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...surprisingly, such unorthodox behavior doesn't come without cost. With tea party activists increasingly dictating the party's agenda, moderate Republicans are getting eaten by their own, and it didn't take long for some of Graham's once loyal supporters to turn on him. The Charleston County Republican Party voted unanimously last month to censure Graham on a litany of complaints. They claimed that South Carolina's senior senator "in the name of bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism." The group, closely aligned with...
Graham was elected to the House in 1994, one of 32 Republican candidates who signed on to Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. A former Air Force lawyer, Graham drew national attention in 1998 as one of the managers of the House's impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Still, in 2000, he bucked the GOP establishment's pick of George W. Bush and backed McCain in the Palmetto State primary. After Graham won his Senate seat in 2002, he and McCain became close. The Arizona senator, 73, often says Graham, 54, is like a son to him, and perhaps...
...this year, Graham has found himself a popular man with Democrats. While he wouldn't consider signing on to health care reform, he got together with Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, to co-sponsor an alternative health care bill. He crossed party lines to become the sole Republican supporter in the Judiciary Committee of Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. And he's been reaching out to Dems on social security reform and immigration - an issue expected to be tackled next year. Do a search on Congress's legislative database and more than 200 hits come...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the White House on Nov. 25 they could not rely on Democratic support for the President's plan for Afghanistan, Emanuel approached Graham. The Senator told Emanuel the troop number needed to "begin with 3" and have the backing of the generals to win Republican support. But when the 30,000-troop increase came with a withdrawal timeline, Graham was taken aback. The White House is now working to reassure him the deadline is not a hard one. Still, Graham is encouraging his colleagues to sign on. "I hope that Republicans...
...Graham's Republican colleagues have grown to trust his leadership, which is why he can boast that if he signs on to the final climate bill, several other GOP senators will follow. "I'm fairly confident that there's a point that he won't go past and there's a question of whether that's a satisfactory ending point for the debate," says Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican. Graham, after all, knows when to draw the line. Earlier this year he was the only Republican willing to work with the Administration to close Guantanamo. But when...