Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Republicans who get it...

and then there are those who don't and probably never will, which brings us to Senator Lindsey Graham, who today was the only Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. If ever there was a better example of what is wrong with the Republican Party look no further than Senator Graham. Have the lessons of the past election, which saw the epitome of the "reach across the aisle" let's hold hands candidate go down in flames to a leftist ideologue, left no imprint on Graham's psyche?

He thinks Kagan is "funny," which "goes a long way in his book." Well, that's great. He says that he wouldn't have nominated her, that she is a "liberal," and that there are 100 other reasons why he would have nominated someone else. That said, he insists that President Obama "chose wisely." Does this make sense to any Republican fortunate to live outside the DC bubble.

In a way, Graham reminds me of Mr. Rogers. (No offense to Mr. Rogers.) The difference is this: Mr. Rogers usually talked to children. Graham uses the same lecturing, maddeningly patronizing tone, when addressing grown-ups.

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