Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said something that made a hell of a lot of sense the other day, when addressing a town hall meeting which apparently for some reason we’re still having. A question was posed to him about his work on a climate change bill with John Kerry, and he had this to say in response:

I think the planet is heating up. I think CO2 emissions are damaging the environment and this dependence on foreign oil is a natural disaster in the making. Let’s do something about it. I’d like to solve a problem, and if it’s on President Obama’s watch, it doesn’t bother me one bit if it makes the country better off.

Whoa, what the hell? Is this a Republican….willing to be….bipartisan? Is it April Fool’s Day or something?

Well, no, it turns out, Lindsey Graham actually has had a blinding revelation of logic, and understands that if something is good for the country (like helping the environment and getting us off of our addiction to foreign oil) then it’s worth doing, no matter who the president is at the time.

But lo and behold, the slash and burn politics of the Republican Party have isolated and destroyed Graham for his answer, because of course we all know, the Earth can go **** itself and a real American drinks oil with their cereal in the morning.

Here are the kinds of things conservatives have been saying about Graham:

Liberty Journal: Vote out the traitors who seek control of you with the use of your money paid in the form of taxes.

Michelle Malkin: God save us from bipartisanship.

Gateway Pundit: Senator Graham is a disgrace.

Ross Kaminsky: Lindsey Graham is little more than Barack Obama’s useful idiot, a man who clearly has no interest in the scientific data and who is so desirous of “doing something” that he barely cares what it is he gets done.

Dan Riehl: Why does SC continue to re-elect this doofus with a bad haircut?

Bruce Tyson: The RINO traitor to all that is right, just, and good, South Carolina’s own Lindesey Graham [sic] has done it again: this time siding with John Kerry on climate change fraud.

Mark Harvey: Just like McCain, Lindsey Graham is actually a DIG, a democrat in drag.

Pamela Gellar: Any Republican who signs off on the bankrupting of America vis a vis junk science climate change legislation is a traitor. Lindsey Graham is an asshat.

Yes, wanting to reach across the aisle to help our country makes you AN ASSHAT. Good f*cking lord, NOW I understand why there are so few Republicans willing to use their brains for two seconds, if they do so, the rest of their party will devour them like a $72 filet.

Well f*ck them, and bra-vo Lindsey Graham, for having more balls than your name and voice would suggest.

[via ThinkProgress]