My theory: Flake ran cover for the Big Con...Of course, the search didn't work...

[pbmus]

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So it’s like handing the most corrupt administration in USA history an investigation into one of the most important judicial positions in our country...did we think this would be a fair and balanced investigation...Again, Flake ran cover..,,,

,Mcghan knows the importance of Kavanaugh getting on the scotus for many reasons including r v w, indictments, his own ugly immorality....and this is not the end of the reign of terror...

[EffieBlack]

1. WE didn't take any bait

What do you suggest the alternative should have been? That we should have told Flake and the GOP "Thanks, but no thanks. Forget reopening the investigation. Just vote NOW, dammit!"

Yeah, that would have worked ...

[Hoyt]

5. Exactly. Heck, we were lucky to get a week reprieve and slim chance

the FBI would act like professionals.

I also think Kavanaugh will lay low on the Court for a while after having his issues exposed to the country.

[pbmus]

6. The end game reasoning is that...

We gave them an FBI investigation, and they are still complaining...

The disconnect is bigger than any words...

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[FreepFryer]

2. I love how the scenario makes us suckers for a Republican politician's actions. NAH. (n/t)

[volstork]

3. I didn't take the bait.

I know flake is a tool and crooked as they come. His motto is the republican motto: “I got mine, so fuck you. “

[wishstar]

4. David Corn's article makes clear why Rep Senators, WH restricted FBI interviews:

According to Democratic sources, committee Democrats have concluded that the White House believed that a Kavanaugh interview would be too risky. During the hearing last week on Ford’s allegations, Kavanaugh frequently dodged questions from Democratic senators, who each were limited to five-minutes of time. He filibustered, he sidestepped queries, and he was often combative. And during the Republicans’ allotted time for questioning, Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor retained by the committee GOPers, was not given the chance to pose many queries to Kavanaugh. Though the committee Republicans—all men—relied on Mitchell to question Ford, when it was Kavanaugh’s turn at the witness table, they essentially shoved Mitchell aside in order to issue grandstanding speeches defending Kavanaugh and assailing the Democrats. (See Lindsey Graham.)

Kavanaugh, that is, did not undergo a true and professional grilling. An FBI interview would have been a much different experience. “When you’re in front of the FBI, you cannot refuse to answer questions, you cannot attack the agents, you cannot change the subject,” a Democratic member of the committee says. “The White House did not want Kavanaugh in such a situation. And if he said anything to the FBI that could prove false, he could end up in a lot of trouble.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/the-real-reason-the-white-house-told-the-fbi-not-to-interview-christine-blasey-ford/

[Freethinker65]

7. Flake wants to run against Trump

He wants to be seen as a rational moderate Republican. He may actually be one or is just pretending, but I think he has genuine concerns about Kavanaugh.
The WH limited the FBI investigation, not Flake. Flake is now back where he started. He has to vote with no new information given. Kavanaugh's own Senate testimony should sink him.

[bluedigger]

8. Flake was a sacrificial pawn in the game.

Now the GOP get their man on the Court, and Trump further discredits the FBI in the nation's eye. Win-win for them.

[spanone]

9. trump's been bashing the FBI for two years just for occasions such as this...

[BumRushDaShow]

10. THIS

[pbmus]

11. Much bigger than FBI bashing