Graham: Obama’s “Bitch?”

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO – S.C.) is portrayed as a loyal and faithful dog to President Barack Obama in a funny new cartoon published by the folks at GetLiberty.org.

We were forwarded the cartoon from several sources yesterday, including one anonymous Lindsey supporter who tersely informed us that “Senator Graham’s detractors have gone too far this time.”

Really? Because frankly, we don’t think they went far enough.  In fact, we’d have put some low-hanging nipples on that dog and called the cartoon “Obama’s bitch.”

But that’s just us …

More to the point, the cartoon was accompanied by a scathing oped excoriating Graham for his support of a massive new energy tax known as “Cap and Trade.” The column, written by GetLiberty’s Carter Clews, refers to Graham as “The Watermelon Man,” because he’s “green on the outside, pink on the inside.”

Wait … do they mean “pink” like a communist? Or “pink” like … you know … never mind.

Anyway, from Get Liberty:

It is almost impossible to overstate the damage Graham has done across the board by sleeping with the enemy on this draconian socialistic measure. Not only has he increased the chances of the once-moribund bill’s passage by giving it bipartisan cover, he has also served notice on the American people that he has now become nothing more than a carbon-obsessed copy of all that he once pretended to oppose.

Like Marley’s Ghost, cap and trade was dead. Average, everyday Americans knew that it was government control in extremis. That it would give the greedy, grasping Washington political elite despotic dominion over the very air we breathe – and empower them to exact an onerous tax on every breath we take.

So, they told the politicians to back off, to stop scaring the children with dumbed-up stories about the earth on the brink of a fiery demise, and to cease making believe the carbon extant since the beginning of time had somehow transmogrified itself into the Deadly Creature from the Industrial Lagoon.

For once, the politicians, ever fearful of losing their plush offices and lavish perks, listened.

Of course, then along came Graham and his willingness to “reach across the aisle” in a “bipartisan spirit” to “get things done.”

Again, we applaud reaching across the aisle, working in the spirit of bipartisanship and getting things done … if the “thing” getting done is worthwhile.

People often forget, though, that these terms represent totally amoral concepts which derive their worth (or worthlessness) based on the end objective being sought.

In this case, the end objective could result in a $4,000 annual increase on the average American family’s energy bills – all while costing thousands of jobs and failing to achieve any reduction whatsoever in global emissions.

Does any of that sound worthwhile? Of course not …

Accordingly, in this case “reaching across the aisle” in a “bipartisan spirit” to “get things done” is not something to be praised, it’s something to be criticized mercilessly … even to the point of making someone “your bitch.”

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Artwork: William Warren