A Dream Day at The Beach

BY MIKE MAGEE Senator Lindsey Graham (R.,S.C.) is on summer recess. A consummate professional politician, and war hardened lawyer, Sen. Graham has made a career out of flipping on a dime. His moral calculus has been flexible enough to wiggle and weave, and switch sides if cornered.  In a dream, I caught a glimpse of him reading on one of his state’s beautiful beaches. He was juggling a weighty 1215 page classic – Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace” in one hand, and a yellow highlight marker in the other. He looked a bit on edge, maybe because this week a federal judge refused to block a subpoena seeking his testimony for a Fulton County, Georgia, Grand Jury probe into efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his potential state Republican “alternate electors” to overturn Georgia’s Biden victory in the 2020 election. When he hit the water to cool off, his book was just sitting there on a Polo beach blanket.  I couldn’t help but notice the MAGA bookmark – it’s was on page 1133 with these words highlighted:  “Chance made the situation; genius profited from it”, and a Lindsey’s scribbled notation “IMPORTANT.” Judging from the heavy highlighting, it seems Lindsey had been carefully rereading a tattered personal copy, and OCD’s on Tolstoy’s Epilogue, pages 1131 to 1136. They’re yellow marker heaven. Lindsey is obviously looking for some insight how to manage his current predicament in Tols...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Policy Politics 2020 Election Donald Trump Lindsay Graham Mike Magee Source Type: blogs