Senator Flake, hero or villain?

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Jeff Flake again refuses to vote for any Trump nominated candidate fora Judicial position until the Congress votes to protect Mueller from being fired.
He is a lameduck since he did not run for re-election.

If Flake refuses to vote for Judges who he even believes are acceptable to his moral convictions, is he fulfilling his Senate obligation that he pledged to follow when he was sworn in? 
I understand opposition politicians do this all the time for various reasons, including Repuiblicans in the minority wih a Democratic President, but I believe if they are qualified to serve as a Judge there is a moral obligation to vote for the candidates.
Upon January 3rd, his political position will no longer matter since the Republicans will have enoug of a majority to put just about anyone in these positions whether Flake likes it or not.

[Tennesseer]

What are you going to do-impeach him?

[swamp]

Dec 5, 2018 17:44:20 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jeff Flake again refuses to vote for any Trump nominated candidate fora Judicial position until the Congress votes to protect Mueller from being fired.
He is a lameduck since he did not run for re-election.

If Flake refuses to vote for Judges who he even believes are acceptable to his moral convictions, is he fulfilling his Senate obligation that he pledged to follow when he was sworn in? 
I understand opposition politicians do this all the time for various reasons, including Repuiblicans in the minority wih a Democratic President, but I believe if they are qualified to serve as a Judge there is a moral obligation to vote for the candidates.
Upon January 3rd, his political position will no longer matter since the Republicans will have enoug of a majority to put just about anyone in these positions whether Flake likes it or not.

He's gumby. He'll bend any way he thinks is best for him.  

I'm more interested in how the bolded sentence pertains to the refusal by the Republicans to vote on Merrick Garland for Supreme Court.  

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Dec 5, 2018 17:59:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

What are you going to do-impeach him?

After January 3rd, Trump will be free to nominate even more far right conservative judges than he has so far.

With 51 votes he had to be careful.
With 53 votes, and only two years to really work the crowd, he will have to hurry up and get the vacancies filled before 2020 elections go full throttle.
You better hope a couple of frail liberal SC Judges eat very healthy the next year or so.

[Tennesseer]

Dec 5, 2018 18:05:02 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Dec 5, 2018 17:59:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

What are you going to do-impeach him?

After January 3rd, Trump will be free to nominate even more far right conservative judges than he has so far.

With 51 votes he had to be careful.
With 53 votes, and only two years to really work the crowd, he will have to hurry up and get the vacancies filled before 2020 elections go full throttle.
You better hope a couple of frail liberal SC Judges eat very healthy the next year or so.

And you better hope trump's fat ass isn't kicked to the curb.

And then well deserved pressure will be on Pence.

[billisonboard]

..., hero or villain?

Tangent: I was out and about with the wife earlier and noted the flags at half mast. I commented that it is amazing how we demonize politicians when they are in office and deify them when they die. I think we would be well served to not do either.

[haapai]

I've been thinking pretty much the same thing for much of the last week.  I didn't think much of Mr. Halfstaff when he was in office.  I'm somewhat baffled by how mourned he is now.

In the eighties, we mocked this man for how he had contorted himself to become 41. 

Forty years later, the guy was some sort of national treasure. 

I'm trying to focus on the fact that he was 94 and had outlived most of the old-money WASP pols that used to be common to the point of ridicule.  The gracious manners that he is being remembered for were once much more common, or at least a standard that most politicians tried hard to fake. 

Some of his more cynical and sharper-elbowed moments seem to have been relegated to the memory-hole.  This guy was not at all popular when he nominated Thomas to replace Marshall.