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.
I’m with you on that my FRiend! I went to Lakeside AZ for the car show in September, this is Flake’s back yard. People there are absolutely disgusted with him.
Jeff Flake
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Flake#Early_life,_education_and_early_career
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Early life, education and early career
Jeffry Lane Flake was born in Snowflake, Arizona, the son of Nerita (née Hock) and Dean Maeser Flake.[2][3] His birth town was named in part for his great-great-grandfather, Mormon pioneer William J. Flake.[4] Flake obtained a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Brigham Young University.[5] He took a two-year leave of absence to serve as a missionary for The Church of [Mormon] in South Africa in the early 1980s. He speaks Afrikaans. He worked in the public affairs sector after college and was the Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Namibia and Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute before entering the House of Representatives. He opposed economic sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s, arguing that sanctions would harm the black population who were already suffering under apartheid policies.[6]
Some people from El Salvador told me that Mormons believe that Salvadorans and others south of our southern border are from the ten lost tribes. So those immigrants were pretty excited about hooking up with Mormons and finding their businesses to get hired.
It would certainly seem that Flake is in fact dirty.. That's aparently what happened to his political career.. Maybe Mitch needs to put out the word on the many vast and great favors that could be had in exchange for said dirt... No honor among thieves and liars...
Not to worry. Flake’s TDS will continue to rot his brain.
the border wall CAN'T.
McConnell is the real force behind this. He could pop this pimple by yanking Flake off the committee. He could also recess the Senate so our President could get all his guys in under a Recess Appointment. He wants to delay draining this swamp because he is the swamp.
Now you are over the target.
McConnell doesn’t mind Flake wasting time because it delays all other Senate business. The GOP are trying to run out the clock on POTUS. It’s that simple.
And as far as these judges undoubtle nearly all of them are GOPe careerists. I’m sure there are a few MAGA judges in their but realistically these judges are being put in place to carry water for the Chamber of Commerce. I’m not going to lose sleep over their pending confirmation.
I don't understand why no one is making a bigger deal of that, including Trump.
Since the term of recess appointees is limited to the end of the following congress, that process is not advisable for filling judicial positions. In essence, you would be wasting a good nominee as he would be out of office before he could have an impact. In theory, he could be reappointed for the permanent position, but it would be very difficult to get him approved. A good young attorney aspiring to be a judge would likely turn down a recess appointment.
Flake is McCain reincarnated, no doubt about it,
>>Nobody likes a traitor.<<
Incorrect. There are millions of traitors in this country, 99% of whom are Democrats, and they all love their fellow traitors. And now that I think of it, American traitors are also loved by America’s enemies all over the world!
>>Flake should be dragged into the Senate men’s room and taught a serious lesson.<<
It’s not uncommon for a guy like Flake to sooner or later get what’s coming to him, and I’m praying that it won’t be long.
>>The TURDle can kick him off the committee and bring the vote to the floor. Pence can be the tiebreaker. This is all show. Flakeslut likely has TURDle’s blessing to do this, and kissed his ring...<<
And people wonder why these reprobates are despised by millions of voters, a great percentage of whom are REPUBLICANS!
>>After seeing him cuddling with his boyfriend Coons I have no doubts.<<
I plead ignorance: Who is Coons and where can I view him “cuddling” with Flake the Snake?
>>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.<<
Could very well be, but on the other hand he could be blackmailed for “doing something” that he never did. That’s probably a fairly common occurrence. I’m not making excuses for Flake, because I despise him almost as much as I did McCain.
>> McConnell should just stick it up flakes wazoo and go ahead and hold the floor vote.<<
That freaking coward doesn’t have the stones to do something that bold!
“This is a problem that develops when you repeatedly needle and ridicule a narcisistic tard like Flake.”
But there are so many of them.
“This is a problem that develops when you repeatedly needle and ridicule a narcisistic tard like Flake.”
But there are so many of them.
and the bushes
To say Democrats are traitors supposes that they have pledged allegiance to this country. They take a knee. Their allegiance is to socialism. They are anti-American. “Multi-cultural” means anti-American.
Flake will not be embraced by them. They know Flake betrayed the Republicans and, so, is untrustworthy.
What an A-hole
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