Did Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) really believe he was special? Did he think he was the one and only person who could sell his political soul to the Obama machine and not get thrown under it the first time it served the administration's purposes? In the past few days he has learned he's no less expendable to the president and his cronies than any incumbent Democrat who has sacrificed their career for the Obama agenda.

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Senator Graham along with Senators John Kerry (D) and Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) have been working for months on the latest "comprehensive" legislation to become part of the Obama remaking of America. Their energy and climate bill was scheduled to be unveiled Monday as bipartisan even though Senator Graham was the only allegedly Republican lawmaker likely to support it. But as he waited for his big moment to betray his party and the majority of his constituents, Senator Graham found out that Democratic leaders will push immigration reform instead of his climate bill in a desperate attempt to save their own political skins.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), trailing in polls in heavily Hispanic Nevada, has chosen to pursue legislation that would provide legal status for illegal immigrants before pushing a climate change and energy bill and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) will happily oblige. (source)

This left Senator Graham completely shocked that the same people who passed the non-stimulating stimulus, the hugely unpopular multi-trillion dollar Obamacare and are currently pushing the over-the-top financial reform bill will prioritize the Obama agenda item that best serves their ambitions, not his. "This comes out of left field,” said Mr. Graham, “I’m working as earnestly as I can to craft climate and energy independence, clean air and jobs, and now we’re being told that we're going to immigration. We haven’t done anything to prepare the body of the country for immigration." (source)

Of course like any humiliated dupe, Senator Graham resorted to the age-old impotent tactic that has done nothing to help all other dupes in history; he wrote a strongly worded letter. In his missive sent Saturday to Senate leaders, Mr. Graham said he will withdraw his support for the climate measure if Mr. Reid moves forward on immigration first. He also called Reid's apparent shift toward immigration "a cynical political ploy" that could derail months of effort on climate change. (source) If you listen very carefully you can actually hear the dismissive snorts coming from the recipients of that letter.

And so on Saturday evening, Senator Graham officially decided to walk away from Senate talks on climate change and energy legislation prompting the bill's remaining sponsors to cancel Monday’s unveiling. Senator Kerry released a statement which read in part, "Regrettably external issues have arisen that force us to postpone." (source)

Of course those "external issues" are an incompetent president who has been outworked on illegal immigration policy by the state of Arizona, a desperate majority leader with virtually no hope of keeping his job and the preposterously shocked Republican In Name Only who just found out he's not special at all.