Flake being confronted on the elevator now

[underpants]

Two women ripping into him
"TELL ME I DON'T MATTER. TELL ME"

"DON'T LOOK AWAY FROM ME. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO ME DOESN'T MATTER"

Flake: "Thank you. I have to get to the meeting"

Flake looks like he knows he's wrong. You can see it.

[Goodheart]

1. FUCK JEFF FLAKE.

Immoral piece of bloviating shit.

[davekriss]

42. "Immoral piece of bloviating sh*t"

In other words, a Republican.

[CincyDem]

2. That's the look ya have when you know you've sold the last slice of your soul.

[underpants]

5. Bingo

You could see the soul leaving him.

[SummerSnow]

11. Trump has his soul now and eating it

[benfranklin1776]

12. The raisin shriveled remnants

He sold most of it long ago and now the lesser demons will fight over the scraps. Another traitor to the constitution and to the nation.

[bdamomma]

3. Here we go

if they think for one minute we will forget this wait until November. Do not get in our way.

[JaneQPublic]

4. No matter how wrong, he always votes with Trump in the end.

No suspenseful cliffhangers with this dude.

[Tursiops]

35. Indeed (nt)

[liberalmuse]

6. My calls to him are always wasted.

I want my breath back, Flake! What a fucking, amoral coward.

[demmiblue]

7. Video:

Link to tweet

God, that was hard to watch.

[underpants]

9. Thank you

That was riveting.

[demmiblue]

16. I know all of this was inevitable, but I feel so wrecked right now.

[dchill]

29. THIS post.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. .

[Freethinker65]

51. Wow. Crying.

[idcdu]

8. I want Flake to be so rattled between now and Tuesday

That his useless ass will have no choice but to say no on the full Senate. Same for every Repuke.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Wow, that was rough!

I was stunned he stood there and let them speak when he was cornered.

[BeyondGeography]

13. Post no. 7 is required viewing

[Funtatlaguy]

14. That was beautiful. Should be used in Dem commercials re GOP treatment of women.

[RhodeIslandOne]

15. Jeff Flake's future lobbying job was threatened

End of story.

[underpants]

17. Yep and speaking fees

[eleny]

26. What's he going to speak about?

How it feels to be Trump's whore.

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Keep up the pressure, but there might be a slight glimmer of hope, a very slight one.

.

Flake could have stopped this in his tracks and spared Murkowski and Collins the grief of a vote.

However, Collins, Flake, Manchin & Murkowski supposedly have an agreement to vote as a bloc.

In order for them to do this, Flake has to release the nomination to a full floor vote.


Perhaps Murkowski wants to go on record stopping him, so there is no doubt she supports the indigenous of AK.

.

[Hortensis]

38. Interesting, thanks.

[Silver Gaia]

41. See my post below.

[TheBlackAdder]

53. My prediction, he toast, no matter what happens in the next week.

[Hortensis]

54. Before and/or after he was seated on SCOTUS, I presume?

Remember that tremendous pressure to seat Kavanaugh from their electorate. Sounds like they'd choose months of scandal ending in impeachment as long as it was AFTER the midterms. Those voters are trained to deny everything they don't want to believe as Democratic lies, of course, and McConnell can't reverse that at will. He's their enemy also.

[Silver Gaia]

40. I read in several places last night that it's

Collins, Murkowski, Manchin, and Donnelly who vowed to vote as a block. Flake was not mentioned in what I read as part of that pact. Donnelly is signaling a NO vote this morning.

[Hortensis]

45. It's a nothing, but someone just mentioned on MSNBC that

Flake was very quiet and shaking his head, not like his usual self, after the hearing yesterday. I was stunned myself. Drama around here is a bluebird family quarreling with a woodpecker at the birdbath.

I'm thinking "kavanaugh" should become a new word for a nuclear-level clusterfuck that oversets all traditions and norms.

1:45 p.m., discussion behind the scenes reportedly about a possible brief delay and quick FBI investigation. And they're coming back in... The kavenaugh continues.

[Silver Gaia]

47. I thought it was a nothing when I heard it last night, too.

I'm getting tired of living in those proverbial "interesting times."

[Hortensis]

48. That phrase lives in the front of my mind also, and I agree.

It's going to be quite an adjustment when the news gets boring again. Someday. When I don't feel a little alarm when I realize I've been out of touch all morning and don't know if we bombed some unfortunate place while I wasn't paying attention.

[Silver Gaia]

49. Right!

I find myself anxiously checking news on my phone before I go to sleep (which is not as restful as it used to be), and again immediately when I wake. The day is punctuated with checking in every hour at least, and then I sit down to watch Rachel at 6:00 (we get her live at 6 on the west coast). I feel like I'm getting nothing done, and I'm not getting much done lately. This Kavanaugh crap has been extremely stressful and time consuming. whew...

[Hortensis]

52. Yes. The nation's been put through a major kavanaughing

in the past couple days, all right. Someone described everyone silent on his airliner yesterday watching the hearing on seatback TVs.

I was waiting for the vote this afternoon and suddenly realized how physically stressed I was feeling by all this drama. Came back in from pulling weeds and scrubbing the birdbath a while ago, then watched the new Murphy Brown show because my husband said I had to. Good medicine even if it is political.

Then I checked in and heard historians now saying they thought we were on the brink of a disastrous collapse of institutions this morning, with severe collapse of confidence in the courts among Americans and the senate in genuine danger of losing its independence and becoming a very weak arm of Trump's presidential power.

But Flake and Chris Coons, and those allied with them in both parties, did what our systems were designed to do and pulled us back from "the abyss." Our systems held because when they arrived at the edge of the abyss these people did.

Okay. Nice of them to keep quiet about it this morning.

McConnell still has to put on a tremendous show of trying to get Kavanaugh confirmed. From what I've read, he has no significant ideology or objective goals and no concern for institutions, just his own craving for power that he will use to smash anything in his way. His near destruction of the senate, including this late attempt to brutally ram Kavanaugh through no matter the cost, has probably been almost entirely about maintaining his personal power. Maybe not almost.

38 days to midterms.

[Silver Gaia]

55. Hubby and I watched Murphy Brown last night. Yes, it was good medicine. :)

This is gonna be another long week, but at least I'm more hopeful now than I was last night. I took a nap this afternoon after the news of Flake, Murkowski, and Manchin broke. I've got a severe sleep deficit going and anything helps. My daughter wants to protest somewhere tomorrow, and we will go with her, probably down to the state capitol. Thanks for sharing with me.

[Hortensis]

56. You too. Sleep problems here also. I suspect getting out

and protesting will be great medicine! Have a blast.

[maryellen99]

19. And he's scared of trump's white trash rape supporting armed base nt

[Polly Hennessey]

20. They don't care.

All any of them want is the attention. Who would even recognize them if not for their whiny fence sitting on major votes. None of them have ever accomplished anything of significance on their own which would put them in the spotlight. John McCain did have something extraordinary happen to him, and did not need added recognition. And don’t forget, they need to “toe the line” in order to be hired after they leave public office. Which I hope will be soon for many of them.

[demmiblue]

21. Flake has had his head down and frowning since entering the hearing room - and after announcing he'd

Flake has had his head down and frowning since entering the hearing room - and after announcing he’d vote for the Kavanaugh nomination

Link to tweet

[Blue_true]

24. The man has no moral courage. He is the picture of a coward.

Those women that cornered him in that elevator were speaking from the heart. Could he not see and feel that? Yet, he calls himself a moral man.

[demmiblue]

22. The anguish of those women confronting Flake this morning is going to reverberate so, so deeply...

The anguish of those women confronting Flake this morning is going to reverberate so, so deeply around the country, for so long, and it is hard to think about how the country will be able to heal from this.

Link to tweet

[demmiblue]

23. My sister @AnaMariaArchil2 just spoke truth to @JeffFlake.

My sister @AnaMariaArchil2 just spoke truth to @JeffFlake.

He had no answers for me on that plane, and he had no answers for her today.

He is a coward and a disgrace.

We shall overcome.

Link to tweet

[NorCen_CT]

25. I hope this happens to him every single day the rest of his soulless life

[libtodeath]

27. None of these fuckers should have a minutes rest.

[Afromania]

28. He's a coward, they are all cowards.

[Stellar]

30. Republic0ns don't give a s#it about the women in this country.

I hope all of those sorry sob Republicons have to watch their backs until they are no longer in Congress, or the Supreme court.

[SunSeeker]

31. He shook Dr. Ford's hand yesterday after her testimony; today he call her a liar with his vote.

Can't have it both ways, Jeff. You can't say you believe Dr. Ford AND vote for Kavanaugh.

[defacto7]

32. There are none who are courageous anymore.

There are no heros. Only bullies and wimps.

[Murtagh101]

33. This made me cry.

I hear the anguish in those women's voices. I hear them say that they feel they won't be heard.
That by voting for Kavanaugh that they are saying they don't matter.
I hear their cry.
We MUST Vote.

VOTE.


VOTE.

[Reader Rabbit]

34. Flake is worse than any of them.

He actually knows what he's doing is wrong, but he's doing it anyway. The rest of them are sociopaths who can't be expected to behave like they have integrity, or a conscience, or a sense of right and wrong.

[avebury]

37. It makes me so angry.

It was heartbreaking to listen to those women.

If the women of this country do not understand that the Rethugs don't care about them they never will. The Rethugs are doing everything they can to destroy this country and the masses are the ones who will suffer for it.

[DFW]

39. Flake is being, well, a FLAKE

There must have been some big promises of finances for a presidential run, maybe as early as 2020, that no one has yet uncovered.

Remember this in 18 months! I promise you all he is not retiring from the Senate to open a CVS franchise in Flagstaff.

[BarbD]

43. I am beyond angry.

This is the time to be determined. This is the time to work together. This is the time to know that we WILL overcome. VOTE!

[elmac]

44. and we must remember that that worthless piece of shit

George W, the criminal that got us stuck in endless wars, who murdered 100's of thousands of Iraqis, has been on the phone getting votes for his buddy Kavanaugh

[Hortensis]

46. "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush"

John Dean wrote that about W and his administration. From a review:

...In Dean's estimation, the secrecy with which Bush and Dick Cheney govern is not merely a preferred system of management but an obsessive strategy meant to conceal a deeply troubling agenda of corporate favoritism and a dramatic growth in unchecked power for the executive branch that put at risk the lives of American citizens, civil liberties, and the Constitution...

Link to tweet

What put W in the WH, the changes his administration made to the country, and what has been effected since through the Republican establishment, including Cavanaugh, are all ideologically on the same track. Very interesting book, many of same people still around.

[demmiblue]

50. I feel relieved that @JeffFlake seems to have heard my and @AnaMariaArchil2's voices in the Senate..

I feel relieved that @JeffFlake seems to have heard my and @AnaMariaArchil2’s voices in the Senate elevator today. We absolutely need an FBI investigation and for him and all Senators to vote NO. #StopKavanaugh

Link to tweet