Sen. Lindsey Graham lost his mind a long time ago, but resurfaces as something resembling a human being from time to time—only to return—more intensely—to the realm of madness. It was January 23, 1999. A younger Sen. Graham was on the Senate floor imploring his fellow senators to impeach then-President Bill Clinton, for lying about his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. He explained that even though Kenneth Starr’s pornographic novel masquerading as a report—ostensibly about real estate holdings in Arkansas, but almost entirely about Clinton’s sexual promiscuity—didn’t convict Clinton of any wrongdoing, it was clear that wrongdoings had taken place … in Lindsey’s mind.
Sen. Graham: You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role, because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.
Around here we have all come to expect a high level of hypocrisy from the other side of the aisle, but this is something else. This is fascism’s double-speak.