Senator Lindsey Graham, on ABC‘s “This Week“:

When it comes to health care, he’s been tone-deaf, he’s been arrogant and they’re pushing a legislative proposal and a way to that legislative proposal that’s going to destroy the ability of this country to work together for a very long time.

The “he”, of course, is President Obama. Everyone knows that he’s the tone-deaf, arrogant one.

The “way to that legislative proposal”, equally clearly, is reconciliation. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, the proper dictionary definition at this point in political time would be: “What binds our wounds and brings us together when used as intended (i.e., by Republicans); what tears us asunder and destroys our ability when perverted (i.e., used by Democrats).”

What’s more puzzling is which “ability of this country to work together” Lindsey could be referring to. Surely he couldn’t mean the ability that was ceremoniously killed off by the Republican party just as soon as the tone-deaf, arrogant one assumed the presidency? The ability that was very publicly ripped to shreds by Senate Republicans when they a) insisted on filibustering every single significant piece of legislation that came up, triggering an unprecedented number of cloture votes, and b) marched in lockstep to vote unanimously against cloture in an almost unending series of cloture votes (with many Republican Senators voting down ideas and proposals they themselves had come up with or unambiguously supported in the past).

No, wait, now I get it! Obama’s going to exhume that dead body and put it to death again? What kind of man does that? No respect even for the dead? Words like “truly arrogant” and “tone-deaf” are too mild, aren’t they? But that’s just the southern gentleman in Lindsey Graham. He just can’t bring himself to call even his enemies what they truly deserve to be called.