Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill
Lindsey Graham’s no deal
By Dana Milbank, Published: February 15
Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill.
First, the Republican senator from South Carolina opposed Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be defense secretary because of Hagel’s foreign policy views. Then he argued that Hagel had not produced sufficient background material. Now he’s arguing against Hagel because of the administration’s handling of the attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, last September — when Hagel was a professor at Georgetown University.
“I am going to fight the idea of jamming somebody through until we get answers about what the president did personally when it came to the Benghazi debacle,” he said in the Senate TV studio Wednesday, a day before his unprecedented filibuster of a nominee to a national-security Cabinet post.
“How do you respond to critics who say you’re just moving the goal posts?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked.
“Oh, I’m going to take every opportunity. I’m not denying it,” he answered.
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but it seems like their only "goal" is victory (i.e. destroying government) at all costs, even if it means eating their own.
Reminds me of this exchange from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock between Kirk and Admiral Morrow:
Morrow: " Jim! Your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behavior and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself!
He might as well be trying to lecture the modern-day Republican Party on the "intellectual chaos" they've already apparently embraced and is destroying them IMHO
