Posted on 05/23/2018 2:42:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took aim at President Trump on Wednesday, saying the president has "debased" the office with his "bottomless appetite for destruction and degradation."
“Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division, and only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works" Flake said in a commencement address to Harvard Law School graduates, according to prewritten remarks.
“Our Article I branch of government, the Congress (that's me), is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily,” Flake continued.
The Republican senator went on to say that the country's strongest enemies could not hurt the U.S. more than "we are hurting ourselves," concluding that "we may have hit bottom."
Flake also criticized Trump for his continuing attacks on the media and what he views to be the president’s willingness to indulge and encourage “our very worst impulses.”
“When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that does not suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” Flake said.
Flake said his criticism of the president makes him no less Republican; instead, he called it an act of patriotic loyalty. The senator, who has gone after Trump in a number of recent speeches, has voted in line with Trump 84 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight — one of the lowest percentages for Senate Republicans.
“My sounding this alarm against the government that was elected, under the Republican banner, and that calls itself conservative, makes me no less Republican or conservative,” Flake said. “And opposing the president and much of what he stands for is not an act of apostasy. It is, rather, an act of fidelity.”
Flake announced last year that he would retire in January after finishing one term in the Senate.
He reports back to his NeverTrumper, backstabbing Rinos. I pray that McConnell and Ryan are replaced by conservatives. It looks like Jim Jordan has at least one hundred reps behind him. That’s a miracle.
Specificity is your friend, Jeff.
More Flake News.
Absolutely! Worth repeating.
Yes, it would be great to actually have the leadership of the Senate and House on our side for the first time in 100 years or more.
Annoying gnat.
Harvard Law? Any anti-Trump figure would do.
Self-centered Jeff Flake has debased himself and the Rhino Republican Party. I don’t think he has standing to complain about anyone else. His narcissism blinds him to good actions taken by others.
Bump!
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Jeff Flake has debased the congress.
The biggest scandal in the U.S. government since ‘63 is exploding and he’s worried about Trump’s manners?
Jeff Flake should know when to shut up. He is just making a bigger ass of himself with statements like this.
Jeff Flake has debased the Senate while carrying out the commands of the Quorum of the 12.
What Senator Flake has said about President Trump is almost identical to what future Senator Romney has said about President Trump.
The status quo is in effect. Gain a Romney and lose a Flake.
I hadn’t heard from this miserable piece of sh*t for a while.
Ahhhhhh, blessed silence!
Flake could win the Presidency himself . . . if the voters were all students at Harvard Law and if there was no Dem candidate opposing him.
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Ironic, since it is Flake that spends his entire time bitching and moaning. He adds nothing to the Senate, Arizona, or the world. He is a constant negative. The world would have been a better place had he never been born.
Flake is a “gross ignoramus”. That is a technical term, meaning that he is 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
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