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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Flake a patsy for McConnell ?
Flake, time and again, has been the GOP's Cowardly Lion talking the talk but reliably wimping out when it comes to voting.
Is there another narrative here ? Normally we see end of the world threats made to wavering Republican senators yet not so much this time. Republicans who were desperate to push Kavanaugh's nomination through asap, now seemingly willing to allow the FBI investigation. They're taking a huge chance that the FBI won't find something.
Perhaps, they recognize that Kavanaugh's toxic and this allows a win win for the midterms. If the FBI find nothing, they win, and if they find something, McConnell gets to replace him with his choice, and they go into the midterms saying we need to keep the Senate to confirm the new choice. If they lose the Senate, they will do the unthinkable and vote during the lame duck.
irresistable
(989 posts)Flake imagines that he can become President.
dameatball
(7,400 posts)"Anybody but Kavenaugh." If that is true, then he is playing dual roles. He'll be a cheerleader for Trump's pick and be ready with a plan to push through someone else if necessary. The fly in the ointment is Trump tends to pick some really flawed people for almost everything.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)than a porcupine has quills.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)bruising, Trump will be less likely to go there....especially with 2020 in mind. McConnell wants another SC win but he must be scared shitless of losing the Senate. I think this might be his best chance, otherwise the blue wave might become a tsunami.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)investigation.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It's really hard to live through great events and understand them at all, and impossible without at least trying to find out what expert observers believe they are witnessing. Yes, there is what seems to be a fairly cohesive narrative formed, to be further developed as more is learned over time no doubt.
I'm afraid it is very different from this, but I'll leave you to find their discussion elsewhere rather than relay partial and flawed notions. He's being seen as a hero, though, even if belated, along with those who joined with him in these bilateral actions. There's a clue in this speech by Senator Flake the day before.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)never gets there after getting it in the neck from McConnell. We've been here before. He may be touching the rarefied heights of statesmanship but I have a gut feeling that McConnell has done a political calculation on this.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Flake's his bitch, or patsy.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)leverage power to have done is produced.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)rurallib
(62,465 posts)and is watching his chances get flushed away no matter which way he votes.
My guess is that Flake is hoping Kavie will have a stroke over the weekend