{"id":5293,"date":"2010-05-13T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:56:09","slug":"lindsey-graham-is-making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5293\/lindsey-graham-is-making-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham is Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I don\u2019t know if I like it.\u00a0 Usually, the younger, more effete version of John McCain likes to flash his maverick status all over controversial domestic policies by <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/04\/you_wouldnt_like_lindsey_graha.html\" target=\"_blank\">siding with Democrats<\/a> on cap-and-trade, immigration reform, and civilian trials for (some) terrorists.\u00a0 Today, though, he reminds America that, yes, he is still a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>In a blinding moment of clarity, the <em>other<\/em> Senator from South Carolina concisely \u2013 and correctly \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/news\/ap\/politics\/2010\/May\/13\/senate_panel_advances_liberal_appeals_court_pick.html \" target=\"_blank\">identified the proper route<\/a> for Ninth Circuit judicial nominee Goodwin Liu.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in the camp that you can be an active Democrat &#8230; and still sit on the bench,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;But this guy&#8217;s a bridge too far for me. He should take those views and run for office.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from a Republican who voted for Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor!\u00a0 To be fair, perhaps if Sotomayor where on record as identifying constitutional rights to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/bench-memos\/49264\/ninth-circuit-nominee-goodwin-liu-constitutional-welfare-rights-part-1\/ed-whelan \" target=\"_blank\">education, shelter, subsistence, health and the like<\/a>, or to the money these things cost,\u201d or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/bench-memos\/49221\/goodwin-liu-racial-quotas-forever\/ed-whelan \" target=\"_blank\">imposing perpetual racial quotas<\/a>, maybe Graham would have voted no on her too.<\/p>\n<p>Graham&#8217;s criticism is a perfectly stated counterargument for the Leftist lawyers and judges who think the courts are where laws are made.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not.\u00a0 Reading the Constitution, Article I, clears that up.\u00a0 If Professor Liu really wants to &#8220;change&#8221; America through law, he should saddle up and challenge Senator Diana Feinstein when she&#8217;s up for reelection.\u00a0 Otherwise, stick to writing academic thought pieces at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos, Senator Graham; who knew you had it in you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I don\u2019t know if I like it.\u00a0 Usually, the younger, more effete version of John McCain likes to flash his maverick status all over controversial domestic policies by siding with Democrats on cap-and-trade, immigration reform, and civilian trials for (some) terrorists.\u00a0 Today, though, he reminds America that, yes, he is still a Republican. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,850,1177,1274,1272,92],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-constitution","tag-judicial-nominee","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-ninth-circuit","tag-south-carolina","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}