Jeff “When You Come to a Fork in the Road Take It” Flake.
Did it mean he wouldn’t vote to confirm Kavanaugh, even if the FBI cleared Kavanaugh of the sexual misconduct allegations against him? Plott reported that she asked Flake.“I didn’t say that,” a “rattled” Flake responded, per Plott. “I wasn’t referring to him,” Flake added.
Er…what???
He’ll let us know. Stay tuned! Watch him be seriously alarmed! Film at 11!
It must be very disconcerting for him, waiting to see if he’s going to develop a full spine, or if he’s just growing some kind of vestigial tail.
I am hoping this is a shot at McConnell to remind him that he still doesn’t have the votes.
He’s sure trying to keep everyone guessing! Maybe he’s waiting to see which representatives of which side make him the best offer and/or the scariest threat?
Well he is concerned. Like a parent not liking the tone of teenagers’ voice, but he can still go to the party.
Which way does the wind blow, Flake? Did you just wake up after the hearing?
Is Flake establishing the ground for a judicial temperament vote?
Jeff, this is a much more convincing Kabuki act:
Boy howdy, Flake really, really wants to run for president.
He’s such a little tease.
A “rattled” Jeff Flake? What happened? Did he think he was actually growing testicles and tried to make them shrink back down?
I’ve been saying since Friday that this is the only real hope this week, that the extra time will allow people to reflect and that insane rant by K at the hearing really wouldn’t age well, which Republicans knew full well.
I don’t trust Flake to disobey his leaders for a second, he may well just go along in the end, but if he doesn’t and others don’t as well, this will be why. The SNL sketch, all of this gives it an airing if nothing else so that Republicans like him realize how the rest of the country saw it, namely as one thousand proof bonkers, paranoid, and hideously partisan.
Jeff “I feel strongly - both ways” Flake.
Flake is still fighting it but it seems certain he sees it now and no longer able to avoid it: the candidate is unfit.
Along with numerous other objections, I felt kinship with Mike from Harrison, New York at https://nyti.ms/2NgOjBH#permid=28843388 in comment to Paul Krugman’s Oct 1, 2018 NYT post, “The Angry White Male Caucus” [post split into paras for easier screen reading]
I've been losing sleep over this appointment, and the more I think about it, the more unsettled I become. It's not whether he assaulted the woman...I can't divine the truth, no matter how sympathetic the story. What's bothering me is privilege.
When I was a kid, I didn't know I was poor, or that there was limitless opportunity out there. Which was good, because many doors were already closed to me. But these kids drank their way through high school, partied, and spent weeks on the beach. Yet they're "top" students at exclusive schools, went to Ivy League colleges, graduated with honors, and now this choice example is interviewing for the Supreme Court. Not merely interviewing, but "winning" by delivering a wicked tongue lashing to the very senators who are questioning him.
Nobody is so smart that they can burn so many candles and still end up whole, without a lot of help from daddy, important friends and a culture of privilege. As I rerun my life in my mind, there are no possible changes I could have ever made which would have landed me in a similar situation. And no way my humble status would ever allow me to publicly address a Senator with so much contempt (and not be charged with contempt).
It's not envy keeping me awake: I wouldn't change places in a thousand thousand lifetimes. It's that the injustice of these dissolutes being in a position to exert great influence on our lives is humiliating in an unexpectedly personal way."
PS: Meant this as a general comment to the topic but it can stand in to Flake’s Kabuki too; I think it is gnawing at him as it is many of us, play or no play.
