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[thesquanderer]

22. Thank you. Turns out this entire post is misleading! Taken out of context.

Check it at 4:24. Blitzer asks, why not just let the President choose what to cut? Graham says, essentially, that's a bad idea. HE calls it a cop-out, and explains what would happen... saying that, IF that were to happen, "we" (the Republicans) will criticize everything he does, and he's using that to explain why he thinks Blitzer's suggestion of letting the President choose is a bad idea. Instead, he says, it is a bipartisan problem to solve, rather than being something to tell the President to do himself.

He's being honest in explaining what would happen, and he's also saying that he thinks, as a result, that's a bad way to go. That is very different form the impression given by the quote alone.