Discussion: Flake Threatens To Block Judicial Nominees Until Senate Votes On Mueller Bill

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Anybody know how concerned Collins is?

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In the end, Flake is a Republican. I’ll believe it when I see it.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN. It’s Mr. You Know Who.

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Bullshit. That is all.

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It’s already an empty threat. If the Senate passes it (not one of his requirements), the House won’t.

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Flake needs to get together with Collins when they go to the engraver ……

I hear ya can get a group discount —

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“I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting confirmation on the Senate floor"

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I don’t know if it will work, but I believe he will do exactly what he has said he will do.

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“He already knows it will not work, that’s why he will do exactly what he said he will do.”

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Flake is a master at being ineffectual. He is irrelevant – indeed made himself so. But he postures! And look at that anguished face! Mule Piss McConnell must have contempt for him. His protests mean nothing.

Oh, and no surprise that Ol’ Mule Piss has no interest in protecting Muller.

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No he’s not. He just postures, with an anguished face, as he did in the Kavanaugh circus. Poor baby couldn’t find his way out of a wet paper bag.

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You’ll forgive me if I don’t believe a word this cowardly lion says.

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“Why are we so sanguine about this?” Flake said in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday. “Why? Why do we do this, to protect a man who seemingly is so incurious about what Russia did during the 2016 elections. Why do we do that?”

Flake holds the deciding vote on a narrowly divided Senate Judiciary Committee, which means he could block forward movement on Republican-nominated judicial picks at the committee level for the rest of the year. There are currently 21 judicial nominees awaiting a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And in a Senate where Republicans hold just a two-vote margin over Democrats, if Flake can persuade just one other GOP senator to join him, he could halt the confirmation of 32 judicial nominees now awaiting a vote on the floor.

C’mon, Jeff - you are still my senator. Earn some respect on your way out.

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I would love you to be wrong as well. But the “Full FBI Investigation” into Brett Kavanaugh’s drunken sexual assault issues was a joke, and Flake went along with it. I would like it if he refused to vote to advance the Judicial nominees.