Lindsey Graham: Immigration must be tabled|Politico
Immigration
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday professed the administration’s admiration and affection for GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and added: “I don’t know the degree to which that has complicated his life.”
Here’s a hint: Back home in South Carolina, Graham has been censured by multiple Republican county committees for his work on energy reform, immigration and other presidential priorities, and some detractors are pushing to have every GOP committee in the state issue similar rebukes. That helps explain why he reacted so sharply Friday to news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House wanted to move immigration reform — legislation that hasn’t even been written — onto the Senate calendar before a climate bill that Graham, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) were to unveil Monday. Graham had even tougher talking points late Monday: He emerged from a closed-door meeting with Kerry and Lieberman to say that immigration must be tabled altogether before he will agree to back any energy bill this year.
