“Being a conservative means something in terms of demeanor and comportment. A conservative is nothing if, particularly in foreign policy, if he’s not measured and sober and predictable."
BWWWHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Flake “concerned.” But will Collins be “worried,” or Lindz “troubled?”
Senator Flake, cautiously putting his wet finger in the air, decides that the winds are favorable, and boldly lobs a tepid response to what should be, were it to happen, an impeachable offence
( hatchtag) Leadership!
The brave, +98% voting-for-Trump legislation, suddenly worried about America (translation: worried about the GOP and worried about his ass in the 2018 election), appropriately named Sen. Flake, thinks this will be a “real concern”.
“Oh, dear!”, shrieks Little Flake. “Whatever shall we do?! Daddy Donald is attacking Mommy America with a broken beer bottle! I know! Let’s go to the candy store and get some Mr. Goodbars and tax cuts!”
When things get really dicey and it’s time for people of true integrity and patriotism to put country ahead of party, you can always count on Jeff Flake to put his mouth where his mouth is.
They make Mr Goodbars with carob instead of chocolate?
Besides “measured” and “sober”, he forgot to add the words “asshole”, “traitorous”, “black-hearted”, “lying”, and “shit-eating”.
A little bit short of a full-throated denunciation there, Flake. #stillvotesinlockstep
Those are a lot of words for a man to say while having Donald Trump’s dick in his mouth.
Doesn’t take up much room.
Flake is trying to resuscitate the meaning of conservative because it doesn’t mean anything anymore.
The only viable definition I can think of is someone who votes for a lewd, crude, loud, obnoxious, idea-free, amoral liar because he has an R next to his name.
Actually Flake is exactly right here if you are to use the real, actual definition on “Conservative”.
However, Republicans live in opposite land. When they say “conservative”, they are invariably describing something objectively Radical.
He’s not very good at this is he?
This duplicitous timeserving asshole is one of my Senators. He talks conciliatory and bipartisan but he always votes to support tea-party and reactionary GOP legislation. Oh, but he’s always ‘very concerned’.
His comments come as the President publicly bashed his attorney general for a full week, calling him “beleaguered” and “weak” and saying he wouldn’t have hired Sessions if he had known he was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
Some critics have raised concern that if Trump fired Sessions, he would bring in a new attorney general who would fire Mueller.
The idea that a new AG would be confirmed by the Senate is highly questionable to the point of being absurd.
I have an ex-friend who called herself conservative even as she slowly radicalized herself like the rest of the party. “The crazies,” as she called them, were always just kind of out there somewhere, in a place where they didn’t matter and were simply a misleading distraction, and all the rest of the GOP were old-fashioned conservatives like her dad and mom. And that was that. The mental contortions these people do are grotesque but you see it every day with people who’ve enabled a situation to grow worse and worse.
Exactly what the Sunday shows love about your other Senator.
It lets them pretend that these are normal times and that Republicans aren’t completely off the deep end.
“Conservative” still means pretty much what it always did:
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“Stop the Madness,” Interview with Rupert Cornwell, Toronto Globe and Mail (6 July 2002) (see http://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/7463/ )
Hey come on he would be “really concerned.” You are underestimating just how powerful his statement was. Wow!