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 is the best they could do for a commencement speaker?
Did they radically cut their budget for speakers’ fees this year?
No, Bill Clinton did a bang up job of debasing the presidency.
Too bad Flake’s not old enough to die soon, so we can piss on his grave after we’re done with McCain.
How long has 'faux Republican' Flake been spying on Republicans and reporting back to his DemonRat base?
Attaboy Flake-wad.
Why you’ll probably get to be the lead ass kisser, er I mean euloger at McCain’s funeral.
Wasn’t Flake one of those on the baseball field the day of the shooting? So now he’s become one of them, paling around with Commie loons who wanted him dead, okie dokie..I guess that 8 percent approval in Arizona is not rock bottom enough for him
Flake has now gone beyond stupid to totally clueless.
He has no idea that the tide has turned and his future in politics is over.
Maybe Jeb, Flake and Linda can open a Gay Bar in Florida together.
Record high employment for blacks and latinos, economy far outpacing Obama's "new normal" of 1.8% growth, North Korea close to disarming, record high median income... so much destruction...
Of course, Flake means destruction of the power of the Deep State and the Establishment, and that's what we elected Trump to do... so Flake is complaining that the voters are getting what they wanted. Brilliant!
Good thing Flake is retiring. He has become the ‘Swamp’.
Debased the presidency?
Trump returned the country to profitability, workers to jobs, businesses returned from outside the USA to resume production, ended frauds in so many “executive treaties from the Obama admin, ended country-killing regulations, restored the US to the world stage with strength and ended the globalist cabal which was leading us down.
Jeff Flake oversaw the decimation of America and the hyper-rise of an entrenched oligarchy during Obama’s years without so much as a whimper of protest.
Over/under on when Flake faces charges? I say October.
Fake Flake is perfect for Harvard.
Who are these people talking to??
Support Free Republic, Folks!
It will be a great day for Arizona when it is liberated of its two treasonous Senators for patriots.
No one likes you, Jeff.
You have no support, no constituency, no friends, nothing.
Get out, go home, drop dead, you will not be missed.
Sore loser.
Words, words, words — but never pointing to any real examples of the hyperbole they’re spewing - SO sick of it!
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