What do you make of Senator Flake's comments?

[ProudLib72]

Is it indicative of the way some Rs really think but are afraid to say because of pressure from either Rump or their constituents? Or is it part of the show, allowed by Mitch because it makes the Rs look like they still have some compassion?

[Hekate]

1. Flake speaks for Flake. In a vote this tight, that's a big ooops.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. flake's hard-core conservative, but sincere

Sen. Flake voted for the billionaire's tax cuts because he's a true believer, but he has been outspoken against Putin's Rump from the start.

Don't look for Fox cultists to join him.

[gordianot]

3. This is just one more disaster of many that are developing.

Apparently even the R’s are terrified.

[ProudLib72]

5. But how much clout does an outgoing senator have?

I kind of believe he was sincere, but I wonder if it wasn't a calculated gamble by the other Rs. Let him speak because nobody is going to listen, and he will make the GOP seem like it has a conscience.

[elleng]

4. 'The Arizona Republican said he doesn't believe Kavanaugh is "some kind of

serial sexual predator."

Nor does he think Christine Blasey Ford is part of a vast conspiracy to smear him.

Instead, he called them "unwitting combatants in an undeclared war."

“These are human beings with families and children," Flake said on the Senate floor. "“Each is suffering through a very ugly process that we have created.”

Flake disclosed that he's received a death threat from a man who called his Arizona office to say he is tired of Flake "interrupting our president." Because Flake was insisting that the committee hear from Ford, he and his family would be "taken out."

"I mention this with reluctance, but only to say that we have lit a match, my colleagues," Flake said. "The question is, do we appreciate how close the powderkeg is?"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/26/sen-jeff-flake-asks-senators-have-open-mind-kavanaugh-hearing/1432931002/