Graham In The Crosshairs

Consider this a public service announcement. If you, like I, had your fill of Lindsey Graham during the illegal immigrant amnesty debacle, then you might be looking for any news about his reelection fortunes in the upcoming South Carolina Senate race in 2008.

I've been looking around and compiling some links on the blogs and websites that have sprung up to document Lindsey's transgressions and rally support to recruit a primary challenger. They're looking for a way to get Lindsey out of office. They're mad.

There are a handful I've come across that seem to be fairly active and in depth. This one: Lindsey Graham.info seems to be the best of the lot. And the guy appears to have been on the dump Graham bandwagon for a while. This was an interesting bit of info:

There has been much speculation about a potential challenger to Senator Lindsey Graham. One thing seems certain, any challenge must come in the Republican primary. When asked about a potential challenger in the general election, former SC Democrat Party chair Joe Erwin said he doubted any Democrat would run, saying, “We already have our best Democrat up there in Lindsey.” That’s a pretty devastating comment coming from a Democrat.

If any readers are interested, I'm posting the links of the Graham sites I've rounded up -

LindseyGraham.info DumpLindsey.org BootLindsey

ToastGraham DumpLindseyGraham

Lindsey Graham at Source Watch Congresspedia

The American People Win One!

The immigration travesty has gone down in flames, and by a humiliating 46-53 vote. In short, they couldn't even get enough votes for passage, let alone cloture.

The American people, through calls, emails, faxes, and letters, convinced enough Senators that their jobs were on the line if they voted for this, and that's a good thing.

However, don't think that this is the end:

But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of the key members of the coalition that crafted the bill, warned is Republican colleagues ahead of the vote.

“Remember this day if you vote ‘no,’” Graham said, adding that this bill would not come back in its current form and it is “as good as it gets.”

I guess Senator Graham is looking to be unemployed, because if he keeps angering his constituents, that's where he'll be after his next election.

Addendum: Senator Graham appears to be unclear on how negotiations like this work. If a bill fails, generally one wants to make the next version better, not say this is "as good as it gets" and bring forward a worse bill. I doubt if a bill that's not as good as the one that just died will even get cloture on the first motion. However, if the gentleman from South Carolina wants to commit political suicide by trying even worse bills, far be it from me to stand in his way.