Things are gettin' heated up har in the Upstate. Dan Hoover covers the goings on after the Greenville GOP's censure of Graham. Looks like Spartanburg County Chairman Rick Beltram is calling them out:

Beltram has suggested that no quorum existed and a voice vote shouldn’t have been allowed on a matter of that import.
“Heck no! That’s not a slam at Samuel, he’s new,” Beltram said of Greenville chairman Samuel Harms who presided over the meeting.

For his part, Harms, who’s an attorney, says he’s not going to get into a feud with Beltram and dismisses it as "a total non-issue" with the aroma of a red herring. “He may be trying to tell us how to run our meetings, but I’m not going to tell him how to run his,” Harms said this afternoon.

James Pinkerton has a great piece on the latest in immigration news and devotes quite a bit of ink to our pal Lindsey:

In June, Graham said of the doomed immigration bill, "This is the last, best chance we'll have as a Congress." The lawmaker's argument to conservatives was that the only way to get better border enforcement through a Democratic-controlled Congress was by coupling it with amnesty for illegal immigrants. But that wasn't true at all - as Graham himself demonstrated just weeks later when, eyeing his own re-election needs, he co-sponsored an extra $3 billion for border-enforcement and wall-building without any reference to amnesty of "guest workers." That item passed the Senate 89-1; it will soon be law. 

June: "This is the last, best chance we'll have as a Congress."

July: "I think we're going to find more success that could not have been achieved without the prior debate" 

Ahh, the smell of sincerity... 

From the The Times Examiner:

A resolution proposed by Chris Golden would have asked Sen. Lindsey Graham to resign as a member of the Republican Party, and not seek the Republican Party nomination for the United States Senate or any other office in the future.
After extended debate, the resolution passed with an amendment that was a compromise between the original strong resolution and a much weaker one. 

 Mostly just a slap here, but it's still nice to see state party members stand up to Lindsey.

 SCHotline has a copy of the first mailpiece sent out from Graham's campaign. One of his selling points: stronger border security!!!! Way to make lemonade out of a pile of.... 

 Failure is good in the land of Lindsey. He's now attempting to tie in the failure of the Amnesty bill with the border security amendment in the pork laden Homeland Security bill (which still faces a veto from President Bush).

The Shot has a good piece on Graham's spin (although I disagree that he will be able to redeem himself on this - you can't screw us on the job and then make nicey-nice on a run-up to an election).