flake hasn’t got the balls.
Start impeachment proceedings on Flake today for leverage.
“Suggesting that Flake playing a McCain could give cover to vulnerable Senate Dems to ALL vote against a Trump SCOTUS nominee.”
We can expect Flake to vote with the Democrats and McCain to not vote.
And for this vote, that will make Joe Manchin the most powerful man in the Senate.
Flake is a hateful SOB. As low as they come.
Jeff Flake, I think, has aspirations to try to primary Trump in 2020. He plays this “principled conservative alternative” shtick up. He’ll have a tougher time selling that since the far left has embraced him as their great white hope to stop a conservative from getting on the SCOTUS. I mean, how do you sell people that you’re a conservative when only communists like you?
PDJT should nominate Flake. Then watch “nuclear” liberal head explosions.
What a jerk.
I would speculate McCaskill in MO might have to pretend to be moderate and vote for the nominee. There may be several.
When it comes to something as important as the SC, the GOP Senate won’t divide, even guys like Flake.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter. If Flake sinks the nominee, he’ll need EVERY Democrat to go with him, including the ones who are facing defeat in Red States even without this coming up. These are the Democrats who MUST appear as ‘moderate’ to win (even though they’re not, of course).
Bottom line - the Dems, if they can block the nominee, will lose 4 or 5 seats in November, and Trump will simply re-nominate him - and he sails through.
All Dems have is Flake and Fluke
The liberal talking heads would have a kool-aid party if you put them all in one place.
And bkopto counting on VP Mike Pence to break the tie.
Given the environment these days, that is a dangerous choice of words for the title.
Fortunately, Flake is too much of a gutless coward to do it literally, even if he is lunatic enough to want to.
AZ is being manipulated into electing McSallycain as the next Flake.
As if the current one and McAmnesty are not bad enough.
In April 2017, he [Flake] voted to invoke cloture (end debate) on the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, putting an end to the Democratic filibuster. Flake also voted for the “nuclear option,” ending the ability to filibuster Supreme Court nominees, and deviating from Senate tradition.
He stated, “While changing Senate rules was not my preferred outcome, this will simply make de jure what was de facto prior to 2003, when filibusters were virtually never used on the executive calendar.
source: wikipedia
Joe Donnelly (D-IN) will not vote with the Democrats. He will get skewered in Indiana before the election if he does. It will be the same with all the Dems from red states.
Flake can’t stop it. D’s need 2 to flips. 1 flip just makes it a 50-50 vote with pence breaking the tie.
Heavenly Father, We praise You. You are in control of everything . . .including our next breath. Our country is out of control with self-serving individuals going out of their way to disrupt the will of the people. We pray that You will take out those in positions of influence that are thwarting our republic’s principles. May people stand in awe and say “Look what the Lord hath done!” Thank you for being our fortress and an ever present help in times of trouble. In Jesus Name, Amen
Which Democrats will be attacking Trump’s nominee during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on his or her nomination?
Most of the Democrats on the Committee are mean-spirited elderly hacks whose bloviating is too boring to be listened to. For example, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin.
However, two of the Committee’s Democrats have presidential aspirations — Kamala Harris and Cory Booker — so things could get very interesting.
The Democrats want blood. They’re unhinged, they’re out of their minds, they want Trump’s nominee to be torn limb from limb.
Will Senators Harris and Booker oblige by channeling Mad Maxine Waters to attack the nominee?
If they don’t, if they act like civilized human beings, the Democrats will be extremely disappointed in them, and it will be difficult for them to achieve their aspiration of winning the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
However, if they do act like Mad Maxine, the vast majority of American voters will be so repelled by them that they will never be able to win the presidency.
Bring out the popcorn.