Jeff Flake has been a US Senator for almost five years. Since he’s a conservative Republican, I can count all the times I have agreed with him on the toes of my left foot. (For those who don’t know me, I do not have a left foot). However, I agreed yesterday, when he tore Trump a third butt hole in addition to the normal one and the one under his nose. In the process, he also lambasted the Republican Reich.
Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Donald Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.
The bombshell, which Flake, R-Ariz., delivered Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor, will further roil Republican hopes of keeping the party’s 52-seat Senate majority in the midterm elections of Trump’s first term, when the president’s party historically loses seats in Congress.
It also likely will upend the race for Flake’s seat. Flake, who is among the Senate’s more prominent critics of Trump, had been struggling in the polls.
He told The Arizona Republic ahead of his announcement that he had become convinced “there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party.”
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Here is Jeff Flake’s announcement in its entirety.
Kudos to Flake, although he waited far too long to say what he did. I hope he follows through.
It is my sincere hope that his hope for the Republican future comes to pass. However, I think the chances of that happening are virtually nil. The Republican Party sowed the wind when they embraced hatred, fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia and pseudo-Christian Dominionism. These people now control their primaries, and now, the whirlwind, Donald Trump, is the symptom of the Republican disease.
Defeat Kelli Ward!
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Of course there has been no place in the Republican Party for a sane person, or one with a modicum of empathy or principle, for quite some time. Flake’s speech means there is now also no place for anyone whose insanity (I should say insaniTEA) is too benign. That probably isn’t scary in itself, but it IS scary that people in pockets all over the nation will still vote for these lunatics, and many will actually be voted into office. God help us – we don’t seem to be capable of it ourselves.
I will throw out a couple of articles which, if taken to heart by the Democratic Party, might give us some hope. But I don’t have a lot of faith in the “leaders” of the Democratic Party paying attention.
Good video. Wish all of the Repugs would say this on the floor, and then ALL of them leave. Wouldn’t that be loverly??
btw…I’m not high, I’m just hoping!! 😉
Jeff Flake is right on many points, but after too many months of Drumpf’s so called (by some) presidency it’s all too little too late. I’ll quote Seth Meyers here because he said it far better than I ever could in his ‘Late Night’ how:
Have to be encouraged w/ the honest assessments of Twitler by Senators McCain, Corker and Flake.
It’s a start – and infinitely better than a Trump/Bannon style GOP!
A house divided against itself cannot stand. The Rethuglicanazi Party is precisely that. Of course, the Democreeps are no prize, either; still, this is hopeful news for real Progressives.
With Flake leaving, that means that there is one more sane one GONE! That’s not good! He’s sane person and he is leaving! What the hell will we get come election time? Arizona is a blood-red state. If his numbers were dropping, that means the koolaid has been pumped in to the water there!
Man, I hope this election we get some sane PEOPLE!!!
Don’t worry too much, Viv, he’s not really all that sane. After making this statement, he voted FOR Trump’s tax “plan.” (Corker did the same.) Anyway, in both cases, we will either get someone even crazier, or we will get a Democrat. That doesn’t look terribly promising in Tennessee, but in Arizona, we might have a chance. If we don’t blow it.
BTW, I don’t necessarily agree with people who say they ought to resign and just go now. Depending on the state, that could install someone even crazier – and give that person the advantage of an incumbent when the seat comes up in a regular election. Even if the state requires a special election, one word – Alabama.
The most likely face-off in 2018 is between Kyrsten Sinema, a progressive Democrat, and Kelli Ward, a white supremacist that makes Sarah Palin, Sharon Angle, and Christine O’Donnell appear sane.
Anybody who knows me know that I am not a conservative. I am a social democrat by US parlance, or a New Democrat in Canada. When I heard Jeff Flake’s speech, I said “Here! Here!” He talks about values and civility. If he is being truthful, Flake is someone I could respect even though I strongly disagree with his politics. Will he influence other GOP senators to speak out? I doubt it. Here is the transcript of Flake’s speech from Politico for those who have trouble hearing. And Drumpf’s reaction as recorded in Politico comes down to good riddance, both for he and Corker.
Huckabee Sanders was of course parroting her leash holder, Drumpf. It will be interesting to see how Democrats come out swinging in the midterms. Bannon and Republican billionaire donor Mercer are said they are taking on all the middle road Republicans and dragging the party further to the right. It may end up even further to the right than Jason Chaffetz and his associates are.
Thanks all, Hugs.
As JD said, both Corker and Flake goose-stepped with the Reich in support of tax cuts for the rich. They voted for a measure that passed. It gives corporations the right to force biased arbitration on consumers.