Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is single-handedly trying to stop the U.S. Senate from putting its head further up its collective ass.

Read what Dana Milbank called “Graham’s penetrating indictment of the tribal logic that has overtaken his colleagues,” while explaining his yes vote for Supreme Court Elena Kagan.

“I think there’s a good reason for a conservative to vote yes, and that’s provided in the Constitution itself. The Senate should have a special and strong reason for the denial of confirmation [such as] to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from family connection, from personal attachment and from a view to popularity.”

“Seventy-three of the 126 Supreme Court nominations, were done without roll-call votes. Something’s changing when it comes to the advice-and-consent clause. . . . The question I have for the body: Are we living in an age of legislative activism where the words haven’t changed in the last 200 years, but certainly the voting patterns are?”

“No one spent more time trying to beat President Obama than I did, except maybe Senator McCain.” “[But] President Obama won. The Constitution in my view puts a requirement on me as a senator to not replace my judgment for his, not to think of the 100 reasons I would pick somebody differently or pick a fight with Ms. Kagan.”

“Objectively speaking, things are changing, and they’re unnerving to me. [It is] our obligation to honor elections. It would not have been someone I would have chosen, but the person who did choose, President Obama, I think chose wisely.”

Senator Graham at 5′ 7″ is the biggest man in the Senate, not because he voted for Ms. Kagan but why.