I received two Toomey responses. Two! One via the Post Office and one via email. One about the Republican response to the ACA and one about Trump's pardoning of the disgraceful Joe Arpaio.
It'll take some time to work through each.
In the mean time, let's talk about Senator Jeff Flake.
His speech yesterday:
You can read the text here.
While it's uber-refreshing to hear those words on the Senate floor (and completely understandable that they'd have to come out of a GOP gob to have any real possibility of impact), Stephen Colbert has a different take:
He ends with:
FIRST McCAIN, THEN CORKER, NOW FLAKE. WHY IS IT THAT REPUBLICANS ONLY SPEAK UP AGAINST DONALD TRUMP WHEN THEY KNOW THEY'RE NOT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION? THEY FINALLY GROW A SET, AND THEN THEY SAY, "I'M TAKING MY BALLS AND GOING HOME!"Better late than never? Perhaps. And then again perhaps not.
Rinos ...don’t let the door hit you....da da da... they recognized they were on the loser path to reelection..Colbert...what are his viewer demos? He is on borrowed time for his gig ...clanging bell...destined for oblivion
ReplyDeleteRinos? They voted the Trumpian line something like 90% of the time. They helped confirm all of his horrible appointments. And they all voted in lockstep against anything The Black Guy wanted to do? But they're rinos.
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2) Jeff Flake was 1 of 10 Republican senators who voted to confirm Loretta Lynch for Attorney General
3) Flake voted to fund President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty.
4) Flake voted against Sen. Mike Lee’s 1st Amendment Defense Act
5) Flake voted for Obama’s $1.1 trillion Cromnibus 2015 spending bill
6) Flake voteed to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank
7) Flake voted for S.2114 which increased Russia’s power at the International Monetary Fund
8) Flake voted for a CLEAN debt limit suspension (2014)
9) Flake was 1 of 11 Republican senators who voted to confirm Janet Yellen
10) Flake voted for the Ryan-Murray budget which lifted spending caps & raised fees (taxes) in exchange for promises of future spending cuts
11) Flake voted for the Gang of 8 amnesty bill
12) Flake voted for the post-Newtown gun grab
13) Flake voted AGAINST The Defund Obamacare Act of 2013 (S.1292)
14) Flake voted to increase debt by $900 billion in exchange for the promise of discretionary cuts in the future (2011)
15) Flake preferred John Kasich over Cruz or Trump in the 2016 GOP Primary.