By Hubie and Bertie
Back in the day, White House counsel Chuck Colson said he would run over his grandmother to get Richard Nixon re-elected. Nixon did win in 1972 — but he resigned in 1974, and Colson went to prison for Watergate-related crimes.
We remember the frisson of shock that rippled through Washington when Colson made that grandmother remark. Turns out, it was just a precursor of today's Republican Party.
Today's poster child for that anything-to-win mindset — among many poster children, by the way — is probably Lindsey Graham. Lady Lindsey is the subject of a lengthy New York Times profile that, basically, tries to explain why he's so ready to whore himself for Donald Trump.
The article never really answers the question. After a traumatic, orphaned childhood, was Lindsey always looking for approval and acceptance from alpha males? Was it golf? Or (our take), is he just a soulless fiend who would do anything — even betray the memory of his fave buddy, John McCain — to stay close to power?
Whatever it is, Lady Lindsey has apparently salvaged his "friendship" with Benedict Donald. But his relationship with President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. seems to be beyond repair. A post-2020-election call with the President-elect did not go well. Although Joe Biden has surprised us in many ways — his ability to temper his commentary, to pivot, and to forcefully push back — there's one thing we all know for sure: You do not attack his family and get away with it.
So Lady Lindsey is living in this odd limbo. Not loved by Benedict Donald, who loves no one except himself, and estranged from reasonable people in Washington who can't fathom Graham as a loyal Trumpster. We'd feel sorry for him, except we don't. We cats HISS.
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