"It was another week in the life of Lindsey Graham (R-No Man's Land).
It will take some courage for Obama to defy his liberal base --
but nothing like the courage Graham will need to take on the Republican purity enforcers. "I'd be glad to argue with my colleagues in the Republican Party about the problems with Guantanamo Bay," he boasted.
That's the sort of talk that won Graham censures from GOP leadership in two South Carolina counties.
He reasons that he "could stay in this job forever" by telling GOP primary voters what they want to hear. But he took a different route. "I'm not job-scared," he told me, because it has come to the point where
"fear stops you from acting in the best interests of the country."
Of course,
Graham wouldn't mind some company in his heresy. "I'd encourage my colleagues to do what's rational and not act out of fear," he said. Most Republicans are too job-scared to join him, but there's still hope for Obama."
