Graham is finally understanding that his primary challenge is serious business.
He’s getting conservative religion, at least for now.
But as usual he undercuts the conservatives.
..............“We’re in a compromised situation, but I’m going on offense,” Graham explains, in an interview at Pete’s Diner on Capitol Hill. “Members of Congress and their staffs should not be exempted from Obamacare, and I’m going to insist that if the Senate wants to move forward on any deal, we have to overturn the [Office of Personnel Management’s] ruling on congressional employees,” or, at the least, force senators to vote on it in the coming days.
“Now, I hope the House rises to the occasion here,” Graham continues. “But we’re down to stopping bad things, and the only bad thing at this point that we can really push on is the OPM rule. At this point, I’m not sure if we’re going to get it, so I’m going to object on any deal until I get that up-or-down vote. That’s only fair, and I believe the American people will be with me.”
Graham’s pledge to “object” to any deal that doesn’t include a vote on the Vitter amendment could shake up the ongoing Senate negotiations. Senate Democrats aren’t interested in having that vote, and they’ve asked Graham to not make this eleventh-hour demand. “But the Democrats have moved the goal posts on a reasonable deal,” he says. ”I know we can’t complain too much about our self-inflicted wounds, but the Democrats have gone too far.”
I'm sick of political opportunists. We need people of principle who truly understand and appreciate the Constitution; who do what they swear to do when they take the oath of office. I understand there are occasions we disagree on how taxes are to be collected and spent, but there ought to be no question in matters of the 2nd Amendment, the 1st Amendment, and many others that are under direct attack by foreign and domestic enemies who must, for the sake of peace and prosperity, be utterly defeated - some of them hung by the neck until dead. Graham is a political opportunist who needs to be unelected, and soon.
“Graham is finally understanding that his primary challenge is serious business.
He’s getting conservative religion, at least for now.”
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He is NOT getting conservative religion. He’s playing his same old poseur game of pretending to be a conservative while doing all he can to sabotage conservative efforts and to grease the wheels for progressive legislation and nominations of progressive judges.
In a word, he is despicable. NOBODY should fall for his fakery.