Lindsey Graham, the man with the portable fainting couch, is worried once again, this time about Chuck Hagel and his “disturbing” performance before the McCarthyite crackpots on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and about the state of the world, which Lindsey finds dark and ominous, with bustling in all the hedgerows, and filled with low growling from the underbrush. To borrow a line from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, give us this day our daily dread, senator.

When asked whether he’d filibuster a Hagel confirmation, Graham said: “I’m going to try to make sure that I get all the information - he made 15 speeches for money, I want to know what he said. I want to get all the information available to us so we can make an informed decision. But I can tell you this, I’ve never seen the world more dangerous than it is now.”

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