Lee Heidhues 3.23.2022
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a blatant repulsive Southern demagogue. It’s regrettable the Mainstream Media does not call out this foul creature for what he really is. A swamp dwelling Racist.
He race baited his Black opponent during the 2020 election campaign. He is continuing this reprehensible style, which fits right in with Republican Party thinking, as he browbeats and tries to dominate Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Excerpted from New York Magazine 3.23.2022
Unlike some of his posturing colleagues, Lindsey Graham is on no one’s short or long list for president in 2024.
So if Graham doesn’t harbor presidential ambitions anymore, and he isn’t facing an election any time soon (he was reelected in 2020), why is he so out of control at the Jackson hearings? Maybe it’s just who he is.
Republicans participating in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson can mostly be sorted into two groups. Some are being fairly civil and more or less relevant in their questioning, pausing frequently to congratulate themselves for behaving better than Democrats did during Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings (which involved serious sexual-assault allegations). But some Republican senators aren’t behaving well at all, and their outbursts often have little to do with Jackson.
But none of these senators can match South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham in terms of heated, out-of-control expostulations. Maybe the fact that he brought up Kavanaugh at least three times is unsurprising since Graham was the face of Republican fury over the allegations against Kavanaugh when they arose in 2018.
But if possible, Graham is even angrier now. At one point on day three of Jackson’s hearings, Graham badgered the judge, demanding that she say how she’d feel if the Judiciary Committee confronted her with an “ambush” like the one that he claimed Kavanaugh had faced.
This wasn’t a lone, retroactive burst of petulance. In his first round of questions a day earlier, Graham got increasingly heated about policies that allowed the release of prisoners from Guantánamo Bay (which was only tangentially related to a long-ago case in which Jackson represented prisoners) and stalked out of the room when his tirade ended.
His 2016 campaign crashed and burned before voters even voted (the day before he suspended his campaign in December 2015, RealClearPolitics showed him with a polling average of 0.5 percent of GOP voters supporting his candidacy).
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/lindsey-graham-behave-supreme-court-hearings.html
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