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‘Enough’: Jeff Flake ‘Goes There’, Invokes Joseph Welch In Washington Post Op-Ed
And there it is, folks.
We and others have long asked when Trump's Welch-McCarthy moment would fin
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thought full!!
H please create an instrument so that I can short it
I was only a child at the time, but i watched the McCarthy hearings on what was then the new invention of television. i was somehow fascinated trying to figure out just what was going on. Even though i didn’t really know what it was, I did somehow know that McCarthy was being nasty to everyone just because he could be. That’s what seems to be happening now. The party in power and the administration seem to be locked in a contest to see who can hurt the most people every few days. It’s “let’s take away millions of peoples’ health care today.” Then it’s “let’s make our water dirty again” or “let’s kick out some citizens who happen to be the kids of illegal immigrants.” (Though it was nearly 100 years ago my dad was probably technically one of those kids. His father was illegal back in the early 1900s and all he did was provide food and shelter for thousands of mill workers who couldn’t otherwise pay for it in the MA mill towns. In those days we still thought it was OK to make 10 or 12 year old kids work 12 hour days. Then we fixed that.) Now today it was “let’s take away the rights of people to sue big companies who harm them” day. It’s just never ending these days and Sen Flake was right today, enough is enough. The time to hurt people, often without their even knowing it, is over. And it’s time for the “loyal opposition” to stand up on it’s hind legs and stand for the rights of all of us to live proper lives unafraid of someone taking more of our rights away every day. As Teddy Roosevelt said, and I was reminded of in an earlier post today, the job of the president and Congress is to govern in a way that benefits everyone, not just the “base.” Government is for (all) the people, not just the few. Enough!
Please let this be the turning point, when a conservative Republican says enough, please let this be the turning point.
Hard to believe we are re-living history. I was not yet double digit years old during the McCarthy period, ten years, 1947-1957, but I have recently had reason to refresh my memory. As disgusted as I was during that research I did come across an article from The Atlantic, July 2015, “The New McCarthyism of Donald Trump, His opportunistic demagoguery was indulged by Republican Party leaders…” So, please read this article and thank the Lord it has only been 2 years and it is still “only matter of time”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/donald-trump-joseph-mccarthy/399056/
Questions I asked myself during the Primaries, I still ask today! The day before the above piece was published, The Atlantic published this article: “Why It’s Hard for the GOP to Discredit Donald Trump, The Republican establishment struggles to control a candidate whose success is built on factors it finds convenient to ignore”. My questions as to how and why would anyone support him … “farcical candidacies are difficult for the GOP to avoid or end quickly because the party is averse to certain truths that would help inoculate it against demagogues” and then they listed 6 reasons.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/6-reasons-why-its-hard-for-the-gop-to-discredit-donald-trump/398951/
Again, thank the Lord it’s only been two years and a man with integrity and pride and after long consideration and support of his family and friends, made a decision on behalf of his country over party. Of course I have already heard jerks likes Hannity rant that Mr. Flake is a loser and had no chance to win re-election and that is the real reason he is resigning and all that total crap. Clearly Flake is not afraid of a good fight or he would never have taken center stage yesterday and made the awesome speech he made! So Hannity and his crowd of horrible people can go to hell.
I ask you to read this final article published today and hear him tell you of the how and why of his decision.
“The Tragedy of Jeff Flake,The Arizona senator gambled that voters would choose civility and responsible governance over Trump…”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/jeff-flake-interview/543912/
In the last sentence there is a link to a preceding article (Sept 2017) that further explains how it all came down to his discussions with family and friends and it may be the most interesting of all. Please take just a few more minutes and follow that link too.
I thank Jeff Flake for his comments yesterday and I hope it will have an impact on the Republicans of our government. Donald Trump should not continue as President of The Unites States of America. True, there are millions of Republican voters who continue to support The Party but I can tell you this for damned sure – your constituents will most likely vote for you again even if you step up and do the right thing for America and they won’t be holding their nose this time!
Enough!