Subject: Is Lindsey Graham the most...
...disgusting of the Trump sycophants?

Lindsey Graham
Since senility is in the news …

Much has been said in the Trump Age about Graham’s transformation from an often independent-minded senator into Trump’s personal Uber Eats courier. Even knowing that, the turnarounds he’s done the past couple of weeks on each component of the Senate’s (dead) border security bill and (passed) military aid are shocking. Graham has long supported comprehensive immigration reform—and the border bill wasn’t even comprehensive immigration reform; it was strictly an enforcement package. He and his staff helped negotiate it! And yet he described it as a “half-ass effort” ahead of his vote against it. Once the border provisions were gone, you’d have thought that Graham, one of the most hawkish voices in the body, would have joined the substantial number of Republican senators willing to approve Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid. Alas, he was a no on that, too. “The supplemental aid package should be a loan to the countries in question, as suggested by President Trump,” Graham said in a statement explaining his opposition. (A “loan”? We use “Ukraine aid” as shorthand for this legislation, but mostly it’s authority for the Pentagon to send Ukraine weapons paired with procurement money to restock its arsenal. Ukraine can’t return a used bomb.) “President Trump,” he added, “is right to insist that we think outside the box.” We understand why Graham has chosen to go along with Trump’s bullshit so often in the past. It’s gotten him in the room to argue his side when important decisions are made. We’re just losing track of what his side is. From Slate