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 presidents 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.
Trump is saving America.
Flake is a clueless, hopeless freak in love with himself. He's pathetic.
“debased the Presidency”
I.e., the President enacted policies supported by de base dat elected him.
His thesaurus is obviously his friend, too.
It was so debased after Obama that there was no place left to go. The bar was set on the bottom of the Marianas trench. The bar couldn’t possibly be set any lower.
Hasn’t CNN hired him yet?
Yeah, cuz Billy Jeff “BJ” Clinton elevated it so much ...
I couldn’t agree more.
As a Senator he’s totally worthless and as a person he’s insufferable.
Has anyone checked Flake’s computer for kiddy porn?
His approval rating is something like 11%.
No wonder Flake retired. And Trump has accomplished a great deal in spite of his attacks and attempts to defend the Swamp.
Trump has done more for conservatism than Flake and has done so by keeping his promises.
Yeah, for that he “debased” the presidency. He needs to do more of it.
MAGA will continue without Flake around to carp about it.
Hitlery rotten Clinton?
ESAD, Flake!
Well said...Flake is a slanderous POS, probably among the worst ones.
Though in politics that is the trait of those lacking the least bit of integrity.
Flakes Approval with Republicans = 10%
Nuff Said...
A perfumed fop!
Any chance when they plant McCain, they can put this hole in the same hole.
Jeff Flake
Benighted and beclowned.
Flake would NEVER have been invited to Harvard Law if he didn’t endlessly attack President Trump. How I hope AZ replaces their current Senators with two more worthy people.
I don’t blame him. Jeff is singing for his supper. There’s a market in liberal circles for turncoat Republicans. All he has to do is toe the party line, and he’ll have a stable sinecure for the rest of his life.
Really tired of that POS.
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