The Socialist Left's media giants are using the current budget debate in a desperate effort to prevent another wave election by the Conservative Majority in this nation in 2014. Hurry, someone should tell Lindsey Graham

<<<<<<  If heaven looks like this clown,  I think I'll stay in Fresno.  

Lede clip out of The National Review: 

Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) today called on Representative Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to take on a leadership roll in negotiations over the government shutdown.      Speaking on ABC’s This Week, Graham told host George Stephanopoulos that he believed Ryan should partner with Speaker John Boehner to pass something “that doesn’t delay or defund [Obamacare], but would be good government.  "That’s the best thing for the Republican party and for the country,” Graham said. “But as between House and Senate Republicans, the sooner this is over, the better for us, guys.”

Editor’s notes:  This is the difference between Senators and House Representatives;  Graham and so many other Senators ultimately think they were elected to represent their best judgmentto the exclusion of the "will of the people,"   while House Representatives understand that they have a most unreliable political future if they ignore the will of those people within their districts.  Understand that members of the House are called “representatives” for a reason. 

What is “best for the Republican Party"  is a matter of opinion,  of course,  and in the House,  at least,  the opinion that really and truly matters is the will of the people.  Graham and others of his ilk (Harry Reid, John McCain, Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, and etc) will argue that ours is not a true “democracy” but,  rather,  a representative republic.  Of course,  if the people’s will is not the basis for a representative republic,  totalitarianism  is the call of the day,  and “we the people” are lost to the opinions and will of those who “know better than we.” Look,  either "we the people" are the government,  or we are not.  

If McCain and Graham and others had been elected into the House,  they probably would be working for a living in the private sector, by now, instead of running their mouths and pretending to care for Constitutional values. 

Graham and others are paying too much attention to polls taken by the Left and weighted in favor of Democrats.  At the same time,  they ignore the fact that Obama is at his lowest approval ratings, scoring a 37% in the most recent AP poll,  a number that plagued Bush 43 in 2006.  Bush did not stand alone in 2006, and,  neither does Obama.  His disapproval numbers are not only representative of the peoples dissatisfaction for him as "president" but must include the disapproval of the larger Sicialist/Progressive Party (aka "The Democrats").  

Everyone is “getting hurt,” in this current debate,  which means,  of course,  that no one is coming out of this with an advantage or a clear disadvantage. 

You should know that all the talk before this debt debate broke out,  had to do with the Dems losing big in 2014.  Of course,  most of the polling and Left wing chatter is nothing less than the Socialist/Progressives collective effort to convince America that it is their agenda that is stable and popular.  I do not believe "they" have an edge in this consideration,  but 2014 will settle the issue,  just as the midterms of 2010 put an end to similar rhetorical nonsense from the Left,  in the months before that election.  

On a personal level,  I very much like Lindsey Graham and want to believe his sincere tone is reflective of a genuine concern for the summary defeat of "big government" and more power for the executive branch,  but,  in the end,  actions define his true motivations to the disappointment of folks such as myself   . . . . . .  and the man is from conservative South Carolina!