The Senator also known as Pete Campbell from Mad Men made an astounding and incredibly disrespectful comment on Fox today:
Threatening to hold the debt ceiling hostage, the SC "Moderate" tried to give us the full Pete Wilson. (Though I don't think Lindsay can keep up with the SC crazy.):
Yes, we will play that game, Mr. President, because it's not a game. The game you're playing is small ball. You're talking about raising rates on the top 2% that would run the government for 11 days. You just got re-elected. How about doing something big that's not liberal? How about doing something big that really is bipartisan? Every big idea he has is a liberal idea that drowns us in debt. How about manning up here, Mr. President and use your mandate to bring this country together to stop us from becoming Greece."
(Emphasis sickeningly added.)
Look, I know Lindsay is facing a certain tea party primary, but a statement like that is reprehensible. As Steve Benen put it:
It's rare for a prominent public official to put this much nonsense into a 90-second television appearance. Graham's comments make absolutely no sense, and his threat to hurt the nation on purpose is, for lack of a better word, nuts.
Hey Lindsay -- Why don't you "man up," take a cue from your fellow SC Senator and leave the Senate. If you're going to talk like that to and about the President, you don't deserve your seat.