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What did you think about Lindsey Graham and his yelling at the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee? He was very passionate, but should he have been that way or was what he did and said, okay?

I think it was all an act—Kavanaugh’s anger, as well. Trump complained after Kavanaugh’s Fox appearance that Kavanaugh was too nice, too well-mannered, not sufficiently passionate in his own defense.Kavanaugh obviously took Trump’s criticism to heart and I believe Trump share this view with Graham, who decided to do the same. The result was this hyperbole about Democratic ambushes, etc. It was all fake, a performance meant for the electorate, especially the base.My evidence? It’s gone today. Lindsey is grinning and happy. No one is angry with anyone. No one is claiming conspiracy or ambush. That’s because Jeff Flake, in one last courageous gesture, stuck a pin in the balloon.“Kavanaugh won’t get confirmed without me (and my friends Murkowski, Collins and Manchin).” Flake said, in essence. “And we won’t vote for him if we don’t get a one-week FBI investigation of Kavanaugh’s accusers.”That stopped everything—but in particular, it stopped the rush to confirm Kavanaugh. In fact, it made confirmation impossible—unless the GOP surrendered to Flake, not to mention the Democrats who agreed with him.And so the deal was struck. The FBI was back on the job. And everyone was friends again. Oh wait, one person probably wasn’t enjoying the collegiality: Brett Kavanaugh, who had quailed at the suggestion of re-involving the FBI.Poor Judge Kavanagh knows better than anyone else what the FBI is likely to find. I wonder if he’s going to stick around long enough to let the FBI complete and deliver its report. Maybe this would be a good time to say, “I’ve decided to withdraw my nomination. It’s been very divisive and I think I want to spend more time with my family. But I will be forever grateful (like hell!) to the President for nominating me.”

What's your view on Lindsey Graham's request that FBI give a briefing to the panel about Roger Stone arrest?

Yet another example of Lindsey Graham toadying up to Donald Trump, flattering him with praise and stroking his ego. Graham is pursuing a similar path over the Wall, encouraging Trump to declare a national emergency to get the funding. Graham’s critics argue that Graham is putting access to power over principle, and that Graham’s longtime best friend in the Senate, John McCain, must be rolling over in his grave. But others might claim that he is trying to serve his country in the only way he can by helping guide and restrain an inexperienced and mercurial president.Donald Trump is president, and presidents can, and will, make decisions that affect millions of people. When Trump first came into office his administration was stocked with a number of experienced administrators, politicians, and generals. Reince Preibus, Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn, Don McGahn, General H.R. McMaster, General John Kelly, General James Mattis, and even Jeff Sessions. These were the adults in the room, guardrails to help ensure the neophyte president would not drive the country into the ditch.All of these adults in the room are gone, resigned or fired. All of them and Trump is without any adviser of stature.My impression is that Lindsey Graham sees this and has decided to take a bullet for Team America and try to help guide Trump along a stable and gentle course of governing. Or at least a more stable and a more gentle course.Graham’s strategy, it appears, is to flatter Trump, to encourage his excesses when they are not important, and to redirect them into less harmful directions when important. This request to have the FBI give a briefing on Stone’s arrest is a great example of this strategy. Realistically there is no cost to having the FBI give a briefing, but by pushing for that briefing Graham proves his loyalty to Trump.Perhaps one might argue that Graham is doing nothing more than enabling Trump, but on the other hand, Trump has no senior advisers in his administration. It is probably a very good thing that Graham is making an effort to provide counsel to the president.

Are Republicans at least privately concerned about Russian interference with our election?

I’m gonna have to stop you here. There was a Mossad investigation into the claims that “Russia hacked the DNC” and it turns out they found evidence that The DNC was not hacked by Russia ( Israeli intel: Russia didn't hack the DNC -- Sott.net). Also, Julian Assange (the leader of Wikileaks) has said that the insider within The DNC that leaked the e-mails wasn’t Russian at all (Julian Assange associate: It was a leak, not a hack and the DNC insider is NOT Russian). Why is there so much blame placed on Russia as opposed to The DNC? How they were warned time and time again to “secure their networks” while the request landed on deaf ears? Maybe The DNC should learn basic Cyber Security measures so that way they’re not “hacked” and maybe while they’re at it they need to find The “Clinton Mafia” and put them to work on assassinating people who may leak e-mails (or simply have them “mysteriously” die). Why can’t you (and most others in The Democratic Party) admit that there was also a failure on The DNC’s part to keep themselves secure? Why didn’t they think of the idea of an insider leaking their e-mails? Surely the “all mighty Elitist Democrat Party” shouldn’t be as “stupid” as their “plebs”. Surely.

Is Trump's new Attorney General appointment worrying the Senate that Trump is using his temporary appt. policy to bypass the Senate?

No, the Republicans in the Senate love him. I heard Lindsey Graham say so today, so you know he’s a fine upstanding man. After all, he has said that judges should have a Biblical (New Testament, so I guess stoning is out) point of view, and the constitution should be supplanted by his interpretation of Biblical law. I thought I read something about separation of church and state once, but I must have been dreaming.Now, Whitaker prosecuted/persecuted a gay Senator, when he in Iowa, so Lindsey might want to be seen with a woman now and again.What I want to know is what is the mechanism by which John McCain died, and simultaneously, Lindsey Graham’s spine was removed and he became a Trump sycophant. I feel if we could harness that power, we could use it for good, you know?

Would those Republicans who spoke out against Trump in 2016 turn against him and initiate his impeachment in 2017?

We may see a little backbone, still, from Lindsey Graham and John McCain, in terms of Republicans in the Senate. In fact, the fate of our republic may hang on how much backbone those guys are willing to show … I think Kasich still finds Trump distasteful, and that’s why he didn’t want to be his VP. The others have all caved to Trump. They let all those cabinet nominees who were grossly unqualified, and often outright hostile to the jobs Trump chose them to do, go sailing through, and confirmed them. Republicans believe in hierarchy; they are intimidated by Trump, and roll over for the alpha dog, and most don’t seem bothered when he acts like a king or dictator, not a president. And they’ll get what they want; they’ll get to deregulate everything, to get rid of vital government programs, cut taxes for their rich sponsors, allow banks, big business, big fossil fuel companies and so on to pollute and to cheat people with impunity; they’ll pass bills that are anti-women, anti-gay and anti-anyone who isn’t a Christian Fundamentalist, they’ll be able to suppress the vote of people who don’t support them with far more freedom than before …So, what do they care if Trump pushes bigoted, unconstitutional policies, and if he lies every time he speaks, and if he is owned outright by Putin and Russia? Do you really expect Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to do their jobs and properly investigate evidence of corruption, criminal negligence and incompetence, subversion and treason?Rand Paul, supposedly his own man and a person of principle, has come right out and said it doesn’t make sense for Republicans to investigate a Republican who allows them to destroy the ACA:Rand Paul: 'Makes no sense' for Republicans to investigate TrumpEven Graham and McCain probably won’t push back too hard against Trump.Here is a song of mine which is not in my voice; it’s meant to be the little whispering voice currently filling the ears of all these men: