Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey.
Not that we mind you pulling your support from the proposed craptacular climate bill, but ... a little consistency, please.
Here's Graham this weekend:
Graham Pulls Support for Major Senate Climate Bill
By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON — In a move that may derail a comprehensive climate change and energy bill in the Senate, one of the measure’s central architects, Senator Lindsey Graham, has issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.
Mr. Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said in a sharply worded letter on Saturday that he would no longer participate in negotiations on the energy bill, throwing its already cloudy prospects deeper into doubt.
Here's Graham last month:
Graham, less than thrilled at the notion of providing the equivalent of a book report to the headmaster in chief, said Obama’s lack of direction on immigration reform is hampering Graham’s efforts to recruit additional Republicans to the cause.
“At the end of the day, the president needs to step it up a little bit,” Graham told POLITICO on Tuesday. “One line in the State of the Union is not going to do it.”
Step it up on immigration, Mr. President! No! Wait! I'm pissed that it's a priority! No! Wait! I'm a hypocrite of the highest order, as first pointed out by Steve Benen!
Update: Greg Sargent notes Graham made the same kind of threat earlier in the year … but this time, it was immigration he was complaining about being put on the backburner:
“The first casualty of the Democratic health care bill will be immigration reform,” Graham said in March, adding that movement on health reform would “kill any chance of immigration reform passing the Senate this year.” Time to wise up to Graham’s game?