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.
Flake must be on Brennan’s speed dial.
You nailed it and nailed it good.
The only debasing of the presidency here has been by Flake.
(S)he’s running scared, like the rest of them. Esp Brennan and The Clap
jeff flake has “debased” humanity. What a step backward in evolution.
Flake the flake, he should just go out to the desert and talk to the cacti.
“Brigham Young University screwed with Flake’s mind.”
LDS
Shut yer lyin yap, Flake.
Can we give Arizona back to Mexico?
Obvious no resident has a clue who they are voting for.
“When is my T time?”
....says the bitter Butt Boy of McCain, 18 percent approval rating in Arizona. LMAO
A pack of rabid Dobermans, just after they got finished with Songbird...
I'll bet there's video of Flake fellating Al "Caveman" Green's bunghole...
Commencements are nothing but Democrat rallies.
Exactly.
Brennan keeps Flake in a box in the basement, just like in Pulp Fiction...
Flake is becoming an excellent barometer of how Trump is doing. The more flake complains means the better Trump is doing. MAGA!
Flake’s approval with traitors trying to overthrow a duly and legally elected POTUS - %95.
What, and ostracize Foam Boy?
You know, as a South Carolinian I am constantly ashamed that my state continues to send that weasel Linda Graham to the Senate, but then I think Arizona has a lot to apologize for also. Not only Flake but McCain.
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