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Sen. Jeff Flake op-ed: Enough. It's time to stand up to Trump.
Washington Post ^ | October 25, 2017 | Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

Posted on 10/25/2017 8:55:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Agreed.

The only “Return to Principle” this country club member wants is to go back to the good ‘ole business as usual days ala both Bushes. You know, when you could sound pretty and give a little more of what made this country the greatest in history away to the parasites and haters of the nation. WHen you could safely make sure that labor costs would be held down with illegals so that your corporate owners could get another $.02 a quarter of EPS... At the cost of our demographics, culture and making certain that the communists could remain a viable political party.

GTFO out of my government and take the rest of your pretty boy losers with you Jeff...


41 posted on 10/25/2017 9:05:22 AM PDT by L,TOWM (I don't have a preference for politician or a party. I have God and His standards.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How many more disgraceful public feuds with Gold Star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced?

And NOT A WORD about the Afro-Marxist rodeo clown who was singularly responsible for ginning up the reaction to Trump's call to the Gold Star widow.

Typical RINO response: if a 'Rat dishes it out, BOHICA, but if it's one of our own, stab him in the back. Flake learned the art of backstabbing well at the feet of his senior AZ senator.

42 posted on 10/25/2017 9:05:45 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Jolla

Senator Jos. McCarthy the “commie-hunter” was, of course, proven at least partially correct

and
the same sort of extreme leftwing dictatorially-inclined sedition is actively underway against America TODAY

from the likes of Soroznazi and all his front groups, plus the Islamic/IslamoNazi foreign dictators pouring hundreds of millions into HilLIARy and Congresscritters and for disruption intimidation and threats at our college campuses, plus of course key parts of the mass media and Hollywood again

I’m not referring to “genuine” Democrats...I refer to the small seditious cabal that has seized control of the D party machine.....and their fellow-travelers like McShame and, apparently, Flake


43 posted on 10/25/2017 9:05:55 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are nothttps://www.youtube.com/watch born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s truly pathetic is that this asshole Senator believes anyone gives a rat’s ass what he thinks about anything.

Go away, cuddle up with your Bush buddies and Corkscrew and cry me rivers of crocodile tears, you anti-American, back-stabbing POS. You’ll be missed about as much as a hemorrhoid.


44 posted on 10/25/2017 9:06:07 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This drivel makes me want to vomit.


45 posted on 10/25/2017 9:06:39 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: CatQuilt

And Fauxachontas.


46 posted on 10/25/2017 9:06:47 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: workerbee

yes, if he had any integrity at all he would stop taking our money and resign today


47 posted on 10/25/2017 9:07:11 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are nothttps://www.youtube.com/watch born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Flake, it’s time to stand up for America.
Too bad you don’t have it in you.


48 posted on 10/25/2017 9:08:29 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nine months is more than enough for us to say, loudly and clearly: Enough.


Sounds like Flake is pushing for Trump’s assassination.


49 posted on 10/25/2017 9:09:08 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Pravious

I am standing up to Trump by quitting. I hope this guy has more influence than I think he does. Maybe he should simply resign, now.


50 posted on 10/25/2017 9:09:24 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: DallasBiff

It’s all about keeping their 30 year bipartisan policy of open borders/amnesty.
It was all intentional.
Not having a choice about it was part of the plan.
After the 1986 amnesty the GOP under GHW Bush implemented a policy of non-enforcement of laws and borders to demographically change the country.
The RNC has been under their control until now and always made sure only candidates who agreed with open borders/amnesty were nominated.
Since the President is the only one who can ensure that immigration laws are enforced they had us boxed in unable to stop the illegal alien inundation.
That’s what really drives the hatred for Trump.
It’s really their hatred for US.

Thank God for Trump.


51 posted on 10/25/2017 9:10:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Flake and mouthpiece Compost

Any doubters now about this Swamp Creature?


52 posted on 10/25/2017 9:10:56 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Tennessee is running them a good race for worst Senators with Corker and Alexander.
They are the only two states who had both Republican Senators vote for Rubio’s amnesty.


53 posted on 10/25/2017 9:12:17 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Flake, like others who for years, watched silently as the U. S. Constitution's limits on government power over individual citizens was being ignored and eviscerated, and now has exhibited an intense mistrust of the judgment of citizens ("the People")--a curious attitude for those who, one might think from his writings, would be most familiar with the writings and speeches of America's Founders.

After all, those Founders and Framers of the 1787 Constitution relied on the ratification process in the States, and any future Amendment to that Constitution, by the Constitution's own provision, still requires the assent of "the People."

"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
In 2016, "the People," having watched their elected so-called "conservative" Republican leaders fail miserably at even slowing the oppressive "progressive" "train" of "wretchedness and oppression."

"The People" who Justice Story called "the only KEEPERS of the Constitution" saw the so-called "conservatives" they elected betray them, and they responded with an outright rejection, county by county, in most of the states won by Trump.

By November 2016, the GOP leaders the voters rejected in the Primaries had to decide whether they would turn over the Executive Branch to a self-described "progressive" who promised to double down on the Obama agenda,

or

whether they would show statesmanship by accepting "the People's" choice, re-engaging in their delegated duties to preserve and protect the Constitution, and be a part of placing the Republican Party on a firm footing of fidelity to that Constitution's limits on power and protection's for liberty.

Flake and other Republicans now are revealing their previously hidden inclinations toward Progressivism rather than dedication to the principles described above.

54 posted on 10/25/2017 9:13:13 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rook takes Flake.


55 posted on 10/25/2017 9:14:20 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He is such a disaster for the state of Arizona. He is not even going to do what the people elected him to do. He should just give it up already. We know his true desire is to stump Trump and be a rebellious crybaby until his gig is up in 2018.


56 posted on 10/25/2017 9:14:22 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow.

Pathetic.


57 posted on 10/25/2017 9:14:42 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Nine months of this administration is enough for us to stop pretending that this is somehow normal”

No, but it’s enough time for all of us to figure out that the $hit Sandwich you’ve been feeding us for the past half-century really wasn’t normal and that we’re now on the road to normal under President Trump!


58 posted on 10/25/2017 9:15:35 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I thought the same. Him and Corker must be up to their necks in it. They couldn’t get rid of Trump, no matter what they did and they can see the whole swamp being drained and they are going to be exposed for the serpents they are, all of them. I’m betting there are only a small handful of good ones.


59 posted on 10/25/2017 9:16:05 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Auditioning for a job on MSNBC or CNN...

...nothing more.


60 posted on 10/25/2017 9:16:57 AM PDT by Magnatron
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