Lindsey Graham Hammers Democrats for Acting ‘Like Children’, Calls on Trump to ‘Break Them Now’ (Video)

Via Billy

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Lindsey Graham 2.0 is the greatest software upgrade in history. For those of you old enough to remember, it puts the leap from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to absolute shame.

Gone is the milquetoast functionary so convinced of his own importance that he thought he was a plausible 2016 presidential candidate and ended up getting vote percentages that needed to be expressed in scientific notation. Now — well, have you been paying attention to the news lately?

Take, for instance, Graham’s appearance on Fox News on Friday with network host Shannon Bream, as the clock ticked away the hours to the government shutdown. The old Lindsey would have dithered like it was going out of style. I can see it now: “Well, Shannon, both sides need to work together to find a solution blah blah blah we need decorum and decency blah blah blah set the tenor etc., etc., and therefore, I think we need to find some middle ground.”

Lindsey Graham 2.0: 

“Number one, when you make a promise to the American people, you should keep it,” Graham said when asked what the next steps would be.

“The one thing I like about President Trump, he is trying his best to keep his promise. He promised to build a wall, and he is going to fight hard to keep that promise. After the caravan, if you don’t see the need for more border security, you are blind.

“Here’s the problem: I think Democrats hate Trump so much they want him to lose, even though it would be good for the country to work with him on border security,” he added. “And if he doesn’t break ’em now, it’s going to be a terrible 2019. So Mr. President, dig in.”

“I don’t think I am thought of up here is some radical guy,” Graham said later in the exchange, “but if you don’t see the need for more border security, then you are just not paying attention.

“The president of the United States is right to want more money to secure our borders, to build the wall as part of border security. Democrats are wrong to act like children, to say you can’t get a penny more.”