Posted on 10/01/2018 11:22:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Flake: “Not A Chance” I Would Have Agreed To Reopen Kavanaugh FBI Background Check If I Was Running For Re-Election
Call this a Captain Obvious moment in last night’s joint interview on 60 Minutes. Jeff Flake joined his Gang of Two colleague Chris Coons to celebrate bipartisanship in the form of a one-week delay on Brett Kavanaugh’s final confirmation vote. Flake, who will retire from the Senate at the end of the year, laments that there is no incentive to reach across the aisle anymore, and that if he had to stand for election he never would have done it:
60 Minutes ✔ @60Minutes Could Senator Jeff Flake have pushed for compromise in the Kavanaugh confirmation process if he were up for re-election? 7:01 PM - Sep 30, 2018 188 216 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy
Scott Pelley: Senator Flake, you’ve announced that you’re not running for re-election and I wonder, could you have done this, if you were running for re-election?
Sen. Jeff Flake: No, not a chance.
Scott Pelley: Not a chance?
Sen. Jeff Flake: No, no.
Scott Pelley: Because politics has become too sharp, too partisan?
Sen. Jeff Flake: There’s no value to reaching across the aisle. There’s no currency for that anymore. There’s no incentive.
There’s actually an argument to be made for that, but curiously, the interview never follows up on that exchange. Flake’s hardly the first member of Congress to lament a lack of compromise and good faith on Capitol Hill; the late John McCain made that a theme of his later career. Voters complain about gridlock almost as often as they complain about compromise, although they tend to blame their political opponents for the former and their allies for the latter in most cases.
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Changing the rules could have been blocked with procedural rules and would take more than a week.
Much too graphic, but whatever it takes.
Try not being a dickwad
Your rhetorical question was totally beside any point that I was making. Geez, how totally unfair for me to say that.
Wimp.
US Constitution, Section 5, clause 1 supersedes "procedural rules".
Just pointing out that Flake wasn't doing us any favors when he did what he did. There was a theory coming out of Reddit that seemed to suggest that he was.
If there was any chance of quickly changing the rules Kavanaugh would be confirmed. Both require a majority.
Jeff Flake lacks an essential for adult life: Jeff Flake is without character. He is a fraud.
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Flake is well named.
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