Don't Get It Confused, Jeff Flake Is A TOTAL FRAUD
October 28, 2017
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as posted by the channelIn this Majority Report clip, we talk to blogger Heather Digby Parton about the bizarre (or totally normal) week in the Republican party. With that said, do what do you think of Senator Jeff Flake's denouncement of Donald Trump this week? Let us know in the comments!
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---In his instantly famous Tuesday Senate floor speech — one his hometown newspaper called a “bombshell” — Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) decried the “destructiveness” of President Trump’s politics while warning of the perils of succumbing to electoral considerations; of politicians’ “fear of the consequences” of speaking out; and of bending to “the rules of what is politically safe.” Flake, who has voted with the president more than 90 percent of the time, wondered aloud what he, and we, would tell the next generation when they ask, “Why didn’t you do something?” He rallied Americans not to let Trump’s habitual offenses become the new normal, never to “meekly accept the daily sundering of our country.”
Then he surrendered.
Yes, Flake was one of the few Republican senators who declined to endorse Trump’s candidacy. And yes, his words were powerful and needed to be spoken by a member of the president’s own party. That’s why some were quick to suggest, quite optimistically, that the speech could represent “a notable marker in the decline of the GOP” that will “end up in the history books.” But in declaring, “I will not be complicit or silent,” on the way to announcing that he will not seek reelection, Flake confused abdication with absolution. Cincinnatus returning to the farm, Flake is not. In the end, he’s a profile in cowardice.---
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