Graham Will Hand Judiciary Chair To Grassley | Talking Points Memo

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The next Congress is already shaping up to be different.

According to a Politico report Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will hand back the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee back to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in the next Congress. Graham had taken over the Senate Judiciary earlier this year after Grassley left to head up the Senate Finance Committee.

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Musical senatorial fainting couches…

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Must be difficult getting through a revolving door while one’s nose is affixed to a giant orange ass. Or giant orange backside. But I repeat myself.

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What if he’s dead by then?

“Love Chuck Grassley. That’s the way the Senate works,” Graham told Politico. “He took the Finance Committee so I could be chairman, and he’ll come back and fill out his time, and I’ll come back, and somebody else will come along.”

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I miss Bruce Braley.

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So a lawyer law school graduate who never practiced law will cede the judiciary chair to a farmer who doesn’t farm, because “That’s the way the Senate works.”

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At least Grassley was around when they wrote the Constitution.

That’s gotta count for something, right?

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Sure, why not? Get credit for something that’s actually meaningless because it appears more and more likely Dems will sweep the next election.

And what chairmanship would Lindsay get in the next Congress?

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He is one of the foundering fathers

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The Lawn Chair.

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“That assumes Republicans maintain control of the upper chamber after the election.”

And that Lindsey gets re-elected.

And that he’s not in jail.

Or drunkenly belting out show tunes three nights a week at the Myrtle Beach Amateur Playhouse.

(Plus two matinees on weekends.)

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And I, Miss Lindsey Graham. Pleased to meet you. Charmed, in fact…

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He was there when Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper.

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Grim…

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Ruh-roh. You started it. Cue @playitagainrowlf and @castor_troy :man_facepalming:

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Hell, he was there when Cyrus the Great freed the Hebrews from the the Babylonian captivity.

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" Graham Plans To Hand Senate Judiciary Chairmanship Back To Grassley"

“That assumes Republicans maintain control of the upper chamber after the election.”

"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Herb Brody "
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OT. This is insane. Whoever did this should be prosecuted.

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Heh. Larry Clayman vows to appeal. Someone tell him about the legend of Sisyphus.

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Boxes as empty as their rhetoric.

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