LOOK AT ME!!!!! cries Lindsey Graham

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

McConnell-Graham tensions boil over

This week’s bruising leadership fight in the Senate exposed simmering tension between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), former President Trump’s closest ally in the Senate.

Graham, one of the Senate’s highest-profile Republicans, sharply criticized McConnell’s leadership of the Senate GOP conference during a private meeting this week.

He then told reporters that he voted to elect Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.) as Senate Republican leader because he thought a change was needed.

That earned Graham a sharp rebuke on Twitter Wednesday evening from Josh Holmes, McConnell’s former chief of staff and campaign manager, which some Republican senators saw as punishment for Graham criticizing McConnell’s leadership strategy during the lengthy private meeting at which Republican senators discussed why they fell short of expectations in the midterm election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-graham-tensions-boil-over/ar-AA14fU7Q

Lindsey Graham proudly votes against “gay marriage” bill and internet tells him to sit back down

The Respect for Marriage Act cleared a major hurdle last night when it was passed its first hearing in the Senate. It passed 62-37, with 12 Republicans voting for it. One GOP member who voted against it was South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham.

Graham took to Twitter to explain his reasons, saying the bill doesn’t offer enough protection for religious liberty.

“I just voted against the “Respect for Marriage Act” that is supposed to protect gay marriage without creating risks to religious freedom and religious institutions,” Graham said.

Link to tweet

“Nothing in the bill adds new protections for gay marriage, but it does, in my view, create great uncertainty about religious liberty and institutions who oppose gay marriage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lindsey-graham-proudly-votes-against-gay-marriage-bill-and-internet-tells-him-to-sit-back-down/ar-AA14ebXJ

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1. It's the Senate MINORITY Leader, not the Republican Leader

Not directed at our estimable Yo_Mama, but at the source (The Hill), buying into Republican framing. The Senate has a Majority Leader and a Minority Leader. Republicans would very much like to not be described as minority (a common desire of any number of White people, despite the inexorable demographic trends). But that's assuredly what they are: The minority. Say it. Use it. Learn to love it, Republicans.

[Lovie777]

2. It's going to be a complete clown chaos show with the crazies from the fucked up party...

I refuse to watch corporate media. I'm already sick of this shit.

The USA will equal if not surpass the UK in total embarrassment because of the Republican party. The problem tho, they are stone cold nuts and extremely violent.

[Meadowoak]

4. Lindsey probably thinks people will assume he's straight if he

Votes against gay marriage.

[edhopper]

5. I hope the fact that he has to hide who he is

and can never have an open loving relationship, eats at him everyday.