Let me say up front that I would rather have Lindsey Graham in the United States Senate than any Democrat, especially the clown he defeated last time who is now the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (liberals are failing). Jamie Harrison is a racist piece of trash on top of being an idiot who would do anything the White House told him to. Graham is many things, one of which is significantly better than Harrison in every way. But he is far from perfect and is getting further away from it every day.
When John McCain was alive, Lindsey Graham followed him around like a puppy and did everything he could to emulate him. When McCain died, Graham was a little lost and clung to President Donald Trump. Since Trump left office, Graham has been a little lost—desperate to be relevant and get media attention, while trying to appease his progressive instincts to “do something” on domestic issues and embracing any prospect of war because it was the only constant in his career.
In this attempt to “mean” and “do something,” Senator Graham this week proposed creating a “new regulatory agency” to license companies like Twitter. As awful as these tech companies are and may be, the idea of a recent regulatory agency is worse. Isn’t there anything that could be repurposed? Graham doesn’t even toss around the idea of eliminating one or more existing agencies that have outlived their usefulness and reforming them to deal with it, leaving aside the idea of the federal government licensing these companies. I might look favorably on this if it involved eliminating existing jobs by a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of creating recent ones, something that would at least shrink government a little. But that’s not part of it.
Graham’s statement on this recent agency includes “cooperation” with Senator Elizabeth Warrenand there’s no way she’ll ever allow for smaller government or anything even remotely good. How lost do you have to be to think Warren is an ally?
But working with a liberal from Massachusetts isn’t the biggest problem Graham has created this week. For reasons unknown, since he’s not in this cycle, Graham has decided to undermine the conservative argument against overturning Roe v. Wade and enacting a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks.
You may agree with the sentiment, but the execution is a terrible idea. First, it gives the left something to harass Republican candidates from coast to coast on this issue. While that might work well in a Georgia Senate race, it might be a different outcome in Pennsylvania or Ohio. Each campaign needs to be free to do whatever it thinks best, they don’t need some jackass in DC calling the shots and arming their opponents. Now everyone will have to respond to Graham’s proposal multiple times.
Second, the conservative argument against Roe in a nutshell was that it was terribly decided and if it were overturned, abortion would not be banned but would go back to the states. Democrats want to federalize abortion in law, Republicans wanted to leave it to the states. The Lindsey Graham Act gives Democrats the point of view that this is a problem for the federal government.
A 15-week ban would legalize abortion nationwide up to that point, fulfilling Democrat demands by usurping power from the states to the feds. What’s the point? Don’t give me the morality argument, we’re not dealing with morality, we’re dealing with the Constitution.
Murder is not a federal crime, it’s a state crime. States should be able to decide their own laws on most things, including abortion. If you want to make it illegal, it’s a lot easier to do it at the state level than at the national level. We just won the concept of federalism on abortion, and Lindsay Graham came in and bombed it. Why?
Here’s the real question: Why now? There’s no good answer, or at least no rational one.
The only thing I can think of is that without someone to suck up to, Graham is going back to his McCain roots. There is something to be said for rocking the boat, but it should only be done when the boat needs to be rocked. Doing it for attention or lack of self-control is not a good reason. Despite the applause he receives from some quarters, his actions are causing harm to others. He either doesn’t know or doesn’t care, and for that reason he is an idiot.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host daily national radio programand the author of the book, Outrage, INC.who exposes how liberals employ fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and hosts the weekly “F*cking Week in Review”a podcast where the news is presented the way it deserves. Follow him on Twitter: @DerekAHunter.
