Sen. Jeff Flake op-ed: Enough. It's time to stand up to Trump.

Washington Post ^ | October 25, 2017 | Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

[ripnbang]

Sen. Jeff Flake op-ed: Enough. It's time to stand up to Trump

Says the guy who is quitting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The election didn’t go my way, therefore the world is wrong.

[glennaro]

Another swamp creature lashes back ... though his relevancy and power grows weaker by the hour. Swamp creatures like the Flake are agitated to the point of vitriole when they are exposed by the swamp drainer, a person they despise even more than American voters.

I notice the Flake doesn't mention honor, integrity or love of America and Americans as these virtues have been lost in the muck from years of swamp dwelling.

[EdnaMode]

He really is acting like a baby.

[elpadre]

Well Senator, Joseph McCarthy was correct. The State Department was infested with Communists as was other parts of the US government. It was a dark time for our government as they had let down their guard. J.Edgar Hoover did his best to ward off the dangers and had some limited success. I would not be surprised if some of the Communist influence of McCarthy days still exists in the government - especially the Department of State!

[1Old Pro]

What a nitwit. I am ecstatic at the progress we are making draining the swamp.

[vette6387]

“Arizona currently has the two worst Senators in the entire history of the United States.”

But so do the other 49 too! Just name me one Senator you’d say was a “good one?” You could get more effective representation using the phone book as a dart board. A House Member said yesterday that they have passed something on the order of 350 bills ( a few of which might really be important ) but that the Senate had passed only thirty of those the’ve been given.

[DoughtyOne]

D R A M A . Q U E E N

[Jan_Sobieski]

Hearing G.W Bush come out against Trump, after 8 years of radio silence during Obama, only confirms your suspicion!

[MarvinStinson]

Flake writes in the left wing Washington Post

using the lefty favorite mantra of the left winger's boogieman--McCarthy.

DANCE for the lefties, Flake.

[Maris Crane]

I cannot believe this jerk thinks he is the FIRST person to stand up to President Trump.

Actually, he is lost in the crowd of many who “stood up.”
He is the Waldo of the political field, not the least of which is the very newspaper that is printing his “important” diatribe. What a putz.

[goodnesswins]

P R O J E C T I O N

[Gay State Conservative]

While draining a swamp one can come across the occasional blood sucking worm...

[libstripper]

Flak and Corner need to star in another Monty Python epic as the “heroic” knights who ran in gibbering terror from two little girls.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Flake is demonstrating what an adult temper tantrum looks like

[1Old Pro]

I believe McCarthy was basically vindicated, and sneators of his time like Flake dismissed the truth - just like now. McCarthy remains a controversial figure. Some scholars assert that new evidence—in the form of Venona-decrypted Soviet messages, Soviet espionage data now opened to the West, and newly released transcripts of closed hearings before McCarthy's subcommittee—has partially vindicated McCarthy by showing that many of his identifications of Communists were correct and that the scale of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s was larger than many scholars suspected.[144][145][146] After reviewing evidence from Venona and other sources, historian John Earl Haynes concluded that, of 159 people identified on lists used or referenced by McCarthy, evidence was substantial that nine had aided Soviet espionage efforts. He suggested that a majority of those on the lists could legitimately have been considered security risks, but that a substantial minority could not.[147] Many other scholars, including some generally regarded as conservative, have opposed these views.[which?][148] Among those implicated in files later made public from the Venona project and Soviet sources were Cedric Belfrage, Frank Coe, Lauchlin Currie, Harold Glasser, David Karr, Mary Jane Keeney, and Leonard Mins.[147][149][150][151][152][153][154] These viewpoints are considered by historian David Oshinsky to be fringe revisionist history.[155] Challenging efforts aimed at the "rehabilitation" of McCarthy, Haynes argues that McCarthy's attempts to "make anti-communism a partisan weapon" actually "threatened [the post-War] anti-Communist consensus", thereby ultimately harming anti-Communist efforts more than helping.[156] Diplomat George F. Kennan drew on his State Department experience to provide his view that "The penetration of the American governmental services by members or agents (conscious or otherwise) of the American Communist Party in the late 1930s was not a figment of the imagination ... it really existed; and it assumed proportions which, while never overwhelming, were also not trivial." Kennan wrote that under the Roosevelt administration "warnings which should have been heeded fell too often on deaf or incredulous ears."[157] However, Kennan made his assessment before the revelation of the Venona decrypts. The previous cautious assessments had to be revised. Not a few but "hundreds of American Communists abetted Soviet espionage in the United States" in the 1930s and 1940s. No modern government had been more thoroughly penetrated. Plus, only a tiny fraction of the Venona intercepts have been decrypted (about 3%), so no one knows the entire extent of the penetration. All anyone can know for sure is that the Soviet penetration into the United States government was massive.[158][159]

[libstripper]

Wonderful to see him and our own loathsome Corker racing the vile McCain around the bowl and down the drain to the sewage treatment plant. My only regret is the three might pollute the sludge so badly that it can’t be used as fertilizer.

[bigbob]

His watch is off. It’s actually time for him to ESAD.

[Red Badger]

Yes, McCarthy was right about everything. The government has been infiltrated by communists ever since the 50’s....................

[Red Badger]

Yep, McCarthy was right...................and still is...................