Who do you think got to Jeff Flake?

[mac56]

[dchill]

1. TrumPutin.

[Jersey Devil]

2. Jeff Flake

It is who he always was. When has Jeff Flake done anything to separate himself from the pack?

[treestar]

3. He is not running

Again. So he can afford to do the right thing

[nycbos]

8. Not if he wants to make a lot of money as a lobbyist.

[cry baby]

4. He's all talk, no action. Always has been. nt

[grantcart]

5. Don't know his name, got a description: white male

[dalton99a]

15. Bingo

[LonePirate]

6. Whatever lobbying firm employing him after January told him to vote for K or he's not hired.

[SCantiGOP]

7. He's a damned conservative Republican

What’s so hard to have understand here?
Just because he hates Trump doesn’t mean he’s going to vote for the other side.

[Azathoth]

9. Flake got to Flake. He's never once crossed Trump with an actual vote.

[Big Blue Marble]

10. GWB

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/george-w-bush-calling-senators-to-urge-kavanaugh-confirmation/

[FM123]

11. His inner self.

I was really hoping he would temporarily morph into a human being for awhile and no vote in the committee vote, but of course that didn't happen. I wrote earlier in another thread that I wish in the upcoming senate vote he does a big dramatic thumbs down like McCain did, but that's not going to happen either....

[rampartc]

12. flake will be unemploted in a few months

maybe he wants to be an ambassador or something?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

13. Follow the,

MONEY!

[inwiththenew]

14. He'd be a persona non grata in the circles he needs run in for his next job

This was all grandstanding.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. No one, Flake's as phony as a 3 dollar bill

Talk is cheap, that's why Flake does it. Actions are another matter all together.

Never forget this guy was physically engaged in conversation by Ady Barkan, who has terminal ALS, on a flight. Flake said a lot of sympathic words, but did not vote against killing the ACA. That's how cold-hearted Flake is.

[RockRaven]

17. His 2020 or 2024 Presidential run got to him...

or a prospective 10-fold as lucrative lobbying-job.

[hotrod0808]

18. Nobody.

He is just a total partisan asshole who covers his assholery with appearances of personal conflict. Fuck him and anyone who ever voted for him.

[Kablooie]

19. The people who offered him a lobbyist job after he leaves the Senate.

[Gothmog]

20. These two ladies are heros

Link to tweet

[backtoblue]

22. Yes they are!

[StarryNite]

23. Kudos to them!

If anybody really did get through to Flake, it was them.

[sheshe2]

27. Yep.

[Thrill]

21. Looking at his twitter mentions

He had to be callled a fucking coward over a million times

[SDJay]

24. I Think His Ambitions

got to him. If he has ANY hope of ever running for POTUS, I think he realized voting for this POS would end that today. So far, I think that's what all this BS posturing as an 'anti-Dumper' was about - if he runs in 2020 or 2024, he can say, "See? I was never for Dump." This whole situation, in effect, called his bluff in a historic way.

*edit* And those two ladies should be toasted as national heroes as well, along with Dr. Ford.

[lunatica]

25. Some determined Democrats

I think Clobuchar was one of them. There was a group of them.

[samnsara]

26. im confused. was it a ploy to move it from committee to

..the senate for a...purpose?

[GentryDixon]

28. The women who trapped him in the elevator?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/28/jeff-flake-the-man-who-may-hold-brett-kavanaugh-future-in-his-hands

There is the Mormon women group against this, so it could be he was swayed by them, since he is Mormon, or maybe the fact he has designs of being a Presidential candidate.

[a kennedy]

29. I think it was a combination of things......possibly the two women in the elevator,

Senator Coons and Amy Klobuchar, Kavanaugh himself??? Just happy he spoke up......at least a stall is better then a vote for now.