Graham: GOP has no one 'to blame but ourselves'

This is probably the first time that I have ever agreed with Sen. Graham. The Republicans bit off more than it can chew. It banked on the President being eager to make a deal. They thought this situation was like last winter. They would talk tough, try to bully the President and he would cave to make a deal quickly.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham conceded Wednesday that he and his fellow Republicans are now eating their own words as they try to convince the country they are working to stave off a federal default.

“Our problem is we made a big deal about this for three months. How many Republicans have been on TV saying, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit.’ You know, Mitch [McConnell] says, ‘I’m not going to raise the debt limit unless we talk about Medicare.’ And I’ve said I’m not going to raise the debt limit until we do something about spending and entitlements.’ So we’ve got nobody to blame but ourselves,” Graham told reporters after a GOP caucus lunch.

“We shouldn’t have said that if we didn’t mean it.”

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