meager is potent

Pandering hurts. Pandering merely for large corporations is greedy and silly. Outrageous pandering we can call stupid, we can laugh, we can throw the man out.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said last night that the climate bill he helped author does not allow enough new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and that’s why he won’t support it.

“You’ll never get my vote,” he said, without more allowances for fossil fuel extraction.