A Bipartisan Mirage
The slippery style of Lindsey Graham.
Alex Brandon / AP


Only a few senators could have pulled off what Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, did last week: -snagging major airtime at two high-profile confirmation hearings, seemingly at the same time. Graham was so busy shuttling between office buildings, in fact, that he missed a White House meeting on redesigning an energy bill.

Over the next two weeks, he’ll keep moving on a fact-finding trip to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel with his best bros, Sens. Joe Lieberman and John McCain. As leading advocates for our vast military involvement in the region, they will have maximum access, of course. But Graham will go the others one better. He is a judge advocate in the Air Force Reserves and will be on “active dutyâ€