Lindsey Graham is such a dick:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he won’t negotiate an energy bill between now and November because the politics of the oil spill does not “favor what [he] wants.”
Graham had been the Republican negotiator on an energy and climate bill with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) but dropped his support when Democrats tried to rush immigration reform to the floor.
The South Carolina senator candidly said the ongoing Gulf oil spill precludes him from rejoining any such negotiation for months.
“I will work with the president, Democrats and Republicans to come up with an energy policy, but I’m not going to it in the middle of an oil spill when the political environment doesn’t favor what I want,” he told WVOC radio in South Carolina. “I’m not going to do it between now and November when the oil spill dominates the politics and headlines.”
First, Sen. Graham decided he wouldn’t support his own energy bill because the Democrats were going to tackle immigration reform, too. Now he refuses to support his own energy bill because it apparently does not contain “what he wants.”
Perhaps Obama can start flying Predator drones over his house to encourage cooperation. This domestic political terrorism has to end.
I think this is a good thing. It will incentive Reid to go all in with the energy bill, go forward with one no matter what Graham thinks, and paint the GOP as the protectors of Big Oil. Whether or not it’s true–I don’t believe it is with energy, it’s more regional than left/right–is not important and is utterly irrelevant. Graham and his Republican buddies are on air with statements like this. Drill it into the American people’s heads: this is who the GOP stands for, against you, when the American Power Act has proven to create jobs and reduce the cost of energy.
So the sooner Huckleberry stops pretending that he’s actually interesting in governing, the better. I’d rather them being honest in their obstruction, and this is nothing short of honesty. Without it, the media and even some Democrats get to pretend that Graham isn’t a backstabber.
Fuck this asshole sideways, and ram the best climate bill we can muster down their collective throats.
Btw, we REALLY need an edit button like Cole. Grammar errors galore in that post…
those that even thought about trusting him were idiots in the first place.
period.
I’d like to drill everywhere, but that damn ocean is in the way of all that oil. I deserve an apology.