Illness, death and turmoil change face of GOP Senate

One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortunate important person’s job. So it is with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, whose death set off an immediate “frenzy” of guessing who would fill his post both in the short and long term.