FLAKE: WE'RE NOT HERE TO SIMPLY MARK TIME. SUSTAINED INCUMBENCY IS CERTAINLY NOT
THE POINT OF SEEKING OFFICE AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE MUST
RISK OUR CAREERS IN FAVOR OF OUR PRINCIPLES.
NOW IS SUCH A TIME.
IT MUST ALSO BE SAID THAT I RISE TODAY WITH NO SMALL
MEASURE OF REGRET, REGRET BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF OUR DISUNION,
REGRET BECAUSE OF THE DISREPAIR AND DESTRUCTIVENESS OF OUR
POLITICS, REGRET BECAUSE OF INDECENCY OF OUR DISCOURSE, REGRET
BECAUSE OF THE LEADERSHIP, REGRET BECAUSE OF THE COMPROMISE OF
OUR MORAL AUTHORITY AND BY ALL, I MEAN ALL OF OUR COMPLICITY
IN THIS -- COMPLICITY IN THIS STATE OF OUR AFFAIRS.
IT IS TIME FOR THAT TO END.
What a bunch of posturing hypocritical blather.
Where were your principles when you lied to the public about wanting to repeal and replace Obamacare?
Where were your principles when the people of the state you supposedly have been serving have been getting flooded with illegal criminal aliens, raping and murdering the citizens of your state?
Flake is just one more profession politician that is losing and can no longer take i up his ass for corporate donations.
Now that he has announced he wont run, all I wish he would do further is just shhut the fuck up and leave with some grace and dignity, but I know he wont because he has none - he is a whore.
IN THIS CENTURY A NEW PHRASE HAS ENTERED THE
LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE ACCOMMODATION OF A NEW AND UNDESIRABLE
ORDER, THAT PHRASE BEING THE NEW NORMAL.THAT WE MUST NEVER
ADJUST TO THE PRESENT COURSENESS OF OUR -- COARSENESS OF OUR
PRESENT DIALOGUE, WE MUST NEVER REGARD AS NORMAL THE CASUAL
UNDERMINING OF OUR DEMOCRATIC IDEALS.
THE PERSONAL ATTACKS, THE THREATS AGAINST PRINCIPLES, FREEDOMS
AND INSTITUTION, THE FLAGRANT DISREGARD FOR TRUTH AND DECENCY,
THE PROVOCATION FOR THE MOST PETTY REASONS, REASONS HAVING
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FORTUNES OF THE PEOPLE WE HAVE BEEN
ELECTED TO SERVE.NONE-THESE APPALLING FEATURES OF OUR CURRENT
POLITICS SHOULD EVER BE REGARDED AS NORMAL.
WE MUST NEVER ALLOW OURSELVES TO LAPSE INTO THINKING THAT IS
JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE NOW.
IF WE SIMPLY BECOME USED TO CONDITION, THINKING THAT
IT IS JUST POLITICS AS USUAL, THEN HEAVEN HELP US.
WITHOUT FEAR OF THE CONSEQUENCES AND WITHOUT CONSIDERATION
OF THE RULES OF WHAT IS POLITICALLY SAFE, WE MUST STOP PRETENDING
THAT THE CONDUCT OF SOME IN OUR EXECUTIVE BRANCH ARE NORMAL.
THEY ARE NOT NORMAL.
They are certainly normal for DC, it is just that they are usually kept to the back smokey rooms and not said in public. It is the open frankness that is not normal, while the disgusting content has been normal since about the time JFK was assassinated.
RECKLESS, OUTRAGEOUS AND UNDIGNIFIED BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN
EXCUSED AS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS.
IT IS ACTUALLY RECKLESS, OUTRAGEOUS, AND UNDIGNIFIED.WHEN
SUCH BEHAVIOR EMANATES FROM THE TOP OF OUR GOVERNMENT, IT IS
SOMETHING ELSE.
IT IS DANGEROUS TO A DEMOCRACY.
This guy is one of the pigs who has sat on his hands while his voters have languished in stagnant wages, suffered crime at the hands of criminals the federalis had complete power to evict but did not bother, and who have ramped up taxes for fucking ever.
We stand far more risk tolerating show boat do-nothings like Flake who have forgotten that they SERVE WE THE PEOPLE than we will eveer risk from a crude POTUS.
Flake, piss off.