Washington (CNN) -- A climate-change bill that was scheduled to be unveiled at a news conference Monday is now up in the air after Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina walked out of talks.
Graham had worked with Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, independent from Connecticut, to unveil details of their "tri-partisan" climate-change legislation.
But Graham declared Saturday that he was walking out of talks because of Democratic efforts to bring up an immigration reform package.
"Moving forward on immigration -- in this hurried, panicked manner -- is nothing more than a cynical political ploy," Graham wrote in a sharply-worded letter sent to business, religious and conservation leaders that he has been working with on the climate-change legislation.
This is all to typical of Congressional behavior. Here we have Senator Graham, who rather sensibly worked with his colleagues on a very important issue for America, deciding that since everyone else won't play by his rules he'll just kill the whole effort. It strikes me as rather like a kid getting in a snit and taking his ball and going home so no one can play!
Common sense suggests that it's long past time for our Congressmen to grow up and behave like adults that care about the countries needs. But hey, that's just a common sense adult view, not a political view!
With a nod to Thomas Paine, Baron d'Holbach, and "Captain Obvious" perspectives on what should be, but remarkably often isn't, obvious common sense.
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