Graham Unloads: ‘This Is The Most Unethical Sham Since I’ve Been In Politics!’

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27:  Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shouts while questioning Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was called back to testify about claims by Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shouts while questioning Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office B... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) shouts while questioning Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was called back to testify about claims by Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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A livid Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) disregarded the Republicans’ attorney to speak himself, shouting that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has “nothing to apologize for” in the “most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics.”

“This is hell!” he yelled, saying that the Democrats are comparing Kavanaugh to Bill Cosby.

“You’re supposed to be Bill Cosby when you’re a junior and senior in high school, and all of a sudden you got over it,” Graham asked with incredulity. “It’s been my understanding that if you drug women and rape them for two years in high school, you probably don’t stop.”

He went on to attest for Kavanaugh’s integrity, calling him the “nicest person.”

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  1. Graham Unloads: ‘This Is The Most Unethical Sham Since
    I’ve Been In Politics!’

    Oh really? Did’ja ever hear of Merrick Garland and how
    McConnell would not let a sitting duly elected President nominate someone to
    the bench because “they were in their last year of their term”? How’s that
    for unethical?
    Lindsey boy, you need to calm yourself dear heart.

  2. The histrionics from this clown are pathetic. Clown college here thinks he can talk about ETHICS?

    MERRICK EFFING GARLAND

  3. Lindsey, two melt downs in a day is two too many.

  4. Tell me again about how women are too emotional to hold high office.

  5. Avatar for jcs jcs says:

    The belligerence and anger on display by Kavanaugh, the belligerence we read about from others, and this diatribe full of rage by Graham is so disturbing. Kavanaugh should not be seated on SCOTUS. He far too partisan and full of rage on full display today and also in his work while on K. Starr’s disgraceful committee and his court decisions against women and indigence peoples.

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