Democrat Party ain’t capitulatin’ it ain’t bipartisanship.”
This column by a KC Star columnist probably accurately reflects the viewpoint of the American public:
Did some checking on Graham and “bipartisanship” in the old days, and it seems when he arrived in the Senate, that he gained and enjoyed a reputation as a bridge to Democrats on legislative issues.
Given that background, this 2005 Washington Monthly article may give a clue to the cause of his current whining. It would seem that he formerly enjoyed being courted by both Republicans and Democrats on close issues. But as the article said, “For all the appeal of Graham’s swing conservatism to Democrats, the elemental fact is that, on the big questions, it serves Republicans most.” Graham clearly doesn’t have that prestige any longer.
I remember thinking of Lindsey as a smarmy little asshole.
Since then my opinion of him has gone down.
Republicans in Congress remind me of nothing so much as a little child who refuses to eat dinner and then complains later of being hungry.