Jeff Flake’s Indecision Earns Him a Douche Bag Award
We’re going to engrave one for retiring Republican Senator Jeff flake casting one of, if not the most important vote of his time in the Senate. Apparently, he was OK voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States while still harboring doubts.
In a report on MSN.com about an appearance on The View, Flake is asked about his support of the confirmation after calling for a week-long review. According to the report:
Several weeks after delaying the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh only to vote in the judge’s favor, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday admitted that he’s not actually sure who he believes: Kavanaugh or his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
View co-host Sunny Hostin asked Flake, point-blank, whether he believed Ford, he delivered a stunning response according to the report:
“I don’t know,” Flake admitted.
“I don’t know if I believed him either.”
I get it, I really do. I think deep down Flake knew he was making a mistake that he’d live to regret. I believe the call for the FBI investigation was an attempt to polish the turd that will be his legacy by being the Republican who asked for the additional time. But he had to leave himself room to, in the end, vote to confirm. Flake is a not an old man. He’s got more years to live, and what does a guy who’s spent 18 years in Congress do after retiring…why he returns to work on K Street and earn some of the big bucks to take him into a comfortable retirement.
The problem is that Jeff Flake had been a critic of Donald Trump, and if he now failed to vote to approve Kavanaugh, what would be the value of a lobbyist no Republican in Congress would be seen with? And that my friends is what it all came down to. Jeff was merely trying to assuage his conscience while protecting his future earnings potential.
Here’s the thing though Jeff. You don’t vote to give someone a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land if you have even a smidgen of doubt. If you’re about cast your vote, and you’re not sure one of these, you vote “No.” You let the Kavanaugh supporters trying to assuage your doubts, or you let them put forward another equally or better-qualified candidate who doesn’t have the baggage. That’s the thing, this was a not a decision with a lot of unknowns, nor a decision that had to be made in haste because of some “ticking” world crisis. The Court went along short a Justice for over a year thanks to Republicans, and their business continued. They could have moved along a few more months into this term shy a justice also.
While we applaud your attempt at honesty and integrity now, you still get the Douche Bag Award for actions that will harm the United States for years to come.
