New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/magazine/04graham-t.html?_r=2
Lindsey Graham, This Year’s Maverick
June 28, 2010
Caption: Graham in his Senate office. His
bipartisanship on divisive issues has made him a pariah among
some Republicans.
By ROBERT DRAPER
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“He’s the one that has that prop of your legs sticking out of a toilet in the back of his truck,” Cato added helpfully.
Graham turned away from the window. A large red flea bite, acquired during a recent trip to Afghanistan, sat aglow just to the right of his nose. “Is he running as a Republican?” he asked. Cato affirmed that Kibler was.
“Who’s running against him?” Graham asked.
“Fred Payne. He’s the incumbent.”
“O.K. Tell Fred, anything I can do, I’ll do.”
Graham is not a morning person, but at that hour in May he was thoroughly revved up, despite eating only a pack of crackers for breakfast. Big issues rattle from his brain and out of his inert, somewhat glassy-eyed face as if dispensed by a gum-ball machine. Among these was the Kerry-Lieberman climate-change bill — or “energy independence” bill, as he preferred to call it for the sake of attracting conservative support.
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