Rest in peace, Lindsey Graham
We lost two mavericks within a week.
On Saturday, we lost the legendary John McCain.
On Tuesday, we lost his loyal sidekick, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham.
Graham remains alive and well, but after serving for two decades as Robin to McCain’s Batman, Graham buried whatever remained of his own reputation for iconoclasm even before his partner’s funeral.
On Tuesday, Graham took a seat on the couch of “Fox & Friends,” President Trump’s favorite show, and sealed his transition from apostate to Trump apparatchik.
“Word of caution to the public,” he said. “A lot of people try to convict President Trump. Don’t be so fast. I have seen no evidence of collusion after two years.” Having echoed Trump’s no-collusion line (as if that were the lone issue), Graham, a former military lawyer, picked up Trump’s attack on the justice system: “Plenty of corruption at the Department of Justice and the FBI. Should be stunning. Not one Democrat seems to care.”
From there, the South Carolina Republican echoed all of Trump’s attacks against the Russia investigation: “They had a bias against Trump for [Hillary] Clinton .?.?. They gave a politically corrupt document to get a warrant .?.?. Christopher Steele was on the payroll of the Democratic Party.” He parroted Trump’s line that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to help Clinton, not Trump: “Russia was involved in our election .?.?. in terms of developing this dossier.”
Incredibly, Graham even joined the “lock her up” movement. “No American would get the same treatment she did. If you were charged or suspected of this kind of misconduct, you would be in jail now.”
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"If you were charged or suspected of this kind of misconduct, you would be in jail now.”
Ummm... isn't it illegal to jail someone who's just an unindicted suspect?
All of Graham's other Trump-supporting lies aside, what lawyer would say such a thing?
So, THAT explains the silence..................
I was giving the benefit of any doubt that there might be one or two "moderates" hanging back, ashamed of their affiliation but not brave enough to break it and flip.
It's really up to the Democratic leadership to call them out clearly and persistently, and, of course, to us to do the same as best we can.
we'd still like to think that even ONE would have the ba... - er, courage to speak up and do what is right.
But no, they keep voting the party line and hiding for a week until IQ45 creates another shit-storm and they get to roll their eyes, deny having anything to do with it, and AGAIN voting the party line the next time around.
Chicken-shit thieves, all of them! 
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