I wonder how the Mormon Church views pederasts? 
Posted on 12/05/2018 3:10:00 PM PST by Signalman
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is leaving, but not quietly. The immensely unpopular Republicanhas decided to totally trashhis party’s judicial agenda. Flake is the key 11thvote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he’s not budging until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holds a binding vote on a billprotecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice’s Russia investigation. It’s frustrating. It’s deplorable. And it just comes to show you why Flake would never have won re-election if he decided to execute a suicidal banzai charge concerning that effort. He would have been knocked off in a primary, but I digress. The Senate Judiciary Committee has pushed back votes on judges. In all, he’s holding up the advancement of 21 judicial nominations, along with the confirmation of an additional 32 nominees whose votes are now stalled on the floor (via CNN):
Sen. Jeff Flake's vow to block judicial nominees is significantly disrupting the Senate Judiciary Committee's plans to advance more of President Donald Trump's picks for the lower courts.
The committee's chairman, Chuck Grassley, plans to scrap a Thursday meeting if Flake doesn't back off his threat to vote against all pending nominees until he gets a floor vote on a bill to protect special counsels like Robert Mueller from political interference, according to a Grassley aide. This would be the second meeting in consecutive weeks the committee has scrapped, delaying 22 nominees from floor consideration by the end of the year.
Flake is not going to budge, so it would appear the judicial agenda for this Congress is over. Flake torpedoed it over something that is anathema to the GOP base. He’s a thorn in the side, a perpetual pain in the a** who will reap nothing with this ridiculous stunt. If he thinks sinking conservative judges will garner him gold stars in his potential bid for the presidency—yes, he seems to be mulling a run—this is a massive Never Trump miscalculation. This move should motivate people to hurl beer bottles at Flake. McConnell went deeper into why Flake’s course of action is straight idiocy (via Newsweek):
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took aim at outgoing GOP Senator Jeff Flake Tuesday night, calling Flake’s attempt to block judicial nominees until a vote is held on a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller a "futile gesture."
“I’m perplexed, frankly, by his pushing for the Mueller protection bill,” McConnell said at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council event Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C.
McConnell believed the measure to protect Mueller, a bipartisan bill that would curb Trump’s ability to interfere with Mueller's investigation or to fire the special counsel, is “blatantly unconstitutional.”
McConnell added that the House “would never pass it” and the president “would never sign it.”
"It strikes me as, what I would call, a futile gesture, and we’re hoping that [Flake] will change his view on that," McConnell said. "I believe we could confirm the judges that are already out on the floor."
Flake is quickly becoming one of the biggest cancers to the GOP. He cannot leave soon enough.
“Why can’t they remove FLAKE from the Committee and replace him?”
Cuz Flake speaks for the party of Bush, the GOP. Flake is the rule[rino-neverTrumper] not the exception in the Senate.
Bush League Republicans doing whatever they can to stall MAGA
Maybe he’s a fag, Jim.
If a steaming pile of excrement were on your right, with Jeff Flake on your left, you’d step right.
You have doubt?
I think it is about 28 days before the Senate officially sees the last of Flake.
Another ‘it’s all about me’ politician.
After seeing him cuddling with his boyfriend Coons I have no doubts
The day he came in to the committee room, the morning of the vote, and declared he wanted the FBI to investigate the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh before he’d be willing to vote, his face was all flushed, and he looked guilty as sin. He looked like someone who had been thoroughly cowed, and threatened just moments before.
I’d knock him down into the pile of $hit.
I wonder how the Mormon Church views pederasts?
Would the floor vote on special counsel protection pass?
And if it did pass the Senate, would it pass in today’s House?
And, even if it passes both Houses, can’t it just die in Trump’s desk drawer with a pocket veto? After all... its the Holiday Season, he’s busy.
And, if it lays in Trump’s drawer until the next Congress is in session, isn’t it a dead bill that would have to be reinitiated? And there’s a 53-47 GOP majority in Congress... well maybe less with Willard and the weird sisters (Murkowski and Collins), and no Flake, so either it wouldn’t be revoted, or McConnell could just keep it from the floor.
What am I missing here? Is it that dangerous to make that a-hole Flake happy and get the judges through?
I wouldn’t cry if he never cashed a retirement check.
Actually, I would place Mr. Flake to my right and then walk left.
the guy I am sure is being blackmailed. I don’t think he is free to do what he wants... I am guessing he was caught doing something that would destroy him not just put him in jail.
No problem.
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