Before I get into the substance of this article, I would like to note that the change in Lindsey Graham since the death of John McCain is interesting. All of a sudden Graham is sounding like a conservative. He is not up for re-election until 2020, so that’s not it. It seems as if he is finally waking up to what the deep state is up to and has decided not to be part of it. He may be beginning to realize that the days of the deep state may be numbered.<\/p>\n
At any rate, yesterday The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article detailing some of Senator Graham’s comments at the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Democrats bellyache that Kavanaugh worked as an attorney for the Ken Starr investigation and served in the White House of President George W. Bush. Graham could care less.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Have you heard of Justice Breyer? Do you know him?,\u201d Graham said in an opening statement equally rambling and passionate. \u201cWhere did he come from? He was Ted Kennedy’s Senate judiciary person. Where do you think Republicans are going to go find a judge?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Good point. The article notes one other area where the double standard is glaring:<\/p>\n But Graham has another reason to be angry, and it isn\u2019t just hypocrisy. He held up what he considered his end of the bargain during the Obama administration, voting for both Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The Republican senator certainly didn\u2019t agree with every decision either nominee made. But Graham found both of them to be qualified and found himself \u201cgetting a lot of crap\u201d as a result.<\/strong><\/p>\n The same standard, Graham groused, has not been applied to Republican nominees like Neil Gorsuch and now Kavanaugh. \u201cI would suggest you think long and hard,\u201d he said with some bitterness to the aspiring 2020 Democrats on the committee<\/a>, \u201cif you\u2019ve got a political ambition, of voting for this guy because it will not play well on your side.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Graham isn\u2019t wrong, and that is why he’s angry.<\/strong><\/p>\n The elected President is entitled to his choice of judges and cabinet members unless there is a moral or character issue with the candidate. That is what ‘advise and consent’ is about. The Democrats seem to have forgotten that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I get into the substance of this article, I would like to note that the change in Lindsey Graham since the death of John McCain is interesting. All of a sudden Graham is sounding like a conservative. He is … Continue reading