We Went Too Far, But Cut Us Some Slack

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Some classic Lindsey Graham special pleading here:

We won’t be the last political party to overplay our hand. It might happen one day on the Democratic side. And if it did, would Republicans, for the good of the country, kinda give a little? We really did go too far. We screwed up. But their response is making things worse, not better.

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