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Flake: I sometimes feel like I'm 'without a party'
The Hill ^ | 10/01/18 1 | MICHAEL BURKE

Posted on 10/01/2018 8:45:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Monday evening that he sometimes feels like he doesn't belong to a political party.

“I sometimes feel like a man temporarily without a party,” he said during a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, according to The Washington Post.

Flake also criticized his party during the speech, saying members of the GOP have "given in to the terrible tribal impulse that first mistakes our opponents for our enemies."

“And then we become seized with the conviction that we must destroy that enemy," he said.

Flake's speech came days after he voted in the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. He also said at the time, however, that he would support Kavanaugh in the full Senate only if there were first an FBI investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct against the nominee.

Flake's call for an investigation, and Republican Sens. Susan Collins's (Mass.) and Lisa Murkowski's (Alaska) subsequent support of Flake's suggestion, prompted President Trump to ask the FBI to reopen its background investigation into Kavanaugh.

Flake said Monday that the investigation needs to be a "real investigation," according to the Post.

“It does no good to have an investigation that just gives us more cover,” Flake said. “We actually need to find out what we can find out. And we have to realize that we may not be able to find out everything that happened.”

The Senate currently plans to vote on Kavanaugh "this week," according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).


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To: Notthereyet

No, Flake is soon to be a Democrat


21 posted on 10/01/2018 8:52:02 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: beethovenfan

The Cowardly Lion had a heart. Flake has none. He’s appropriately named.


22 posted on 10/01/2018 8:52:25 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Helicondelta

He’ll end up with MSNBC as one of the morning ‘guests’ with Joe. Then he’ll probably write some book entitled: ‘How the GOP Failed’.


23 posted on 10/01/2018 8:52:28 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: yesthatjallen
I sometimes feel like I'm 'without a party'

Well, you pretty much gave the middle finger to the Republican Party and lit that bridge on fire and the Democrats know you're a weasel and a coward so, yep, nobody likes you right now you sad, pathetic little man.


24 posted on 10/01/2018 8:52:29 PM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: yesthatjallen

Send this guy 10,000 pink pussy hats. One for each day of his life, with some leftover.


25 posted on 10/01/2018 8:53:04 PM PDT by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The minor tragedy of the Kavanaugh fiasco is giving the soon to be departed wormy Flake more media time then he deserves.


26 posted on 10/01/2018 8:53:21 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: yesthatjallen
Grand Opus Rating:

- 4

Go Away

27 posted on 10/01/2018 8:53:44 PM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: Drew68

And his nose STILL veers to the left.


28 posted on 10/01/2018 8:54:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: yesthatjallen

Pathetic bastard. Hard to understand a guy like this. No guts no loyalty, no brain.


29 posted on 10/01/2018 8:54:59 PM PDT by anton
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To: yesthatjallen

With your total lack of loyalty, that should not surprise you. You are a disgrace.


30 posted on 10/01/2018 8:55:09 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: yesthatjallen

Sometimes you feel like a nut.


31 posted on 10/01/2018 8:55:10 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Flake: I sometimes feel like I'm 'without a party',

He’s the party pooper, turd in the punch bowl.

32 posted on 10/01/2018 8:55:58 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: yesthatjallen
Flake Bribe
33 posted on 10/01/2018 8:56:42 PM PDT by FrankR (You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
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To: funfan

Now he’s trotting out reasons to justify voting no.

Let’s cut the farce of the investigation short. Flake is never going to accept a report clearing Kavanaugh.

If he was going to vote for him, he wouldn’t have sided with the Democrats in the first place.

Flake should stop with his Hamlet agonizing. No one’s buying it.


34 posted on 10/01/2018 8:56:43 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s going to be without his MSNBC gig unless he votes no. He will vote no. He boxed himself into a corner and cannot virtue signal his way out at this point.


35 posted on 10/01/2018 8:56:50 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: goldstategop

He told us his plans. He’s a man temporarily without a party. Come next January he will eagerly embrace the Democrats as his party and try and eek out a subsistence shilling for them as a lobbyist. What a piece of work. Arizona produced two of the biggest Aholes in Republican politics and they both served together backstabbing their party until one died of bitterness and the other left because of spinelessnes.


36 posted on 10/01/2018 8:56:50 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: yesthatjallen

Jeff Jeffords.


37 posted on 10/01/2018 8:57:00 PM PDT by gopno1
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To: yesthatjallen
"[...] And we have to realize that we may not be able to find out everything that happened."

This is the crux. Ford's allegations - being so vague and incomplete - are virtually unfalsifiable. It's like trying to find out who, of those seated around the dinner table, farted - 36 years after the fact.

I suppose that that was what made Ford such an appealing dupe.

Regards,

38 posted on 10/01/2018 8:59:00 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: yesthatjallen
The word you are looking for is clue.

“Sometimes I feel I'm without a clue.”

39 posted on 10/01/2018 8:59:21 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: yesthatjallen

I know exactly how he feels.


40 posted on 10/01/2018 8:59:59 PM PDT by Raycpa
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