Lindsey Graham outdicking himself

Graham spoke at the Atlantic Festival - where Flake & Coons had been so well received.

"I thought Ford was treated respectfully. I felt Kavanaugh was treated like crap," Graham said, eliciting boos from the audience.

"Yeah, well, boo yourself," he calmly retorted.

[...]

Graham also cited voting for Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court — both nominees were tapped by President Barack Obama — as illustrative of a "double standard."

"When it's their turn, I've honored their picks," Graham said, this time being met with groans.

  Politico

Well, no shit. Since when is being seated on the Supreme Court a game of my turn, your turn? If that were the case, what's the point in voting at all. Not to mention, the Democrats voted for Gorsuch, and Graham supported McConnell blocking Garland from even getting a vote.

"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term and the primary process has started, we'll wait till the next election," he said.

Oh, how fucking generous. What are the odds of that happening?

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Graham's talk. Goldberg also asked Graham his reaction to President Donald Trump's performance at a rally in Mississippi on Tuesday evening where he mocked Ford's memory gaps during the hearing. Graham conceded he "did not like" the president's comments.

"President Trump went through a factual rendition that I didn’t particularly like and I would tell him to knock it off. You’re not helping," Graham said. "But it can be worse. You can actually kill somebody’s cat and puncture their tires to get them to shut up."

What in the name of Sam Hill is he talking about?* And is that a suggestion to Trumpites?

After Goldberg expressed confusion over Graham's metaphor, he clarified the Senate had come a long way from the 1990s, an indirect reference to Anita Hill's hearing before the Senate after she accused then-nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

I guess it's a good thing Trumpites are not the likely audience for the Atlantic Festival. Once they figure out it's not a carnival, that is.

Lindsey needs a break. He should step down.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.



UPDATE:

*Am seeing a tweet saying this was a line James Carville used to denigrate Paula Jones.

FURHTER UPDATE:  Nope.  That was apparently the line about going through a trailer park with a $100 bill

Yes, he got even worse.