The Senate Judiciary
Committee was scheduled to vote at 1:30 PM to send Kavanaugh’s confirmation to
the floor for a Senate vote. The vote seemed all but inevitable after Senator Jeff
Flake announced his support this morning.
Flake’s office released a
statement announcing the Arizona lawmaker’s support for Kavanaugh. “After
hearing more than 30 hours of testimony from Judge Kavanaugh earlier this
month, I was prepared to support his nomination based on his view of the law
and his record as a judge. In fact, I commented at the time that had he been
nominated in another era, he would have likely received 90+ votes.”
It was widely reported Flake’s
“good friend” Sen. Christopher Coons (D-CT) was near tears upon learning Flake would
vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
.@JeffFlake is a YES on Kavanaugh.@SunlenSerfaty broke that news to Sen. Coons in the hallway as he walked into the hearing.— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) September 28, 2018
Coons said, “Oh f—k,” then choked up, “We each make choices for our own reason. I’m struggling, sorry.”
Moments before the
gavel was set to fall, Flake decided to make his support conditional. He would
vote to advance Kavanaugh out of Committee but would not vote for him on the
Senate floor unless the vote was delayed for not more than one week to allow
for further investigation by the FBI of the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
“I’ve been speaking to
a number of people on the other side,” Flake told the Committee. “I think it
would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to, but not more than, one week
in order to let the FBI do an investigation limited in time and scope to the
current allegations that are there. I
will vote to advance the bill to the floor with that understanding.”
He bent the knee ala
Game of Thrones. Nay, more like he
grabbed his ankles.
Now that Kavanaugh’s
nomination has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, it falls to Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to hammer out whether
or not to request an FBI background check be reopened.
McConnell would likely
only agree to such a maneuver if he thought the nomination likely to fail
without Flake’s vote. That would require securing “yes” votes from two of the
Senate’s three other undecided members: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins
(R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).
This charade will never
end. The FBI will investigate the subjects mentioned by Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford and when nothing is discovered, the Democrats will have recruited more “victims”
and demand more FBI investigations and on and on it will go. The FBI will
become the Left’s Gestapo. Count on it.
Dealing with the Left
is like dealing with the Devil—it gains you nothing and costs you everything.
That awkward moment when you realize the fate of the nation is suddenly resting on your shoulders, but then you remember you’re Jeff Flake. pic.twitter.com/jf3VJv2obj— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 28, 2018
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